Image via Wikipedia This week, every participant gets to choose one of the previous Weekly Geeks themes to repeat. I think it’ll be a lot of find seeing what everyone chooses. It’ll give me an idea of what the most popular themes have been, and it’ll give everyone else a break from seeing almost identical posts on the blog of all the WG participants. And of course it gives you the flexibility of choice. Exceptionally simple...

For this week’s Weekly Geeks challenge Dew has asked us to list our top books published in 2008. Despite the fact that I undertook a 50-book challenge this year to reduce my TBR mountain I have read quite a few books that were hot off the presses this year. Here’s my top ten of 2008 (in no particular order): Body Surfing – Anita Shreve Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult The God of Animals by Aryn Kyle The Girl Who...

Image via CrunchBase Good afternoon Saloners – it’s another sunny day here in Bristol and we just got home from visiting the new shopping centre: Cabot Circus – if you ever find yourself in the area check it out – it’s pretty impressive. Last weekend Dew set the Weekly Geeks a challenge to get caught up and I was glad of the chance to see where I was with challenges and write up a couple of reviews. For some...

Image by Giorgio____ via Flickr This week’s Weekly Geeks could not have come at a better time. Being away on vacation is great for reading (I polished off three books) but not so great for staying on top of book reviews and challenge updates. So I was pleased when I saw Dew’s challenge for this week: This week’s theme is: catch up on… something. Weekly Geeks #6 was catch up on reviews week, but so many of you organized...

Image by Wolfgang Staudt via Flickr This week’s Weekly Geeks is all about challenges – either getting up to date with the challenges you’re in – or signing up for your first ever challenge. Luckily for me I just spent the last couple of hours cleaning up my Challenge Update page and writing a recap post for The Spring Reading Thing – I must be phsycic! I love reading challenges – I started this website...

This week Dew has challenged us all to post a photo – I figured since Blue Archipelago is all about books that it should be a photo of books – so I’m killing two birds with one stone and am posting the books I am planning to complete for the Summer Reading challenge (yep – I’m signing up for another one!) Here’s my planned reading list: Something Borrowed by Emily Giffin Never Let Me Go by Kazuo...