You will have to forgive me today dear reader because I feel a little “naval gazing” coming on during this week’s Sunday Salon. In recent weeks I’ve been thinking more about my book blogging activities than actually blogging about books.

Well my fellow Sunday Saloners, it would appear that I have been living under a rock these past few weeks because I completely missed the ridiculously insulting article penned by Ms Hurezanu in which she made the sweeping statement that “Book blogging has become a subculture whose members are mostly women between 20 and 50 years old, often known as “mommy bloggers” because they are housewives who blog about romance novels, horror/vampire stories and paranormal novels.”

Excuse me?

It’s been a while since I blogged around here, so I thought I’d make a special effort to join this week’s Sunday Salon. I’ve been visiting other participants in recent weeks and decided that it’s high time I actually participated properly! Of course at 7am on a Sunday morning it’s sometimes difficult to come up with inspiration… until this week’s Weekly Geeks topic caught my eye: “Tech & Reading – Same as or a change in output?”

If you’re still doing your Christmas shopping then you’re cutting it fine, but I know some people are just really hard to buy for! I’ve pulled together some last minute Christmas gift ideas to help you out. And with one-day shipping from Amazon they should just about arrive in the nick of time too!