Happy birthday to wellinghall. May the hair on your toes never fall out!


* The New Yorker has discovered one of my favorite sites, the used book trading site BookMooch: "Mooch with Me."

* Blog with Bite is giving away a copy of Evolve: Vampire Stories of the New Undead.


* FYI, some terrific book reviewers' blogs and related blogs recently have been syndicated for LiveJournal. Here are some (in alphabetical order):

Becky's Book Reviews = beckybooks
Bookish Blather = bookishblather
Jen Robinson's Book Page = jkrbooks
Karin's Book Nook = karinthelib
The Last Blog in the Universe = dystopiablog
Laura's Review Bookshelf = laurasreviews
Parajunkee's View = parajunkee
Presenting Lenore = presentinlenore
Red House Books = redhousebooks
Rhiannon Hart = rhiannonhart
Sharon Loves Books and Cats = sharonlovesbook
Steph Su Reads = stephsureads
Wands and Worlds = wandsnworlds
West of Mars - Win a Book! = winabook


And, for your amusement, the Medieval Help Desk:




"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers." ~Charles W. Eliot