Book & Information 03 Sep 2008 06:25 pm
So the fabulous and down-to-earth Claire LaZebnik came into our store. I had emailed her last year to see if she could do a signing (as she is from New England orginally). She couldn’t make it, but said she would stop in this year when she emailed again.
Tags: blogging, bookstorepeople.com, claire, claire lazebnik, innisfree bookshop, kim, kim allen-neilsen
Book & Information 25 Mar 2008 09:20 pm
Here is some information about another book blogger. Book-worm.biz also does book reviews.
What I like about this blog is the “about” page actually. While most of my books that I read and blog about are from publishing houses, and while I do work at an independent bookshop, I don’t get a monetary kickback for reviewing books positively on this website. As of this time, I don’t make any money on my website, because as you will see, there are no ads here. (This may change at a later date however.)
They specify on their about page,
Ethics
The reviews have neither been paid for nor solicited by any company or publishing house and it is our intention to maintain this independence into the future.
I enjoy that they mention that they are running it to promote books of worth, instead of running it to make scads of money from a publishing house.
They are like me; they read a book and say, HEY! You should read this too!
Tags: , blog, blogging, Book, book-worm.biz
Uncategorized 06 Oct 2007 09:05 pm
Note: This is a new kind of online protest that uses blogs to spread a petition globally. To participate, just add your blog by following the instructions in this blog post.
This not an issue of partisan politics, this is an issue of basic human rights and democracy. Please help to prevent a human tragedy in Burma by adding your blog and asking others to do the same.
By passing this meme on through the blogosphere hopefully we can generate more awareness and avert a serious tragedy. As concerned world-citizens this is something we bloggers can do to help.
How to participate:
1. Copy this entire post to your blog, including this special number: 1081081081234
2. After a few days, you can search Google for the number 1081081081234 to find all blogs that are participating in this protest and petition. Note: Google indexes blogs at different rates, so it could take longer for your blog to show up in the results.
3. If you know how to add tags to your blog posts, add the Technorati tag 1081081081234 to your post as well. This will make your post findable sooner in Technorati.
THE SITUATION IN BURMA AND WHY IT MATTERS TO ALL OF US
There is no press freedom in Burma and the government has started turning off the Internet and other means of communication, so it is difficult to get news out. Individuals on the ground have been sending their day-by-day reports to the BBC, and they are heartbreaking. I encourage you to read these accounts to see for yourself what is really going on in Burma. Please include this link in your own blog post.
The situation in Burma is increasingly dangerous. Hundreds of thousands of unarmed peaceful protesters, including monks and nuns, are risking their lives to march for democracy against an unpopular but well-armed military dictatorship that will stop at nothing to continue its repressive rule. While the generals in power and their families are literally dripping in gold and diamonds, the people of Burma are impoverished, deprived of basic human rights, cut off from the rest of the world, and increasingly under threat of violence.
This week the people of Burma have risen up collectively in the largest public demonstrations against the ruling Junta in decades. It’s an amazing show of bravery, decency, and democracy in action. But although these protests are peaceful, the military rulers are starting to crack down with violence. Already there have been at least several reported deaths, and hundreds of critical injuries from soldiers beating unarmed civilians to the point of death.
The actual fatalities and injuries are probably far worse, but the only news we have is coming from individuals who are sneaking reports past the authorities. Unfortunately it looks like a large-scale blood-bath may ensue — and the victims will be mostly women, children, the elderly and unarmed monks and nuns.
Contrary to what the Burmese, Chinese and Russian governments have stated, this is not merely a local internal political issue, it is an issue of global importance and it affects the global community. As concerned citizens, we cannot allow any government anywhere in the world to use its military to attack and kill peacefully demonstrating, unarmed citizens.
In this modern day and age violence against unarmed civilians is unacceptable and if it is allowed to happen, without serious consequences for the perpetrators, it creates a precedent for it to happen again somewhere else.
If we want a more peaceful world, it is up to each of us to make a personal stand on these fundamental issues whenever they arise.
Please join me in calling on the Burmese government to negotiate peacefully with its citizens, and on China to intervene to prevent further violence. And please help to raise awareness of the developing situation in Burma so that hopefully we can avert a large-scale human disaster there.
Tags: 1081081081234, blogging, burma, deplorable, human rights, monks
Book & Information 29 Aug 2007 06:02 am
My friend Shana’s book has a DATE!!!!
If you remember my post about “Libby Fawcett’s Secret Blog, you will remember that I have a friend who not only has written a book (well… many fine books though none of those are published…) she has a book coming out this spring of 2008.
Well, now called, “Something to Blog About,” the blogging novel of Libby Fawcett will tentatively be released on April 1st!!!!
Here is the Amazon page with only minor details. Still!!! So exciting!!!
