I’m happy to announce that the Milwaukee Public Library has been nominated for a Peabody Award for the tremendous social media accounts. Here’s the story.
And here is the Central Library in downtown Milwaukee, just gorgeous! I love this place.
Happy Blogaversary!
What is today? It’s Friday, the 13th, usually a day of bad luck. But it’s a great day for me. It’s my blog’s tenth anniversary! When I started this blog a decade ago, I had no idea it would be so successful and last for such a long time. I am so grateful for my readers, and for all of the authors, publishers, and book publicists who have reached out to me asking me to read and review various books. I am also grateful to the bookstores and my local library for also providing me with reading material. Here is to ten more years of The Book Self!
And can anyone remember my very first book review? It was An Atheist in a Foxhole: A Liberal’s Eight-Year Odyssey Inside the Heart of Right Wing Media by Joe Muto.
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Christopher Zara, whose memoir Uneducated I reviewed a while back emailed to let me know how much he loved my review. He also shared a snapshot of my review on his Instagram page. Look!!!!
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How cool is this! One of my favorite singer/songwriters, Amy Rigby, whose book Girl to City I reviewed a couple of years ago, is now following me on Twitter.
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I DM’d Kimberley A Johnson on Twitter a link to my review of her book American Woman, and she loved my review!
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Liz Prato loved my review of her book Kids in America: A Gen X Reckoning.
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I have just been informed I have written over 1000 posts on the blog. Yay, me!!!!
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I shared my review of Creative, Not Famous with its author, Ayun Halliday, via her Instagram feed. She loved my review, and she’s going to share my review on her social media. We’re also following each other on Instagram. So cool!
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Kristen Johnston, fellow Cheesehead and one of the stars of “Small Town Wisconsin” retweeted one of my tweets.
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I notified Amy Rigby, via Twitter, about my review of her memoir Girl to City, and she loved it!!! Wow! Doing the happy dance!!!
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