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January 22, 2010
Kidlitosphere Links
• A Chair, A Fireplace & A Tea Cozy: Covers – LizB reflects upon the Bloomsbury cover controversy, with links to other posts. MotherReader has some thoughts as well.
• Brooklyn Arden: The Best YA You Haven't Read – more TBR madness. Oh, my list, she will not stop growing.
• 2010 Scott O'Dell Winner « educating alice – another for my TBR pile: The Storm in the Barn.
• The wonderful Anastasia Suen has taken the reins for the Carnival of Children's Literature. She has almost a full slate of...
January 21, 2010
Social Media for Booklovers
The other day I mentioned two book-related social media platforms I use: GoodReads (faithfully) for logging the books I've read, and LibraryThing (sporadically) for cataloging the books we own.
I've experimented with several other platforms—
• BookGlutton is growing on me. It's an ebook reader for your browser, with some nifty features built in. You can write notes in the margins, and other people can see these notes and comment back—so just imagine, we could all read a book together and...
Links and Drinks
• Lost Ladybug Project – Tabatha thought this post about a ladybug species counting project might be up our alley. She was SO RIGHT. I do believe my gang will try to take part in this.
•Learn Sign Language – Signing Time News » From Rachel: Happy Birthday, Emilie! – HT to pal Sarah for this lovely tribute from one sister to another.
• Sarcasm punctuation mark to put an end to email confusion – Oh, I'm SO SURE that will work. No more email confusion, EVER.
• And this one's for Helen, who...
January 19, 2010
Bonny Glen Birthday
This blog will be five years old tomorrow. Five years, 1928 posts (this one makes 1928), over eleven thousand comments. That last figure does not seem possible but my dashboard is telling me 11,495 comments approved. Which speaks to exactly what has kept me enthusiastically blogging these past five years: you. Thanks, all of you who visit me here, sharing your humor, your insight, your warmth.
A lot has changed since I wrote that first entry.
The children. These days the girls are calling...
January 18, 2010
Interesting Things & Another TBR
FT.com / Reportage – Moscow's stray dogs – "Every so often, you would see one waiting on a metro platform. When the train pulled up, the dog would step in, scramble up to lie on a seat or sit on the floor if the...
Newbery Yippee
I woke up this morning to the happy news that When You Reach Me won the Newbery Award. I was rooting for it! Here's what I had to say about it in September:
…I want to tell you all about how much I enjoyed Rebecca Stead's excellent middle-grade novel, When You Reach Me—but if I say anything, practically anything at all, I'll give away things I'd rather you discovered yourself in the pages of the book, in the perfect way Stead has chosen to reveal them to you. I can say that it's about a girl...
January 17, 2010
Delicious Links for January 17, 2010
Babushka Flash Drive available at Delight.com – How much more could I adore this thing? None more, is how much.
Tour of Manhattan based on 'Stuart Little,' 'Eloise' and other children's books – washingtonpost.com -
January 16, 2010
Streamlining the Ways I Use Social Media
I've long been aware that I am somewhat sloppy in my approach to link-saving and -sharing. I "like," I share, I tweet, I deem certain items Delicious, I upload to Flickr, I send to Facebook. I seldom Stumble, but recently I began to Tumbl. I log the books I've read at GoodReads and am slowly cataloging the books I own at LibraryThing. And those are just the social media I use regularly. The number of things I've tried out—well, a free Evernote account would scarcely accommodate the list.
It...
January 15, 2010
They Grow Up So Fast
When Rilla saw this shirt among Huck's birthday presents (thanks, Grandma!), she said, "We're going to dress him in MAN clothes!"
Looks like he's ready for his first job interview, doesn't he? If the skill set they're looking for includes eating dust bunnies and ransacking cabinets, he's a shoo-in.
