Reads with BookLikes Friends
Halloween Bingo 2019 PreParty — Question for 08/08 (Day 8): Favorite Past Halloween Bingo Squares?
Being more of a mystery than a horror reader, of course I like all of the mystery squares — as well as the squares adding diversity to the game (“Diverse Authors”, “Terrifying Women”, and the new “International Women of Mystery”) and the squares that allow me to sneak in a Terry Pratchett book or three […]
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Finding More Blogs to Follow, Part 3 — a Revival of “Follow Fridays”?
Reblogged from: Themis-Athena’s Garden of Books Reblogging this to ask for further comments on the current thinking (see additions at the end of the post): Interviews moving from blogger to blogger, with the interviewee of one week becoming the interviewer the following week. This should (hopefully) also help in letting the interviews move away from […]
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Finding More Blogs to Follow, Part 3 — a Revival of “Follow Fridays”?
Those who were active on this site before mid-2018 probably remember “Follow Fridays”, a series of interviews presenting individual BookLikes bloggers. (For reference, the last “Follow Fridays” post, with links to all previous posts at the bottom, is HERE.) OB brought up the idea of reviving that series of interviews among ourselves in the comments […]
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Active Groups on BookLikes – or, Finding More Blogs to Follow, Part 2
Following up on BrokenTune’s post regarding the “Find New BookLikes Blogs to Follow” group — and while it can’t be emphasized enough that to find more active bloggers you may want to follow, the best method is to actively participate in discussions on blog posts and check out the other participants in those discussions — […]
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#Follow a Newbie (or any blog with few followers….really)
Reblogged from BrokenTune Hi, I’m just sharing this again as there seem to have been a number of new members to the BookLikes community. Because it isn’t easy to find people / blogs to follow and interact with on BookLikes, some BLikers set up a few open discussion groups some time ago where people can drop […]
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Dennis Wheatley & J.G. Links: Murder off Miami – MbD: It’s Here!!
Sooo … are we still on for a buddy read, um, exercise in crime solving? And it’s even in a damned fine condition, given its age … there’s the odd cuff, and the pages are yellowed, as was to be expected (and for once I wouldn’t want them any other way — this is a […]
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Halloween Book Bingo 2016: Tenth Update and BINGO No. 10
The Books: Diverse Authors Can Be Spooky Fun – Sherman Alexie: Reservation Blues Well, more angry than spooky, actually, but anyway … Robert Johnson is running from the devil (“the Gentleman” in the book) and ends up on the Spokane reservation. Afraid that “the Gentleman” might hear him if he plays his guitar, he hands […]
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Arthur Conan Doyle: The Hound of the Baskervilles … and Dartmoor
“Yes, the setting is a worthy one. If the devil did desire to have a hand in the affairs of men ––” “I have been in Devonshire.” “In spirit?” “Exactly … After you left I sent down to Stamford’s for the Ordnance map of this portion of the moor, and my spirit has […]
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