Jan 04 2009
What the Bookish crowd are doing this week
Another leisurely Sunday excursion through my blogroll, to see if everyone has recovered from the Christmas and New Year’s holidays, and to discover what their plans might be as 2009 gets started.
Nicola at Alpha Heroes has joined the New Author Challenge for 2009, hosted at the Literary Escapism site. I love all the new challenges, and it’s about time I get around to deciding which ones I want to do.
Nicola also mentions that the Thursday Thirteen thing, which I’d only just started doing, is now discontinued. Well, darnit. And because it seems the site is shut down, I can’t even go get the code to continue doing my own (at the Today.com site, one’s posts are closed off from being edited after a certain point, so I can’t retrieve it from my previous posts). Ah well.
In its place, though, I may place Booking Through Thursday. I found out about that meme from Joanne at The Book Zombie. Her own BTT thing, this past Thursday, was about the books she’s looking forward to reading as they’re released in the upcoming year. But comments she and her readers are making about cutting back their To Be Read list — just do not compute. 
Sandra at Fresh Ink Books has made her choices for all the various reading challenges she’s decided on. Yes, yes, I must decide on my own challenges! Gah.
Tomorrow. When I’m out of “holiday mode” and back into “work mode.” Or during the week, anyway. I think.
Meanwhile, Melanie at The Indextrious Reader has some new year’s links for booklovers (I am absolutely mad for The Regional Assembly of Text, and I agree with Melanie - I want to live in Vancouver so I can go there!!), and in her December 30th post she did an astonishing analysis of the books she read in 2008. I am both envious and inspired!
That’s one thing that’s come of all my “bookish” connections made this year. As I’ve read more and more book-related blogs, and seen what fascinating and inspiring books people have been reading, and what they’ve done with those books, I want to do much more myself. I am definitely going to read more books this year. And I’m going to look at them very differently.
Finally we have Hopeinbrazil’s post from December 29: You Know You Are a Book Blogger When…It’s hilarious. Even though I know nothing about any of the things she mentions. Nope. Nosirree…
