Clover's Blog – February 2011 Archive (4)

Hello nerdfighters! I don't know if you've heard, but here in the UK a great number of libraries are set to close and in America, Borders has announced the closure of hundreds of bookstores.  I find this to be very sad news indeed.  Ever since I was really little, libraries have been my 'happy place.'  Whenever I felt out of place at school, picked on or bullied, I'd escape into the nearest library and into a favourite book.  I used to suffer from panic attacks when I changed schools (which…

Hello nerdfighters!  Sorry for the minor delay in posting this, I am very ill.  But still, I bring you bookish news, links and a new monthly feature.  Let's start with the bookish news.  It's already mid-February, and the blurbing book club is still reading Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins.  It's a really fun, sweet and romantic read, I hope more of you will pick the book up and…

Now I've been an unashamed bookworm my entire life. I've skipped parties and dates to read my book, and sometimes even at parties or dates I've been known to keep a book in my handbag, just in case.  Reading is just a part of who I am, and I'm really bewildered sometimes when it occurs to me that not everyone is as book crazy as I am. 

What I love most is when I see other bookworms around.  Meeting bookish people in my real life, talking to bookish people through my own blog,…

Hello nerdfighters!  It is now February and time to start reading our next blurbing book club selection, which is Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins.  John Green highly recommended it and loads of nerdfighters have been buying it, reading it and loving it.  Now it's time for you to discuss it in the official forum thread and BLURB IT.  Thanks so much.

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