After the last Book Blogger Appreciation Week, I decided to regularly feature new bloggers I’ve found. I haven’t been doing a great job of doing this regularly. I’m going to try again! I’ve named this feature “Silver and Gold” after the scouting rhyme I used to sing. I plan on featuring bloggers I’ve been reading a long time and bloggers new to me.
Make new friends, but keep the old: One is silver and the other gold.
These are not all the bloggers I meet at BEA. I’ve selected a few to share with you; I’m saving others for another day. Some of these are new-to-me bloggers and others I’ve been reading for a long while.
- I stood in line for a while with Pam from MotherReader.com. She blogs about children’s and teens books, and recently hosted the 48-hour book challenge.
- While waiting in a different line, I also met Lisa, a librarian from New Jersey, who blogs at Shelf Employed, also about children’s books.
- Kim from Sophisticated Dorkiness and I started our blogs at about the same time. Kim blogs about literary nonfiction and fiction, and it was so fun to finally meet her at BEA.
- Heather from Age 30+ Books was one of the first bloggers I met at BEA. Heather blogs about all different kinds of books, from fantasy to nonfiction and literary fiction.
- Colleen from Books in the City is a new-to-me blogger: she blogs about fiction, especially immigrant stories. Since I’m fascinated by my own immigrant ancestors, this sounds very interesting to me.
- Anastasia at Birdbrain(ed) Book Blog writes about classics a lot. But I also have to give her a shout out for her recent awesome post about Retro summer reads.
That’s it for now. As I said, I met tons of other bloggers, new and old at BEA! I’ll highlight some more in the next Silver and Gold spotlight.
Have you visited these awesome bloggers?
What a great idea, thank you for sharing the blogs of some of the bloggers you enjoy and a few you met at BEA. I’ve been told that’s one of the best reasons to attend to BEA. I hope to next year.
I was already familiar with some of these blogs but I visited Birdbrained Book Blog and loved Anastasia’s site. Thank you!
Amy, I met so many more! I’ll have to share more another day. Thanks for visiting yourself!
I was very happy to meet several of the bloggers you mentioned here, and was lucky to spend a good bit of time with both Kim and Heather. For me, “meeting old friends for the first time” was the best part of BEA week!
Florinda » It definitely was a highlight of the week for me too!
Thanks for the shout out! 😀 And I really like this new feature of yours; I keep meaning to do something similar but, er, it forever slips my mind, I guess.
Anastasia » Thank YOU for your great blog. I keep forgetting to stay organized too, but I’m going to do better in the future.
What a great idea. 🙂
I missed this post earlier — thanks for the mention! It was so fun to meet you too, especially since we started blogging so close together, which I think is really cool. Like Florinda said, meeting “old friends” for the first time was easily the highlight of BEA.
Kim (Sophisticated Dorkiness) » definitely a highlight! Great to finally meet you!
Thanks, Rebecca! It was a pleasure to meet you! 🙂 Lisa