Posts Tagged ‘BBAW’
Winners, round 2: BBAW bookmarks
Posted by: Laura at Im Booking It on: October 2, 2009
- In: blogging| giveaway
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Book Blogger Appreciation Week lives on!
I said I’d give away at least 5 bookmarks during BBAW. The mailing of the first 5 was uneventful, so I’m sending out 5 more to those that entered. I went ahead and added 5 to the selection, so here is what these 5 have to choose from:
The new [...]
BBAW: I read it because of bloggers
Posted by: Laura at Im Booking It on: September 16, 2009
- In: blogging
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Thursday’s prompt for Book Blogger Appreciation Week is “Thanks for Introducing Me to This Book!”, talking about a book you read (and loved) and never would have known about without book blogs.
My choice is Suzanne Collins and The Hunger Games and Catching Fire. I can’t credit any one blog, because I was seeing [...]
BBAW: Reading Meme
Posted by: Laura at Im Booking It on: September 15, 2009
- In: blogging| meme
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Today’s Book Blogger Appreciation Week event is a reading meme. I’m taking the approach of trying to answer each question in 5 words or less. Click above to see how other book bloggers answered.
Do you snack while you read? If so, favorite reading snack? chocolate
Do you tend to mark your books as you read, [...]
BBAW: My To Be Read Shelf
Posted by: Laura at Im Booking It on: September 15, 2009
- In: Book Shot| blogging
- 12 Comments
These books are my active Too Be Read books. There are many, many more unread books around the house that I had planned to read, and still may someday…
The one on top is the one I pulled out when I finished my last book, I haven’t started it yet. In general, books I think I’ll [...]
BBAW: Interview
Posted by: Laura at Im Booking It on: September 14, 2009
- In: blogging
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Book Blogger Appreciation week is full of many ways to celebrate the community. One of the activities was a Book Blogger Interview swap.
My assigned partner is Chris at Cloud of Witness. This blog is a very different kind of book blog than mine, showing some of the breadth of the community. I thought that was [...]
BBAW: My star blogs
Posted by: Laura at Im Booking It on: September 14, 2009
- In: blogging
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For Book Blogger Appreciation Week, Monday is dedicated to thanking and spotlighting our favorite blogs that didn’t make the awards shortlists.
I can’t possibly list them all– that would be all 100+ blogs I have in Google Reader (minus the few that were nominated). But I will pull out a some, and spend the rest of [...]
BBAW meme
Posted by: Laura at Im Booking It on: August 9, 2009
- In: meme
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One year ago, I didn’t know that the book blogging world existed. If you’d asked, I would have said that there were probably people that blogged about books, but I hadn’t looked at any of them. Now I regret that I didn’t find them earlier.
This year, I have my own blog, and am excited [...]
Laura de Leon is Booking It
I'm always reading, and usually on the move. I'm a mom-at-home exploring where I want to go in the world, trying to see what my next move will be. For more information, see About Me
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You can also contact me at ImBookingIt@deLeons.com
- Review: Fallen by Lauren Kate
- Review: Austenland by Shannon Hale
- June reading wrap-up
- Review: Deep Kiss of Winter by Kresley Cole & Gena Showalter
- BBAW: Bookmark Giveaway
- Book Clubs
- Review and Giveaway: The Gift of an Ordinary Day by Katrina Kenison
- Review: Slam by Nick Hornby
- Review: Sail by James Patterson, Howard Roughan
- Review: True Colors by Kristin Hannah
- Crystal: Great review. I read this last month I think and really enjoyed it also. Her books just seem to work for me.
- Jen Forbus: This sounds cute. I might have to check it out. PRIDE AND PREJUDICE is probably my most re-read book.
