Book blog/journal?

[sibyllevance]

Hello everyone!

I recently opened my own book blog to spare my flist. Does anyone have a dedicated journal or blog for the books they read? I'd be very interested in reading those.

Comments

[sweet_sparrow]

Oooooh, pretty blog! ^-^ (I can pretty much guarantee that I'll be more of a lurker, mind. Blogger/Blogspot hates it when I comment.)

I have a mostly-book blog* over on Wordpress for much the same reason you give. ^-^

*I say mostly because occasionally I'll talk about things I've seen or played as well. It's rare, but still.

[sibyllevance]

Oh my god I remember you. I remember reading your blog just yesterday oh god I can't remember which review that was. Let me think. Something about Regency and possibly magic and you were talking about a texture associated to it. OH MY GOD THIS IS SO EMBARASSING. There was a girl on the cover. Something round.
I want to weep, I can't find the title :( Well anyway just to say the blogosphere is a very small world! I'll definitely be adding you to my Google reader :)

[sweet_sparrow]

*blush*

It sounds like it's The Magicians and Mrs. Quent by Galen Beckett you're thinking of. ^-^ (Link.) I hope it is. My memory's so fuzzy and hazy I won't be able to help if it isn't. :(

And don't be embarrassed! It happens to everyone. ^-^ I've had to make special folders for all the books that sound interesting to me because otherwise I will forget about them!

I wandered into a bookstore a few days ago, fully aware of what I was looking for, but darned if I could remember anything more than "The cover has lots of red on it" and "this person recommended it to me" when I got inside!

[sibyllevance]

IT IS! Unfortunately I also remember that after reading a lot about the book I decided it probably wasn't for me (romance is not my thing and it's usually the part I like the least about even the books I enjoy).
I know what you mean about 'the cover has lots of red on it', I used to be quite good with remembering titles and authors before because there weren't that many books I wanted to read but ever since I've found book blogs, my to-read list has grown significantly and I'm always guilty of remembering completely useless details (recently I was trying to find 'this book with the naked girl on the cover and asked about a thousand people who thought I was looking for porn when I was actually looking for Tempest Rising by Nicole Peeler).

[melancholic_beauty]

I have a book blog. I need to update it, though.I last updated it around the end of August. D: I have yet to finish a book really since then. ;( I'll go check your blog now! ^_^

[melancholic_beauty]

I remember your blog!!! I just remembered seeing the piggy-bank picture. O_O ^_^ Awesome!

[sibyllevance]

Haha this is awesome. It's such a small world!

[amanda_in_pajamas]

In a way, I guess you could say I have my own book blog. I have my LJ set up on a filter system so that people can pick and choose what they want to read. I have quite a few friends who are book-only filter readers. I cross-post my entries to my DW account, but there is not a filter system there, so everybody sees everything.

HERE is a link to my DW entries for books. If you're interested after that, I can add you to my LJ book filter so that would be all you see (with a very occasional unlocked entry thrown in - quite rare, I can assure you).

[birgitriddle]

I used to keep one, but it's been gathering dust for a while. I do plan on reviving it in January however. It's at Shadow Magic.net.

[holyschist]

Not yet, but I keep meaning to set one up...the problem is that I religiously review books for the first three months of a year, and then I get distracted and poof! I have 60 books to review....sometime. I r failcakes.

[brigid]

I don't, but if you look at the tags "books" and "review" on my account I do have book reviews up. I also review webcomics and some other stuff, and talk about books in general, so if you're interested I'd recommend hitting both tags.

I've been meaning to start a review-only blog. Maybe now's the time to start. Hm.

[sweet_sparrow]

*nods* If romance isn't your thing, you want to be avoiding it.

Oh, dear. That sounds like one of those stories that's only funny in hindsight... At least you found it eventually, though! ^-^

[trouble]

I like reading meganbmoore's book reviews here on DW.

[eagle]

I post my book reviews to my journal and there's a separate feed for just the reviews if people want. The whole thing is syndicated on DW as eaglespath_feed, but the book feed alone isn't, so you get other things like software announcements and whatnot mixed in. If you want just the book feed, though, my review site has links to the dedicated RSS feed and other delivery mechanisms (such as a mailing list).

[sibyllevance]

Following you!

[sibyllevance]

Aw I see what you mean, I've just opened mine so we'll see how it goes. I quite like jotting down what are essentially notes to myself (I don't do extra long reviews with all kinds of things to lure other readers, I just do it for myself mostly).

[sibyllevance]

Excellent, I recognize quite a few books there. I'm off commenting :)