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Lemonade Award

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Book Review Blog Carnival received the Lemonade Award from Kindelicious last week. Clark, the Carnival Director, passed it on to all of us.

I have a confession to make. Since I haven’t published an actual book review in a bit, I haven’t been participating in the carnival. I feel a little naughty accepting the award and posting it to my sidebar because of laziness. So, I decided to post the badge right here, in this post, for your oohing and ahhing pleasure and also for safekeeping until I pass it on to some fancy blogs I love.

Lemonade Award

Also, I have not been a Kindelicious reader until now. With my curiosity about the Kindle (and the Sony Reader, which I apparently missed somehow years ago, among others), I will definitely be paying close attention to Kindelicious.

This week’s edition of the carnival can be found on Maw Books Blog. In honor of the 7th edition, Maw is hosting a fun contest:

As a thank you for visiting this edition of the Book Review Blog Carnival, I’d like to give you a holiday gift. A $10 Amazon gift certificate. How do you win? Simply visit three participating blogs and leave them a thoughtful comment. One of those blogs must be a blog that you have never visited before. Come back here and tell me. I’ll pick a winner on Tuesday, December 30th.

You will notice that RIS is not listed there, but the list has grown twenty-fold. It’s amazing!

They Like Us, The Really Like Us

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emember the Book Blog Carnival I posted about a few days ago? Well it seems the folks at Blog Carnival really like our Book Blog Carnival. Our carnival will be feature on their homepage ALL day Sunday October 12th. It will be in their featured blog carnivals section to “highlight and acknowledge carnivals [they] really like.”

How cool is that??

I have to say that getting that email seriously helped lighten my mood after having watched our two main presidential candidates debate (and I use that term loosely) the hot issues in our country. I have to mention this, even though it’s completely not related to books at all really. Also, if anyone knows a book that involved this theory, let me know because I’d totally buy it.

Politicians never change. From childhood to adulthood to really old age, they stay the same in one deep, meaningful way. They always promise chocolate milk and pizza for lunch every single day. We all know they won’t deliver, can’t deliver the lunchtime goods. The lunch ladies told us it’s a lie. The teachers told us it’s a lie. They even advised the candidate not to make promises that they couldn’t keep, but the candidate saw our weakness. Our weakness called hope. I’m not saying no one should have hope. I’m not quite that cynical. I’m saying that our hope is raped by promises of chocolate milk and pizza every single day.

Just saying. It’s something to think about. I won’t mention here who I do or do not support because it’s pretty irrelevant in this blog, but I will say this: Beware of the promises of chocolate milk and pizza because no matter which candidate or party you support and no matter how strong your opinions are, no one will ever, ever, ever give you chocolate milk and pizza every single day.

Book Review Blog Carnival

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YAY…everyone loves a carnival, right? The smell of popcorn butter, cotton candy, and that weird odor near the tilt-a-whirl…The fun games with their amazing prizes (like dead fish), and of course Carnies!!

Unfortunately, this is not that kind of carnival. Although, I might be able to work a carnie into a book review blog post somehow. This is a Book Review Blog Carnival–hosted this week at I’ll Never Forget the Day I Read a Book . The carnival was started and is being maintained by Clark Bjork over at Blog Carnival.

SO, this is my first blog carnival. Go check it out, then come back and check me out some more.