Recently one of my sidebar blogs wrote a great little snippet on the book Outlander by Diana Gabaldon. The book sounds like a wonderful read…. my question is, which of the blogs (name the blog) that I have on my right sidebar did this come from AND what is the final sentence of that snippet that is shared form this book?
First fully correct response will receive choice out of the gift box!
Today our assignment for BBAW was to post our favorite blogs that did not make the short list. This is the point when I could kick myself for not hanging on to my worksheet when I nominated blogs about a month ago! I planned to be so organized for this week and keep the week lite of appointments so I could fully enjoy every moment. yet here I am at 11:54 pm on day one, finally sitting down and getting to this late post…. but important post. 🙂
Here are a few I would like to recognize:
Kay Cassidy’s Y 2.0: Seriously…. I don’t even know how I ever found Kays blog to begin with but I am sure glad I did. Her interviews with authors are fun and you have to get in there and see the three truths and a lie questions she asks each of them. She is also one of the founders on Living Your 5 which I for one am excited to take more of an active part in! This YA blogger is a must read!
Miss Remer’s Reviews: What I enjoy so much about Reagan’s blog is that she is on her way to being a teacher and her blog is designed to find and review books to encourage reading among YA. How super cool is that? Regan actively seeks out Guest Reviewer for her blog to post the great YA reads they have come across. I love that she promotes reading and her blog is a wonderful reflection of this goal.
At Home With Books: Alyce has wonderful reviews and I love stopping by and seeing what she has posted. I can count on her reviews to be wonderfully straight to the point without giving away too much of the story. Check out her blog – it is a wonderful layout with great reviews!
Bibliophile By The Sea: Recently discovered while I was hopping through the blogesphere, this blog has become a must stop for me. The layout alone is worthy of your time, but the reviews – and wonderful book reviews I might add have really put this one on my radar. I suggest you stop by and see for yourself.
Thats A Novel Idea: Fantastic review spot… I check her blog frequently. I love the layout – I am envious of how current it looks all the time…LOL A great poster and just plain fun things are always popping up at this blog!
Between The Bookendz: I feel this blog is a wonderful place for me to find new reads. Eve is my book twin I think… every time I stop at her blog the review is wonderful – the book looks incredible and nect thing you know I am adding it to my list to read. I highly recommend you check this blog out… she is reviews and lots of them – and not the books many of us are reading either, but books that I have usually not heard of but look so WONDERFUL!
This award I give to all of you for the smiles you put on my face when I see you have stopped by – or I read a post on your blog and know that I am once again…. reading something special!
I know there are so many more that I ADORE and dont miss a post…. The Book Blogging Community has really been such a blessing to me. I love the great connections I have made with other bloggers and all the great books I have been introduced to becuase of their reviews. Happy BBAW to everyone!
** Tomorrow I will have my interview post up as well as more giveaways to celebrate this wonderful week!
Ist person with correct answer gets to pick from the Gift Box! 
Nora Roberts wrote a trilogy about three women called The Three Sisters Trilogy. Name the three women characters.
1st correct answer of all three names wins. 🙂
FYI. These are my favorite books by Nora Roberts.
Watch for many more random games this week for BBAW!
This post will remain at the top of this blog through Sept 18. All new posts are below! 🙂
Happy Book Blogger Appreciation Week ! There will be much going on here this week so make sure you stop by often! I have book reviews and giveaways…. watch for posts with the gift box on them – these are giveaways (they will be sprinkled throughout the BBAW week) and by clicking on the gift box you will be taken to the giveaway page of what is being offered!
Starting today I am having a comment contest – earn one change per comment on any post on this blog from now until midnight (central time) on Friday, September 18. I will draw at that time a name using random.org, the winner will receive a $15 Amazon Gift Card emailed to them on Sept. 19. EARN 5 extra entries by taking my new blog logo (upper right corner of my blog, and adding it your blog). Top Commentor for the BBAW will receive a $15 Amazon Gift card emailed to them on Saturday the 19th. Be sure to let me know if you did this so I can give you the bonus entries. **Gift card winners can be anywhere in the world.
This is the code for the my blog logo: <a href=”https://bookjourney.wordpress.com/”><img title=”OPJTAWOB 2″ src=”https://bookjourney.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/opjtawob-21.jpg?w=150″ alt=”OPJTAWOB 2″ border=”0″width=”150″ height=”114″ /></a>
Have fun! I cant wait to see what everyone is doing!
Click on the gift box!!!
I voted and wanted to remind all of you wonderful Book Bloggers and Non Book Bloggers (but book readers!) that the poles are open and currently there is no line to get in and vote!
I am heading out of town pretty quick here so I wanted to get in my votes and found myself spending a lot of time visiting the blogs of the short lists and knwing that when I have more time I need to go back and do some more browsing as there are some wondeful blogs here that I had bee
n to before, and many I had not.
Stop on over at the short list to see the blogs that are up for the awards. Then make your way to the voting booth and vote away! 🙂 Remember that the voting booth colses at 11:59 pm on saturday September 12.
I am so excited to be a part of this years BBAW Celebration. I have been sweeping and dusting around here… hanging streamers and a few balloons in preparation.
I am not ready to reveal all I have planned for the week but I will give you these hints. I will have giveaways for books and gift cards! There will be a daily chance to win and there will also be an accumulation of the week grand prize. The gift box below will link to the prizes available and as we have winners I will put their name next to what they have won! 
