Over at my book blog All Booked Up, I got offered the chance to do a giveaway of a bookshelf. If it's something you're looking for, go over and check out the rules post. I've got to say, I'm tempted by the shelf myself. If I had a proper corner for it, I'd buy one.

I've really been focused on All Booked Up for the last little while, because things have been going well there. I've gotten several offers of books to read lately, too.

Over at my blog All Booked Up I review the books I read. In the past couple of months I've started getting offers of books to review, and I've gotten a couple of them already, but they were e-books (not a complaint btw). This morning, I got my first hardcopy book for review. It's Curse of the Tahiera, a fantasy novel. Now it feels "real" that I'm reviewing books for people.

Now if only that book I was offered from Penguin would turn up...

ETA: And, guess what... The book from Penguin, Defenders of the Faith by James Reston Jr. did come. This was the first review offer I got.

Had a nice surprise this morning over at my book blog All Booked Up.

Waiting as a comment there was an offer from Penguin books of a review copy of Defenders of the Faith. Of course I've taken them up on it, so now I'm just waiting for the book to arrive.

My first review copy of a book. For me at least, it's a sign that my book blog isn't just a waste of my time, but is actually being seen now and again (I have to admit, that sometimes I wonder).

I just finished rereading Time Enough For Love by Robert Heinlein (review is at All Booked Up, my book blog), and as I was reading the book, I couldn't help but wonder what Methos would think of Lazarus Long, and vice-versa.

I started All Booked Up about a year ago to review the books I read. In the last week or so (actually more like a month), I've been tinkering with it a lot to try to improve it's standings. I've changed the method I use for reviewing books, and the like as well.

Some of the recent books I've posted include all of The Adept series by Katherine Kurtz and Deborah Turner Harris, Dies The Fire by S. M. Stirling, The Protector's War by the same author and the like.

The main reason I'm posting this here is because I finally noticed that I'd forgotten to add a link in the sidebar.

That and I finally removed the defunct link for the messageboard I used to have on my Tolkien Page.

I'm posting the links to the reviews I have done recently of Kurtz's Adept books (and related)

Lammas Night
The Adept
The Adept: Lodge of the Lymx