What's What (Sunday Salon): Mid-2014 Bookkeeping Graphics!

Since it's a long holiday weekend here in the USA and many of us just might be doing other things, I'm keeping the words to a minimum here today. I just thought I'd show you how my 2014 reading activity is looking, since we're halfway through the year now.

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2013 Reading in Review, Infographic-style!

I thought of presenting my year-end stats in snazzy little charts after I saw what Melissa at Feminist Texican Reads did with hers. Hover over any item on a graph to see the exact number.
 

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That Was 2013: End-of-the-Year Survey

Since I've really enjoyed reading other people's responses to Jamie's End-of-Year Book Survey, I'm cherry-picking some of her questions to use as a template for my own year-end wrap-up, and I gave the the first question--"Best Book(s) You Read In 2013?"--its own post. Book titles not linked in my survey responses were featured there.

On Books

Book You Were Excited About & Thought You Were Going To Love More But Didn’t?
I Want My MTV, by Rob Tannenbaum and Craig Marks--It was fun, but not terribly insightful--it would probably work better as a TV documentary.

Most surprising (in a good way!) book of 2013?
Then Again, by Diane Keaton--I never thought I'd be so charmed by the memoir of an actress (of whom I'm not a particular fan) reflecting on her mother's life after losing her to Alzheimer's.

Book you read in 2013 that you recommended to people most in 2013?
Five Days at Memorial--I called it "The Most Important Book I Read This Year."

Favorite new author you discovered in 2013?
I doubt she's just mine; I think everyone's favorite "discovery" this year was Rainbow Rowell.

Most thrilling, unputdownable book in 2013?
Five Days at Memorial...although, as an audio, it's probably more accurate to call it "Book That Actually Made You Want Your Commute to Last Longer."

Most memorable character in 2013?
Franny Banks, from Someday, Someday, Maybe, by Lauren Graham

Most beautifully written book read in 2013?
It's hard to choose between my two Fiction Books of the Year selections, Telegraph Avenue and Beautiful Ruins, so I just won't.

Book that had the greatest impact on you in 2013?
Handling the Truth--it's helped me be a more discerning reader, inspired me to work at being a better writer, and made me appreciate the privilege of calling Beth Kephart a friend more than ever.

Book you can’t believe you waited UNTIL 2013 to finally read?
We Need to Talk About Kevin--the best book I doubt I'll ever read again.

Shortest & Longest Book You Read In 2013?
Shortest: Saffron Cross, by J. Dana Trent, 144 pages;
Longest: The Historian, by Elizabeth Kostova, 704 pages (and SIX YEARS to get to the end!)

Favorite Book You Read in 2013 From An Author You’ve Read Previously
Sisterland, by Curtis Sittenfeld, an audiobook that also put Rebecca Lowman on my favorite-narrators list

Best Book You Read In 2013 That You Read Based SOLELY On A Recommendation From Somebody Else
If you count "award recognition" as a "recommendation"--and I do--this has to be Society's Child: My Autobiography, by Janis Ian.

Best 2013 debut you read?
The Age of Miracles, by Karen Thompson Walker (Nitpickers: Yes, this was a 2012 debut, but since I didn't read it till 2013 I'm claiming it for last year.)

Most vivid world/imagery in a book you read in 2013?
Eleanor & Park, by Rainbow Rowell, a YA-crossover firmly set in the real world...of St. Louis Omaha in 1985. (*thanks to Alison for the correction!)

Book That Was The Most Fun To Read in 2013?
This has to be my audio re-read of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy. Those books will be the "most fun" reads of almost any year.

Book That Made You Cry Or Nearly Cry in 2013?
Again, this one goes to Eleanor & Park. Curse you, Rainbow Rowell!

On Blogging and the Reading Life:

Best discussion(s) you had on your blog?

• "An Open Letter to Restless (Book) Bloggers: Don't Forget Who Makes the Rules";
• a two-part consideration of fiction and nonfiction that touched on changing reading preferences and the Common Core

Most thought-provoking review or discussion you read on somebody else’s blog?
Jeanne's "Why I Blog" post

Best event that you participated in (author signings, festivals, virtual events, memes, etc.)?
Sheila's Banned Books Week celebration

Best moment of book blogging/your book life in 2013?
FINALLY getting my Book Review Archive spreadsheet built!

