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Discover New Blogs Week

Every so often I make a post in one of my journals (usually my writing journal on LJ) with links to blogs that I’ve recently discovered. I spend hours blog-hopping, reading articles, getting to know the posters, and sometimes falling absolutely in love with posts and ideas, then I take five minutes and share those loves with my friends. Thus, I’ve found Dewey’s WeeklyGeeks challenge for this week to be right up my alley. I enjoy browsing blogs - not least reader blogs - and sharing them. I hope that my visitors will find these five to be as interesting as I have!

Bookworm caught my interest in the first post, as it mentions Philip Roth. Philip Roth is one of those authors I collect, and though I have only read one of his books, I own seven. As I read further, I found an intriguing, intellectual blogger who writes when she has something to say, rather than to fill time (that is always a plus to a reader). Plus, I really like the footer, which is so simple but totally perfect.

Bookworms and tea lovers is simply designed - straight forward with centered content and roses. Who doesn’t like roses? I like roses. I can’t deny that design helps keep me at a website longer if the first post doesn’t satisfy, but I didn’t have to worry about that with this blog. I found myself reading the first post, and the second, and the third… All the way down to the bottom, and only when I got there did I realize how long I’d just spent at this blog!

There is a redhead who reads, and her blog is called This Redhead Reads. I enjoy her style, her miscellaneous bookish links, plus she reads very quickly, which means she has a lot of books to recommend. Plus, you have to admit, the red hair is pretty awesome!

I am a big fan of corny jokes, especially ones that involve chickens, so I couldn’t resist the allure of Bibliolatry after I read this post. It was the one and only time I said LOL and meant it, and when I read the joke to my boyfriend he shook his head and smiled as if to say, “oh, you.”

Two words: Literature Quizzes. Though The Books of my Numberless Dreams has more to offer than just those, those are really quite awesome and I’ve found myself eager to figure out the answers before I look at them!

I tend to like blogs more if they talk about books, not just about books. They have reviews, yes, but they also include thoughts on reading, different kinds of books, bookish ideas, etc. Every so often, there may even be a personal post thrown in there. It’s more interesting to me to read about the experience of reading than it is to read some straight-forward book reviews. Don’t get me wrong - I love reading those too, though I never read based on a single recommendation (I have to get many from different perspectives), just as I don’t reject a book based on anyone else’s distaste for it. Reading book reviews is fun, but I don’t generally get a lot out of them.