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WeeklyGeeks #2 Wrap Up

This post is being composed because the WeeklyGeeks were asked to post a summary of their experiences with the second challenge. If you recall from my last post: Basically, my readers were instructed to send in permalinks to their reviews that they’d done of books that I’d reviewed so that I could link them from that review, thus connecting a bunch of reviews on the same books all at once. I loved the idea (still do), but haven’t found it to be very successful.

However, I did only just post that on Tuesday, so I suppose there weren’t a lot of days to participate… Yet, I’ve read on several blogs that posted on Tuesday (or afterward) that they received several reviews. I suppose it depends on the popularity of your blog as well as which books you’ve reviewed, as when I went out searching for common reviews to submit myself to, I found very few. In other words, my contributions are limited as I’m not reviewing the same books as everyone else is.

In any case, I think I’ll keep it as a feature on my blog; I’m set to make a page about it in my “Library” section soon. I won’t openly advertise it with annoying posts (such as this one), nor will I keep a link in my sidebar, but it’ll be there if anyone is interested. I much more like the idea of people coming to me with their posts, rather than having to snoop around blog archives looking for places to submit myself. I’m much too lazy for that!

In the course of this, though, I also found a link to Book Bloggers Book Reviews, a website which seeks to bring together a plethora of book reviews all in one place. I submitted several books to it and recommend that you do as well - it’s a good read and a good way to learn about other book bloggers.

Unrelated: I am going to try displaying this page with the last 5 posts on the index. I don’t generally like doing this, because I like to have just one post up; it motivates me to write a really good post next so as to be worthy to replace the last one. However, I find myself posting more and more often these days with entries that are actually useful. Soon I am going to start participating in weekly memes that occur on the same day (Sunday, for example) and I don’t much like the idea of combining the posts. I want to give each its proper due (unlike what I’m doing now - updating about something entirely different than what my subject line says).

With that said, things might look a bit wonky for the next few days while I figure out exactly how I want things to look. I hope that my site will be much more browsable and easier to read for those who visit on a less-than-regular basis!