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Sadness in the Book Blogosphere

1 December 2008 Jackie 3

As some of you know, I’ve been participating in the Weekly Geeks challenge for awhile now.  This week, we were suppose to kick off the beginning of voting season for the Top 10 Books of 2008 as determined by us book bloggers.  I knew what this weeks topic was going […]

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Genre Categorizing Sucks!

23 November 2008 Jackie 6

And I’m not talking in the naughty vampire way either. So I’m helping Dewey, over at The Hidden Side of a Leaf, come up with a Book Bloggers Top 10 Books of 2008 and we’ve have about 333 nominations in 16 different categories.  The problem I’m running into is that […]

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Weekly Geeks #26 – Visitations

22 November 2008 Jackie 3

This week’s Weekly Geeks is to visit other Weekly Geek participants and see what they are up to.  The idea is to visit 5 different Weekly Geekers, ones we haven’t visited before.  So here’s the list of bloggers I checked out… Everyday Reads – It seems she has just started […]

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WG 25 – Book Geeks Gift Giving Guide!

15 November 2008 Jackie 6

It’s the gift giving season and Weekly Geeks is all about helping out with finding the perfect book to give this holiday. Think about the books that you and people in your life love. It’s best to use more obscure books, because we’ve all heard plenty about the more popular […]

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Weekly Geeks #24 – Author Spotlight

10 November 2008 Jackie 4

So this weeks Weekly Geeks challenge is to spotlight an author and give out some fun facts about them.  Here are the details: Choose a writer you like. Using resources such as Wikipedia, the author’s website, whatever you can find, make a list of interesting facts about the author. Post […]

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Weekly Geeks #23 – Challenge Update

2 November 2008 Jackie 3

This week for Weekly Geeks, we’re given the option of choosing a past topic and repeating it this week.  Awhile ago, we did a “challenge update” and since I wanted to do another one, this gave me the perfect chance to kill two birds with one stone. Since, we’re two […]

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Weekly Geeks #22 – Archives

25 October 2008 Jackie 4

This weeks Weekly Geeks is all about the archives.  Those jewels of words written long ago. Step 1: Choose 3 Weekly Geeks, either from the Mr Linky below or from any of the Mr Linkies in any previous Weekly Geeks, and explore their archives. Try to choose at least one […]

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Reader’s Top 10 of 2008: Crystal Dee

10 October 2008 Jackie 0

Here’s the first of, hopefully many, reader’s Top 10 of 2008 picks.  Our first contestant is Crystal Dee…… There is more to Paranormals (I’m told) than just romance, but romance is what I like. Having said that here are a few I read that came out this year. No Particular importance […]

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Weekly Geeks #20 – Top 10

4 October 2008 Jackie 2

It’s Weekly Geeks time again and we’re continuing our theme from last week. Dewey (with some help from Renay and myself) is in the process of compiling a list of the Top 10 Books from 2008.  I’ve already compliled my list, but we’re looking for what you consider to be […]

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Weekly Geeks #19 – Top Books in 2008

29 September 2008 Jackie 1

Now it’s time for Weekly Geeks #19 and this week it’s all about our top picks for 2008.  Actually, Dewey has a lot planned for this theme and it’s going to expand over the next couple of weeks/months.  You always see these “Top Whatever” lists that the newspapers/publishers put out […]