between reading and blogging and blogging about reading

I have 57 requests currently at Hennepin County Library and about 5 holds waiting for me. Thank you Hennepin County for your tax support of libraries that enables the library to purchase newly published books for children and youth. Here in Anoka County we seem to run out of money just keeping up with the series and trilogies... I am continuing to thrive doing the Anokaberry. I am reading reading reading and learning hugely as I compare and contrast and read reviews and work on this project. Be right back I have a patron waiting...

progress report

The thing about learning -- well a thing about learning -- is that it opens the doors and windows you know? So once the door is open - or maybe I learn how to open the doors and the windows - and maybe that's what the teacher really does - teach how to open the doors and windows or even names those things doors and windows -- anyway, once I see the door and open it and then the real -- personal, self-driven -- learning begins. Specific to Things, I am learning and seeing and opening everyday. The blog "Anokaberry" is thriving. As of this post, there are over 50 books noted and many comments received. The concept changes as it becomes itself. I used Blogger for its home, I use Google Reader to keep track of and read other similar blogs. I use LibraryThing to list all the eligible books, write reviews, rate and write private comments and communicate with other members of LibraryThing about shared titles. I use photos from Flickr and use ImageChef and other photo manipulators to add interest to Anokaberry's sidebars.

you know what they say

Anokaberry continues...

The blog has a life of its own now. The first post was February 24, 2008, since then almost 50 posts and over 500 visitors. I have received emails from authors and readers commenting on the blog and the books. I have read almost 40 books, commenting and reviewing on LibraryThing and posting summaries on Anokaberry. I am learning all this right out in public and having success and making plenty of mistakes as I go. The encouragement of many 23 Thingers has been so wonderful. I took the blog and the program idea to my library and presented it as a small step into the world of 2.0 ------