Biannual Blogathon Bash Kick Off

The second Blogathon has STARTED! Created by me to support bloggers, I’m participating with 5 different blogs. This one, Callista’s Rambling...

Review Copy Cleanup Challenge

I'm a bit late but I've signed up for the Review Copy Cleanup challenge to catch up on reading and reviewing a bunch of books I hav...

Armchair BEA 2011 - Blogging About Blogging

For the last day of Armchair BEA we are talking about blogging. This isn't my only blog, I also blog at http://callistasramblings.blogsp...

Armchair BEA 2011 - Nurturing Relationships

The topic for today was for Armchair BEA is Nurturing Relationships... with other bloggers, with PR/Publishers and with blog readers. I wan...

What I Do With The Books I Receive for Review When I'm Done

I do various things with the books I receive: A select few I keep. Some are passed on to friends and family. Some are donated to the Public ...

Blog Posts That Generate the Most Spam

© Flickr User Myrrien For fun, I saved all my blog spam from this blog for exactly one month. Here are the top 5 posts that received spam. I...

Delicious Book Blog Directory

There are a few things I was supposed to work on during Bloggiesta that I wasn't able to because of camp but I've been working on th...

Where I've Been and Bloggiesta

First of all, sorry for not posting much lately. May and June are really busy for me and I haven't had a chance to do much blogging. I h...

Book Blogger Hop - Apr 2-8

If you found me via the Book Blogger Hop, Welcome! I blog about books of course but I mostly blog about nonfiction and children's books ...

On Callista's Ramblings: Why is an Orange Called an Orange?

Over at one of my other blogs, Callista's Ramblings , I posted the other day about some fun research I did based on a picture book I rea...

Post 1000 - Celebration! - Giveaways!

This is my 1000th published post. I would have reached this earlier but I deleted a few posts a year ago that were sign ups for book challen...

Thinking About Last 998 Posts (This is post 999)

The big celebration is tomorrow so be sure to come back. I have giveaways! For today I'd like to reminisce a little bit. Here's how ...

Mother Reader's Comment Challenge Wrap-Up

I signed up for the comment challenge during bloggiesta. That weekend I commented on 16 blogs. A day later I commented on 11 more and then ...

Bloggiesta Mini-Challenge: Website Grader

I decided to do the Website Grader challenge from the last Bloggiesta, courtesy of Bookish Ruth. I had done this over a year ago and my scor...

Bloggiesta Mini-Challenge: 2010 Blogging and Reading Goals

I'm doing this as a part of Bloggiesta but I was going to do it anyways so this is my official 2010 goals page. First I'd like to re...

Bloggiesta Mini-Challenge: Put Your Best Forward

Tempting Persephone is running this one. We're to look through some of our past posts and pick some posts that we feel represent our bes...

Bloggiesta January 8-10/09

 Yeah I'm so happy! I missed doing the first Bloggiesta and so I'm overjoyed to see that MawBooks is hosting another one! If you kno...

My New Blog Design

So what do you think? I'd like to thank Lissa of Lily Blue Designs . She also redesigned my other blog Callista's Ramblings a few m...

I missed everything... :(

I love reading and I love writing reviews and participating in special events in the book blog community. However since July I've gone i...

My site is listed in an e-book!

This book review blog is listed as a writer's resource in the recently released 2nd edition of Purple Snowflake Marketing - How to M...