Guest Post: For The Love of Books

*This is a guest post by Melanie Milburn. One of my favorite things to do is read to children. Books are a wonderful way to introduce child...

Guest Post: Editing The Classics: Is it Ethical?

Note from Callista: I do not claim to agree or disagree with the following guest post. I am offering it to spark conversation among my read...

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 ...

Choosing Literature for Children

How do you choose books for your children?  A friend of mine has a book about 1000 books to enjoy with your children ( It's called 1001 ...

Attention Canadian Moms! Moms Nite Out at Chapters/Indigo

I was recently alerted to an event coming up really soon at Indigo and Chapters stores nationwide. Here's the info: "From 6:00 pm u...

Book Covers

This post is inspired by Caroline Bookbinder . Caroline, who has worked in many parts of the book industry, posted about links and tidbits s...

Clean Away the Clutter: Day 4 Update + activity

Well it's day 4 and I've just barely been keeping close to my goal of 2 hours a day. Yesterday I managed 2hr 15 minutes. Today I...

Clean the Clutter Read-a-thon Mini Challenge #1

As part of the Clutter read-a-thon there are some mini-challenges. The first one is to admit I have a problem with books by posting photos (...

Books with an Environment Theme

Earth Hour is tomorrow at 8:30pm. Don't forget to turn off your lights and electronics for at least a on hour span to help conserve ener...

Barnes and Noble Ratings and YA (Young Adult)

By now you may or may not have seen a blog post at Meg Cabot's blog about Barnes and Noble's new rating system . Go over there for t...

Let's Discuss Nonfiction

Note: I'm looking for feedback. Please consider commenting about your thoughts on nonfiction as well as your thoughts on my post in gene...

Read an E-Book Week Update

I wanted to share some tweets I've been seeing around related to e-books this week. Even if you aren't on twitter you can follow the...

The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman - Article

I was supposed to review this book by today but my copy arrived late and I haven't had time to finish reading it yet. So here's an a...

Interesting Links

I was surfing the web and found these... Gather No Dust: Libraries, Management & Technology - a blog of interest to those into libraries...

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...

Regarding Alice Hoffman

Okay so I'm late to the game as per usual and I wasn't even going to say anything but I've seen a few people say they don't ...

Is your library out of date?

I just heard about a cool blog called Awful Library Books . It features old, outdated, politically incorrect or otherwise wrong books from ...

Do you "fan" companies or people on facebook?

I use facebook mostly for my friends and family which is why I haven't friended any of my book blogging friends. However I do become a f...

A Quote from The No-Cry Nap Solution by Elizabeth Pantley

You can find my whole review here . The following quote is from the section about: The Volcano Effect: Why Skipping a Nap Results in Meltdow...