Book Blogger Appreciation Week
OK, so I’m registering for Book Blogger Appreciation Week, and they want a list of my five best posts (from this year?). I’m not sure what those are , so I think I’ll just choose something from each month, January through June. Those of you who want a review, enjoy. 12 Tips for New Bloggers, [...]
More Cures for a Slow Summer
My posts about things to do for those who need a cure for summer boredom continue to be quite popular and bring lots of hits to this blog. You can look at some of these ideas in the following posts: June: Celebrations, Links, and Birthdays Bored –Nothing to Do: 100 Ideas to Cure Boredom 100 [...]
12 Best Booklists of 2009
Since I’m on hiatus from Semicolon for Lent, I thought I’d leave you with this list of lists. Anyone can always use a few more good booklists. Fuse #8′s Top 100 Picture Books. Rebecca Reid’s Reading Lists. Links to various award lists and lists from books and list of favorites. CaribousMom List of Lists. U.S. [...]
12 Best Semicolon Posts of 2009
SInce I’m on blog break for Lent, I thought a few posts from the past might be in order. Enjoy. Schuyler’s Monster by Rober Rummel-Hudson. Biographies of the U.S. Presidents. One of my project post about the U.S. Presidents Reading Project. I managed to read biographies of three presidents this year: George Washington, John Adams, [...]
Links and Thinks
Melissa at Book Nut has an interview with Roseanne Parry, author of one of my favorite Middle Grade Fiction books of 2009. This movie sounds good. Has anyone seen it? Actually, Brown Bear Daughter went to see it with some friends from church and she said it was pretty good. She didn’t rave about it; [...]
Blogamundi: Links and Thinks
The Last Days of Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle? Say it ain’t so! Oh, what a lovely, lovely website. Daniel Immerwahr’s Books of the Century lists the bestsellers and the influential and critically acclaimed books for each year of the twentieth century. I really want to join this Books of the Century Challenge, but I already have so [...]
12 Tips for New Bloggers, Especially Book Bloggers
My sweet reader sister, Judy, just sent me this email: I have decided to start a blog to review/discuss/recommend books. I have so many of my friends asking me what I am reading and what they should read on a particular subject. I think it could be beneficial for them and maybe others who stumble [...]
Links and Thinks
I like this idea: free music. You just have to watch a short ad, and the company whose ad you view pays for the song. Essentially, they’re paying you to watch, and I think that’s fair and beneficial for all concerned. 40 Most Obnoxious Quotes of 2009. Can you believe people actually said these things [...]
Semicolon’s 12 Best Posts and Articles Linked in 2009
I went out to buy a skirt by Jennifer at Conversion Diary. I am in complete agreement with Ms. Jennifer: shopping is the trauma. Pseudogamy 101: We engage in a convoluted and expensive pretense, complete with band and wedding cake and ring and honeymoon in Cancun, when all along we are saying, in part, “I [...]
Christmas and Seasonal Links
Who wrote The Night Before Christmas? I knew there was some dispute over the authorship of this traditional Chirstmas poem, but I didn’t know The Rest of the Story, as Paul Harvey would have said. Dear Congress, Please go home for Christmas. Now. Please. Sincerely, The Anchoress (and me and lots of us). Christmas Change [...]

