Month: June 2011

Know Your Book Blogger 1

This is a new meme started by Melissa at Book Nerd Reviews. She started this so we can all get to know a little bit about each other. This week’s question is: Name 3 things that are worth waiting in long lines for. What’s the longest amount of time you’ve ever waited in line for. […]

Posted June 12, 2011 by Lisa Mandina in / 2 Comments

Book Blogger Hop June 11th, 2011

Didn’t think I had time to do this right now because of the blog tour, but then I saw the question this week and knew I had to participate. Won’t be doing Follow Friday, because I missed that and it’s now Saturday. This week’s hop is being hosted by another blogger due to Crazy For […]

Posted June 11, 2011 by Lisa Mandina in / 3 Comments

Blog-A-Licious Blog Tour

I joined into this on a new site I’ve joined called Book Blogs. This “Blog-A-Licious tour” is a blog hop sponsored by Pandora Poikilos where you will get a new site to visit on each site after you’ve read their take on a weekly question. Hopefully you’ll find 30 great new blogs that you want […]

Posted June 11, 2011 by Lisa Mandina in Uncategorized / 14 Comments

The Hazards of Working at a Bookstore Vol. 2.7

As I was working yesterday, I was so busy at the beginning of the day, working on getting returns ready from the nonfiction part of the childrens section, that I didn’t think I’d find any books to share or post about. But then, when it got busier and I had to spend more time helping […]

Posted June 10, 2011 by Lisa Mandina in / 1 Comment

Beauty Queens by Libba Bray

To start off, I have to admit that I’d heard not so good things about Going Bovine from librarians in my school district. Of course I follow authors on Twitter who say good things about it. So conflicting reviews, and the fact that so far the books haven’t sounded like something I really wanted to […]

Posted June 8, 2011 by Lisa Mandina in / 3 Comments

American Ghost Hunter Movie Premiere

Yeah, yeah, I know this is supposed to be a book blog, but at one time I had thought to review movies as well, and one of the guys on this is an author, I had him sign his book while I was there, so I think it’s okay to do this. Also, those who […]

Posted June 7, 2011 by Lisa Mandina in / 0 Comments

Book Blogger Hop #4 and Follow Friday #2

First off is the Book Blogger Hop hosted by Crazy for Books at Crazy-for-books.com. (Sorry, still having issues with blogger posting correctly, so can’t link sometimes.) This week’s question is: Share your favorite blog post from the last month and tell us why it’s close to your heart. I guess it would have to be […]

Posted June 4, 2011 by Lisa Mandina in / 6 Comments

My First Blog Award!

Just joined Book Blogs, and right away met a really neat blogger who gave me this award. The blog is titled “A Three Way Tie” and you should really go over and follow her as well! Along with this I’m supposed to name 7 random facts about myself, and then nominate 15 more blogs. I […]

Posted June 3, 2011 by Lisa Mandina in / 8 Comments