Most Popular Post This Year On Your Blog (whether it be by comments or views)?
Google Analytics says it's still the all-time search-traffic leader, "Factors for a Successful Marriage--The Pew Survey," from 2007. The most-viewed post from 2013 is my review of Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline, which I read with the She Reads Book Club.

Post(s) You Wished Got A Little More Love?
I really hoped to have some more conversation on my two posts during Doctor Who's 50th-anniversary week, just because I like talking about Doctor Who!

Did you complete any reading challenges or goals that you had set for yourself at the beginning of this year?
I fell just short of my GoodReads Reading Challenge goal of 52 books. I didn't think I'd hit my 5-book target for the Ebook Challenge, but when I crunched the numbers I saw I'd actually exceeded it by one. And I crushed the Audiobook Challenge--my target was 12, and I read 19. Clearly, I wouldn't have gotten near the book-a-week average without the audios!

One Book You Didn’t Get To In 2013 But Will Be A Priority in 2014?
The Interestings, by Meg Wolitzer--I bought it as an ebook months ago, but I seem to have so much trouble getting around to reading ebooks!
(And two more, because...why not? The Other Typist by Suzanne Rindell and Life After Life by Kate Atkinson)

One Thing You Hope To Accomplish Or Do In Your Reading/Blogging Life In 2014?

I'm planning to go back to New York City in May for BEA and the Bloggers Conference, after skipping 2013! (And I'll be looking for a roommate. Can we talk?)

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Sunday Salon: Books of the Year, 2013

I started 2014 with a couple of vacation days from work so I could do some other "work"--my blog version of the "year-end close." (It will take much longer to do that at my day job, which is the other reason I took some time off now!) I'll be reporting on it all this week, but I wanted to kick it off with the good stuff.

Books of the Year, 2013

FICTION (print): Telegraph Avenue, by Michael Chabon

"I appreciated the way that Chabon's explorations into genre during the last decade or so colored this return to more literary fiction... I’m not sure that Telegraph Avenue is as ambitious a novel as Chabon’s Pulitzer Prize-winner The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, and I don’t think it fully achieves the ambitions it does have. That said, I generally applaud that kind of ambition, and feel a little let down when it doesn't quite stick the landing. But when someone writes the way Chabon does, the letdown isn't quite as rough. At the same time, I think this may be his most down-to-earth novel since the admittedly less ambitious (and my personal favorite) Wonder Boys, and I applaud that as well. There were times I totally loved Telegraph Avenue, times it frustrated me, and a very few times when it bored me...and so I offer one more round of applause to Michael Chabon for thoroughly engaging me in this little Northern California world."

FICTION (audio): Beautiful Ruins, by Jess Walter

"Beautiful Ruins is a novel of mid-20th-century Italy and old (and new) Hollywood, conveying its characters back to the final days of World War II and forward through the decades into the present, with detours into the Pacific Northwest and a stop at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival...I was very impressed by Walter’s weaving of these story threads, balancing and connecting them into a fascinating whole. That said, the characters that inhabit Beautiful Ruins are what make all those plot threads so absorbing. They are complex and convincingly human; I loved several of them, and even the least likable ones have characteristics that won me over to some degree. I genuinely enjoyed discovering how characters connected to one another across the novel’s expanse of time and place; I’d try to guess, and I was right more often than I wasn’t, but I was usually satisfied by the outcome either way. The descriptive passages in the novel are vivid, and so are the emotions it portrays."

NONFICTION, topical: Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital, by Sheri Fink

"What happened at Memorial Medical Center between August 27 and September 1, 2005 is a story of heroism and tragedy. The five-day process of evacuating staff, patients, and visitors from the flooded, blacked-out hospital is a chronicle of difficult decisions made under terrible conditions; while some had fortunate outcomes, they were overshadowed by the choices that turned out spectacularly badly...The medical/legal drama inherent in this story make Five Days at Memorial compelling reading, but what elevates the book to Important is the way that the incidents it relates provide an intense, concentrated perspective on larger issues; it presents potential case studies on medical ethics, disaster management, socioeconomic class and community relations. The focus it gives to questions relevant to the current national health-care debate is particularly notable. Sheri Fink originally reported on what happened at Memorial, and the legal and medical fallout from those events, in 2009, and builds from there in this book. There are many sides to this complex story, as this much-expanded account makes clear."

