Armchair BEA officially starts tomorrow and as a premature kick-off I’m posting my personal introduction. 1. Please tell us a little bit about yourself: Who are you? How long have you been blogging? Why did you get into blogging? I live in a small town in Illinois with my two cats (one being on my […]
Last year I gazed longingly at blogs participating in Armchair BEA. My family usually goes out of town during that week and I’m unavailable to participate (boo hoo, I’m on vacation). This year, due to other commitments we will be staying home and after realizing the dates are finally aligned, I signed up for Armchair […]
Sit Down and Write hosted by Michelle at The True Book Addict I got back from visiting my brother in Florida yesterday. I flew there. Yes, I flew. I started out positive, excited to see my younger brother, but like my last trip on a plane, we got delayed. Our yet-to-be airplane hit a bird and had to […]
Classics Retold is a project hosted by Alison @ The Cheap Reader, Alyssa @ Books Take You Places,Brittany @ Book Addicts Guide, Charlene @ Bookish Whimsy and Wendy @ Excellent Library. Details: September 2013 will be our month to post everything. Each blogger will choose a classic they’d like to read. They read their classic and read or watch as many […]
Michelle at The True Book Addict is hosting her third Sit Down and Write event. I participated in this last year and while I am not writing the great American novel, it felt wonderful to get some writing done for my blog. “The Sit Down and Write 3 write-a-thon is for any writing you need to get […]
Fanda at Fanda Classiclit is hosting a month long event in April to celebrate Emile Zola — Zoladdiction. Emile Zola is an author I have heard about but not yet tried. I blame his daunting Les Rougon-Macquart. Anyway, I’ve decided to join in, and there are three levels to play along. 1st level: Maheude (reading 1 book) 2nd level: Gervaise (reading […]
After a weekend of having my blog under construction Bloggiesta has come to an end. I always have a blast with this event and gives me a HUGE burst of motivation. Here is a breakdown of what I accomplished. Friday, Day One completed rating system and updated posts to correspond. update challenge page decided on […]
It’s Bloggiesta time! I missed the mini-bloggiesta in February so am super excited to be participating this weekend. Blogger recently ate my sidebar, so while I “recreated it” did do a little spring cleaning but there is still much I’d like to do! My to do list: work on rating system write reviews for Snow […]
For this mini-challenge it is asked that we write a letter to our blogging self be it past, present or future. I thought I would do all three. Pre-Blogging So I thought my past reading/writing history would be as good a place to start as any. I was so incredibly proud of myself when I […]
For this mini-challenge, we are going to ask you to pump up the music with a book playlist post! Book playlists can be done in any number of ways. First, they can be made up using Spotify, YouTube, or just a list of song titles on your blog. Second, they can be one you made […]