Book me! An email
Posted on December 5, 2006
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I got a (group) email from Donagh of dublinopinion. I think he found me via my librarything thing where I’ve catalogued my books. Basically, he wants me to…what the heck, read it yourself…
Hi,
About a week ago I had a mad idea about getting Irish bloggers to write about the best books they’ve read this year. I kind of threw it open on my blog dublinopinion.com and so far Sinead Gleeson of Silga and Hugh Green of Most Sincerely Folks have said they’d try and write something. So to make it a bit more interesting I was wondering if you wouldn’t mind giving your opinions too. After all, from reading your blogs and various posts (or perhaps from your catalogues on LibraryThing) I know you read a lot of books.
Now perhaps you want to write about the books you’ve enjoyed most throughout the year on your own blog and I’d certainly encourage you to do so. If you do, however, and don’t want to be part of this, why not add a technorati tag with the post, such as irishblogsandbooks and at the end of the post insert a hyperlink to the technorati search url:
http: //www.technorati.com/search/ Irishblogsandbooks [link disabled by isadub].
That way all the posts with that tag could be read at the same time through the technorati site.If you know any other Irish bloggers who might be interested in writing about what they’ve read this year then pass this on. In terms of length and format I would suggest selecting the three you enjoyed the most and maybe writing about one that you haven’t read but you wouldn’t mind getting from Santa.
If you’ve an idea about any of this please let me know. I’m open to posting all the contributions together on a blog other than Dublin Opinion, so if you’ve any ideas on where would be the most appropriate in terms of exposure please let me know. I’m interested in collating this as I think it would make worthwhile reading. I’m not bothered about generating hits for my taudry site. All suggestions welcome.
Thanks,
Donagh
Sounds like fun. I think I’ll gather my thoughts and recommendations and post them on dublinopinion‘s blog at the weekend. Why not give it a go yerself?
Edit: Oops, forgot to mention. Here’s his original Christmas Books post on his website.
