Freshly Pressed!
After less than six months of blogging, I’VE BEEN FRESHLY PRESSED!!! Thank you to WordPress for choosing my post and thank you to everyone who has had a look at my Little Blog especially my very...
View ArticleThe Daily Post
After the madness of being Freshly Pressed two weeks ago, my post ‘The Rise of eBooks: evil or essential?‘ has now been featured in the Daily Post! It is quite funny reading an analysis of how I...
View ArticleDoes My Blog Harm Literature?
According to Peter Stothard, this year’s chair of the Man Booker Prize judges, book bloggers are harming literature. Well thanks, Peter. Thanks a lot. I’m sure there are many people who have come...
View ArticleNew Site Address
My blog web address has changed to alittleblogofbooks.wordpress.com. Any previous links to my blog with the site address cer90cer.wordpress.com will no longer work. If you have my site on a blogroll...
View ArticleThe Best of 2012 Survey
BEST IN BOOKS 2012 1. Best Book You Read In 2012? (You can break it down by genre if you want) Do I have to choose? Well, one of my favourites was Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami which …...
View ArticleBlog Birthday
I don’t want to come over all Gwyneth Paltrow at the Oscars (never a good idea when sitting in a library as I currently am or in any other circumstances really) but I do want to acknowledge that my...
View ArticleWhat I’ve Learned From Blogging
I started blogging pretty much on the spur of the moment. At the time, I was a final year undergraduate student and I was reading a lot of books that were not related to my university course and found...
View ArticleBlog Update
I have been neglecting the blog a bit recently because I have been busy finishing my dissertation for my Master’s degree which is due to be handed in next Friday. As usual, I am very behind with...
View ArticleFreshly Pressed…. Again!
So apparently it’s possible to be Freshly Pressed twice… Just over a year after my post about eBooks was Freshly Pressed, my post about the forthcoming changes to the Man Booker Prize criteria received...
View ArticleOther Books I Read In 2013 But Didn’t Review
When I first started this blog, I reviewed more or less everything I read in the order that I read them. However, I am no longer quite so organised. I still review the majority of the books I read...
View ArticleThe 2013 End of Year Book Survey
I did this survey last year so here it is again…. 1. Best Book You Read In 2013? (You can break it down by genre if you want) This is hard… in terms of fiction, highlights definitely include ‘A Tale...
View ArticleA Little Blog of Books is now on Twitter
So I have caved in and finally set up a Twitter account for my blog…. hopefully it will be a good way of keeping in touch with other book stuff that’s going on as well as sharing links for interesting...
View ArticleThe 2014 End of Year Book Survey
I do this survey every year so here it is again…. 1. Best book you read in 2014? (You can break it down by genre if you want) The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt was a great start to the year and … Continue...
View ArticleWill BookTube Overtake Book Blogging?
I like to think that I am relatively in touch with what’s going on in the book blogging world. However, until very recently, I must confess that I didn’t really know anything at all about BookTube, let...
View ArticleMy Books of the Year 2015
In no particular order, here are some of my favourite books from those I’ve read in 2015: Favourite fiction published in 2015 I loved Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith which is the third book in the...
View ArticleReading the World: Confessions of a Literary Explorer by Ann Morgan
‘Reading the World: Confessions of a Literary Explorer’ (also published under the title ‘The World Between Two Covers’ in the United States) is Ann Morgan’s account of how she read a book from every...
View ArticleHow Blogging Has Changed My Reading Habits
1. I read more books than I used to. This must be something that pretty much every book blogger can identify with. Even though blogging itself takes up a lot of time, it’s pretty hard not to start...
View ArticleDo Book Blog Reviews Have Real Influence?
The book blogger versus traditional literary critic debate has been rumbling on for a while now, especially as it is noticeable that endorsements from bloggers are increasingly used alongside reviews...
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