NONFICTION, personal: Handling the Truth: On the Writing of Memoir, by Beth Kephart

"...(M)emoir done right--experience and truth, shaped by insight into art--is Beth Kephart's passion, and this book makes that abundantly clear to both those who want to write memoir and those who just want to read it. Instructive but never pedantic, it’s meant to make you better at both. And Kephart leaves no doubt that writers of memoir must be readers of memoir. Handling the Truth abounds with excerpts and examples, and features a generous (50-page!), well-curated list of recommended further reading in both the art and craft of memoir writing...Handling the Truth is a practical guide. It breaks down the various elements of the form, and offers illustrations and exercises drawn from the classroom. At the same time, it’s a memoir of Beth Kephart’s own experience with the writing, reading, and teaching of memoir...and the book accomplishes both missions without being overly self-referential or meta. It’s a celebration, examination, and defense of the form. It’s honest and direct about where and how it can go wrong, and why that makes it so important to get it right."

BOOK PAIRING ONE-TWO PUNCH (fiction/nonfiction): We Need to Talk About Kevin, by Lionel Shriver and Columbine, by Dave Cullen

Still to come in the Year in Review: I'll be answering some of the questions from Jamie's End-of-Year Book Survey on Tuesday, posting 2013 stats info-graphic style--inspired by Melissa at Feminist Texican Reads--on Wednesday, and thinking about 2014 reading by borrowing Bellezza's New Year's Reading Goals meme on Thursday.

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Sunday Salon: An Open Letter to Restless (Book) Bloggers--Don't Forget Who Makes The Rules

Dear (book) bloggers,

I’m writing in response to posts I’ve come across recently from some of you. Like me, you’ve self-identified as “book bloggers,” but maybe you’re starting to feel a little hemmed in by the label. Maybe you’re itching to branch out in some new directions, but you’re not sure exactly how--or what sort of reaction you'll get if you do. As Becca said, and I get the feeling she's not alone:

“I have been trying to decide for myself whether I really want to continue blogging.  I have been reading but the thought of writing a review seems boring (gasp!) and I think I need a new approach to blogging in order to kick start my mojo, if you will.

“I am contemplating creating a blog that goes beyond books and book reviews and book news and stretches into all kinds of things I am interested in.  I have so many more interests than reading and I would like to explore them.  I have thoughts on so many subjects that I have no platform for.  I want a blog where I can write whatever the hell I want to and not worry that it is not book-related.  I realize this may turn some readers off but you can’t please everyone, right?”

I’ve been preaching this particular bit of gospel all year, and I’ll say it one more time:

THERE’S NO ONE RIGHT WAY TO DO THIS.

There are plenty of people who would disagree. Heck, there’s an entire industry based around How to Blog, and no shortage of “expert” answers to questions about content development, niches, platforms, engagement, and a bunch of other buzzwords. But you don’t have to listen to all of them, or any of them--and you certainly don’t have to listen to me. I hope you will, though, for a minute.

I’m different from some of you. I knew from the beginning that this blog wouldn’t be about books alone. I knew not too long after the beginning that I didn’t want to divide my interests across several blogs--I wasn’t going to find my “niche,” because I wasn’t going to look for it. I blog a lot about books and reading because they’re a big part of my life, but they’re not MY LIFE. For most of the nearly seven years I’ve had this space, I’ve been unapologetic about that--and I’m a chronic apologizer, so that’s saying something.

I can see how it might feel different if you’ve established your blog as a Place That’s About Books, and chosen not to blog about anything that wasn’t at least mildly book-related. You may be feeling as if you’re breaking an agreement with your blog readers if you bring other topics into the conversation. And to be honest, some of your readers may feel that way too...but it doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll lose them. As long as you don’t abandon books completely, they probably won’t abandon you--they just may skip over the posts that don’t interest them. They may even discover that some of your non-book-related posts DO interest them after all. And people who aren’t all that into book-related content may just discover that you’re interesting, period.

