Yes. Yes, we alliterated in the title. Glad you asked. It's only the first of the many joyous and charming quirks unique to us bloggerly readers. It is not, per se, a qualitatively different category from just 'reader' - but it is its most Hermionish extreme. (If such a thing as blogging worked at Hogw…

As has been a long-standing end-of-the-year tradition in the blogosphere, at the end of the year we share our favorites. Around these parts, the favorites are usually confined to books, quotes, characters and such things as we can easily devour - and encourage others to devour in turn. (Books are delicious , my frien…

Today on a book blog: a bookish blog post about the delights of book blogging. We're not meta, you're meta. This is, of course, hardly the first time we're rhapsodizing about blogging, extolling its virtues, and attempting to justify why in the name of Athena one would choose to:  ( 1) read amply *g…

It's our birthday! We gon' party like it's our birthday! ( And we all know how book bloggers party: they get together and read! And then blog. Or, if they're feeling really rambunctious, they blog and then  read. We're feeling like bringing the roof down for this joyous occasion. So we're blo…