Blog Changes

First, I just wanted to thank everyone for their wonderful suggestions and support yesterday on my reading slump. I am not out of it and still fighting the headache, but I have an appointment tomorrow with a ENT so hopefully that will help! (the headache - not the reading slump. . .)

Has anybody noticed my blog changes? (Thanks Teddyrose for liking the new header!) I am trying to get the header smaller but haven't had any luck! I have also added tabs across the top to try to clean up my sidebars and have a label cloud now. Are there suggestions for any other changes? And can anyone tell me how to create a favicon?

As summer approaches I am going to have less time to post as I will have my munchkins around a lot more, so I thought that I would try to get away from doing the weekly memes and just post when I had the chance. I want to try to spotlight the ARCs or other books as I get them and not just once a week - so I am looking for some catchy names - like maybe Tome Travelers for the used books I pick up. I need a name for the ARC post (maybe Arriving ARCs?) and for books I have won, etc. So come on, I know you are all creative! (and to entice you, there might even be a giveaway if I use your suggestion!)

Under Construction

Please excuse some of the "extraneous" posts that you might see in the next few days. I am creating them for tabs across the top to try to clean up my side bars. As soon as the dust clears I am hoping that you will get a page that is easier to access with quicker load time! I will also be trying to spotlight more books as soon as they come in and not necessarily do big posts once a week. As the changes occur, I would enjoy any feedback as to what you like and dislike!

Much Thanks!

I Have the Best Followers!

WOO HOO!

I hit 100 followers!

(I know, I have more in my feed reader - and I love them too - but I can't identify them!) If anyone would have told me last September that I would have this many people following my blog - I would not have believed them!

A big thank you to everyone who comes by to visit! Please know that if you follow me - I do visit your blog too. I may not comment everytime, but my husband can tell you that I spend way too much time on my computer!

BIG THANKS TO ALL!

Show Your Bookmarks!

I don't know if you can be a reader and not like bookmarks. Here are the ones that I could find for this picture (but have found 3 more since!) If you want the chance to win some more for your "collection" check out this contest over at MariReads!

OOPS!

Somehow my comments box got omitted from the last couple of posts - but thanks to some bloggers who gave me the heads up everything is working again!

Blog Links

I have a question today for some of you readers who are more experienced in blogging and more tech savvy than myself. It was brought to my attention by a blog that I follow that after the last few posts on their blog that there had been links created linking them to my blog. Does anyone know how these links get created? I had not even visited this blog in over a month and am clueless how they came to be there. Any light that anyone can shed would be much appreciated - I want to make sure that there isn't someone out there randomly linking me to people!
Thanks everyone!!

Sick

My daughter was sick on Saturday. My son got sick on Monday. - and yep, it caught me today. I will be back when I am feeling better...

Happy Birthday!

TO ME!

And now, here is how they say it around the world!

Chestit Rojden Den! (Bulgarian)

Sun Yat Fai Lok! (Cantonese Chinese)

Hau'oli la hanau! (Hawaiian)

Yom Huledet Sameiach! (Hebrew)

Ilanga elimndandi kuwe! (Zulu)

Joyeux Anniversaire! (French)

Lá breithe mhaith agat! (Gaelic - Irish)

Alles Gute zum Geburtstag! (German)

Fortuna dies natalis! (Latin)

No matter how you say it - it all means the same thing!

I share my birthday with the following people:

Ewan McGregor

Al Gore

Rhea Perlman

Gabe Kaplan

Christopher Walken

Richard Chamberlain

Shirley Jones

Leo Buscaglia

Rene Descartes

Is it anybody else's birthday today?

I Need Some Advice

Ok fellow bloggers - I know that I have read some posts out there in the past about what you all do when you come across a book you don't particularly care for. I have come across my first book in awhile that falls in this category. My question is - if you have promised to review a book, and you discover part way in, that you really don't care for it - do you:

• Finish it and give an honest "not for me" review
• Don't finish it and give a "not for me" review through what you did read
• Don't finish it and just post a - DNF - not for me - no review

Look forward to hearing some answers!

P.S. - Don't forget to check out my two giveaways for Jantsen's Gift and Do-Over in my sidebar!

What Kind of Reader Are You?

I have seen this quiz pop up on a couple of different blogs so I finally had to go take it -

What Kind of Reader Are You? Your Result: Literate Good Citizen You read to inform or entertain yourself, but you're not nerdy about it. You've read most major classics (in school) and you have a favorite genre or two.
Dedicated Reader
Book Snob
Obsessive-Compulsive Bookworm
Fad Reader
Non-Reader
What Kind of Reader Are You? Quiz Created on GoToQuiz

What kind of reader are you? If you decide to take it - let me know so I can go see your results!

Typealizer

A couple of the blogs that I follow listed this site, Typealizer, that you can go to and have your blog "analyzed" as to the kind of personality you have - after seeing it the second type I had to go try it out. Below is my personality as typealizer sees it through my blog.

INTP - The Thinkers

The logical and analytical type. They are especialy attuned to difficult creative and intellectual challenges and always look for something more complex to dig into. They are great at finding subtle connections between things and imagine far-reaching implications. They enjoy working with complex things using a lot of concepts and imaginative models of reality. Since they are not very good at seeing and understanding the needs of other people, they might come across as arrogant, impatient and insensitive to people that need some time to understand what they are talking about.