Another week has gone by at the speed of sound, and it's time to see what goodies I can pull out of my link basket!
Bookish News
- Sam Baker's Top Ten Literary Stepmothers. (Sometimes I think I've never met a book list I didn't like!)
- Dodging bombs for a good book in Pakistan. (Just that one sentence reminds me of how good I've got it.)
- Books are a must-have, even in a sluggish economy.
- Manchester's sending a million books to the salt mines. What'd they ever do to Manchester?
- Fun Literary Look-Alikes.
- The largest book in the world goes on display for the first time.
- Ten best romantic novels for people who hate romance.
- The importance of cats during the Siege of Leningrad. (Not book-related... so sue me!)
- Pam of Bookalicious talks about Book Bloggers Are a Waste of Time?
- The Big Green Bookshop in the UK has asked book bloggers to recommend their favorite reads. You'll recognize the names of at least some of the bloggers!
- Simon of Stuck in a Book wonders What's in a Name? (of a book blog).
- Jackie of Farm Lane Books wants to know what makes author interviews good?
- Aarti of Booklust wonders how much impact our blogs have.
- Liz of A Chair, A Fireplace & A Tea Cozy states Don't Should On Me.
- Debbie of Debbie's World of Books wonders What Makes a Great Blog?
- Anastasia of Birdbrain(ed) Book Blog talks about the futility of reviewing old books.
- Anysia of Booklorn calmly states Enhance This, Publishers.
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That's all for this week. Don't forget to stop by next Friday for another heapin' helpin' of links for your weekend surfing pleasure!
I always enjoy the around the water cooler links :)
ReplyDeleteThanks! Great links :)
ReplyDeleteCats are book-related, at my house; can't read without one in my lap. And besides, the internet is made of cats (there's a YooToob video!)
ReplyDeleteI always look forward to your roundup -- new blogs to visit and a few posts I missed.
ReplyDeleteReally interesting links about the usefulness of book bloggers & their reviews.
ReplyDeleteWell, if blog reviews did not have any influence, I really doubt that so many writers and publishers were willing to send ARCs off to bloggers all around the world. And in my experience, honest and fair reviews do make a difference. Almost all the books I buy nowadays have been reviewed favourably by bloggers whose taste I like and whose reviews I trust.
Blodeuedd-- I'm fond of them, too. They're usually the posts that have fascinating comments! :)
ReplyDeleteLenore-- You're welcome!
Jeanne-- I stand corrected! ;)
Beth-- I'm glad that you do!
Dorte-- Sometimes I think various places only bring the importance of book bloggers up to get us all in a flap. (I refuse to flap.)
I don't have time to check all those links, sadly, but couldn't resist Liz's great title Don't Should On Me. Loved the post.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Cathy!
As for those posts about the value of book blogging - here is another link for you - an online event bringing bloggers and publishers together in forums and panels with the purpose of finding out how to bring in the readers:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.romanceinthebackseat.com/bbpcon.html
Book bloggers are the greatest community and I hope they continue their good work to promote reading and authors. Terrific round-up as always!
I love your weekly link round-ups! You always have such good links. I hadn't heard of the Leningrad cats before (or if I did I had forgotten about it - not entirely impossible). :)
ReplyDeleteGreat roundup, Cathy. I always look forward to them, but this week's batch is particularly good!
ReplyDeleteSusan-- Her title is what drew me into the article, too!
ReplyDeleteMolly-- Thanks for the link!
Alyce-- I'd forgotten about the Leningrad cats, so I'm glad I ran across that blog post.
Avis-- Thank you!