In my experience, readers don’t stick with blogs like ours because of what the person blogs about. They stick around because they get to know, and (hopefully) like, the voice of the blog and the person behind it. Opening up your blog to a wider range of the interests and opinions that make you YOU offers us more chances to do that.

I hope you’ll take that chance. Your blog is your space, and the only real rules it has are the ones you make--and break. Do what you want with it, and please don’t apologize for it.

love,

Florinda

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2001: A Blogging Odyssey--Reflections and Projections After 2000 Posts

It has taken 6 years and almost 7 months to accumulate 2000 posts on The 3 R’s Blog, but it happened yesterday. Post number 2001 seems like a good place to pause and consider how I got here, and where to go now that I am here. The last time I reviewed blog stats was the end of 2011 (I only looked at reading stats in 2012). I think this is a good occasion to revisit them, with a little bit of context from each year of the blog's life. Care to come along?

2007: 332 posts for the year

Top 5 Pageviews in 2007 (*=all-time Top 10 pageviews)

The “responsible” child (?)--a parental perspective

Book Talk: THE MEMORY KEEPER'S DAUGHTER

The American vacation: an endangered species?

Factors for a successful marriage: The Pew Survey *

Book Talk: HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS

I read a lot of posts about blog development during my first year, and I clearly took their advice about frequent and consistent posting to heart. Despite not starting until the spring of 2007, I ended up with almost a full year’s worth of content thanks to double-posting days, participating in several weekly memes, and joining NaBloPoMo in November. I was much less serious about finding a focus and/or developing a niche, though. Although I started the blog as a book journal, my drive to discover a whole world of other blogs led me to write in response to non-bookish reading as well--randomness was leading the way!

2008: 428 posts for the year

Top 5 Pageviews in 2008

Welcome to Bookworms Carnival #14--”You’re Never Too Old”

Basically, it’s a question of style: A clothes call

Bookworms Carnival #14: The scoop

The office gift exchange

Book bloggers say goodbye to Dewey

400-plus posts--I haven’t gotten anywhere near that number since! I posted 5-6 days per week; I was still doing several weekly reading and writing memes, and would often have an additional, non-prompted post go up on a “meme” day. But my most productive blogging year was my least productive for reading--I read just 35 books. I called myself a book blogger, and I was getting on publicists’ contact lists and hosting blog tours, but the numbers didn’t seem to support the claim--on the other hand, maybe the 3 out of 5 top posts associated with book-blogging-community leader Dewey did help give it some credibility. 

The randomness still seemed to be leading the way, though…and, perhaps, leading me a little astray. I started posting regular link roundups.  I became a charter contributor to the LA Moms Blog (although I never did get comfortable calling myself a mom blogger), linking and promoting that more topical content here. The 3 R’s Blog got its own domain at www.3rsblog.com and became part of the BlogHer Publishing Network, where it earned good promotion and not-so-good ad revenue until 2013.

2009: 320 posts for the year

Top 5 Pageviews in 2009 (*=all-time Top 10 pageviews)

From the I-Don’t-Get-It Files: Eight is more than enough *

Quick, change the station! Ten songs I can’t stand

Factors for a successful marriage: The Pew Survey * (originally posted in 2007)

Ten on Tuesday: I am Music, or, these are the songs of my life

Book Talk: FIREFLY LANE * (originally posted in 2008)

A full year of blogging yielded fewer posts than the 9.5 months of 2007. I was posting 4-6 days per week, but finally broke the two-a-day habit except for rare exceptions. I continued contributing to the LA Moms Blog, which inspired much of my non-book-based writing, and a reaction to the “Octomom” story became my all-time most-viewed post when it was picked up in a related-content widget on a CNN.com post. I dropped some memes, but became part of the team that continued Dewey’s “Weekly Geeks” book-blogger meme for more than two years. I went to my first blogging conference (BlogHer’09, Chicago), and I read and reviewed 47 books.

2010: 304 posts for the year

Top 5 Pageviews in 2010 (*=all-time Top 10 pageviews)

My Festival of Books Report, 2010 edition *

Rumors of the death of blogging…

Seeing through family eyes: a BlogHer “Own Your Beauty” Moment

Read THE SPARROW with Heather J., Rebecca, and me!

