Boxing Day is generally a day for people to kick back and relax after the hecticness that precedes Christmas and the madness that is Christmas. It’s a time for the body to process the food it’s eaten and a time to look at the presents and think of the family and friends they’ve seen or missed. I know this as other people tell me, I don’t have Christmas myself so I’m summarising from other people. This year Boxing Day was just another day continuing the demolition job on our front fence started by the storm shortly after we returned from New Zealand, followed by a visit to Chadstone Shopping Centre to view the Boxing Day Sale total madness. Today I’m summarising my blogging travels on Boxing Day. Browsing the web looking for something to post I came across some gems.
Just One More Page is exactly the opposite of me with her reading. She keeps a spreadsheet of the books she reads with various details about them including the page numbers. I think this is admirable and if I thought I could keep it up I’d start one but sadly I think it would get lost very quickly. She is looking for a better method than a spreadsheet, if you happen to have one I’m sure she’d love to hear from you.
Inside a Dog is awesome. I’m sure I’ve mentioned it before but it’s so good it deserves another mention. It’s run by the State Library of Victoria for young people and promotes young adult literature. It has a blog, forums and so much other material it would take a while to get through everything.
I can’t point to a specific post on Dee Scribe as Dee is examining the process of editing her NaNoWriMo over several weeks. So far she’s into week two and it’s a fascinating process which includes checking the story arc.
Susan hasn’t written much of late but her blog Reading Upside Down gave me my starting point for many of my thoughts today. She’s generally worth a read.
If you’re really quick you can get a discount on the Kat’s Whisker’s Books. You might have seen Justine read This Is The Mud on Play School on the ABC. Just love Play School, I watched it when I was little and my kids watched it when they were little.
Katrina Germein has a lovely way of looking at things. She travelled around Australia presenting to schools big and little and found a number of things that made her smile. She’s written a list of ten of them. Ten seems to be the magic number, it comes up so often.