Weekly Geeks: Favorite Blogs

For a while I was participating in a weekly blogging activity called Weekly Geeks. It was lots of fun and I really enjoyed the topics Dewey came up with for us to post about every week. Sadly, Dewey passed away recently (I wrote about it here). She had brought so such "community" to the book blogging world and no one wanted that to go away. So several groups of bloggers got together to continue hosting all Dewey's activities. I'm so glad to know that the Weekly Geeks are back - and we now have our own blog!



This week on Weekly Geeks our job is to talk about our favorite blogs.


That's a hard one for me. I recently culled my Google Reader list so I'm down to only 115 blogs. However, that includes the Weekly Geeks feed that Natasha from Maw Books set up a while back ... which means that I'm really subscribed to a lot more than 115!

My Reader is organized into the following folders:

• Authors
• Favorite Books
• Books
• Challenge Blogs
• IF World (aka infertility blogs)*
• Local Stuff (bloggers in Maryland)
• Random Things
• Personal Stuff

When I'm pressed for time, I skim over the blogs most of the categories but I ALWAYS read the blogs in my Favorite Books and IF World folders. That's a total of 22 must-read blogs. I hate to exclude ANYONE (because I love all of you) but I'm also know that most of you won't go check out the blogs I list if I give you too many to visit. Ha! Am I right or what?!

Without further ado, a sample of my favorite blogs in alphabetical order:

• Bloody Hell, It's A Book Barrage! - who doesn't love Chartroose?! - always fun book reviews and "stuff"
• Bookish Ruth - I've been reading her since BBAW '08, and she's now hosting the Baker Street Challenge
• Letters from a Hill Farm - recipes, views of country life, Nan's blog is relaxing for me
• Life and Time of a "New" New Yorker - book reviews (we usually like the same books), photos of the city, very enjoyable
• Naked Without Books - Bybee and her TCIB (tough and cool inner bookworm) always make me smile
• Plays With Needles - posts about sewing of all kinds (which I don't do), photography, and life, and she's local
• Stop the Train, I Wanna Get Off! - posts about family, IF, and life in general, plus I met her in real life once
• The Armenian Odar Reads - we have very similar taste in books, plus she reads in several languages so I'm constantly learning about books I've never heard of
• The Dream Year - this couple is driving around the US together for a year and blogging along the way

I'm sorry for not including all of the blogs in my reader. If you want to see who else I read regularly just check out my right side bar. And be sure to check out some of the other posts this week!

* This might need a bit more explanation for some of my readers. Just like there is a wonderful book blogging community, there is also a wonderful community of women dealing with infertility in it's many facets. I have secondary infertility for unknown reasons. For years we tried medical procedures to have a second child, without success. As we came to the end of trying, I found the IF community. So even though we're not trying for a second child any more I still like to visit some of the IF blogs I discovered back then - there are some great gals out there, and I love them all.