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Tuesday Thingers: LibraryThing Authors

Wendi at Wendi’s Book Corner hosts this weekly meme which explores features of LibraryThing. This week she says: … I happened to stumble upon this great page within the site that has some great information on it about LT Authors, becoming a LT Author, and how readers can use the section to learn about their [...]

LibraryThing Author Challenge 2009 - LINK TO YOUR REVIEWS HERE

Yay, you’ve joined the LibraryThing Author Challenge 2009! Now what?

Leave a comment below for each LT Author book you review on your blog this year, linking back to your review post.

If you particpate in an LT Author Chat and blog about it, you can link that post in these comments, too.

Random surprises will be awarded [...]

LibraryThing Author Challenge 2009

Last fall I ran a 3-month LibraryThing Author Challenge, and will be doing it again, running the entire year of 2009.

What is a LibraryThing author? Simply put, “an author who lists their personal library on LibraryThing.” Their libraries are marked with this round logo.

How do you find out which LT Authors are already in your library, [...]

LT Author Challenge results

My LT Author Challenge ended last Sunday, and the results are in!

We had fewer participants than I had hoped, only 4 including myself But, we still had fun

Lenore at Presenting Lenore read and reviewed Guernica and Paper Towns.

Sandra at Fresh Ink Books read and reviewed In Hovering Flight, Months and Seasons , Midwife [...]

LT Author Challenge … my list (so far) and a graphic!

Many thanks to Lenore at Presenting Lenore and her husband, Daniel! Daniel is a published illustrator who agreed to create a graphic for her (and me! and all of us!) for the LT Author Challenge. Is that Emmy reading a book written by a LibraryThing Author?!

Here’s the list of books I hope to read and review [...]

Tuesday Thingers: Members with similar libraries

Today’s question from the Boston Bibliophile: Members who have your books. Do you ever look at this feature? Do you use it to make LT friends, or compare notes? There are three tabs- weighted, raw, and recent. “Weighted,” which means “weighted by book obscurity and library size” is probably the least self-explanatory of the three, [...]

I won Whale Song by Cheryl Kaye Tardif!

Many thanks to Karen Harrington at Scobberlotch (and author of Janeology!). Karen recently posted a review and giveaway of the book Whale Song, here’s an excerpt:

Whale Song by Cheryl Kaye Tardif begins as a coming of age story told through the eyes of Sarah Richardson, a kind spirited young girl whose father is a biology [...]