Sunday Salon: It’s Readathon Time!

Happy Easter, if that’s your cup of tea! If not, then happy Sunday. A week from yesterday is a gloriously fun day: Dewey’s Read-a-Thon! That’s 24 hours of reading (by those who can go that long without sleep, at least) by participants around the world. The event happens twice a year, in the spring and …

Sunday Salon: Monthly Musings for November 2013

Toward the end of Erin Reads’s former incarnation, I was playing around with monthly wrap-ups. They were rather stats-focused, tallying books read, picking favorites, that kind of thing. I wanted to reinstate monthly wrap-ups, but in a way more in line with how I want to blog this time around. So I tweaked things a …

Sunday Salon: Rating Systems, Revisited

When I started Erin Reads back in 2008, I decided not to incorporate a rating system. As I continued to blog, I kept revisiting the question, and each time I chose to keep the site rating-free. I had my reasons. As I wrote back in 2011: For me, ratings are a way to remember my …

Sunday Salon: In Which I Am No Longer MIA from Book Blogging (!!!)

So. It’s been a while. Like…10 months. When I quit blogging on Erin Reads back in mid-2012, I wasn’t sure I’d ever post here again. But I’m back. Heck yes. *fist pump* *happy dance* *high five* There’s a story, of course, that leads from quitting to reviving. Read on and you shall hear it. I’m …

Sunday Salon: Where I’ve Been, What I’ve Been Doing, and Why

Happy Sunday, everyone! It’s been a while since I’ve participated in Sunday Salon. In fact, if you stop by fairly regularly you might have noticed my posting here on Erin Reads has slowed down quite a bit. If you’re a fellow book blogger, you might also have noticed I’ve not been making the comment rounds …