Awards!

A couple of my fellow bloggers were kind enough to give me a couple of blogging awards, and although I am unforgivably slow when it comes to acknowledging them and passing them out to some other fellow bloggers, it's never too late.

Thank you to Anna of Diary of an Eccentric for giving me the #1 Blogger Award!

Naida of The Bookworm created the award, and made this adorable button with a picture of her dog wearing one of her own hand-crocheted creations. So cute.

Thank you so much Anna!

Jules at Jules' Book Reviews gave me the Let's Be Friends Award:

Blogs that received the Let’s Be Friends Award are exceedingly charming. These kind bloggers aim to find and be friends. They are not interested in self-aggrandizement. Our hope is that when the ribbons of these prizes are cut, even more friendships are propagated. Please give more attention to these writers.

Thank you so much to both Jules and Anna. Please accept my apologies for being so slow to post! I really appreciate your taking the time to tell me that you enjoy my blog- it means a lot.

I'm going to give out both awards to ten terrific bloggers:

1. Jan of Steps From the Beach, Surrounded by Fur
2. Sharon of Sharon Loves Books and Cats
3. Vasilly of 1330V
4. Amy of Life by Candlelight
5. Rebecca of Just One More Page
6. Gwendolyn of A Sea of Books
7. Jill of Breaking the Spine
8. Dawn of She is Too Fond of Books
9. Odette of Reading Proust in Foxborough
10. Audrey of Food From Books
    

These are all fantastic blogs with great writing, written by really nice people. Go read them!

Awards!!!

Lately I've been the lucky recipient of a number of blogging awards. I've been scrambling for time to post and thank a bunch of bloggers, so here goes:

A Novel Menagerie gave me the Super Comments Award. From her post:

"We give and get awards for having a great blog and being a good friend. What I want to award is to those people whose comments have meant THE WORLD to me. It takes time to visit a blog and leave a comment. I wanted to take this opportunity to say “thank you” to each and every one of you who has left a comment for me on A Novel Menagerie. Also, I wanted to recognize some special bloggers whose comments have made such an impact on me."

Thank you!

Lori at Jew Wishes gave me the Excellent award, for "blogs [that] offer content that has given me much to ponder, from religion to recipes, to books and beyond. Thank you." Thank you, Lori!


Yvonne at Socrates' Book Reviews gave me The Splash Award, for blogs which "allure, amuse, bewitch, impress, or inspire." Thank you!!


Finally, Blodeudd at Book Girl of Mur-y-Castell gave me the Premio Dardos Award, for "bloggers who distinguish themselves for showing cultural values, ethics, great and fun writing skills, as well individual values, through their creative writing."

Thank you all so much. It really is wonderful to know that you all enjoy my blog. Yay!

And to reciprocate, I'm going to pass them all right back to the fantastic bloggers above. Go visit their blogs if you haven't- bookmark them, follow them, subscribe, etc. Because they're all great writers, readers and people. I'm lucky to know them and I hope you take the the time to visit them if you haven't yet.