Brandywine Books has been nominated for an award during Book Blogger Appreciation Week. Our category is “Best Spiritual/Inspirational or Religious Book Review Blog.”
The friendly people behind this award have asked us to give them for their consideration five posts which we believe put our best feet forward. What do you think we should recommend? Since it’s a book review category, I’d prefer book reviews or book-related posts, but Lars post on villains may be a good choice or perhaps his post on Klavan’s crime trilogy a while back. Maybe we should stick to the spiritual-inspirational-religious topics though.
Please let us know what you think, and thank you for nominating us for this award.
I hesitate to call Dennis Ingolfsland, of The Recliner Commentaries, a “fellow librarian,” since he’s the real thing and I’m an on-the-job-trained poseur. But I know enough to recommend this piece about the American Library Association’s “Banned Books Week.”
The fact is that there are no banned books in America. Maybe I missed it but I don’t recall seeing any articles in the Library Journal or American Libraries protesting that other religion and those other countries which really do ban books.
Our friend and commenter S. D. Smith has changed his blogging digs from The Maple Mountain Story Club to a blog simply (and modestly) called S. D. Smith. No explanation is given for this change, nor any apology for the inevitable disruption and social chaos certain to ensue.
Update: Actually he does give an explanation. But it’s pretty unconvincing.
Another day, another blog endorsement. Actually this is a further endorsement from the guys over at Threedonia (specifically Mike and “Floyd”), who posted Amazon links today so that people could order not only West Oversea, but all my novels.
Thanks, guys.
What really impresses me is the insider influence that Floyd obviously wields. He linked to an order site for West Oversea at Amazon, but when I, regular mortal that I am, try to search for it there, they never heard of it. Floyd’s power is obviously that of no earthly being. I’m glad he’s on my side.
Anthony Sacramone, late of Strange Herring, alerts me (in a comment on my dyspeptic post below about his hiatus) to his review, just posted, of my The Year of the Warrior, over at First Things blog.
If he knew how deeply I appreciate such fulsomosity, especially in view of the source, it would inflate his already prodigious ego to a level almost unimaginable to our pure-minded readership.
The more I see this little piece from Roy Jacobsen’s Dispatches From Outland blog, the more it delights me. (The blog is no more.)
Gaspard, B.F. (2009). On the synchronicity of the discharge of ionized sulfur particles from Io’s polar regions and Ms. Astrid Lingonströtter commuting patterns. Journal of Applied Planetary Research and Ironmongery, 257(1), 77-193.
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