The "You Make My Day" Award

A week or so ago Suey at It's All About Books was generous enough to give me the "You Make My Day"Award. I was a bit shocked to find that there are actually people out there still reading my blog, seeing as I never actually post to it any more. (Or so it seems!) This little award has been going around for a couple of weeks and my Google Reader subscriptions have increased a lot because of it. This means, however, that I'm having a hard time figuring out who *I* want to give it to. I'm worried that I'll leave someone I love out! I don't have a blogroll on my blog (mainly cause I'm too dang lazy to do it) and I realize this means that no one knows who I read and love!

I am subscribed to 286 blogs on Google Reader. Now, some of those are defunct, and some of those I just glance at the topic title and skim, but there's still a good number of them that I read every day. How'm I supposed to narrow that down?? So instead of giving out the award, here's what I'm gonna do- Over there to the right, a little ways down, there is a section of shared items (Great posts from other bloggers!) I'm sometimes a bit lax about marking items shared, but I promise to be more generous in the future. If you click on the little "read more" at the bottom, you can even subscribe to a feed of them! I know, this is a bit of a cheat, but I'd rather send you off to see ALL my favorites than just the first few that pop into my head.

Thanks again, Suey, for the award. I love knowing that I do have a FEW readers left! Real content is coming soon! I hope!

In the meantime, check out my newest blogging endeavor We'd Rather Read. This one is a joint blog with some friends that promises to be a lot of fun- once we get it off the ground. If you're interested in blogging with us drop me a line, we could use one or two more readers... bookslistslifeATgmail works fine.

Big Announcement!

Announcing.... We'd Rather Read !

We'd Rather Read is a joint effort blog between myself and several of my friends. We're just barely getting started, but I've already had a few comments over there so I thought I better out us over here too. For myself, book reviews will be cross posted both places, but there will (eventually! SOON even!) be reviews from other people as well. Occasionally, we might read the same book and then talk about it. We might post about things that aren't books, but that are reading! It'll be a lot of fun, I can't wait.

Why the new blog, you might ask- well with everything I'm doing personally I feel like I don't post often enough over here to keep it flowing. I'm pregnant, I'm still working on my Etsy store (new Valentines bags posted today!), I'm still working. I love blogging and the community around it, and wanted a way to continue to do it AND keep up some traffic without pressure. I'll still be blogging here- my book stuff will be cross posted (the other's reviews will not be) and I'll be posting about my sewing and the shop and, of course, the Monkey and his brother when he arrives.

So stop on by at We'd Rather Read. Say hello, add us to your reader. Expect a lot more content in the following days! But don't take Books. Lists. Life off your blogroll either, I'll be both places.