Sunday Salon, 12th April 2009

This has been quite an eventful week for me, one in which I posted my 600th post, and received two awards.
I decide to create an Awards page to update as necessary. So far I have been given, and handed on, 10 awards by fellow bloggers. Should you feel like passing an award on to your fellow bloggers, consult the page, and by all means use one of the awards I've listed there.

Last week's poll asked What happened to the last book that you read?

30 people responded:
1 - returned it to the lender
7 - handed it on to someone else to read
6 - returned it to the library
0 - sold it at the used book shop
3 - advertised it on Book Mooch (or similar)
12 - put it back on my shelves11 - other

I'm glad to see that most of us (60%) recycle our books by one method or another.
Even though 30 responded to the poll, it is an exceedingly small proportion of those who visited my blog last week (808) - just 3.7%. I'd love to bump that up a bit.

This week's poll (see right hand column) asks Do you ever listen to a novel?
You can choose multiple options

• No, never
• Yes (choose below)
• often
• sometimes
• rarely
• How (choose below)
  
• tapes
• CDs
• mp3
• computer
  
• radio
• other
  

You might like to make a comment on the associated post titled Are novels designed to be read, not heard? to explain the vote you chose.

Breaking News

• Mornington Peninsula in crime
• Easter Crime Novels
• 3 Acts of Murder coming to ABC TV
• Win a book at Euro Crime
• CrimeFest shortlists for Last Laugh and Sounds of Crime
• Take a Book Bloggers survey for Crimefic reader
• Paradise Lost - The Martin Beck series
• The man and his city - Peter Corris
• The less orderly world underneath Agatha Christie
• My 600th post!
• PD Martin, guest blogger on KillZone
• Obama wins British book prize

This week's posts

• Are novels designed to be read, not heard?
• 15th edition Book Review Blog Carnival
  This might be one of interest for you, if you review books on your blog. This is a monthly carnival you can submit blog postings to. I am hosting the current edition.
• I didn't need any more books!
• It's Raining Awards!
• Awards - Received and Given
• Lovely Blog Award
• Libraries again: Library Loot
• Review: MURDER ON A MIDSUMMER NIGHT, Kerry Greenwoood
• Blogging breeds Networks
  One of the things I never imagined I would discover when I began this blog is the new friends in cyber space that I would make. Projects like Sunday Help widen your network too.
• Forgotten Stories: THE MACHINE STOPS, E.M. Forster
  A project you might like to join or follow: Pattinase's Friday's Forgotten Books
• What is the Wire?

Currently reading

• now - THE IRON HEART, Marshall Browne
• next - TEA TIME FOR THE TRADIONALLY BUILT, Alexander McCall Smith
• then - THE MURDER AT THE VICARAGE, Agatha Christie
• in the car - THE WHOLE TRUTH, David Baldacci

Agatha Christie Reading Challenge Blog Carnival.

A reminder to those who read Agatha Christie books, that the next edition of the Carnival will be published on April 23. Submissions will close on April 20th. Submit your contributions here.