Oh boy Oh boy!!! So remember, April 2008 rolls around, you better run to your local Independent and check it out!!!
Tags: blogging, books, hardcover, independent bookshop, libby fawcett, norris, secret blog, shana norris, something to blog about, young adult fiction
Information & Uncategorized 31 May 2007 06:12 am
Today’s Blog Roll is, Maison Bisson.com It is our friend Casey’s website. He is *another* techy, but he has a wide variety of stories.
They range from food posts on Hungry Man and the Frankie, to hacking the Bluetooth.
Another great story is that of the Worlds smallest Horse Thumbelina, as seen here.
So you can see, a GREAT variety. He posts a lot of really cool stuff and he posts… A LOT. So, if you are looking about for another good weblog, check him out!
Tags: bison, blogging, blogs, blue tooth, bluetooth, casey, frankies, hacking, hungry man, indian frankies, maisonbisson, maisonbisson.com, posting, thumbelina, weblog, world's smallest horse
Information 17 May 2007 06:01 am
Bork Web is our friend Matt’s website. It is also a computer geek/random stuff website (seeing a trend here?). His posts range from working on FrontPage to making his own Star Wars lightsabers… and to that end, here is a video post…
How cool is that eh? So check him out. Great articles throughout and its another one worth the time.
Tags: blogging, Blogroll, blogs, bork web, borkweb, computer, light saber, matt, star wars, technology
Information 26 Apr 2007 07:14 am
Here is another Blog Roll. No Sheep is Zach, who is married to Sara. Small world eh? Unlike Sara who blogs about the baby and mother-dom, Zach blogs about computer stuff, comic book stuff, and other hilarious stuff worthy of a mention.
One of my favorite blog posts of Zach’s is that of the random baby kittens. Sara brought home three abandoned kittens that she had found. Regardless of how cute they are, and yeah they were WICKED cute, my favorite part is that this completely random blog post about baby kittens is one of his top hit posts. People comment asking if any of the kittens are available. (Mind you the post was from 2005… people STILL comment asking… hehe)
So Zach has completely random things like the kittens, hilarious things like Will Ferrell being chewed out by a two year old and worth while things like how to do things in java.. and C++ and other things I don’t understand but that comp-geeks DO understand.
Definitely a worthwhile blog to add to your own blog-roll! Check him out!
Tags: being sara, beingsara.net, blog, blog roll, blogging, kittens, no sheep, nosheep.net, Pearl, random baby kittens, sara, will ferrell, zach
Information 24 Apr 2007 07:14 am
My friend Sara has a very fun website. She worked in children protective services, and has since has a child of her own. Her early blog posts refer to her work in CPS, and then phased into her pregnancy and now into a weekly report on her son’s development. Her son is one of the highlights of my life as well. He is delightful and pretty much any “baby info” I know is because of him.
From her blog post on Xander’s realization that his mom really WAS the best,
Yesterday I was later than usual picking him up, and by the time I got in the car to go get him, I was surprised at how much I missed my boy, and how excited I was to see him. When I got there, he was indeed crying while one of the women held him. As soon as Xander heard my voice, he turned towards me. Although I was still pretty cold from being outside, I picked him up and gave him a big hug. He immediately started to smile and giggle. I took him into another room to get him buckled into his car seat, and continued to kiss his face and talk to him, and the giggling continued. Even when I buckled him in (which he usually hates) he laughed at me.
If you have any interest in babies and especially if you just want actual information on pregnancy, check out Sara’s blog, and read through her back entries. Definitely worth it!!
Tags: babies, baby, being sara, beingsara.com, blog, blogging, childbirth, friends, pregnancy, sara, xander
Information 18 Apr 2007 11:14 am
This Blog belongs to my boyfriend. Call Blog started out when he was still in college, and though it is RARELY updated these days, when it is, Justin finds really interesting subjects to blog about. Sometimes it is the random photos he takes.
Other times, it is on living in a Domed house. His blog is definitely one to keep on your blog roll, and hopefully, without too much nagging, he will get back into the blogging thick of it to delight you regularly once more!!
Tags: blog roll, blogging, Blogroll, blogs, callblog, callblog.net, justin
Uncategorized 17 Apr 2007 10:52 am
So just a short blip. I am going to be doing a “Blog Roll.” Just a short post about people that I know with cool blogs (or that I don’t know, but still have cool blogs). It shall begin tomorrow, but the book related posts will still (obviously) be more prevalent than the blog posts!!!
And with that, I wanted to share a picture of my house! If you are aware of the weather, New England got hit with a storm and part of that storm was a WHOLE LOTTA rain and wind… Well, check out what that did to my roof!!!
Tags: blog roll, blogging, damage, new england, roof, roof damage, storm damage, storms