Category — Microblog Mondays

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You know I like book-y things. If you are holding a Jólabókaflóðið this year, NPR has a book concierge app to help you set up your personal book flood. It is pretty awesome. I ended up adding two books to my TBR list and starting one immediately.

Next, a bunch of people are doing a countdown calendar by reading the new translation of Beowulf aloud. It’s not too late to join along. You can find all of the past days at that link and start at the beginning.

What good book-y things can you tell us about?

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Are you also doing #MicroblogMondays? Add your link below. The list will be open until Tuesday morning. Link to the post itself, not your blog URL. (Don’t know what that means? Please read the three rules on this post to understand the difference between a permalink to a post and a blog’s main URL.) Only personal blogs can be added to the list. I will remove any posts that are connected to businesses or are sponsored post.

Not sure what #MicroblogMondays is? Read the inaugural post which explains the idea and how you can participate too.

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I read about a different way to do gratitude. Instead of noting what you’re grateful for, which can sometimes feel like a statement of the obvious, think of one positive aspect of your life (such as a loved one, job, home, friend) and then mentally subtract it. What would your life be like without that loved one, job, home, friend? How would its absence change your health or day-to-day life? What are the ripple effects of not having this aspect of your life?

That is appreciation.

Realizing that there is always an otherwise, but you’re not living that otherwise. You’re living this life.

I thought that was an interesting way of looking at things.

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Not sure what #MicroblogMondays is? Read the inaugural post which explains the idea and how you can participate too.

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I fully own that I sometimes choose books because I like the cover and sometimes avoid books because I don’t like the cover. I am likely missing out on good books and wasting time on others.

Recommend Me is the most brilliant thing I’ve ever seen. It’s the first page of a book, but you read it without knowing the author or the name of the book. So you have zero preconceived notions of the book (unless you recognize a character’s name or the author’s writing style) and can experience it without knowing anything about it. If you like the book, you can click a button at the bottom of the passage and get the title and author. Or, you can skip to the next excerpt. It is amazing.

And sometimes it’s just fun to try to guess the title and author before pushing the button.

P.S. You can also go backwards, find a cover you love, and click to read the excerpt.

P.P.S. You can also submit a book to the database.

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Are you also doing #MicroblogMondays? Add your link below. The list will be open until Tuesday morning. Link to the post itself, not your blog URL. (Don’t know what that means? Please read the three rules on this post to understand the difference between a permalink to a post and a blog’s main URL.) Only personal blogs can be added to the list. I will remove any posts that are connected to businesses or are sponsored post.

Not sure what #MicroblogMondays is? Read the inaugural post which explains the idea and how you can participate too.

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I rarely click anymore when lists for “your state’s most famous dish” pop up because I know that (1) it will be crabs, (2) I’ve never had crabs and never will, and (3) only know a handful of local people who do eat crabs. It just isn’t part of my universe.

But CNN Traveler lists our state food as Salvadoran, and I am totally here for that and agree wholeheartedly. It may be because we live in that mentioned area with plenty of Salvadoran options, but that IS the food I associate with my area much more than crabs. I’m aware I would have a different view of my state if we lived on the water. But since we don’t, and since every other cuisine-of-your-state list points to crabs, I’ll take this for a win.

If you live in the US, is your state accurate?

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Are you also doing #MicroblogMondays? Add your link below. The list will be open until Tuesday morning. Link to the post itself, not your blog URL. (Don’t know what that means? Please read the three rules on this post to understand the difference between a permalink to a post and a blog’s main URL.) Only personal blogs can be added to the list. I will remove any posts that are connected to businesses or are sponsored post.

Not sure what #MicroblogMondays is? Read the inaugural post which explains the idea and how you can participate too.

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If you want a fun distraction this week, hit the book trail. It’s a site where you can type in a destination and find books set in that place. Can’t get to the Faroe Islands? You can read two books set there. Interested in finding books where characters touch down in Thailand? There are pages of results.

I thought it would be fun to jump from continent to continent over winter break.

Where do you want to go?

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Are you also doing #MicroblogMondays? Add your link below. The list will be open until Tuesday morning. Link to the post itself, not your blog URL. (Don’t know what that means? Please read the three rules on this post to understand the difference between a permalink to a post and a blog’s main URL.) Only personal blogs can be added to the list. I will remove any posts that are connected to businesses or are sponsored post.