Divine Mistakes

If you’ve been keeping track of how often I post reviews (and therefore how many books I’ve read this year), you’ll realize that the number is abysmally small. Not that I have any excuse for it (being unemployed would be the ideal time to get a lot of reading done, one would think)… that’s just how the chips have fallen. So, as I’ve been feeling rather nostalgic lately, I think I’m going to do a re-read of some of my favourite young adult/children’s literature, and may do a mass review post on those. Plus, it will get my numbers up, &c.

In other news, I’ve also been selected for my first LibraryThing Early Reviewer book: Dream Lucky: When FDR was in the White House, Count Basie was on the radio, and everyone wore a hat by Roxane Orgill. I’ve always been a bit fond of the 1940’s, as far as 20th century history goes, so I’m really looking forward to this book. Also, it would appear to fit my nostalgic mood quite perfectly, wouldn’t it?

Also, I AM intending eventually to make my own wordpress theme. I’m tired of looking at this one right now, but my e-muse is not being very helpful at the moment. So, it’ll happen when it happens, I suppose. Hmph.

One last thing: a question of internet/blog etiquette, I suppose. When someone comments on your blog and you want to respond to them, do you reply on your own blog, or on theirs? People have left comments here that I’d like to answer, but I want to do it where they’ll be sure to see it, and it’s been entirely too long since I’ve blogged with anything other than Livejournal (which has spoiled me with its threaded comment structure). So, if anyone could enlighten me, that would be fabulous.

Just when I got my Now Reading plugin to look the way I want, I had to go and break it. :-/ I wanted to change over to Pretty Permalinks, which I’ve done for the rest of my WP entries/pages. Now, the sidebar looks the way I want, and has links to the books, which the plugin has obviously added. However, the library page and individual pages don’t work. UGH. I’m pretty sure wordpress is deliberately trying to break my head. I’ve read through all the old comments and found two people who had the same issue, but no-one ever responded to it. So I brought it up again on the bug tracking forum, so we’ll see how that goes.

Anyway, I got approved for some new fanlistings, so perhaps I’ll just concentrate on those until I can figure out what the heck is going on with this thing.

One of my many new year’s resolutions is to familiarize myself with Wordpress and, in doing so, jump back into web design. I had quite a bit of fun when I first started out designing silly things many years ago (the one involving the greatest expansion of my design skills being a Newsies fan site). My old personal site, patronus.org, has long since disappeared (and I regret not renewing at least the domain name), so I’m starting afresh with a new playground. We shall see how things turn out, I suppose.

Eventually I’ll try to make my own Wordpress theme, but ’til then, I’ll stick with this. I intend to use this blog mostly to keep track of the books I’m reading (another of my resolutions being to read more), the knitting projects I’m working on, and so forth. I’m sure I’ll add more on, eventually.