Our Super Sabado theme this week: “A Whole Lot of Reading Going On,” in which we check out what intrepid bloggers have been reading, writing, publishing, or recommending.
But first some happy news: Baby Grouchypants made his appearance. Take a look at his picture: there’s something about newborn chicken legs that make me all quivery inside. I just want to scoop them up and snuggle!
Once they become teenagers, though, they resist all scooping. They make such a fuss about any attempts at scooping that you basically have to give it up, especially after they’ve gotten big enough to fight back.
And on that depressing note, I hereby order Margaritas for everyone! Blended with salt for me, please. Now let’s get a move on!
I found Karen Ranney‘s blog when I discovered she’d written something really nice about me. I ran right out and bought the first Karen Ranney book I could find: An Unlikely Governess.
And guess what: on January 12, An Unlikely Governess broke into the top 150 titles on the USA Today Bestseller list! I feel like I helped—just a little bit—to make it a bestseller.
More future bestsellers hopefully boosted by the Bonnie Drive-By Buying Effect include:
- Michael Heilemann‘s Blog Design Solutions: Stay ahead of the pack—set up and customize your own fantastic blog using ExpressionEngine, Movable Type, TextPattern, and WordPress. The Binary Bonsai blogger co-authored this book with several blogging notables, incuding Chris J. Davis of Sillyness Spelled Wrong Intentionally.
- Denise McDonald’s Her Passion. (Way to go, Dennie!) Publication date is set for March 14.
- Pink, by Marilynn Griffith, recommended by M.C. Pearson and Bonnie Calhoun. Want to learn more about the lovely Ms Griffith? Val of Val Writes posted an interview.
More reading recommendations from other bloggers:
- From Miss Snark: “One of the most compelling biographies I’ve read recently is Blake Bailey’s A Tragic Honesty about Richard Yates.”
- Deep in the heart of Texas, April Redmon “got all wrapped up” in Linda Castillo’s Dead Reckoning.
- San Diego’s Georganna Hancock says she didn’t realize our societal addiction to oil assisted the rise of militant Islam until she read The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman.
- Charlaine Harris revealed that Tanya Huff’s Summon the Keeper “would be on my list of my all-time favorite books.”
- It’s not a book, but a blog entry that Kait recommends: “What is Suspense?”
- Pat Kirby liked A Connecticut Fashionista in King Arthur’s Court, despite the author’s obvious lack of horsey research.
- Paisley Scott is reading Secrets, Vol. 13: The Best in Women’s Erotic Romance by Amber Green.
- Graphic novel fan Khaled Abou Alfa says Serenity is “one of the most perfect packages of a licensed product in a very very long time… It bridges the gap between the end of the Firefly series and the beginning of the Serenity movie.”
- Bernita Harris says she’s been enjoying “a clutch” of Leslie Charteris’ Saint novels but decided the earliest ones are the best.
- Michelle remembered reading First Blood when she was 17 and loving it, but was dismayed by the movie version.
- Ellen of Mirth and Laughter posted one of Christopher Marlowe’s poems:
COME live with me, and be my love;
And we will all the pleasures prove
That hills and valleys, dales and fields,
Woods or steepy mountain yields.
Ah, romance!
Hey! Next Super Sabado should be about love, seeing as how it’s so close to Valentine’s Day. I decree it. I’ll start looking for those posts that have to do with LOVE. Thanks, Ellen, for that idea!
And now, for those who’ve stayed to the very end, here’s something fun, but only for those of you who adore H.P. Lovecraft AND Legos. An impossible combo, you cry? Nay… just take a look. (Via Boing Boing.)