- Linda K.: I don't think I could take the "Aliens coming to Earth because there are women here and falling in lust with one across the field of battle" part eith
My Reviews
Reviews on this blog
November 2009
- Tales for Delicious Girls by Barbora Knobova
- Silence by Thomas Perry
- Sometimes We’re Always Real Same-same by Mattox Roesch
- Fallen by Lauren Kate
- Definitely Dead by Charlaine Harris
- The Magicians by Lev Grossman
- The Help by Kathryn Stockett
- Now & Then by Jacqueline Sheehan
- Blue Smoke and Murder by Elizabeth Lowell
- Dead as a Doornail by Charlaine Harris
- The Impostor’s Daughter by Laurie Sandell
- To Desire A Devil by Elizabeth Hoyt
- Life After Genius by M. Ann Jacoby
October 2009
- The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
- The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
- Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
- The Seduction of the Crimson Rose
- The Deception of the Emerald Ring
- Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett
- Magyk by Angie Sage
- The Merchant of Death by D.J. MacHale
- The Financial Lives of the Poets by Jess Walter
- Beat the Reaper by Josh Bazell
- The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
- Breaking the Bank by Yona Zeldis McDonough
- Betsy-Tacy 9 and 10 by Maude Hart Lovelace
- Betsy and the Great World
- Betsy's Wedding
- Betsy and Joe (Betsy-Tacy 8) by Maude Hart Lovelace
- Betsy-Tacy 6 and 7 by Maud Hart Lovelace
- Betsy in Spite of Herself
- Betsy Was a Junior
- Heaven To Betsy (Betsy-Tacy 5) by Maude Hart Lovelace
- Betsy Tacy 1-4 by Maude Hart Lovelace
- Betsy-Tacy
- Betsy-Tacy and Tib
- Betsy and Tacy Go Over the Big Hill
- Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown
September 2009
- A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore
- The Smart One and The Pretty One by Claire LaZebnik
- Luv Ya Bunches by Lauren Myracle
- Second Honeymoon by Joanne Trollope
- A Note From An Old Acquaintance by Bill Walker
- Dead to the World by Charlaine Harris
- 31 Hours by Masha Hamilton
- Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
- The Way Home by George P. Pelecanos
- Babydoll by Allyson Roy
- Tallgrass by Sandra Dallas
- Sail by James Patterson
- The Accidental Time Machine by Joe Haldeman
- Sacred Hearts by Sarah Dunant
- How to Tame a Modern Rogue by Diana Holquist
August 2009
- Only Milo by Barry Smith
- Looking for Alaska by John Green
- Laced With Magic by Barbara Bretton
- Mercy Street by Mariah Stewart
- The Gift of an Ordinary Day by Katrina Kenison
- Two Years, No Rain by Shawn Klomparens
- Admission by Jean Hanff Korelitz
- An Assembly Such as This by Pamela Aidan
- Bundle of Trouble by Diana Orgain
- Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
- Slam by Nick Hornby
- Club Dead by Charlaine Harris
- Halting State by Charles Stross
- Best Friends Forever by Jennifer Weiner
July 2009
- Welcome to Biotech Nation by Moira Gunn
- Mind Scrambler by Chris Grabenstein
- Living Dead in Dallas by Charlaine Harris
- Miss L’eau by T. Katz
- Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
- Benny & Shrimp by Katarina Mazetti
- Julie & Julia by Julie Powell
- A Summer Affair by Elin Hilderbrand
- Last Night in Montreal by Emily St. John Mandel
- One Scream Away by Kate Brady
- Pushing Up Bluebonnets by Leann Sweeney
- The Castaways by Elin Hilderbrand
- Sweet Talk by Susan Mallery
- The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy
- Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
June 2009
- Finger Lickin’ Fifteen by Janet Evanovich
- Shoot From the Lip by Leann Sweeney
- Interred with Their Bones by Jennifer Lee Carrell
- The Wednesday Sisters by Meg Waite Clayton
- Of Bees and Mist by Erick Setiawan
- The Actor and the Housewife by Shannon Hale
- Beach Trip by Cathy Holton
- Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt
- True Colors by Kristin Hannah
- Old World Daughter, New World Mother
- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
May 2009
- Stones From the River by Ursula Hegi
- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
- The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
- Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead
- Shakespeare’s Secret by Elise Broach
- Tribute by Nora Roberts
- Tea Time for the Traditionally Built by Alexander McCall Smith
- Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
- Comfort Food by Kate Jacobs
- Cures for Heartbreak by Margo Rabb
- The Language of Bees by Laurie R. King
April 2009
- Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
- The Writing on My Forehead by Nafisa Haji
- Dead Ex by Harly Jane Kozak
- Malice Domestic 3
- Pardonable Lies by Jacqueline Winspear
