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WG Reviews and Memes

Weekly Geeks Challenge #2 adopts a particularly attractive idea from Books and Other Thoughts. Basically, I read and review a book, you read and review that same book (whether by my influence, out of your own interest, or otherwise), you email me with the link to your review, and I add that link to my review post. It’s a wonderful way to bring together different perspectives on single titles, and I’d specifically love to see some negative reviews counter my positive ones (or otherwise). I don’t normally read based on recommendations or reviews (as, I believe, I said in my last WG post), but that doesn’t mean you don’t. This is an excellent way to give my readers a well-rounded view on the books I’ve read, so I’ve decided to participate. In fact, if things go well, I’d like to adopt this as a feature on my blog indefinitely.

So! You can access the books which I’ve reviewed by visiting my library page or by browsing the Bookmobile category, though that also includes all other book-related posts in this blog. The opportunity is open to the reviews which have comments enabled. (Some of my earlier ones do not allow commenting, as they were imported from an earlier blog which had no reason to allow commenting as it had no visitors, and I lack the motivation to go through and enable commenting. )

If you would like to submit a review to be linked, you can either use the contact form, comment on this blog post, or comment on the blog post for that particular review. (If I decide to implement this as a feature on my website, I’ll probably think of a much better way to do this. For now, however, this post is here for the purpose of the Weekly Geeks challenge and thus I feel no need to go about coding a new form and all that jazz.) Remember to send me the permalink to the blog post containing the book review and not just a link to your blog!

Now on to other less interesting things… a six things about me meme! I’ve been tagged by this redhead to tell you more about myself than you’ve already gathered from my “about” page. I must also tag six people, apparently, so I’ll be doing that first.

I believe that Hev once tagged me for a meme similar to this (perhaps it was this same one), but she’s going to be my first tagged blogger anyway, because I feel I can never learn too much about her! I’d also like to tag Amanda so she can prove she reads this blog (just kidding ), Christine who makes cute comics and who is crazy enough to like my writing, Renay who I’m sure will say very interesting things, and for kicks and giggles, I’ll invite two of the book bloggers I’ve been reading since I discovered WeeklyGeeks to see if they’ll find me in their referrers and participate in a silly meme which lets us get to know each other better: Bookworm and When Troubles Melt Like Lemon Drops. Good luck and godspeed.

Without further adieu, here are six very unimportant things about me.

• I have tried several million times to stop biting my nails, a habit I formed sometime in elementary school and never got over. It annoys me that I still do it and sometimes I bite them down to intense pain, but none of those “remedies” (gross tasting polish, gum, etc) seem to ever work.
• I sometimes browse the “rants and raves” section on Craigslist for my nearest city just to reassure myself that my life is fulfilling enough not to lead me to trivial arguments on the Internet with complete strangers.
• I can’t stomach horror movies. Sometimes I won’t even be watching them and I’ll feel queasy; instead, my face will be buried in my boyfriend’s shoulder, or I’ll be in an entirely different room - but the sounds coming from the television are enough to frighten me to bits.
• All of the leather-bound antique books that I own are titles which are actually interesting to me and which I may read one day once I learn how to properly handle them. In other words, I don’t collect books just because they “look cool,” though I do appreciate a finely made tome.
• I stay awake much too late and wake up much too early most of the time.
• I have a large and impressive collection of cow-related things, from printed fabric to stuffed animals, porcelain figurines to kitchenware. It is almost entirely in storage at my parents’ house but some day, when I have room, it will come out and people will think I am crazy.

I’m also going to cheat and tag the same six people (even though I only have to tag five) for this sentence meme; I was tagged by Angela. What’s with you people tagging me lately? My ‘memes’ category was happy with just the one post. I’ve done one of these sentence ones before, but this one’s a bit different - you are instructed to post a comment on the blog of the person who tagged the person who tagged you with your answer. An interesting way to network websites. In any case.

1. Pick up the nearest book.
2. Open to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the next three sentences.
5. Tag five people and post a comment on Angela’s blog (she’s the one who tagged me) once you’ve posted your three sentences.

“She’s a feeder,” said Linny. “Gets it from her mother. Both of them devotees of the philosophy that the world’s ills can be cured if you through enough food at them, although Cornelia would probably not admit that.”

This from Love Walked In by Marisa de los Santos, which I haven’t read but have heard delightful things about.