Natasha at Maw Books came up with this great idea: The Bloggiesta challenge asks us to focus on “blog content, improving/ cleaning up your blog or working on your social network profiles.” In other words, catching up! It officially started at 8 a.m. today (in whatever time zone you are in) and runs for 48 hours. I’m hoping to spend 12 hours on it at least, but we’ll see! (I’m going out to lunch with clients today, so that will definitely cut into my day.)My priorities are:
- writing book reviews (I have 18 to write at the moment!)
- replying to comments on my blog (I’m at least two weeks behind)
- cleaning up my blog
- writing an opinion post
These are the books I need to review:
- The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade by Thomas Lynch
- The Pages in Between: A Holocaust Legacy of Two Families, One Home* by Erin Einhorn
- Skin Deep by E. M. Crane
- Willing Spirits* by Phyllis Schieber
- Sing Them Home* by Stephanie Kallos
- Coventry* by Helen Humphreys
- The Next Big Thing by Johanna Edwards
- Places I Never Meant to Be: Original Stories by Censored Writers edited by Judy Blume
- The Wishing Year: An Experiment in Desire by Noelle Oxenhandler
- Between Friends: A Year in Letters by Oonagh Berry and Helen Levine
- Giving Up: The Last Days of Sylvia Plath by Jillian Becker
- A Troubled Guest: Life and Death Stories by Nancy Mairs
- The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
- In Summer Light by Zibby Oneal
- What the Dead Know by Laura Lippman
- Keeping Watch by Laurie R. King
- Katherine’s Wish* by Linda Lappin
- The Local News* by Miriam Gershow
*These are books I accepted for review. I may or may not review all the others.
I have a ton of book reviews to write as well! And blog comments, yep behind on that too. Good luck with the challenge!
ReplyDeleteWow! Good luck on your reviews!
ReplyDeleteGood luck with your reviews! I have quite a few myself so I feel your pain.
ReplyDeleteAvis- I am in the challenge too but haven't done anything apart from my intro post. Will be plugging away tonight on it though.
ReplyDeleteGood luck. I am with you on the reviews too.
I'm not really participating in the Bloggiesta, but I am getting caught up on a few things.
ReplyDeleteI have an award for you: http://ultimatebookhound.blogspot.com/2009/06/bit-about-me-awards.html
Best of luck. I didn't take up the challenge officially, but I might unofficially do it..if that makes sense. LOL Try and get some more reviews written and read some more stuff, etc. etc.
ReplyDelete-Lauren
Hope your reviews are going well.
ReplyDeletePlease review "skin deep"...if only because there's a copy of it waiting for me at home and I want to know if I should read it :)
ReplyDeleteThanks everybody for your encouragement!
ReplyDeleteNatasha, this is such a great idea; I hope it's only the first of many Bloggiestas!
Kathy, Lauren and Sandra, thank you!
Nicole and Cindy, good luck with your reviews!
Vanessa (NotNessie), thank you for the award!
Brogan, duly noted! I'll try to get to that one soon. (I did enjoy it!)
Thanks for the reminder, I need to add writing my review of The Local News to my to-do list!
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