(Banned) Book Talk: FOREVER..., by Judy Blume *

The post count for this year includes two weeks of guest posts while my family went on vacation--and if I’d known I would dislocate my shoulder the day we got home, I would have arranged for more of them! I injured it again five months later, which derailed my NaBloPoMo November plans. All in all, I spent about ten weeks that year with my right arm in a sling, and produced nearly three dozen blog posts left-handed (which I am not). None were for the LA Moms Blog, however, as it shut down that summer. 

Recovery time was productive reading time, though; I read 54 books in 2010, none of which were audiobooks. (I can’t approach that number without audiobooks now!) I was part of a small group of book bloggers who founded Armchair BEA that spring, and I recovered from the first shoulder injury just in time to attend my first San Diego Comic Con and second BlogHer conference.

2011: 239 posts for the year

Top 5 Pageviews in 2011 (*=all-time Top 10 pageviews)

Factors for a successful marriage: The Pew Survey * (originally posted in 2007)

Book Talk: TRUE STRENGTH, by Kevin Sorbo

The Annual Alzheimer’s Post: Walking to the End, Again

Quick, change the station! Ten songs I can’t stand (originally posted in 2009)

How to Offend Moms, Non-Moms, Housewives, Women Over 50, Teens, and Genre Readers in a Single Sentence

2011’s post count includes guest posts during the two weeks following surgery to fix the shoulder damage resulting from two dislocations in less than six months, and it was clearly my slowest blogging year to date. Because it was easier to share links on Twitter and Facebook as I came across them than hold and hoard them for the blog, I dropped my roundup posts. Between that and the shutdown of two weekly meme groups, the Weekend Assignment and Weekly Geeks, I was down to posting just 3-4 times per week, which has remained the norm around here.

I wasn’t regularly contributing posts to other blogs either, but I wrote occasional featured pieces on BlogHer, Moms LA, and CBSLA.com, and I started contributing (and being paid for!) book reviews to Shelf Awareness’ Readers edition when it launched that summer. I worked behind the scenes on the second year of Armchair BEA while attending my first Book Expo America and Bloggers’ Conference, and after years of a daily 80-mile round-trip commute, I finally started reading audiobooks. I wish I’d gotten into them long before, but they’ve helped make my drive more tolerable--and keep my annual books-read count above 50--ever since.

2012: 203 posts for the year

Top 5 Pageviews in 2012 (*=all-time Top 10 pageviews)

Factors for a successful marriage: The Pew Survey * (originally posted in 2007)

At the Movies: Double Feature--THE MUPPETS and HUGO *

When Nerds Collide: An Online-Dating Success Story

A vacation story: NYC--A night on Broadway, a day at the museum (originally posted in 2010)

That’s Show Biz: The Warner Bros. Studio Tour (part 1 of 2)

The post count fell further, and I wasn’t regularly writing anywhere other than here and Shelf Awareness. I came back from my second trip to BEA and the Bloggers’ Conference with fewer books than I had the year before, and didn’t feel at all deprived; thanks to my SA gig, I was cutting back significantly on blog tours and review books from other sources. I was out of nearly all reading-and-writing memes except for the Sunday Salon--and I was an irregular participant in that one--but I got involved in some photo memes during that summer. I didn’t really keep that up, but they did lead me to more frequent image-based posting here.

By this time, I did very little of my blogging on the fly--most of my posts were written and scheduled in advance, and I had a loosely structured editorial calendar. Working ahead led to some shifts in content, with fewer current-events reaction posts and more focus on books, entertainment, travel and events, and “the blogging life” (which became the source of most of the current-events reactions I did post).

2013: 171 posts to date--should end up in line with 2012

Since the year’s not over yet, I won’t list the Top 5 pageviews, but I will say that the “Factors For a Successful Marriage” post continues to get search traffic, and that the most-viewed post I actually wrote this year is “Three Reasons Why I Blog,” from September. It always fascinates me to note that there's rarely much overlap between what Google Analytics identifies as my "top posts" and the ones I consider my best, or even my favorite, work--but I'm pretty pleased to see that particular post doing well.

