Thanks to Sally over at Fine Old Famly, who has (if I follow how it works, something I’m not entirely certain of) awarded us a Premio Dardo Award. It’s a sort of chain award, requiring you to pass it on to 15 other bloggers, with the ultimate Ponzi-like result that eventually everyone will have one and it will mean nothing.
Still and all, she says nice things about us, and that doesn’t happen often (at least to me). So thank you Sally.
I’ll have to think about whom to share it with. I should probably let Phil select some of the recipients. Or all of them, if he’s in the mood.
Update: There’s actually only a few literary blogs I read with any regularity. So they get the prize for my part.
1. Kevin Holstberry’s Collected Miscellany. Kevin has wide-ranging interests, and the books he reviews are pretty eclectic (or so they seem to me. I suppose everyone considers anyone else’s reading idiosyncratic).
2. The View From the Foothills. A very good Christianity/Books blog I’ve been following for years.
3. Roy Jacobsen’s Writing, Clear and Simple. Great advice from a good writer, when he bothers to blog. Which he’s been doing more often lately. Maybe this’ll encourage him.
4.I Saw Lighting Fall, the blog of our commenter and friend Loren Eaten. Like all excellent literary blogs (such as this one), he casts a wide lariat and talks about a range of subjects.
5. The Maple Mountain Story Club, domain of another of our commenters, S. D. Smith. He deals with books and writing, and also shares bits of his own work.
6. I think Patrick O’Hannigan’s The Paragraph Farmer can also be called a literary blog, though that’s only one of many subjects covered. Patrick is, as I used to be, a regular contributor to The American Spectator.
Phil’s additions:
7. Frank Wilson’s blog, Books, Inq., is invaluable to me, so I should honor him first. He does blog with a team, but he’s the leading man.
8. Jimmy Davis does good work on and off the screen. He blogs at The Cruciform Life.
9. The Thinklings don’t need an award. They are just about awesome without one. Still, I offer this to them.
10. I doubt the guys at The Rabbit Room need an award either. They actually have albums, books, etc. to fool with, but they have a strong blog. Bravo.
I’ll stop there. I’m listening to Phil Vischer speaking at Moody’s Founder’s Week right now. It’s stirring. He said if we’re focused on being in the middle of God’s will today, then where we’ll be in five years (our ministry or personal vision) is none of our business.
I know the Paragraph Farmer, but not the others. As the friend who gave me the award pointed out, the fun is in seeing whom people choose to pass it along to, and then going to check out those blogs.
And you’re quite welcome 🙂
(take a picture of that emoticon-thingy, by the way. Normally I’m allergic to them)
I want to thank all the little people…Little John, Little Red Riding Hood, Stuart Little. My agent, my publicist, my make-up team, my hair team, my agent, and my agent.
Maybe we should start our own award, something viking related or having to do with swords maybe.
I can only imagine the quiet pride you must feel, Phil, to have been upgraded to “Lutheran” and “Viking.”
I felt something, I’ll tell you that.
Thanks! I feel validated or something . . .
And don’t worry, I myself use eclectic to describe my reading and reviews. I would probably do better as far as traffic and links if I focused on a genre but my interests are what they are.
Vi-King for a Week?
That’s weak. I’ll keep thinking.
Whoops, sorry. I guess I sweepingly generalized, didn’t I. I just wanted to get past the beginning of that sentence.
Don’t worry. Phil secretly loves it. As who wouldn’t?
Awww, you guys are too nice! Thanks so much. I really appreciate it.
I’m touched (probably in the older British sense of the word, too). Thank you!
Thanks, Lars! Somehow I missed seeing the link to the Foothills when this came through my RSS feed, or I’d have thanked you earlier.
You’re welcome.
I updated my part of the post b/c I’ve been worried about how poorly I worded some of it. That’s probably a sign of narcissism.