It’s been a couple years since I participated in Armchair Book Expo. Perhaps it will be just the jolt to get me back into blogging regularly 😉 The introduction prompt this year is 10 sentence starters; here are my responses to five of them:
- I am . . . a 25 year old Canadian currently working as an EA with dreams of becoming a children’s librarian (I start an MLIS in the fall).
- My favorite . . . authors are (in no prioritized order) Haruki Murakami, Helen Oyeyemi, Neil Gaiman, J.R.R. Tolkien, Cornelia Funke, Neal Shusterman, and Catherynne M. Valente.
- My current read . . . I have a lot on the go right now. This afternoon I was reading Independent People by Halldor Laxness (Icelandic fiction from the 1950s). I’m also reading The Hobbit, a book of Japanese haiku, and Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right by Arlie Russell Hothschild. (Saving the middle grade for this weekend’s 48 hour book challenge).
- My summer plans . . . include enjoying my last Winnipeg Fringe Festival (second largest in North America) before I move to Vancouver in August.
- My blog. . .primarily features reviews of a wide variety of books (including fiction and non-fiction), as recording my thoughts on what I read has always been my primary purpose in blogging. I post sporadically but try to work it out to eight times a month.
The other topic for today is best practices in the online book community. I’m not the greatest at participating in community so I don’t have much to say on this topic but I am interested in what other people come up with. (Perhaps what I would have to say could be distilled down to ‘be considerate’.) Time to blog hop!
Are you participating in Armchair BEA? Leave a link to your post in the comments if so~
I appreciate people who read all kinds of totally unrelated books at one time. I never stick to one.
Right! I often hear, “How can you read more than one book at once??” Well, because they’re all totally different and suited to my different whims/moods, haha.
I think your best practices could just be what works for you in terms of blogging. At least that’s how I took it – I don’t feel qualified to tell other people what their best practices should be!
Oh, that’s a good point! I think I have been spending too much time on Twitter lately – I was thinking of the particular perspective of interacting with other bloggers, reviewers, authors, etc. online.
Hey Jenna! Nice to *meet* you! 🙂
Feel free to check out my intro post here.
Thanks for stopping by, Erica!
Of course! 🙂
I love your diverse assortment of current reads!
Thank-you!! I was in an indecisive slump for a few days – then I decided just to read them all at once, haha.
I haven’t read anything by your favorite authors. But I have heard of some of them. Have you read The Promise of Stardust by Priscille Sibley? It gave me a really good cry. Thank you for sharing and enjoy ABEA!
I haven’t read The Promise of Stardust. I just looked it up on Goodreads – it definitely does sound like a tearjerker! Thanks for stopping by 🙂
It’s pretty cheap on bookoutlet. If you check it out, I hope you enjoy it. Happy ABEA!
Good luck with your MLIS! I sometimes think back wistfully and wish I’d become a librarian. 🙂