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Armchair BEA – Giveaway!

Armchair BEA – Giveaway!

Armchair BEA – Giveaway What a great idea for all of us to host a Giveaway during Armchair BEA – I haven’t hosted many giveaways so far, but I do have my rafflecopter account, so that’s very handy 🙂 Because I have decided to give away some of my favorite books by favorite authors or in favorite genres – I have to stay on topic with the past few days! – there are three books in four different categories, and the rafflecopter reflects this. Let the fun begin! Here are the four different prizes that are up for grabs :     Hardbacks of Maeve Binchy’s Scarlet Feather, The Glass Lake and Nights of Rain and Stars.     Paperbacks […]

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Armchair BEA – Literary Fiction

Armchair BEA – Literary Fiction

Literary Fiction Today in Armchair BEA, we are discussing Literary Fiction. Literary Fiction isn’t all that different from genre fiction in my mind, but I do see a slight difference, as if literary fiction is maybe a contemporary fiction that might one day become a classic. As I said, this is how I see it in my mind – you might see it quite differently! So, today we’re discussing books that have somehow changed our lives. Books that touched us in a way that made us see things differently, or want to live our life differently. There are books that have made me feel like something just clicked inside me, as if the narrative shared some deep, universal secret with […]

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Armchair BEA – Becoming a Better Blogger / Genre Fiction

Armchair BEA – Becoming a Better Blogger / Genre Fiction

Becoming a Better Blogger I have been blogging for almost a year – actually my blogoversary will be on Sunday – the last day of Armchair BEA. During that time, I have changed quite a few things. First, I started out on Blogger, but I didn’t like to feel so enclosed, there were a lot of cool widgets and layouts it was just not possible to have there. So, after just three months under my belt, I moved to a self-hosted wordpress blog. And I’m so happy about that! I can choose different plugins for so many different things. I mean, really, if I think of something I want on my blog, I do a plugin search, and chances are […]

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Armchair BEA – The Classics and Me

Armchair BEA – The Classics and Me

  Armchair BEA, The Classics and Me It’s funny that we’re talking about the classics, because when I was younger, I did everythig I could to avoid reading any classics at all. Yeah, I wanted to be the one saying (sagely, I thought) that I didn’t need the classics to understand neither life nor literature… Now, though, I love the classics, and I think that one of my favorite parts of going back to university is having the opportunity to discuss different classics with other students. And there are many different reasons why I love the classics now. 1) There are some things that seem to be universal when it comes to human condition. I was especially touched by this […]

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Armchair BEA – an introduction

Armchair BEA – an introduction

Welcome to Armchair BEA and my introduction Since I can’t go to NYC and participate personally in the actual BEA exposition, I figured the next best thing was to participate in the Armchair BEA instead – sitting on my couch (or in the garden) with my laptop and my books in reach. To get to know the bloggers who participate better, the good people over at Armchair BEA have asked us all to answer some questions, and here are mine: Please tell us a little bit about yourself: Who are you? How long have you been blogging? Why did you get into blogging? I am Lexxie, I started blogging on June 2nd last year, and the reason why I started […]

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GFC for WordPress – tutorial and links

GFC for WordPress – tutorial and links

GFC for WordPress One of the things a lot of bloggers are a little wary of if they decide to move from Blogger to WordPress.org is that they think they will lose all their GFC followers. At first, I thought so, too, but lookie to the right! There they are, my wonderful GFC followers are still present here as well. If you decide to move from Blogger to a self-hosted WordPress.org blog, there are a few things you can do in order to keep your GFC followers. It took me a while to make this work, but I’m very stubborn, so what I lack in tech-skills, I’ve more than made up for in perseverance. And we really want to continue […]

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European Bloggers unite :)

European Bloggers unite :)

I got the idea for a European Bloggers hop from Sharon at Beck Valley Books, where she is hosting a linky to let UK bloggers get to know each other better, and also to help the blogs to grow. I am not in the UK, and I was a little jealous of that linky, because it’s true that a lot of the blogs I follow are based in the US, Canada or down under, and I know there are a lot of European bloggers out there as well. So when Sharon suggested that I do my own thing for Euroopean bloggers, I thought that was a great idea, so here I am 🙂 You don’t necessarily have to be a […]

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Merry Christmas / Happy Hanukka / Happy Holidays!

Merry Christmas / Happy Hanukka / Happy Holidays!

I hope that everybody will have a wonderful Christmas, a peaceful celebration, and some good times spent with family and good friends. I look forward to chatting more about books in the new year, and I hope you guys will continue to help me find new authors to discover, as well as point me in the right direction for the ones I already know an love. Take care, stay safe and enjoy your Holidays! Subscribe to Blog via Email Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Email Address Subscribe Join 9,077 other subscribers

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Exam revisions – no reviews

Exam revisions – no reviews

This week will be spent mainly on revising for my big Old English exam this Thursday. I have to be able to do a translation from Old English to modern English, decline verbs and nouns correctly in their paradigms (don’t worry, I had no idea what a paradigm was before I started this class!) and recognize vowel and consonant changes, as well as knowing the historical and literary background for a lot of medieval texts. I had thought that I would be able to prepare some reviews in advance, but Christmas preparations, family stuff and other real life things happened, so there won’t be any reviews this week. I hope that won’t mean I will be blogging only for myself […]

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Google+ follower gadget – for WordPress blogs as well!

Google+ follower gadget – for WordPress blogs as well!

As you may have noticed, I have a nice and shiny and new gadget on my blog – a gadget that shows the people who have me in circles on Google+, and I’m very happy about it. I was really upset to lose all of my GFC followers when I switched from Blogger to WordPress, but this might really help, since a lot of bloggers who use blogger also use G+. Feel free to add me to your circles if you use G+ 🙂 I found the extremely easy to use instructions at My Bloggerlab, it took me maybe one minute to install, because I needed to change the width a little bit since the gadget was a little bit […]

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