Lari's Bookshelf

So I have a little collection of autographed books. Here are three of them: I got sledding hill when I was at BYU, right after hearing Chris Crutcher talk about censorship . This hardback copy of Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors I got through paperbackswap.com . I kid you not. PAPERBACKSWAP. Imagine my surprise when I opened up the book and found the autograph of the late Carl Sagan and his wife Ann Druyan inside! :O~ There's no way in Hades I'm letting anyone get their hands on this. IT'S MINE. BUT after two months of serious book blogging, and after much thought and consideration, I decided I want to show my appreciation to my readers and my new followers, by giving away my autographed copy of Shannon Hale's bestseller and Newbery Honor book, Princess Academy : FOR REALZ. To enter all you have to do is leave a comment on this post. That's it! If you would like one additional entry, BE a GFC follower (old and new followers get one point). Just ...

Today is a big day. It is the day I hit 100 followers on twitter, and the one month anniversary of this blog! (Don't be fooled by the older things in the archives here that I imported from other blogs.) When I first started posting here I had a hard time getting some regular posts out, but as I wrote and read things that interested me, and since I started doing book reviews, I've really had motivation to share lot's of things here. I've started to make some online connections with other writers, readers, and even book publishers. I'm also beginning to understand how to better organize myself and my personal writing and reading goals. Not to mention, I love blogging. This is a great creative outlet for me. The first time twitter came out I thought it sounded like the stupidest thing ever. To me it was a watered-down facebook that only allowed status updates. But since I started networking with people online, I find it way more flexible than facebook. I have a fee...