Rebecca Reads

Happy Book Blogger Appreciation Week: it’s finally begun! I’m so excited to find new blog and to celebrate the old favorites.
To start the week, here are some of my favorite blogs that have not yet been noted via BBAW. I tried to “limit” it to just ten out of the plethora in my reader, but [...]

I was honored with the Kreativ Blogger Award last week by Jules of Jules’ Book Reviews because she believes I have “a very eclectic group of reviews.”
I am to name seven things that I love. I decided to do this meme because I read a lot, and I don’t want people thinking that reading and [...]

For the last few months, I’ve been experimenting with a Custom Google Search of 300+ book blogs. I use it to find other reviews for books I have reviewed, thereby letting me add links to the bottom of my reviews.
I took the list from the September HTML listing of blogs participating in BBAW. (I needed [...]

Bookshelf Meme
Eva at A Striped Armchair created a fun meme about the books on our bookshelves.

I thought I’d participate in Weekly Geeks this week. In the wake of rethinking my “book blog goals,” as I talked about yesterday, I’ve decided I’m going to not do these weekly memes unless I already was going to post something like this anyway. (I haven’t been participating for weeks anyway; I have had so [...]

I have a problem. I am subscribed to too many great book blogs.

It’s Banned Books Week!
I didn’t realize that until the week had already begun. As I’m in the middle of a million books right now (see Shelfari widget), I’m not going to start reading another until I finish something!

Book Blogger Appreciation Week is underway! Today we’re asked what blogs weren’t nominated that should have been. I’m only a new book blogger myself, so I know I miss a lot of great blogs. All of those that I’m subscribed to are in my far right sidebar. (I hope I haven’t missed any? It’s been [...]

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I’m back from New Zealand! We had a wonderful time, enjoying the scenery of Fiordlands and Queenstown. Our 10-month-old loved the baby-unsafe hotel rooms, and he has been thoroughly spoiled with extra Binkie time and overall parental indulgence.
Thursday I had a few moments, so I logged in to Google Reader: [...]

Answers
to Sunday’s post
1. (a) A.A. Milne (b) Simon Winchester (c) Alexander McCall-Smith
2. Guy de Maupassant
3. (a) Amy Tan (b) Terry Tempest Williams (c) Sherman Alexie (d) Robert Hass
4. Robert Hass
6. Winston Churchill
The winner was gag who guessed all correct (!) except Terry Tempest Williams. NIce job! And nice job for the rest of you.
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