Like And Likeability Thursday: A Bookish Facebook Page Hop (2)

Baja Greenawalt's Cozy Book Nook is pleased to welcome you to a congenial social networking soiree.

No pride or prejudice here.

 At Like And Likeabilty Thursday, experience a delightful time spent in the company of agreeable people of the bookish persuasion.

To attend this event: Please link up your bookish Facebook page. (pages do not have to be one hundred percent book related) 

To participate:  Mingle. Like others' Facebook pages. Return likes to your Facebook page. 

Remember:  Please like pages with your personal profile. Otherwise the 'like' doesn't count.

To make it easier for people to return 'likes': Say hello on their page walls. Let them know you found them via 'Like and Likeability' and leave a link to your page.

Appreciated but not required:

Like and Likeability is very casual. You are not required to post about it on your blog or promote it in any manner.  

 Of course, the more people who link up..  the more  'likes' for everyone.  And more 'likes' mean increased blog traffic which ultimately provides an opportunity to make new bloggy friends. 

So if you would like to spread the word via your Facebook page, Twitter or blog, that would be lovely.  

And, friends,  posting a button in your sidebar would be most agreeable.

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Lagniappe:  Each week a blogger from the previous week's linky list will be randomly selected to be featured in the current week's Like And Likeability Hop. The featured  blogger's Facebook page will receive spot number two in the current linky list.   

This week's featured blogger:

Katherine of Katherines Corner!

 Visit Katherine Corner for recipes, crafts, photographs, giveaways, stories and more.  And guess what? Katherine just started a bookclub on her blog! The first month of the bookclub ends on August 15-- so you have plenty of  time to read the first month's selection, Maine by J. Courtney Sullivan. Head over and sign up.  

And please don't forget to 'like' Katherine's Facebook page, Go Ask Katie.

A Bookish Lagniappe: Party Favors

Books as party favors!



image by wedding.theknot.com via Pinterest



Don't you love this idea?  

And the old fashioned borrower cards are so cute and nostalgic. I miss those cards and I really miss the due date cards.  Remember how they stayed put in the little pockets. I'm forever losing the modern paper due date receipts -- even when I use them as bookmarks. How about you?

I suppose non-bookworms might groan at receiving a book as a party favor but who cares about them... besides the possibilities are endless.

Wouldn't it be fun to match books to the party theme... books about tea for tea parties... wine books for wine tasting parties... board books for toddler birthday parties. 

What sort of book might you use as favors at your next shindig?

Great Tweetpectations: A Bookish Twitter Hop (1)

Welcome to our cozy little bookish tweet and meet!

Looking for more bookish tweeps to follow and vice versa?  If the answer is yes, Great Tweetpectations is the Twitter hop for you!

If you tweet about books or book related topics all or part of the time, link up! You don't have to have a bookblog or writer/author blog to participate.

How to join in:

1. Add your bookish Twitter profile url to the Inlinkz tool at the bottom of this post. Example: https://twitter.com/#!/yourname  

(if your link doesn't work try using 'http' instead of 'https'-- my link glitched and wouldn't work until I did that)

2. Type your Twitter profile name in the name box. Example: @yourname

3.  Type in your email then click submit.

4. Follow as many bookloving tweeps as you wish. Send them an @mention so they know you are following via Great Tweetpectations.

5. Be a good twitter sport. Return follows.

Much appreciated but not required:  

1. You are not required to follow me, @BloggyLesa, but I will return all follows. 

2.. You are not required to promote Great Tweetpectations but please consider a tweet or two to spread the word. More participants will mean more Twitter following fun for all-- and a potential increase in blog traffic.

3.  Again not required, but if you would like to post about Great Tweetpectations or display the button in your blog's sidebar, here is the grab code:

 

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Thank you for joining Great Tweetpectations: A Bookish Twitter Hop! Have fun!

Bargain Book Bonanza (18): Good Will Again!

 Welcome to Bargain Book Bonanza!

A book haul linky party for bargain loving bookworms!

