Thanks to every who stopped by APOOO during BBAW. Some of you might recall, that APOOO was offering an autographed copy of Sweetsmoke by David Fuller to one lucky winner. DRUMROLL PLEASE…as we have a winner: DERA WILLIAMS Congrats Dera and since you’ve already read Sweetsmoke, I know you will appreciate adding an authographed copy [...]
This summer, after book blogging was patronized in the mainstream media, Amy from My Friend Amy made a suggestion that we celebrate book blogging. From that idea, Book Blogger Appreciation Week was born. Many of us have participated in interviews, contests, give-aways, and through awards; but, this would never have happened were it not for [...]
Matrimony by Joshua Henkin is another book that I have seen all week via Book Bloggers Appreciation. I thought the cover was attractive but I do not know why I did not stop, pause and check out the book description to see if it would even be something that I would be interested in reading. Maybe I was thrown because the book [...]
Okay, as many of you know, this week is Book Blogger Appreciation Week. Because of APOOO’s participation, I have met a few new book bloggers and a NY Times best-selling author to boot. So I am thrilled, excited and cheezing and grinning because I was able to be apart of MyFriendAmy’s vision. Amy did a wonderful job of bringing [...]
APOOO is proud to present the Book Blogger Appreciation Week awards for the Best Cookbook and Best Literary Fiction blog categories. And the nominees are: Best Cookbook Blog Books and Cooks Crockpot 365 Karina’s Kitchen Soup’s On! Tomato Preserves AND THE WINNER IS BOOKS AND COOKS Moving on to the Best Literary Fiction category…the finalists are… [...]
In my daily Book Blogger Appreciation Week blog-hopping stops, I ran into this post over at MYFriendAmy’s blog. I heart how author Andromeda Romano-Lax shares why she appreciates reviews from book bloggers (insert book clubs)…while we might not be the NYTimes book reviewers…and who knows how long most newspaper reviewers are going to be around in [...]
Best Book Published in 2008 FINALISTS The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows The Lace Reader by Brunonia Barry The Host by Stephenie Meyer The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway No One You Know by Michelle Richmond AND THE WINNER IS The Host by Stephenie Meyer APOOO [...]
Hello Good Peoples! Get your rest today…because tomorrow you will be blog hopping to find out which BBAW finalists get to walk down the red copy? Who will it be…when I find out…I’ll let you know…AT THE APPOINTED TIME, OF COURSE…lol so don’t forget to stop back tomorrow (Sept. 17th). Hope you can join us [...]
Book Club Girl asked the following question on a recent blog: Tell me a bout a book you’ve read where the location becomes a character itself. I know I’ve read books like this but I’m stumped…so I’m going to bed and will come back tomorrow to share some of my picks. In the meantime, feel [...]
Hello good peoples and welcome to a new and exciting week! The week that so many of us helped My Friend Amy promote is finally here! And what a good week it looks like it’s going to be. APOOO will be participating and giving away prizes along the way. We have Sweetsmoke by David Fuller as the [...]
