Welcome to the Sunday Salon! There were a few new awards and new reviews last week.
Book Dilettante was listed by Courtreporter.net as one of the 50 Best Blogs for Crime and Mystery Book Lovers. How neat is that? Hope you will check out the 111 posts under the label, Mystery on my home page.
Done last week: I also befriended several crime fiction authors on facebook. One had over 5,000 facebook friends, so I joined his discussion group instead! I posted links to writing tips, for all you aspiring writers, Ten Rules for Writing Fiction. My post for Far from the Land: An Irish Memoir got the most comments of any I've done. Hooray! I also wrote up a few awards from new friends, one from Brazil!
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The Museum of Innocence |
Michele Paiva, whose book, Truth, Next Exit I just reviewed, sent me a nice note: "Thank you so much! It's not a lengthy book but it was something I felt from the heart...and if it even helps one person overcome an obstacle, then I've done my job with it." Her suggestions for personal change certainly made me look at many things in a new way.
I hope to join The Graphic Novels Challenge 2010. The rules are simple: read one graphic novel featuring an animal character. Having never read a graphic novel all the way through, I think this would be a good challenge to try.
Carrie at Books and Movies, has given me a One Lovely Blog Award. Thank you, Carrie.
Today is the last day to enter my Simply Quince cookbook giveaway (U.S.) Two copies are available. If you want to try using the fruit quince in cooking and making jams, preserves, and desserts, do enter the contest. UPDATE: Winners chosen: Esme and kalynnick!
Have a good week, everyone! Let us know what you did this past week!