BBB is the place to showcase all the great books (new, used, vintage, electronic, audio) that you have scored on sale.

Each Monday through Thursday, all book lovers are invited to carouse, make merry and revel with bargain book abandon!

Want to join the party? Just visit the Bargain Book Bonanza page for the particulars.


Lesa is hosting this week!

Another Good Will  BBB spectacular! I just love shopping for books at this particular store. After getting lucky here the first time, I checked Good Wills in other towns/states but to no avail.  This store is just BBB nirvana.

And the books are a steal-- prices are either:  twenty cents, fifty cents or one dollar!

This trip, I bought fourteen books and paid $5.70--Yippee!!

All these picture books are hardback and in excellent condition.

The Walrus And The Carpenter And Other Remarkable Rhymes by Lewis Carroll

Little Bear's Visit by Else Holmelund Minarik

Tembo Takes Charge by Animal Planet

Three Help Me Be Good books by Joy Berry

 In between moaning and groaning over the length of the book hunt, Hub entertained the Wee One with silly Lewis Carroll poems.  This book is a big hit, by the way.   


Next, four books to add to my Newbery collection!  

Hatchet by Gary Paulsen (Honor)

Belle Prater's Boy by Ruth White (Honor)

Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George (Winner)

The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder (Honor)

Henry and the Paper Route by Beverly Cleary

gathering Blue by Lois Lowry

I didn't plan to read the sequels to The Giver since it isn't a favorite of mine but I couldn't pass this up for fifty cents.

The Awakening and Selected Short Fiction by Kate Chopin
Lords and Ladies by Terry Pratchett (DiscWorld)

I'm not familiar with Kate Chopin but the first three sentences on the back sold me:

'When it first appeared in 1899, The Awakening was greeted with cries of outrage. The novel's frank portrayal of a woman's emotional, intellectual, and sexual awakening shocked the sensibilities of the time and destroyed the author's reputation and career. Many years passed before this short pioneering work was recognized as a major achievement in American literature.'

People are so funny-- I can't wait to see what had readers of that time in a tizzy.

And Terry Pratchett. I've been wanting to read him since I read Good Omens by Gaiman and Pratchett.

The author's note (that I read after buying) states that most Discword novels can stand alone-- except this one. Ha, just my luck!

Apparently, there are tons of books in the series but according to Pratchett only three are essential to read before this one. That isn't so bad... but I'll have to read the whole series in order now.

Have you read any of these books/authors? 

 If you have a bargain book, please share. We love to brag on bargains!

Like and Likeability: A Bookish Facebook Hop (1)

Baja Greenawalt's Cozy Book Nook is pleased to welcome you to a congenial social networking soiree.

No pride or prejudice here.

 At Like And Likeabilty Thursday, experience a delightful time spent in the company of agreeable people of the bookish persuasion.

To attend this event: Please link up your bookish Facebook page. (pages do not have to be one hundred percent book related) 

To participate:  Mingle. Like others' Facebook pages. Return likes to your Facebook page. 

Remember:  Please like pages with your personal profile. Otherwise the 'like' doesn't count.

To make it easier for people to return 'likes': Say hello on their page walls. Let them know you found them via 'Like and Likeability' and leave a link to your page.

Like and Likeability is very casual. You are not required to post about it on your blog or promote it in any manner. 

 Of course, the more people who link up..  the more  'likes' for everyone.  And more 'likes' mean increased blog traffic which ultimately provides an opportunity to make new bloggy friends. 

So if you would like to spread the word via your Facebook page, Twitter or blog, that would be lovely.  

And, friends,  posting a button in your sidebar would be most agreeable.

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Have fun! I know it is late in the day to start a hop but maybe a little evening hopping will draw a crowd for next Thursday. (and this linky will be open tomorrow too)

And please come back Tuesday. Why? Because you are invited to attend:

Yes, we have turned into social networking button making fools! Or at least I (Lesa) have but the other ladies of Mrs. BG are right behind me... I think.