My book review site and first blog, which I started in 2003. I started it because I was lamenting that while I read so much, I could hardly remember any of it. People would ask me what good books I'd read recently, or what I thought of a particular book, and my mind would go blank. At the same time, I'd just heard of blogging and found the idea interesting and thought I'd give it a try.
Every now and again your life's course can turn on one simple thing, some small decision the import of which isn't at all obvious at the time. - Debra Hamel
Every now and again your life's course can turn on one simple thing, some small decision the import of which isn't at all obvious at the time.
- Debra Hamel
My life has been sadly lacking in snails. I can't clearly remember any first-hand encounters. The best thing I can come up with is second-hand, a pas… - Debra Hamel
My life has been sadly lacking in snails. I can't clearly remember any first-hand encounters. The best thing I can come up with is second-hand, a pas…
What did it for me was a blurb on the back of a book I was reading. The blurber wrote - I just looked it up - that "Trials have provided some of the … - Debra Hamel
What did it for me was a blurb on the back of a book I was reading. The blurber wrote - I just looked it up - that "Trials have provided some of the …
I discovered Twitter, as I remember, and the idea of watching a global conversation go by immediately struck me as a fantastic thing. So I suppose it… - Debra Hamel
I discovered Twitter, as I remember, and the idea of watching a global conversation go by immediately struck me as a fantastic thing. So I suppose it…
My book review site and first blog, which I started in 2003. I started it because I was lamenting that while I read so much, I could hardly remember … - Debra Hamel
My book review site and first blog, which I started in 2003. I started it because I was lamenting that while I read so much, I could hardly remember …
I started to write book reviews as a means of recording my thoughts about what I'd read before all memory of them vanished. - Debra Hamel
I started to write book reviews as a means of recording my thoughts about what I'd read before all memory of them vanished.
When I post a review to book-blog.com it probably takes me - apart from writing the review, of course - 20 or 30 minutes to finish all my related tas… - Debra Hamel
When I post a review to book-blog.com it probably takes me - apart from writing the review, of course - 20 or 30 minutes to finish all my related tas…
If you neglect your blogs they don't take up much time. - Debra Hamel
If you neglect your blogs they don't take up much time.
In researching literary agents I did what the books tell you to do: I looked at the acknowledgments page of a book that was similar to mine. Happily,… - Debra Hamel
In researching literary agents I did what the books tell you to do: I looked at the acknowledgments page of a book that was similar to mine. Happily,…
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