From the monthly archives:

October 2009

Saturday Randomness: Halloween, NaNoWriMo, Twitter, Food and Comments

October 31, 2009 Books and Reading

Happy Halloween to everyone who celebrates Halloween! It looks very windy outside my office window right now – hopefully the wind will die down before all the trick-or-treaters hit the sidewalks tonight.
I’m feeling a little random today (have you noticed I get this way at least once a week?) So I thought I’d throw all [...]

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Getting Organized: Keeping Track of Links and Book Recommendations

October 28, 2009 Books and Reading

I’ve always been envious of bloggers who seem to so easily keep track of who recommended a book they’ve just read and reviewed. At one point, I was using the Zotero plugin for Firefox to keep track of blog posts that introduced me to books which were added to my TBR, but eventually I had [...]

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Review: Flotsam, by David Wiesner

October 27, 2009 Books and Reading

I wish that I had known more about Flotsam, by David Wiesner, before I read it for the first time two weeks ago to Dylan, my six-year-old, at bedtime.
I might have done things a little differently.
For one thing, I would have had my husband standing by, camera in hand, ready to take pictures of Dylan’s [...]

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Leaving Procrastination Behind for Five Weeks

October 26, 2009 Life

It’s funny how a month can go by, just like that – and before you know it, the new month is literally just a handful of days away.
So, much like I realized yesterday that NaNoWriMo is nearly here, this morning I sat down and entered in all my latest work deadlines. October has been a [...]

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[TSS] International Book Giveaways, Readathon and NaNoWriMo

October 25, 2009 Blogging and Blog Events

List of book giveaways open to all, my thoughts about the readathon, and the final week of prepping for NaNoWriMo!

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Readathon Cheerleading: I Got Booted Off Twitter

October 25, 2009 Blogging and Blog Events

I guess I was doing TOO good a job cheerleading for the Readathon – Twitter won’t let me make any more tweets for now!!
That’s a good thing, right?
So I’m off Twitter for now, but Go, Readers, Go!!!
And I’m taking this as a sign that I’m meant to go comment/cheer on more of the readers’ blogs!

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Go Readers Go!

October 24, 2009 Blogging and Blog Events

It’s the 24-hour-readathon and I’m cheerleading for the Team Romantics!

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Do You Write YA Novels? Enter The YA Novel Discovery Contest!

October 23, 2009 Writing

Enter the first 250 words of your novel in The YA Novel Discover Contest!

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Incoming! Books About Words

October 22, 2009 Incoming!

Incoming! is a feature at Ms. Bookish that chronicles some of the recent new book arrivals at the Ms. Bookish household. This edition: Books about words.

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Oops: My September Giftaway

October 22, 2009 Blogging and Blog Events

I totally forgot!
So I’m changing the September giftaway to the September and October giftaway, and early in November, I’ll draw two names from the list of commentors for September and October.
Now to schedule it into Google calendar and get a reminder sent to me!

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