Book Blogger Appreciation Week/Future!

BBAW 2010 has provided a fun challenge for me this week amongst a lot of personal challenges, and I am thankful for the diversion, very much in the same way that I am thankful for the diversion that a book brings.

Today our BBAW organizer has asked that we Book Bloggers tell what we enjoyed about BBAW and share our blogging goals for next year.

First and foremost, I loved waking up each morning to a BBAW goal and theme. I am one of those writers who loves rising to and achieving a challenge. I found that both fun and inspirational! I also enjoyed Tuesday's opportunity to interview and get to know another book blogger (i.e., Ari from Reading in Color http://blackteensread2.blogspot.com/ ) so it doesn't feel so much like I am blogging in a vaccuum.

My interview of Ari is here:

http://mywordplayground.blogspot.com/2010/09/book-blogger-appreciation-weekswap_14.html

Ari's interview of me is here:

http://blackteensread2.blogspot.com/2010/09/bbaw-interview-with-my-word-playground.html

In addition, I became acquainted with many other fascinating bloggers and blogs, and my reading list has grown. I just love having lots of entries on my reading list -- a world of possibilities <3

My blogging goals: 

 

• Comment
• Review more books
• Shop at Amazon.com!
• Comment
• Have contests
• Comment
• Have polls
• Learn more HTML
• Be the best blogger I can be.
• Have FUN!

I can't wait to be a part of this event next year!

Book Blogger Appreciation Week/Forgotten!

Coming from a theatre-study background, a love of Broadway, art and shooting stars, I do love those picture books that just WOW me and knock my socks off with either spectactular, jump-off-the-page art, or language that is just loud or makes you sing.

Yet there is one picture book I read several years ago that is oh so quiet and demure and oh so spectacular in the most sublte, sweet way. MUD IS CAKE by Pam Munoz Ryan, illustrated by David McPhail.
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"Mud is cake if you pretend and don't really take a bite. And juice is tea with a fairy queen if you act it out just right."

While the text is soft spoken, the message is strong: Let's pretend: Anything is possible! Let's see what we have here, and make it work!

On the outside, this book is about pretending, but on the inside, where it counts, this book is about believing. It instills the sense that anything is possible -- an important thought to carry through life. Hopefully you will read this book to your children or grandchildren and they will never forget it!

Book Blogger Appreciation Week/Treasure!

I am proud to be participating in Book Blogger Appreciation Week 2010: A Treasure Chest of Infinite Books and Infinite Blogs!

As one of the BBAW pirates, today I am challenged to share with you a little treasure -- a great new book blog that I've discovered since BBAW last year. I couldn't decide on just one, so I am going to share TWO gems (or even, just to be punny and tie into one of Toby's picture books, two cool cows LOL):

My ultimate favorite because it combines books, the worlds in which they are created, and many times, the STORY behind, the STORY, is Jennifer Bertman's FROM THE MIXED UP FILES OF JENNIFER BERTMAN

http://writerjenn.blogspot.com/

I subscribe to Jennifer's posts by e-mail and look forward to them each week. When one comes in, I freshen my coffee and get ready to dive into the world of a new creative mind. It's fun and fascinating.

And because it's a pleasing, poetic place where I can find lots of inspiration, welcome, friendly faces and Long Island talent that I can check out and support, I love Toby Speed's 

THE WRITER'S ARMCHAIR 

http://www.tobyspeed.blogspot.com/

http://tobyspeed.blogspot.com/search/label/LICWI

Go ahead and take a L@@K!

You'll be glad you did.

I hope you discover lots of treasure this week! Lynne Marie