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bookgazing) wrote2009-12-30 01:56 am
bookgazing) wrote2009-12-30 01:56 am
Happy First Blogiversary
Today is my first year blogiversary : ) I don’t want to go on and on, but this keeping this blog has probably been one of the most positive parts of 2009. It has really helped me to reconnect with the idea that the things I like and the way I think are important and valid. It’s shown me that I can maintain a personal project, without getting bored or lazy, as well as making the after reading experience fun because there are more people to discuss books with. So thanks if you’ve been dropping by to chat, or lurk this year, it’s meant bunches.
To mark this day I thought I’d put up the first sentences meme I saw at ‘Of Books and Bicycles’, where you find the first sentence, of your first post for each month and post them all together.
Let’s take a look back at 2009 in one liners:
January: I just couldn't resist joining a couple of more challenges.
February: Whenever I read a great YA book I feel an urge to gush instead of reviewing critically.
March: I’m going to say upfront that I was more than a little disappointed by ‘The Rose of Sebastopol’ by Katherine McMahon.
April: It’s time for all us bad challenge addicts to talk about how our challenge reading is progressing.
May: I decided that before I started my five month stint of book buying abstinence I would have one last fabulous book splurge.
June: We’re entering the sixth month of ‘The Year of Readers’, our year long sponsored read-a-thon that’s designed to raising money for literacy charities around the world.
July: I won't have internet access while I'm away so I've scheduled some posts to pop up while I sun myself and drink cocktails.
August: I'm back from Bath feeling much better.
September: My first RIP selection was Susan Hill’s slim ghost story ‘The Mist in the Mirror’.
October: Now that the review of the book I didn’t like is out of the way I can start talking about all the wonderful books I’ve been enjoying lately.
November: Clearly it is insane for me to try to do Nanowrimo when I have a pretty bad grasp of how grammar and punctuation work (I seriously have no idea how I got through university without someone taking me aside to discuss this issue).
December: I’m about 200 pages from the end of ‘Young Bloods’ by Simon Scarrow, which is the rather large first volume in his quite enjoyable Napoleon/Wellington series.
And I’m also going to commemorate this day with a giveaway. I’m offering you the chance to win one book from my read in 2009 list (see left sidebar) and I’ll also donate a book for children or teenagers to a very deserving community library project in Roanoke. Just leave me a comment telling me which book you’d like to win and what you’d like to me to donate (your choice for me to donate can be anything appropriate, it doesn’t have to be from my read in 2009 list). I’ll randomly draw a winner next week. (Edit Contest open internationally, closes midnight GMT 30/12/2009).
Happy New Year everyone and hope to see you round the blogging world for more years to come.
To mark this day I thought I’d put up the first sentences meme I saw at ‘Of Books and Bicycles’, where you find the first sentence, of your first post for each month and post them all together.
Let’s take a look back at 2009 in one liners:
January: I just couldn't resist joining a couple of more challenges.
February: Whenever I read a great YA book I feel an urge to gush instead of reviewing critically.
March: I’m going to say upfront that I was more than a little disappointed by ‘The Rose of Sebastopol’ by Katherine McMahon.
April: It’s time for all us bad challenge addicts to talk about how our challenge reading is progressing.
May: I decided that before I started my five month stint of book buying abstinence I would have one last fabulous book splurge.
June: We’re entering the sixth month of ‘The Year of Readers’, our year long sponsored read-a-thon that’s designed to raising money for literacy charities around the world.
July: I won't have internet access while I'm away so I've scheduled some posts to pop up while I sun myself and drink cocktails.
August: I'm back from Bath feeling much better.
September: My first RIP selection was Susan Hill’s slim ghost story ‘The Mist in the Mirror’.
October: Now that the review of the book I didn’t like is out of the way I can start talking about all the wonderful books I’ve been enjoying lately.
November: Clearly it is insane for me to try to do Nanowrimo when I have a pretty bad grasp of how grammar and punctuation work (I seriously have no idea how I got through university without someone taking me aside to discuss this issue).
December: I’m about 200 pages from the end of ‘Young Bloods’ by Simon Scarrow, which is the rather large first volume in his quite enjoyable Napoleon/Wellington series.
And I’m also going to commemorate this day with a giveaway. I’m offering you the chance to win one book from my read in 2009 list (see left sidebar) and I’ll also donate a book for children or teenagers to a very deserving community library project in Roanoke. Just leave me a comment telling me which book you’d like to win and what you’d like to me to donate (your choice for me to donate can be anything appropriate, it doesn’t have to be from my read in 2009 list). I’ll randomly draw a winner next week. (Edit Contest open internationally, closes midnight GMT 30/12/2009).
Happy New Year everyone and hope to see you round the blogging world for more years to come.
