My Favorite Blogs, Not on the Shortlist
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Book Blogger Appreciation Week has kicked off, and all week long there are activities, scavenger hunts, and memes. Savvy Verse & Wit will be offering a ton of giveaways this week, and we hope that you will participate in BBAW, read reviews, enter giveaways, and other activities.
Today, I wanted to highlight some of my favorite book blogs that I read everyday. These are blogs that did not make the shortlists this year.
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Let's start with my nomination for Best New Blog: Book Chick City
She has a great color scheme and the sidebars and post sections are streamlined. Enough of aesthetics though, what I really love best are her reviews. I wanted to provide you with some of the best reviews I've read on her site, and I hope you will check them out and add Book Chick City to your reader.
1. She's already started participating in the community here and here.
2. Passionate book reviews.
3. Insightful interviews.
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Another blog that I feel should have been shortlisted this year is The Literate Housewife Review.
Jennifer's blog has a great design for her blog with a unique representation of herself, and this blog is easy to navigate as well. I love her honesty and her anecdotes about her girls and family. You really feel at home reading her blog, like you're sitting down to tea with her. Here are some of my favorite posts:
1. Her Dog Days of Summer challenge was exceptional.
2. Read her post about BBAW.
3. And she is creative in other ways, with her bookmark of the month club.
Have you checked out Bookgirl's
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Iliana is one of the most creative bloggers I've come across, and you can easily check out her journal-making skills at her Etsy shop or on her blog. Her blog has a great color scheme and nice set up, where you can easily find what reading challenges she's joined and the progress she has made. Here are some of her latest, greatest posts:
1. A book review in pictures.
2. Her post on foreign bookstores.
You must have known I would talk about my buddy, Anna's
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blog, Diary of an Eccentric.
She works hard on her blog and on our joint venture War Through the Generations (but we're not talking about that because it is on the shortlist). Not only is Anna reviewing books, interviewing authors, and offering guest bloggers the spotlight, but also she shares her blog, on occasion, with her daughter, known as The Girl! Reading their joint reviews is fun, but let's not forget her hidden talent, knitting. Ok, enough blabbing, check out her posts for yourself.
1. Review of He Was My Chief
2. Knitting--maybe I'm biased since those are my feet modeling the goods.
3. A review by The Girl
Finally, I wanted to highlight is Everything Distils Into
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Gautami has phenomenal tastes in books and poetry, she even writes her own. Yes, we have another multitalented blogger on our hands. Everything Distils is a reimagination of her blog that was "disappeared" earlier this year, and it has been a hard road back, but she has never let that slow her down. I, for one, am glad she decided to keep her blog going and build it back up. Here are some great posts:
1. Can of worms?
What are some of your favorite blogs that didn't make the shortlists?
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