It’s time for the second mini-challenge for the Book Blogger Love-a-Thon! “For this challenge, we ask that you get deep and poetic (or not-so-deep but still poetic!) This is how the challenge will work: Grab some of your favorite books (it can be any amount) and make up a poem with the titles alone! […]
It’s the Book Blogger Love-a-Thon‘s first mini-challenge is a best of post Here’s how it will work: There are four categories – best reviews, best book discussion posts, best blog design/layout and best random category (which you get to make up!). My random category is best new to me blogs. Anyway, this was tough and while I love all the blogs I read here […]
Allie at A Literary Odyssey is hosting A Modern March an event to explore the Modernist era of literature. I honestly know next to zill on this period so it will definatly be a learning experience for me. For dunces like me, this is how Allie has descibed this movement: “If you have no idea […]
The Classic Club is hosting a mini reading challenge, entitled The Classic Spin. For the Spin I (and any other joiners) choose and number twenty books from their classics list and post it on their blog. The hosts will pick a number at random and I will read the book that corresponds with that number. […]
I thought I had my February reading all planned out with Charles Dickens, but then I recieved an invite from Goodreads for Delassie’s French February Event. I hemmed and hawwed over it and finally after looking at my Classics Club List decided to join. I plan on reading: Cheri by Colette The Knight of […]
Katherine at November’s Autumn is hosting the Turn of the Century Salon, a year long event focusing on novels written during the late 1880s and early 1930s. To participate you simply have to post on a novel published in said time frame. This is a period of literature I have read very little of as […]
Sit Down and Write 2 hosted by The True Book Addict Sit Down and Write 2 has begun. A full two weeks to you guessed it — sitting down and writing! I have a plethora of reviews to write which I will probably schedule for the next few weeks, leaving me with more time to read. I […]
Bloggiesta is coming, (September 28-30th to be precise) and after looking at my blog discovered it is in dire need of cleaning. Bloggiesta is co-hosted by There’s a Book and Suey from It’s All About Books. If you decide to participate in the Fall 2012 edition you can expect: to spend time that weekend (as much or as little as […]
I was so overwhelmed by the positive feedback for this event it really got the wheels turning; I’ve decided to host the first classic author month in March, giving me a month for set up. Also, as this will be my first attempt at this event I’m going to begin with an author I love, […]
I am thinking about holding a monthly event dedicated to beloved classic authors. Each month I will chose one author to devote that month to. For example, the month of February may be dedicated to Jane Austen, (the obvious example) in which I will post mainly about her. I would also be interested in perhaps […]