URL – http://cc-chronicles.blogspot.com
Blog Name – CC Chronicles
Blog Established – 06/2009

Committee – Events
Section – General

List Up to Five of Your Favorite Books
Timeline by Michael Crichton
The Romanov Prophecy by Steve Berry
The Wild Hunt by Elizabeth Chadwick
Interview with a Vampire by Anne Rice
The Shack by Thomas Moore

Why Do You Blog?
I blog because I love to read and enjoy sharing the expereince with others. Plus making all the wonderful new friends is the icing on the cake.

Other Information About You and Your Blog
Started my blog on a whim and am now addicted to blogging. It fuels my love of books and films. It also inspires me to write more often… now if only there were more hours in the day…

URL – http://browngirl.weebly.com
Blog Name – BrownGirl BookSpeak
Blog Established – 07/2009

Committee – Events
Section – Literary Fiction

List Up to Five of Your Favorite Books
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Let the Lion Eat Straw by Ellease Southerland
Like the Singing Coming Off the Drums by Sonia Sanchez
The Wife of His Youth by Charles Chesnutt
Possessing the Secret of Joy by Alice Walker

Why Do You Blog?
It’s a great way to journal and share with others what I read. And, hopefully, I’m influencing others to love reading or to diversify their reading habits.

Other Information About You and Your Blog
I’m a homeschool mom and I’m the assistant editor for an online, spiritual lifestyle magazine. Also, I’m very much into frugality. My blog has a major focus on literary fiction, poetry, and nonfiction written by and/ or about people of color. I do dabble in other genres when something strikes my fancy.

URL – http://librariansbookreviews.blogspot.com
Blog Name – One Librarian’s Book Reviews
Blog Established – 10/2008

Committee – Events
Section – YA

List Up to Five of Your Favorite Books
1. The Count of Monte Cristo
2. The Wednesday Wars
3. Goose Girl
4. The Blue Sword
5. Lord of the Rings

Why Do You Blog?
Mostly to keep track of what I read and what I liked/didn’t like. Also if someone asks for a recommendation, I have somewhere to look for favorites or certain genres.

URL – http://www.bookwormsdinner.blogspot.com
Blog Name – Bookworm’s Dinner
Blog Established – 04/2008

Committee – General
Section – Events

List Up to Five of Your Favorite Books
Shadow of the Wind
A Tale of Two Cities
Ahab’s Wife
A Prayer For Owen Meany
Shades of Gray

Why Do You Blog?
When I read books I like to reflect and share what I have read. Blogging helps me to stay focused and keep a living journal of my reading. I also get to meet awesome bloggers who do the same. Blogging is one of the best ways I have found to learn about new books to read.

URL – http://www.meexia.com/bookie
Blog Name – Books of Mee
Blog Established – 10/2007

Committee – Events
Section – General

List Up to Five of Your Favorite Books
The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
Persepolis (1&2) by Marjane Satrapi
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Battle Royale by Koushun Takami

Why Do You Blog?
Initially, because I need some place to put my thoughts down, some place where I can keep track of what I read, and some place where I can write whatever. Later on there are various perks that come with blogging: community, people’s reviews and recommendations, book news, basically anything bookish. (I also wanna say free books, but no, I don’t get many)

Other Information About You and Your Blog
I actually had my personal website many years ago, back when blog wasn’t an existing term. A place where I put down my thoughts and stuff. Years later I created a book site where I tried to collect my reviews of the books I’ve read (it wasn’t so hard because I just started reading English novels a few years back, so the number wasn’t crazy lot). That site was the root that turned to be my book blog today. So how long have I “blogged”? I feel like it’s been forever. But officially my book blog started in 2007, though I had numerous other blogs and websites in the past.

URL – http://rhapsodyinbooks.wordpress.com
Blog Name – Rhapsody in Books
Blog Established – 08/2008

Committee – Events
Section – Non-Fiction

List Up to Five of Your Favorite Books
The Goldbug Variations by Richard Powers
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
The Yiddish Policeman’s Union by Michael Chabon
The Color of Water by James McBride

Why Do You Blog?
I started blogging about books as a way to remember what I had read. I also wanted to share interesting information I found on the web with friends and family. I also like the exercise of trying to write. (It’s way more fun than exercising at a gym!)

Other Information About You and Your Blog
My husband and I currently live in Tucson, AZ having come from Madison, WI. I have a library degree but am not working. My husband still teaches periodic law seminars in Madison so we get to go back sometimes which is great – I love Wisconsin! I like nonfiction a lot because I like to add to my education. I probably read more than my share about Lincoln. But I also love children’s books and literary fiction. And we read lots of newspapers and magazines – love that short attention span stuff!

URL – http://www.chefdruck.com
Blog Name – Chefdruck Musings
Blog Established – 01/2008

Committee – Events
Section – General

List Up to Five of Your Favorite Books
The Monsters of Templeton
Atonement
Harry Potter
Dangerous Liaisons
Twilight

Why Do You Blog?
I blog to be heard about the din of my children’s voices. Online I can actually finish a sentence. I do a book review every week at Chefdruck Musings.

Other Information About You and Your Blog
I’m an avid reader and although I love literary fiction, I’m not a snob and will proudly read Twilight in public. I also enjoy memoirs, historical fiction, cooking related books, and writing books.

URL – http://age30books.blogspot.com
Blog Name – Age 30+ . . . A Lifetime of Books
Blog Established – 01/2008

Committee – Events
Section – General

List Up to Five of Your Favorite Books
The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
The Mists of Avalon, Marian Zimmer Bradley
The Wheel of Time series, by Robert Jordan

Why Do You Blog?
To record what I read and to interact with other readers about a topic we love – books!

Other Information About You and Your Blog
I live in Maryland and attend many local book events, often posting videos from them. I also run a successful book club. This year I’m running a panel about book club’s at the Baltimore Book Festival.

URL – http://www.thingsmeanalot.com/
Blog Name – things mean a lot
Blog Established – 03/2007

Committee – Events
Section – General

List Up to Five of Your Favorite Books
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Nation by Terry Pratchett
His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
Death: The High Cost of Living by Neil Gaiman
Fire & Hemlock by Diana Wynne Jones
(This is always so hard!)

Why Do You Blog?
To interact with like-minded people (read: fellow book Geeks), to be in touch with the bookish world and have access to news, recommendations, etc, and because I really enjoy writing about the books I read.

Other Information About You and Your Blog
I was hesitant about whether to list my blog under “General” or “Sci-fi/Fantasy”. Fantasy is my first love, but I also read and post about other things, so I don’t think my blog is quite a fantasy blog. Fantasy is featured a lot, though, as are comics and graphic novels, YA Fiction, world lit, contemporary fiction, children’s books, and more recently, non-fiction.

URL – http://bookgazing.blogspot.com
Blog Name – Book Gazing
Blog Established – 12/2008

Committee – Events
Section – General

List Up to Five of Your Favorite Books
Who Will Run the Frog Hospital – Lorrie Moore
Broke Heart Blues – Joyce Carol Oates
The Carhullan Army – Sarah Hall
Watership Down – Richard Adams
I Capture the Castle – Dodie Smith

Why Do You Blog?
I started blogging to have a place to share my personal thoughts about books and to connect more meaningfully with the wonderful book bloggers I’d followed for years.