You will be able to identify my give away posts as I will have the gift box (gift box is a clickable link) in the corner. I am just so excited to be a part of this with all of you! I hope to see you all here throughout the week, I look forward to seeing my regular visitors and also am excited to meet those of you who are new to One Persons Journey Through a World of Books. Dont be shy – be sure to say hi while you are here and help yourself to cake and coffee as well!
Coffee Cup and I have come together this morning for the first time in days. Tuesday night and Wednesday night I had stay overs for our quarterly week of staying with the homeless for IHN. Thursday morning I left my overnight and drove right to the Library where I stood in line for the Fall Book Sale. (I will post my finds later!) Then I drove home and followed my 19 year old to Mankato to College with two vehicles loaded with all of his stuff. I returned home last night around 9:30 pm.
I am wiped out and tomorrow I am leaving for Bemidji to ride bike 50 miles with my cousin for the Tour De Pines.
ANYWAY… that’s whats happening in my life. Here is whats happening in my book world:
I was nominated in the BBAW categories of:
Wow. I am honored to be nominated and want to say thank you to whoever nominated me. I have some work to do yet this afternoon to choose my 5 posts to email on for these categories. Anyway… wow again… 🙂
I have had the pleasure of interviewing a family of book bloggers, The Lateiner Gang Book Review Spot. I hope to get that post up yet tonight or before I leave in the morning. I have had a lot of fun emailing back and forth and learning about them. I cant wait to share their story with you!
I have an audio book to review (Any Minute by Joyce Meyer and Deborah Bedford) that I listened to yesterday during my travels and a blog tour for Summer of Two Wishes by Julia London to do this afternoon after I return home.
I have giveaway winners to post and blog awards to pass on!
As you can see, things have not been dull here at the DeChantal home! I am excited for things to slow down again so I can get back into visiting all of you and not feeling like I am constantly behind.
Have a great day and stop back often as I have much to post! 🙂
Coffee Cup and I didn’t travel very far this morning from home…. I clicked on the left side of my blog and traveled through Twitter a bit, something I am still reminding myself to do. Up until book blogging, I didn’t really use Twitter. I set up my Twitter account just a couple months ago mainly to connect with other Book Bloggers and that is what I do. It has been worth it and I have met some wonderful people again who talk books.
Today my goal is (besides helping prep for a large Sunday picnic/potluck after church and get to the gym) 3 reviews that I must post, another giveaway of a great book as well as a new Freebie Friday and a couple winners to announce yet this afternoon.
I will be posting quite a bit today so be sure to stop back, coffee is on. 🙂
This morning with Coffee Cup… I have my printed out BBAW (Book Bloggers Appreciation Week) nomination sheets beside me as I have had for the past week. The categories are wonderful and there are so many! There are also so many WONDERFUL Book Blogs out there that this is really in some cases, tough decisions. I am loving it all!
At the BBAW website they have a few questions for those who participated last year, and a few for those who are new to the BBAW. I fall into the later category and am more than happy to participate.
I actually have book blogged for over a year – however I did not actually start “Book Blogging” the way you see it now, until this past June. I guess you could say I book journaled. I am a little embarrassed to say that I did not know this community – at this level – existed. (I cant tell you how glad I am to find that it does!)
I created a blog to record my reading … just for record keeping. It was in June of this year that someone commented on a post I had put up (that was rare too, maybe 2 hits a week.) and when I 
looked to see where they came from I seen they were a member of Book Blogs. I had no idea what that was, but going to that website was like Alice going through the rabbit hole – a whole new world for me and I have never turned back!
So – after all the babbling, the answer to this question is – community! I had no idea this existed, let alone at this level. And most Book Bloggers are incredible! I love reading their book related topics, I have added so much to my wish list! I love connecting with authors and publishers (also new to me!) My husband laughs and says this is what I was wired for. LOL
This is a tough question as many Book Bloggers have been so nice to me when I ask my questions…. and I have asked questions! There are many I am thankful for – from helping to create sidebar widgets, explaining Twitter lanquage, and more!
To answer I have to say that when Natasha at Maw Books started the Blogiesta, I was still so new. The Blogiesta was so helpful and I just loved it! That weekend I took every mini challenge (thank you to each of those who hosted these!) and I learned something new at every one! I wish I would have a picture of what my blog looked like before because I can not remember but it was nothing like what you see today. I put so many hours into the challenge trying to learn and the timing was perfect! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! 🙂
One more blog I want to mention here would be Michael’s, A Few Minutes With Michael. He created my Morning Meanderings Meme and I just love it. I seen his creative work on another blog, went to his blog and asked him if he would consider creating one for me. After about a week of sharing what I liked and what I was thinking…. there it was. I love that there are Book Bloggers out there that share their knowledge and talent!!!
I think my only questions would be as this is year two and I was not around for year one… what is being done different this year? I look at all the categories and I am curious if this is the same as last years or did you add more?
I am enjoying all of this – the relationships, community, talking books…I have met wonderful authors who email me or call me. Publishers who contact me when something new is coming up….. I am having such a great time! Book Blogging for me? I am like a kid in a candy store.
Final words – print out your BBAW nomination list today if you have not already. All nominations must be in by August 15! If you Blog or not, you are all welcome to vote. This is a great way to appreciate all those great Book Bloggers out there!
During BBAW Week I will have great appreciation giveaways going on here. Be sure to stop back often! The coffee is always on! 🙂
This post will stay at the top of my blog for the duration of the nominating period. New stuff from me 
is all below! 😉
To the right of my blog here you will see the BBAW link to vote for your favorite blogs. My suggestion would be to print out the list of categories so as you travel the blogesphere you can write your choices down then go back and plug them into the form. August 15 is the deadline for nominations. Have fun!
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