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Weekly Geeks

Posted by Teddyrose@1 on April 27, 2008
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Dewey from The Hidden Side of a Leaf has come up with a great idea called Weekly Geeks.

Here’s how it works:

1. Every week there’ll be a different theme. One week might be “catch up on your library books” week and the next might be “redecorate your blog week” or “organize your challenges” week or “catch up on your reviews” week. It’ll be fairly bookblogcentric, but not exclusively.

2. Everyone who joins agrees that they will try to check each week to see what the theme is, although they DO NOT have to participate each week, only when they feel like it.

3. Everyone who joins is welcome (encouraged, begged!) to send ideas for weekly themes via email, comments, whatever. The more ideas, the better.

4. If you post about your progress with that week’s theme in your blog (whether you were wildly successful or didn’t get around to any of it) then you can come back and leave a link to that post in the comments for that theme.

AND there is a chocolate monkey give-a-way for those participants who post about this idea before the end of April. Since I’m a vegan and the chocolate monkey looks like milk chocolate, I’m passing on the give-a-way, but posting it here for any of my readers who are interested. I think this sounds like a great idea for us bloggers.

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Bottle of Shine is hosting 342,745 Ways To Herd Cats Challenge. (Truth be told, I am joining this challenge because the cat is so darn cute!

The challenge goes like this:

1) Make a list of ten books you love.

2) Share the list by posting it on your blog and then give Bottle of Shine the link so she can add it to the master list.

2) Choose 3 books to read from the master list.

3) Write reviews of the books you read!

4) Share the links to your reviews for the challenge.

List of 10 books I love (Click books in green to see my review):

1. Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
2. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
3. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
4. Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
5. Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
6. Sweetness in the Belly by Camilla Gibb
7. Beneath a Marble Sky by John Shors
8. The Secret River By Kate Grenville
9. Oh My Stars by Lorna Landvik
10. The Time In Between by David Bergen

The 3 books I will read from the master list:

1. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
2. My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
3. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hoesseini

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Lynne at Lynne’s Little Corner of the World is hosting this challenge.

Here’s how Lynne described this challenge:

You need to read 3 books recommended by others, and you can read more if you like. Cross-challenges are OK and you can change your books at any time.


I promised myself that I wouldn’t sign up for anymore challenge’s this year, but this is an easy one for me. The majority of the books on my TBR were recommended by others!

Here’s the three book I intend to read for the challenge (though I may change it at some point):

My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
Mistress of the Sun by Sandra Gulland
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hoesseini

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