I left the BlogHer Publishing Network for the Riot Ad Network in May--I think pageviews may have suffered a bit from the loss of BlogHer’s cross-promotion of posts across their network, but RAN’s still growing--promotion opportunities may come, and they already pay better. I joined an online book club this summer, but I’ll be leaving it early next year--the selections just haven’t been interesting me all that much. I want to keep doing freelance book reviewing, but when it’s not for pay I want to move back toward reading what I want, when I want.

I came away from the CreativeAlliance’12 retreat in the fall of 2012 with a desire to seek more opportunities to develop as a writer, including finding ways to get paid for doing it. I still have the desire, but--ad-network changes aside--I’ve probably moved further from acting on it. This year, I’ve become a realist (and not just because we bought a house, and there are bills to be paid!). Blogging is a hobby I love, and one that’s made me a better reader and writer, but I don’t have time or resources to make it into more at this stage of my life. I miss doing timely, current-events-driven posts, but it’s hard to fit them into the blogging schedule I’m managing now, so they continue to be infrequent--and when I do write them, I’m trying to tie them in with books. I’d like to explore more personal-essay writing as well--and tie it in with books.

Fortunately--and I wish I’d understood it sooner--there’s no one right way to do this. The randomness has led the way through 2000 posts here--and it’s not going away, but it’s gradually steered me toward writing more about the reading, which is what I meant to do here in the first place. I think I'm understanding who I am--and how that's shaped by a lifetime as a reader--better, and this blog is central to capturing and telling that story.

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Sunday Salon: Now We Are Six!

This weekend, The 3 R's Blog turns six years old! (And it's not the only one--Happy Blogiversary to my same-age blogging siblings It's All About Books and Word Lily, too!)

My fifth blogiversary was a three-post extravaganza. This one's a bit more subdued, and comes at a time of major reassessment for the blogiverse-at-large. You've probably heard this about this in many places over the last few days, but just in case you've managed to miss the news, Google Reader will be shutting down as of July 1.

If you're a blogger, odds are you're a big reader of blogs too, and since no one has time to hop around the internet visiting their several hundred favorite sites every day, Google Reader (or something like it) has probably been a big part of your life. It's definitely been part of mine, and it's all about to change, so get ready! (In all honesty, it may not change as much for me; I've been using "alternative" RSS reader Feedly for quite awhile, and they seem to be making preparations to carry on without using GReader as source material. Fingers crossed!) 


There's an argument that Google Reader is based on an outdated model and has outlived its usefulnesss, but I've seen some strong disagreement with that premise over the last few days. That said, it may be the end of an era, but it's not the end of the world, and change can be reframed as opportunity. This is as good an incentive as any to assess how you consume and create content in blogging and social media, and determine if it's all really what you want to be doing.

This much I know, at this point in time:

• Blogging is my favorite way to partake in social media, and my preference is to have blogging come to me, via a feed reader.
• For those who share my preference, this blog has an RSS feed (in original and mobile-friendly flavors!)
• If you prefer to have content come to you, but you don't use a feed reader, there's always the e-mail option. (I really doubt e-mail is facing extinction.) This blog offers three e-mail subscriptions.

1. all posts
2. reviews only
3. photos only (for Wordless Wednesday fans)

(There's a "subscribe" button in the left-hand sidebar--one click will give you all of your e-mail and RSS options.)

• If you've moved on to newer forms of social media or don't want to flood your inbox any more than, all posts are linked at the blog's Facebook page--if you "like" the page (and set your FB preferences appropriately), you can get new posts and other content right there. 
• My own social-media reassessment includes Twitter, but I'll still be linking to each new post there too.

At this point, I'm not contemplating any big changes for the upcoming 7th year of The 3 R's Blog. I expect to continue my current posting pace of 2-3 times per week for the foreseeable future, including the Sunday Salon, Linked-Up Wordless Wednesday, and...something else, to be determined by what I've been reading and what's on my mind.

As of today, I'm 135 short of 2000 blog posts, and I see no reason right now to think I won't get there. That particular milestone may spur some bigger changes around here! (Or not.)

My plans for today--Happy St. Patrick's Day, by the way!--are to write reviews for two books I finished this past week (one for the freelance gig, one to post here), do some housecleaning, read a bit, and see what else comes along to fill the day.

Have a great day, and whether you've been reading this blog for six years or six days, thanks so much for joining me here!

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