- In your blog, list any books you’ve read but haven’t reviewed yet. If you’re all caught up on reviews, maybe you could try this with whatever book(s) you finish this week.
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Weekly Geeks #12: Help me review a graphic novel!
Weekly Geeks #10: Magazines
It’s been a while since I wrote a post for Weekly Geeks. The last few topics didn’t really “work” for me — but this week’s theme definitely does: talk about the magazines we read. In fact, I’ve been wanting to post about a particular magazine for a long time, but frankly I wasn’t quite sure how to approach it, because it’s… complicated.
Weekly Geeks #5: Storytelling
This week’s theme is to write about “other forms of storytelling, aside from books.” Heh, that’s easy. My favorite form of storytelling is the collaborative kind: Dungeons & Dragons. Oh yeah. A good D&D campaign follows the same kind of arc as any good story, as the plot unfolds and the tension & suspense increase. Hopefully there is a happy ending, but don’t count on it, bwahahahaha! Best of all, in D&D you are creating the story as you go. The Dungeon Master gives you the broad outlines, the setting, the overall goal of the quest, but the twists and turns of the plot are created by the players.
Weekly Geeks #3: Childhood reading, take 2
Well, I’m having so much fun reading other Weekly Geeks’ lists of childhood favorites that I thought I better post one of my own after all. I am going to try to list only books that I haven’t already mentioned in other posts. So no Joan Aiken, no Louisa May Alcott, no Arthur Ransome, C.S. Lewis, Susan Cooper, Lois Lowry, Madeleine L’Engle, Lloyd Alexander, Noel Streatfeild or Elizabeth Enright, and no obscure German authors in translation. (Yikes! Who’s left?)
Weekly Geeks #3: Childhood reading
The third Weekly Geek task is to write about fond memories of childhood reading. I have written quite a few posts about books I loved as a child already (here’s a post where I mentioned several) so I thought I would do something a little different this time.
Weekly Geeks #2: Did you review it too?
This week’s challenge is to encourage other bloggers who have reviewed the same book you did to send you a link to their post; then you include those links at the bottom of your review. My first thought was: what a great idea! And my second thought was: what a housekeeping nightmare! I imagined myself compiling a list of all the books I’ve ever reviewed and posting them on a separate page. That would make it really easy for other bloggers to tell at a glance whether we have any in common. So I clicked on my own “reviews” category archive, and my goodness, what a mess.
Weekly Geeks #1
Have you heard about the Weekly Geeks challenge yet? Each week Dewey at The Hidden Side of a Leaf will post a theme or idea for a blog post. If you want, you can write a post in response to the challenge, and at the end of the week Dewey will collect them all and write up a carnival-like post about them. A lot of people have signed up already, and I think it’s gonna be fun! If you’re interested, you can sign up here.
