Weekly Geeks – Are You Feeling Comfortable? (But Not too Comfortable…)

weeklygeeksI wanted to talk this week about book recommendations. Where do you go for book recommendations? How often do you challenge yourself to get out of your comfort zone? How often do you read outside your favorite-and-best genre? How often do you try a new-to-you author? How often do you take a chance? This week, I’d like to offer you a few opportunities.

So your assignment this week, if you choose to play along, is to ask your readers for recommendations. Choose a genre–any genre–and ask for recommendations. You can be as general or as specific as you like. Consider it as an “I’m looking for….”

The second part of the assignment is to write a list of recommendations and share them with your readers. Choose a genre–any genre–and share your list of favorites. I think of this as “If you’re looking for….”

Hm. I notice a distinct lack of sympathy towards the problems of the ever burgeoning TBR pile in this week’s meme… But getting the TBR under control was always a pipe dream, so bring it on!
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Weekly Geeks – Blog Improvement

weeklygeeksThis week’s meme at Weekly Geeks is all about blog improvement.

I do, from time to time, undertake blog maintenance, in a desultory kind of way. Occasionally a helpful visitor will point out some item which is hard to find, or a link which doesn’t work, and these (usually!) get fixed.

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Weekly Geeks – Diversity

weeklygeeksI’ve heard good things about Weekly Geeks, thought it was about time I hied myself over there.  Because I need another challenge…

Having arrived I found that this week’s meme was hard.  I didn’t really want to do it.  In fact, it was bizarrely reminiscent of working towards Brownie Badges; there was always, but always, one impossible clause.   Time to lay that Brownie ghost to rest!  So here is the meme:

Pick one of these:

1)Write a post highlighting one or more bloggers who are extremely different from you in some way. For example, think about blogger(s) who:
a. Identify with another race and/or ethnicity, religion, cultural background, age, etc. from you
b. Live the farthest from you
c. Have entirely different tastes in books from you (but you love their blog anyway)

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