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Utah Book Month Reading List

May 21, 2012

Have you heard about Utah Book Month? It’s coming up in August, and we’re spending the whole month celebrating Utah authors and book bloggers. Want to participate? Of course you do. Today is technically the last day to sign up! Click here to read more about the event and sign-up. Have you started making a [...]

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Utah Book Month – Sign-Up!

May 8, 2012

As you probably know, I live in Utah, as do many talented book bloggers and authors.  It’s a very active book community, and we have long discussed ways to celebrate it.  What we’ve come up with is Utah Book Month. It began as the brain child of Natasha from Maw Books Blog (as Utah Author [...]

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Read-a-Thon Mini-Challenge Hour 16: Rereading

April 21, 2012

**UPDATE: The winner (randomly selected by random.org) of a book from The Book Depository is Melissa from The Avid Reader’s Musings. Though the prize has been awarded, please feel free to keep commenting and posting about your rereads. Happy read-a-thon-ing! Congratulations on making it to hour 16 of the read-a-thon! Here’s a mini-challenge to give [...]

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2012 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Fiction

April 16, 2012

The 2012 Pulitzers were just announced. And this year’s winner for fiction is . . . NO AWARD! The committee did not award a prize for fiction this year. This has happened before, in 1917, 1920, 1941, 1946, 1954, 1957, 1964, 1971, 1974, and 1977. Usually, the reason for not giving an award is unclear. [...]

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Random Book Giveaway Winners

April 15, 2012

Drum roll please. The winners of the random book giveaway are as follows: Jenny from Alternate Readality wins Witches of East End. Laura Kay from A Novel Review wins The House of Velvet and Glass. Congratulations to them, and thank you to everyone that entered.

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Random Book Giveaway

April 11, 2012

Welcome to the Random Book Giveaway. I recently received the following two unsolicited books from publishers. Unfortunately, I just won’t be able to read them any time soon, so I thought I’d pass them along. From the author of the highly addictive and bestselling Blue Bloods series, with almost 3 million copies sold, comes a [...]

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Bloggiesta Mini-Challenge Winner

April 2, 2012

The winner of my Bloggiesta Mini-Challenge is Jacinda from The Reading Housewives of Indiana. To enter, she spiffed up this review of Starters, by Lissa Price. Congratulations, Jacinda! And thank you to everyone who commented and participated in the mini-challenge. Ole!

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Bloggiesta Mini-Challenge: Five Ways to Spiff Up Your Book Reviews

March 29, 2012

Welcome Bloggiesta-ers! I hope you are having a productive Bloggiesta. I know I have a lot to do. Thanks to Suey and Danielle for hosting this lovely event. And now to the mini-challenge. As book bloggers, we tend to post a lot of reviews. And, I don’t know about you, but I’m always looking for [...]

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