Book Lovers’ Day
Did you know that August 9 is Book Lovers’ Day? I’m celebrating by putting up this cool graphic sent to me by the folks at Ghergich & Co, returning my library book so someone else in my book club has … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Events
Back to School Reading Challenge — the Chats
As part of the Back to School Reading Challenge and Wednesday Book Club, we will chat on Twitter four Wednesdays in August and September. The times are: 9pm EDT, August 7 9pm EDT, August 21 9pm EDT, September 4 9pm … Continue reading →
Choose our Back to School Read-Along Book
For a Read-Along to go along with the Back to School Reading Challenge, I wanted an education book. Thanks to Vasilly who offered several suggestions when I only came up with one title. Let’s choose from one of these five … Continue reading →
Paris in July — wrap-up + Paris in August
Today is the last day of July and, therefore, the last day of Paris in July, hosted by Thyme for Tea and Bookbath. I thought I’d make another post of links to my France posts since they are getting difficult to find. Our trip to … Continue reading →
Aging Gracefully — A GenFab Post
Generation Fabulous, the premier place for women bloggers of a certain age to connect with each other, is celebrating it’s new website with another blog hop. This is my fifth time participating. So far, there’s been: John Barrowman: My Celebrity Crush … Continue reading →
Bloggiesta Finish Line
Bloggiesta is over. Here are the blog and social media feats that I accomplished over three days. Explored feed readers to replace Google Reader with a mini-challenge hosted by The Picky Girl: Google Reader Replacement Options — A Bloggiesta Mini-Challenge. Created a … Continue reading →
Google Reader Replacement Options — A Bloggiesta Mini-Challenge
Follow my blog with Bloglovin As you can see, I’m playing with Bloglovin as a possible replacement to Google Reader which is dying on July 1. It looks pretty but I may need something less visual and more efficient to … Continue reading →
Declutter Your Sidebar — Bloggiesta Mini-Challenge
The Declutter Your Sidebar mini-challenge at Debz Bookshelf has two challenges. Here’s what I did: Challenge 1. Delete all out-dated items. Oops! I still had the New Year’s Resolution Reading Challenge logo up. While I was looking, I also noticed … Continue reading →
Getting to Know You — Bloggiesta Mini-Challenge
For the Getting to Know You mini-challenge of Bloggiesta hosted by Suey of It’s All About Books, I’m featuring new-to-me blogger Amanda of On a Book Bender. I don’t know quite how I’ve missed her before, especially since she worked … Continue reading →
Through a Visitor’s Eyes — Bloggiesta Mini-Challenge
Through a Visitor’s Eyes mini-challenge hosted by Amanda at On a Book Bender is the first mini-challenge I took on for this Bloggiesta. I did the following: Reviewed my About page. I updated it during the fall Bloggiesta, so I … Continue reading →