BBAW: Future Treasures (and Book Blogger Hop)

Today's BBAW topic is about what we enjoyed with this year's Book Blogger Appreciation Week and what our goals are for the future.

My favorite part is the sense of community you can feel with all the book bloggers out there... that community feeling is always there but with BBAW it's just in the air so much more. Sort of felt like Christmas, lol! Everyone telling each other "Happy BBAW" and appreciating each other's blogs. I love meeting all the new bloggers and taking part in all the topics. Fun times!

As for goals, it's hard for me to really make any concrete blogging goals right now because I have so much going on outside of here. As most of you probably know, blogging is a lot of work! Especially when it's a book blog and you have to also find time to read the books you're talking about, lol!!! However, I will finish school and internship in March (2011) and I'm really hoping then I'll be able to put a little more energy into the blog! For now one of my main goals is to accomplish the task of starting and continuing the new feature I first mentioned a few weeks ago! I never got to around to starting it and I'm hoping to start that next week. The feature is each Friday I'll be reviewing a short story from an anthology of short stories that appeared in The New Yorker. My other main goal is to be a little more social in the world of book blogs... I'm going to try to put more effort into commenting and keeping up with all the blogs I follow!!

And today I'm also joining the book blogger hop. Jennifer says that in honor of book blogger appreciation week we are to highlight our favorite bloggers. Ack! This question is always so hard for me! I have so very many favorites! Jennifer with Crazy-for-Books (and host of the blogger hop) is one of course. She and I "met" on paperbackswap a long time ago and hung out this past May in NYC for BEA. As she said in her post, we have almost identical taste in books. We have talked about books in the past prior to reviewing and laughed at how similar our thoughts were about the books! There are so many more that are my favorites and who I consider friends that I can't honestly name them all here. So I just want to mention two other blogs that I love reading: The New Dork Review of Books and The Five Borough Book Review... both review mainly literary fiction and have insightful things to say. Love reading all their posts!