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bookgazing) wrote2010-12-30 12:33 pm
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Second Year Bloggiversary

Hello everyone. Hope you're having some lovely holidays (and that not too many of you have had to go back to work yet). My big long break seems to have shot by in a haze of Christmas food, television and company. I love watching a deluge of decent Christmas tv, because what is Christmas if not a time for epic stories that are told classily? Anyone who wants to proffer opinions on the new version of 'Upstairs, Downstairs' in the comments is more than welcome!
This post is just me dropping in quickly to celebrate my second bloggiversary. I'm not great at this sort of emotional words thing, but I just wanted to say that it's been lovely connecting with you all in 2010. It was so nice to meet one of the book bloggers whose words I've been reading, this year and I hope to meet a few more of you in 2011. Thanks so much to everyone who has taken part in this big conversation of books here and everywhere else on the web, to everyone who has worked really hard to make the book blogosphere big and inviting, safe and enthralling. You lot are awesome and the world always needs more awesome. I've had a fab time being part of this world. I hope there are lots more fun time ahead.
My 'big event' of this break (apart from Christmas day of course) was seeing 'The Voyage of the Dawn Treader' at the cinema. It was probably my favourite reboot of the Narnia series so far. What can I say - Edmund; grown up, none annoying Lucy in very cool sea faring clobber; no unnecessary, showy Lord of the Rings style set piece combats; surrogate brotherly feeling and just an oddly humanised charm that distinguishes it from the other two (also quite good) films. In recognition of great fantasy story tellers like CS Lewis I thought I'd offer up a quick and easy bloggiversary contest where one person can win a book from one of five of my favourite fantasy series. Just leave a comment saying which book you'd like from one of these series by Jan 5th 2011 (how did that happen):
The Bili SanGreal books - Sarwat Chadda
The Narnia books - C S Lewis
His Dark Materials books - Phillip Pullman
The Tales of the Otori books - Lian Hearn
Chronicles of Ancient Darkness - Michelle Paver
Tomorrow night I'll be engaging in the traditional British sport of drinking until I love everyone, then trying to play Cranium (I think the last part is not as widespread as the first). Hope you all have a great time New Years Eve and I'll see you all in the New Year for more book chat :)