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Linking Around: The Holiday Edition!

December 5, 2009 Books and Reading

What better thing to do on a lazy Saturday afternoon then doing some fun linking around (nope, I’m not out there battling other holiday shoppers – yet)? And it’s such holiday fun!
Holiday Card Exchange. Haley, at The Life (and Lies) of an Inanimate Flying Object is holding a Holiday Card swap. You fill out her [...]

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Book-Buying Binge

May 31, 2009 Books and Reading

It happens to me, on a fairly regular basis. I go on these book buying binges, and unlike other types of binges, afterwards it feels lovely. I had ample justification for this one, as a group of us on Twitter came up with a wonderful event: “No BEA? Books Anyway!”, hosted at Devourer of Books. [...]

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Bridget Zinn Auction

May 20, 2009 Blogging and Blog Events

I’ve been dipping into my Google Reader today in between doing some marking up on an assignment, and came across the Bridget Zinn Auction through Meg Cabot’s blog.
Bridget is a young librarian who discovered this past February that she has cancer. The Bridget Zinn auction site features books donated by many people, in order [...]

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Lovely Bookish Surprises Today!

May 1, 2009 Books and Reading

I’m so excited – it feels like my birthday today!
I just went to the library to pick up some more holds that had come in, and discovered The Language of Bees, by Laurie R. King, waiting for me!
I’m super-thrilled about this. I had been downright envious when I was over at Bookish Ruth’s the [...]

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Surfing Saturday: Focus on Giveaways

February 7, 2009 Books and Reading

This week I thought I’d focus on giveaways, because I seem to have come across a ton of them for some reason. Here’s the list of great book giveaways I’ve come across this week – I haven’t entered all of them, but there are definitely some for which I’m keeping my fingers (and toes) crossed!
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