First, I want to thank everyone who joined me in planning The Week Ahead during August and September. I’ve enjoyed keeping up with you all, including:
- Ti at Book Chatter and Other Stuff
- Bree at The Things We Read
- Shannon at Confuzzled Books
- Stephanie at And Life Goes On …
I gave everyone one entry for each The Week Ahead post they wrote during the past two months. The randomly-selected winner of the Book Lover’s Page-A-Day Calendar is …. Bree! Congratulations, Bree! Please send me your mailing address and I’ll get the calendar out to you.
The feedback has been that planning ahead has been useful (I know it helps me stay on track, or at least know where the track is!); keep on doing it, I may run another incentive after the first of the year. Here’s what’s on tap for me this week:
Monday 10/6 - It’s after one o’clock, and I’m just writing my planning post now … enough said!
Tuesday 10/7 - Time for Tuesday Thingers!
Wednesday 10/8 – This week’s Spotlight on Bookstores is a guest post by Shana at Literarily. She’s going to tell us about an independent bookstore with phenomenal author events and great staff recommendations. Something to keep in mind for a rainy day.
Thursday 10/9 – LM4 starts a new afternoon storytime program at our local library. My other kids have no school due to the Yom Kippur holiday, so the whole gang will walk down for some library fun. They’ll probably convince me to stop for hot chocolate or ice cream (weather dependent, this is New England!) before we head home.
Friday 10/10 – And sometime this week, with Friday being my deadline, I plan to post reviews for several books I’ve enjoyed but haven’t yet blogged about. They are: Guernica by Dave Boling, The Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean and Run by Ann Patchett. Also, I was fortunate to see Joshua Henkin (Matrimony) at a book reading yesterday; that post is coming up this week, too.
That’s my week in a nutshell … lots of catching up and housekeeping it looks like!
Dawn, your day on Thursday sounds like such fun. You have a library within walking distance? I’m jealous!
Looking forward to your reviews!
Shana, our town center is just a mile away, which is perfect walking/biking distance. We often bring a stroller, just to carry books home!
Yippee! Thanks for picking my name!
Here’s my week ahead – http://thethingsweread.blogspot.com/2008/10/this-past-week-and-week-ahead.html
Hot chocolate or ice cream – what a hard choice! I love them both. I totally agree with ya on the weather though. You never know. You have so many neat author events to go to in your area. It really makes me want to move to a big city.
Bree – we’re lucky to have an indie store here in town that has events … not as big or as many events as some of the stores closer to Boston, but still a great perk! Enjoy the calendar … I think there’s a book on each page … I am *not* responsible for your growing TBR pile
I always have a plan for my week ahead, but I leave it flexible in case something comes up or if I don’t manage to read and review a book in time.
‘Guernica’ is languishing in my TRB pile. Sadly I’m fearing it may be there for a while due to other commitments. That addage about ‘being careful what you wish for’ has come true for me with books.
It’s amazing what one gets when they’ve stopped looking or, in this case, buying books.
Don’t get me wrong I love it! but it certainly changes my priorities. I might have to start looking at my ‘Week ahead’ but then I’d probably frighten myself.
Lenore – my plan is definitely a suggestion, not set in stone! I’m a big list-maker, so this is just one more reminder of where I’d *like* to be at the end of the week.
Marcia – *Guernica* is a great novel (I know, you’re waiting for the review I promised!). Good plot, character development, etc., plus I learned a lot about the Spanish Revolution, the Basque area, and Picasso’s painting (Guernica).
Yes, how is it with all the books in my TBR pile I’m disappointed when nothing new shows up for a couple days. And we call Wall St. greedy!