Book Blogger Hop - 01/20/12

The Book Blogger Hop is back and completely re-imagined! Toss out all those old rules, because the new Book Blogger Hop is way different...!

Enter your link ONCE each month and you are done. No prompts. No requirements to post anything on your blog (but it would be nice if you did to keep the word out there!). No nothing.  

With Google Friend Connect going away for all of us Wordpress bloggers, the Book Blogger Hop will become even more important to help us connect with each other and find new blogs to read.  

The only requirement is that you enter your link in each monthly list ONCE. If you spam this list, all of your links will be deleted. It is easy to see if your link is on the list. Just do a Ctrl-F (Find) on your PC and type your blog name to see if you’ve already entered your link for the month. 

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Book Blogger Hop! - 2/18/11

What book(s) would you like to see turned into a movie?

The blog hop is hosted by Jennifer at Crazy-for-Books. Hop on over to join in the fun! 

Actually, many of them have already been...  

But, if I have to chose something, I'd say: All Souls: A Family Story from Southie, by Michael Patrick MacDonald.  It was the story of an boy growing up in "Whitey" Bulger's South Boston in the 80's.  It tells all about how his family is affected by the drug trade struggle in the projects.  A great read!

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Book Blogger Hop! - 2/11/11

Tell us about one of your posts from this week and give us a link so we can read it (review or otherwise)!

The blog hop is hosted by Jennifer at Crazy-for-Books. Hop on over to join in the fun!

 

This week I reviewed Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison by Piper Kerman.  Its the memoir of a woman who was sentenced to a year in federal prison ten years after her offense of carrying money internationally for her drug-dealing lover. The book shares both the lead up to her being incarcerated, as well as her time in prison during which she comes to terms with her mistakes and actually finds herself becoming close with her fellow inmates.  The book was a very good read and Kerman's no-pity, no-excuses acceptance of her failures is refreshing.  A great book for memoir-lovers, or those just looking for something totally new.

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