Category: Blogger Events

Nonfiction November Week 4: Readalong Discussion

November 23, 2015 DoingDewey Blogger Events, non-fiction 15

I can’t believe I’m saying this already, but welcome to week 4 of Nonfiction November! Here’s our discussion topic for the week:

This week we’ll be wrapping up Nonfiction November with a discussion of our read-along book, I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai and Christina Lamb. Discussion questions, my answers, and a link-up are below. In your post, you can answer these questions and/or write about your own response to the book. You can also share your thoughts on Twitter using the hashtag #NonficNov. Read more »

#NFBookClub The Sixth Exctinction Discussion – Part 1

September 10, 2015 DoingDewey Blogger Events, non-fiction 25

Well, this has been a bit of a dense read, hasn’t it? I’ve enjoyed it, from the interesting locations to the inspiring science, but it’s definitely a little drier than Mary Roach. Here we are at the halfway point though and I’m excited to hear how you’re all doing! I’ll post my discussion question answers on Monday, but you can chime in any time. And don’t forget to stop by ~~later today~~Saturday to vote for October’s read! Read more »

September Nonfiction Book Club Read-Along!

August 25, 2015 DoingDewey Blogger Events 13

By a margin of only one vote, our September read-along will be The Sixth Extinction! Given the close vote though, you can bet that Bad Feminist will show back up on next month’s poll. We’ll have a google doc discussion and discussion questions for our The Sixth Extinction read-along. There will also be a twitter chat at the end if people are interested. In the meantime, feel free to chat on twitter using the hashtag #NFBookClub. I’ve included a linky for sign-ups below the schedule which is open through September 26th. If you decide to join in any time before then, please add your sign-up post there.

Google Doc Opens for Free Form Discussion – September 1

Ch 1-8 Discussion Questions Posted – September 10

Ch 9-16 Discussion Questions Posted – September 24

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Bloggiesta Goals

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Yay, Bloggiesta! It’s time for us to once again come together and give our blogs the TLC they deserve. Although I’m getting back into blogging as I wrap up my research paper, I’m still exceptionally busy with grad school work, so I’ll be keeping my goals pretty minimal this year.

Participate in at least two mini-challenges
Participate in at least four twitter chats
Polish my Pinterest
Comment on at least five new-to-me blogs
Write three blog posts

What are your plans for Bloggiesta?

Bloggiesta Mini-Challenge: Tracking Diverse Reading Stats

March 22, 2015 DoingDewey Blogger Events 19

I’ve always loved end of the year stats posts and wanted more data about what I was reading, so last year, I started tracking my blog stats using a great spreadsheet from Nikki at Fyrefly’s Book Blog. I was (and am) trying to diversify my reading, so to track how I was doing, I added columns for: the author’s nationality, whether the author was a person of color, whether any of the main characters were non-white or LGBT, and whether each book was translated (if I remember correctly; the version of the spreadsheet available at Nikki’s blog is no longer the one I downloaded, so I apologize if I’m stealing credit for some of her stat tracking ideas!). While using those categories last year, I realized just how tricky tracking diversity could be. Read more »

War and Peace Read-Along Week 1

February 10, 2015 DoingDewey Blogger Events, Classics, Fiction 16

Since I read and loved Anna Karenina, I’ve been wanting to give War and Peace a try. Although I was nervous it was going to be mostly about battles and not have any characters I could love as much as Anna, this read-along hosted by Hanna at Booking in Heels gave me the push I needed to give it a chance. So far, like everyone else, I’m enjoying this far more than I expected. Even more surprisingly, Tolstoy is reminding me of Austen in a great way. This might be me projecting my own amusement at the way the characters behave, but I feel like Tolstoy is laughing behind his hand at their antics too which is a feeling I often get when reading Austen. Read more »

Fun Bookish Happenings

January 5, 2015 DoingDewey Blogger Events 4

The first fun happening I’d like to share with you is a regular feature I do with Tamara from Traveling With T. For Futuristic Friday, we both pick the books we’re most looking forward to over the next few months, because we know you all need more books for your TBR pile! This month it was turn to host, so you can check out our picks in her post. Read more »

2014 Book to Movie Challenge Wrap-Up

December 29, 2014 DoingDewey Blogger Events, Book To Movie Challenge 6

2014 is coming to a close and with it, the Book to Movie Challenge. This year we had 87 reviews entered with the most reviews coming from my co-host, Sergio at Tipping My Fedora , including the most recent review added of The Midwich Cuckoos. Although I didn’t do a very good job of reviewing the book to movie books I read, one I particularly enjoyed was All You Need Is Kill (adapted as The Edge of Tomorrow). I also liked the movie adaptations of Divergent (even better than the book, I thought) and The Book Thief (not as good as the book, but still a good movie). For those of you who are interested in continuing with the challenge next year, I’d like to invite you to consider hosting the challenge. Personally, I’m too busy writing the first paper of my thesis in January to want to be starting hosting a challenge right now and it sounds like Sergio will be scaling back next year as well. We both had a lot of fun hosting this year and appreciate you all participating!

Bloggiesta Mini-Challenge: How to use Riffle As a Blogger

September 17, 2014 DoingDewey Blogger Events, Giveaway 38

I’m always looking for the next big social book reviewing site, but so far, I’ve found very few sites I like as well as Goodreads. It’s primarily what I use to track my reading and share reviews, despite the uproar over reviews being selectively deleted by the site. However, I have started using Riffle in parallel for several reasons. First, it’s a really good looking site. I love the Pinterest-inspired layout, with everything from activity feeds to book recommendations displayed using book covers. Second, the list feature is a lot of fun, both because of the book cover-focused layout and because the site moderators do a great job moving interesting lists (best sellers, for example) onto the site. The resulting lists are also easily embedded into blog posts. And last but not least, the site emphasizes genre, allowing you to sign-up as an expert in a particular genre and to categorize the lists you create as belonging to up to three genres. As a book blogger, this is invaluable, because it gives other users of the site a way to find you. The moderators of particular genres are also great people to be friends with, since they sometimes will choose to share your themed lists with their followers. Read more »

Bout of Books 11

August 17, 2014 DoingDewey Blogger Events 4

Bout of Books 11 starts tomorrow and I’m excited to be joining in! As usual, I’ll just try to read as much as possible, particularly making an effort to cut out TV. I’ll also be tracking the time I spend reading and the number of pages I make it through here. I also hope to participate in at least two of the challenges being hosted throughout the week. For those of you unfamiliar with Bout of Books, I’d like to highly recommend it and share the official blurb with you here:

The Bout of Books read-a-thon is organized by Amanda @ On a Book Bender and Kelly @ Reading the Paranormal. It is a week long read-a-thon that begins 12:01am Monday, August 18th and runs through Sunday, August 24th in whatever time zone you are in. Bout of Books is low-pressure, and the only reading competition is between you and your usual number of books read in a week. There are challenges, giveaways, and a grand prize, but all of these are completely optional. For all Bout of Books 11 information and updates, be sure to visit the Bout of Books blog.

Happy reading all!