I fussed and fiddled and hemmed and hawed for a while about joining Dewey’s “challenge“/community/blog post starter upper, but in the end I realized being a joiner doesn’t hurt anything, so why not? Besides, it might just get me to branch out a teeny tiny bit from my very rigid review-only format around here.

So, assignment #1 was to visit 5 new-to-me blogs and tell y’all a bit about them.

At Mrs. S‘s I spent WAY too long trying to figure out how to get a widget for the Herding Cats challenge…and I learned that there was an RSS awareness day. Who knew?

Then I picked Trish’s Reading Nook because I liked the name. I also realized that we have participated in a couple of the same challenges, and I’d never been to her blog before. Maybe I ought to be better about reading others’ reviews?? (wry grin)

Next I dropped by Can I Borrow Your Book? because Juli was #100 and that’s the number C picked for me. She reviewed Dracula, and I remembered that I really ought to read that one…

From there, M picked #66, which was Page after Page. Another blogger who moves in the same blogcircles that I do, and yet I’ve never stumbled upon (this blog world is bigger than I realized!). Kim has a really fun writing style, too.

And finally, Passion for the Page… where Kristi has one of my favorite quotes on her sidebar (the one by Louisa May Alcott, which she may or may not have said), and I discovered that she’s a children’s science writer with impeccable reading taste. Awesome.

So, there you have it. Five new blogs for me. This is going to be fun after all… 🙂