Weekly Link Round-Up

After spending a week down in Bisbee, I've been trying in vain to get back to my usual routine, but it is continuing to be a struggle every inch of the way. I don't even feel as though I found many links, but once I begin sorting through them all perhaps there will be more than I thought. Let's take a look, shall we?

Bookish News & Other Fun Stuff

• Want to get faster and smarter? Sleep 10 Hours a Night. (I wish!)
• Want to see some books arranged by color?
• A small video clip of an author reacting to her Amazon reader reviews.
• Photos of participants' favorite bookshops.
• What the rich are reading this summer. (When you compare what I'll be reading to this list, you'll know why I'm not rich!)
• Little, Brown and Company introduced a new source of crime fiction this week: Mulholland Books.
• Scandinavian crime fiction was big news this week with Sweden's Queen of Crime, Camilla Läckberg, now having a book published in the USA (The Ice Princess). The Nordic Bookblog talks about Stieg Larsson's domination of the New York Times Bestseller Lists; The Washington Post talks about Scandinavian crime novels being hot right now; and The New York Times talks about publishers scrambling to find the next Scandinavian blockbusters.
• Here's a quiz for you: How well do you know your fictional bookshops?
• 50 Books That Changed the World.
• How about taking this Handwriting Analysis quiz?
  

Blogging Tips

• 20 Questions to Ask When Revising a Blog Post.
• Blog Promotion: Comments Cheatsheet Part II.

Around the Water Cooler in the Book Blogosphere

• Jackie of Farm Lane Books wants to know Do Bad Books Exist?
• Lynne of Lynne's Book Reviews would like to know Do You Mind If Anyone Borrows an Idea From Your Blog to Put on Theirs?
• Have you seen The Book on the Hill's series of posts called Book Blogging Around the World?
• Have you heard about #Bblog on Twitter?
• Do you know about Stuck In a Book's Picture Perfect?
• Are you listed in Callista's (SMS Book Reviews) Delicious Book Blog Directory?

New to My Google Reader

• One Book Away From Heaven
• Ex Libris
• The Sleepless Reader
• The Literary Amnesiac
• Amused By Books

I was right-- I'd hunted and gathered more than I thought! I hope you found something that tickled your fancy in this latest round-up. Don't forget to stop by next Friday when I'll have a whole new batch of links for your surfing pleasure. Have a wonderful weekend!