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Book Blogger Appreciation Week

Amazingly, it's getting on that time of year again. Book Blogger Appreciation Week 2010 will be held September 13th-17th. I had a very fun time last year participating in the week full of events, getting to know new (to me) bloggers, and enjoying the general merriment. This year everyone is invited to register their blogs for the week and, as part of registering, bloggers can self-nominate for any awards categories for which they feel their blog is a good fit. You can, of course, opt-out of the awards portion if you would like. In order to nominate, bloggers are instructed to post the links to five posts that best represent their blogs in the categories they are entering. So here are my posts for consideration in Best Young Adult Book Blog:

Review of The Demon's Covenant by Sarah Rees Brennan
Retro Friday Review of The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
Review of Some Girls Are by Courtney Summers
Retro Friday Review of A Certain Slant of Light by Laura Whitcomb
The Parents of YA

and Best Written Book Blog:

Review of Linger by Maggie Stiefvater
Review of The Sky is Everywhere by Jandy Nelson
Review of This Gorgeous Game by Donna Freitas
Unexpected Moments
Stubborn Girls (and Why I Love Them)


That's it for now. I hope you all go register and take part. It's sure to be an excellent week!

Comments

  1. I am so glad that you decided to register and nominate yourself for some awards Angie! I'll be rooting for you the whole way!

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  2. Yay, BBAW! Glad you nominated yourself, because I love your blog (and you deserve to win!).

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  3. Very cool!! Hope you win, you so deserve it!

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  4. *grin* Thanks, you guys! I was pretty uncomfortable with the whole self-nomination process. I mean, I understand where they're coming from with transparency, etc. But, still... :)

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  5. Anonymous11:33 AM

    Still, you deserve to win an award. YOu have a great blog. Good luck.

    KarenS

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  6. So glad you registered and nominated yourself! I really hope you win an award. :) I registered as well but didn't nominate myself. I look forward to the activities for this event.

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  7. You are definitely on my shortlist :)

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  8. Thanks you three! I'm glad you registered, Chachic. It should be fun. I enjoyed it thoroughly last year. Good luck, Lenore! You know you're on my shortlist!

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  9. Congrats on making it past the long list. Good luck.

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  10. Anonymous9:43 AM

    Just wanted to let you know that three of your links in the Best Written category are not working. Makes it hard to judge ;)

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  11. Anon, they're fixed now. Sorry for the trouble. They were working before. Not sure what happened.

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  12. Hi Angie,
    Just found you via BBAW and wanted to let you know that I'm having problems accessing your posts re Best YA book blog - I keep getting the error message Not Found
    Error 404 - don't know if this is Blogger just messing around but thought you'd like to know so you can try to fix it!

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  13. Playing by the book, thanks for the heads up! I've replaced the links and they appear to be working now. Let me know if you run into any other trouble and sorry for the bother. Glad you dropped in!

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