My 1st book t-shirt idea August 9th will be my 3rd year blogoversary, and as I feel like I’ve really gotten into the blogging this past year, I’m going to do a whole month celebration. And I figured the most important thing to start with was why I do this in the first place. A […]
Feature and Follow Friday is a joint effort between bloggers to increase your blog following it is hosted by Parajunkee and Alison Can Read.This week’s question is: What’s the craziest thing you’ve ever done to get your hands on a book? Hmm, this is a hard one. The craziest thing I can think of is […]
It is time for this week’s Feature and Follow Friday, hosted by Parajunkee, and Allison Can Read. This is a blog hop that expands your blog following by a joint effort between bloggers.This week’s question is: It’s Thanksgiving Day in the U.S., so we want to know what you are thankful for – blogging related, […]
The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson My rating: 4 of 5 stars So I’ve been a fan of Maureen Johnson since I first began following her on Twitter. I even got her to reply to me one time, a long time ago though. I hadn’t read her books yet, just knew her name […]
I was going to post a Hazards of Working at a Bookstore post today, I have 4 books to list from last week, but then I saw this post and thought I’d enjoy doing this.This week’s Top Ten is the authors you’d like to meet. There are more than 10 for me as well, but […]
Before I get started on my review, let me first say that at the 2nd session I attended at the MASL conference today I got reinspired to try to do book reviews for teacher and library magazines. Wish me luck, and don’t let me just forget and not bother with it! I do know that […]
Well, I wanted to go back and read my review of Eighth Grade Bites, the first in this series, but I can’t find it on my blog. So it’s possible I read this back when I was still blogging on either Live Journal or My Space. Neither of which I really use anymore. I remember […]
Once again I must admit that the cover of this book, the original cover anyway, caught my attention. And I figured, oh, I’ll read it later. Then, I saw a movie preview for it, and though, yeah, I’d better read this at some time. But still, didn’t pick it up. Then a few months ago, […]
I have to say, this is one of the first chick lit books I have read in a long time that I was dog earing the pages that had things I wanted to talk about when I blogged. The first one I’d literally laughed out loud over and over as I was reading it. I […]
Maureen Johnson’s books were not ones that caught my eye at the bookstore, I have to admit. But I began following her on Twitter because I recognized her name as an author, and quite often I get on Twitter just to see what she has been tweeting. I thought the storyline of Suite Scarlett was […]