I added another shelf from my shelfari book shelf. This is books I have read, if you place your cursor over the books, you can see the review I wrote for that book.
Today’s question- Blog Widgets. Do you use them? Do you have them on your blog? Do you know what I’m talking about? 🙂 A blog widget is that list of books “From my LibraryThing” and such, that you’ll sometimes see on someone’s sidebar. If you use it, do all of your books show up or do you have it set to only show certain books? Do you have a search widget, which would allow your blog readers to search your library? Have you ever made a photomosaic of your book covers? You can find widgets and photomosaic information on the “Tools” tab in LibraryThing.
Yes! I have two widgets on my blog, one is the books I’m reading, the other is books I plan to read. Except they are not from LibraryThing. I used to have it but I didn’t like the way it looked. So since I don’t have it, I don’t use the other features. I still haven’t figured everything out about library thing.
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Happy Monday!! Mailbox Monday is hosted by Marcia at The Printed Page . We share what books that we found in our mailboxes last week. Here’s what I received:
I only received one book. Heal Pelvic Pain by Amy Stein, M.P.T. And I wasn’t going to do a whole post for one book. But then I changed my mind. It is perfectly OK that I only got one book since I am still reading Helter Skelter. It is taking me a long time to read it. Not because it is boring, quite the contrary, it is a very big book, it is very detailed and I am trying not to miss anything, and I keep falling asleep on the train. Not enough sleep. On that note, I am going to finish my laundry now.
Shana at Blog.Literarily.com has reviewed Two Brothers – One North, One South by David H. Jones and is giving away her gently read hard cover copy. Click here to read her review and enter to win a copy of Two Brothers – One North, One South.
And I just entered another giveaway for a Bobbi Brown Make up book at Book Critiques.
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I got the list of books I read in 2007 on. It is not a complete list since I wasn’t recording my reads for the whole year. You notice I didn’t number these, I put the date I read them. I think that is what I will do for 2009.
Also, I got a free book this week! I entered the giveaway at BookGiveaway, the link is below on my list of websites. The book I got is Heal Pelvic Pain by Amy Stein, M.P.T. I have no idea what I am going to do with it. I requested it because the other books just would not do.
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I added my list of books read in 2008. Later I will add 2007. Some are linked to reviews, not all. The reason for this is for a long time I didn’t write reviews for my books. Then I started to, and then I joined Shelfari and Library Thing and started writing reviews there. Some of the reviews that were written on my other blog have more then just the review in the post.
Now that I have this blog, I will be posting my reviews here and linking them to the list.
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Popular this month on LT: Do you look at this list? Do you get ideas on what to read from it?
Have you read any of the books on the list right now? Feel free to link to any reviews you’ve done as well.
My answer: I didn’t even know about this feature! I will have to check it out. I will answer the other question after I check out the list and get back from the doctors. Stay tuned!
Here’s the list and my answer:
1.The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
2.Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World by Vicki Myron
3.Nation by Terry Pratchett
4.Brisingr by Christopher Paolini
5.Anathem by Neal Stephenson
6.American Wife: A Novel by Curtis Sittenfeld
7.The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
8.The Story of Edgar Sawtelle: A Novel by David Wroblewski
9.Any Given Doomsday by Lori Handeland
10.Eclipse (The Twilight Saga, Book 3) by Stephenie Meyer
I read Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World… by Vicki Myron and reviewed it on Library Thing. None of the other books are on my TBR list.
On a foggy September day in 1970, six-year-old Jens Davidsson leaves his house, climbs over a wall and disappears. Popular opinion is that he wandered down to the sea and drowned. This opinion is not shared by the boy’s mother and grandfather, each for their own reasons. 20 years later, it appears that they were right when the grandfather receives a package in the mail, a package that contains a little boy’s sandal.
The novel moves from present to past, telling us the history of a man some suspect as the killer and some believe has been dead at least 10 years before the boy disappeared. As the grandfather gets closer to the truth of what happened, his daughter renews her relationship with him, comes to grips with the disappearance of her son and both discover that some people are not at all what they appear to be.
The pace of this novel is good, a good foundation is laid with the characters and in true suspense thriller fashion, the ending is a twist.
I recommend this book.
A Descent Into Hell by Kathryn Casey
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
This is the first book I have read by this author, I have mainly read Ann Rule, that being said, I enjoyed this as much as any of Ann Rule’s books. It is very well researched, the author took the time to talk to as many people who knew the victim and perpetrator as possible. The events are detailed but not over dramatized and I was drawn into the story. She gave enough detail I was able to follow the events as they unfolded, but did not get bogged down. I even read through the trial part, something I usually skim through.
I would recommend this book to others.
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