I find to my surprise and delight that Mary's Library is one of the finalists in My Friend Amy's Best Blog poll in the Most Eclectic Taste category.
You can link to the nominated blogs here. And you can vote here.
I hope you'll vote for Mary's Library.
From My Friend Amy:
It's time to open nominations for Book Blogger Appreciation Week Awards 2008!
Listed below are the categories of awards. There are many. You may not have a nomination for each award. It doesn't matter. Nominate up to two blogs per category and send an email to BbawawardsATgmailDOTcom with your choices. You DO NOT have to have a blog to make nominations. Comments left on this post will NOT be accepted as nominations. Each category will be narrowed to the top five blogs by number of nominations received, so don't be shy!!! Support your favorite blogs and bloggers! Nominations will close on August 31st.
And the categories for the Book Blogger Appreciation Week Awards 2008 are:
Best General Book Blog
Best Kidlit Blog
Best Christian/Inspirational Fiction Blog
Best Literary Fiction Blog
Best Book Club Blog
Best Romance Blog
Best Thrillers/Mystery/Suspense Blog
Best Non-fiction Blog
Best Young Adult Lit Blog
Best Book/Publishing Industry Blog
Best Challenge Host
Best Community Builder
Best Cookbook Blog
Best History/Historical Fiction Blog
Best Design
Most Chatty
Most Concise
Most Eclectic Taste
Best Name for a Blog
Best Published Author Blog
Best Book published in 2008
Best Meme/Carnival/Event
Most Extravagant Giveaways
Best Book Community site
Write In--think we missed something? Write in your category and nomination and if there are enough other write-ins of the same category it will be added!
I'm extremely happy with my new Kindle, which is living up to expectations and which - heresy I know - I find easier to read from than the printed page. It's on the whole idiot-proof, though I've had a couple of problems (problems that I would not have had if I had read the User's Guide, which is included right there on the list of books when the gadget arrives.) I read an icon incorrectly and I thought I had a problem with the light that goes on when you are charging the Kindle. It kept going off. Turns out the Kindle was fully charged and that's why it went off. (Have I mentioned that I'm technologically challenged?)
Laurel from my Trollope group encouraged me to buy it and held my hand for the month and a half I had to wait for it to arrive. She also told me about a Yahoo group of Kindle owners and wannabees called kindlecorner that has been very useful. From that group I found Jan's blog, Kindle Reader, which is a must for the new Kindle owner.
Jan alerts us to newly kindled books, magazines, and blogs; she tells us about equipment we might find useful to enhance our Kindle like a leather cover, a light to attach for night reading, an SD card to add more memory. She lists sites where we can find Kindle-formatted books, many of them free. And she reviews books that we can buy for our Kindle - lots of books.
Highly recommended for the new Kindler or for anyone who wants to see pithy reviews of lots of diverse sorts of books.
Letters from a Hill Farm is one of those blogs that you find yourself checking more than once a day because of Nan's faithfulness in posting often and the delightful glimpse she gives you into life on a Northern New England farm.
Yesterday she planted two 25-ft rows of peas and made corn muffins. A week ago she showed us some photos of intriguing sculpture at a New Hampshire museum. On April 18 she reviewed Reeve Lindburgh's new book, Forward from Here.
Letters from a Hill Farm always has a great photo at the top. Right now it's the naughty looking goat you see above. Check it out.
I need to loosen up. I just found the Blog Readability Test over on A Reader's Journal and here's the result for MarysLibrary. Too many three-syllable words, I think. I need to review more children's books.
There's a wonderful cartoon in the online Seattle Post Intelligencer that all potential bloggers need to think about:
The P-I site is here.