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It’s the end of the year and most of us bloggers are into cleaning up our blogs. I am also in no exception to do that. At the moment.. I just started on my vacation and I thought, well.. time to clean this blog up! So basically I’m doing my own mini Bloggiesta. *I can’t wait till the real one!* *hangs head* It’s sad only my blogger peers actually knows what that means…

Here’s a few I be playing around.
♦ Transferring my old book reviews here from my old dead blog…
♦ Catch up on my Blog Reviews
♦ Clean up Book reviews
♦ Clean up Side Bio
♦ Update Disclosures
♦ Clean up tags
♦ Post up lists
♦ Print out new batch of  Business Cards
♦ Update Books challenges
♦ Update Review Via Authors
♦ Update To Be Read Montage (or try to)

Wish me luck!

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#Bloggiesta Mini Challenge: Organize them Books!

Jenn’s Bookshelves is hosting this mini challenge and there aren’t much guidelines to join. But heck.. something fill it up I guess. Here are a few info on how I organize my books.


How do I keep up with what I have in my collection? 
I found great sites just for tracking my books at Goodreads & Librarything. Both of which are accessible by my phone and easily maintain. I occasionally download my list to keep up and do some manual stuff through my computer via Excel. In that file, I have it organized much more to ‘Price’, ‘Author’, ‘Title’, ‘Series’, ‘Genre’, ‘Year Acquired’, 'Copy' (subdivide to ARC, Review, Borrowed, Bought). I must admit I haven’t been very nice with this excel list.

Bookshelves organization?
Physical Bookshelves.

I have a few places where I store my books:
• 2 book shelves
• 5 big Storage containers,
• 6 delivery boxes (I have yet to unpack)
• a couple of boxes of books for garagesale
• my external hard drives.

Divided by Fiction, Non-Fiction & Reference. Series are all grouped together.  My ARC & Review books are all placed together on a separate shelf so I don’t get them mixed up with my books.

Online Database (GR, LT, Excel). My system is very much OCD-ed. Tags are my organization best friend and my enemy roll in one.

• TBR, Read, Wishlist
• Fiction, Non-Fiction & Reference
• Sub-Divide:  Horror, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Literary, etc.
• Author, Title, Year acquired,  Publicist, Country, Arc, Review… etc…

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On the 2nd day… #Bloggiesta

Before I start, I thought I should make an update from last night. These are the things I’ve been tackling on:

• Creating Challenge Progress bars. This was toughy! My maths were all wonky… Very wonky and all over the place. But I manage nicely enough.
• Clean up my sidebars reading challenge. Merged 3 of the some what similar challenges to minimize space. I’m still figuring out what to do with the rest.
• Creating cheat sheets. Yes this was a bit of time consuming. Figuring out how to clean up my cheat sheets for my reviews and meme. I need to figure out who host what nowadays due to blog tours lol
• And saw a bit of a monkey visitor in the progress. o.0

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Bloggiesta interruption… o.0 Monkey Alert!

I have to mention there’s a monkey in the neighborhood at the moment. Thought it would be a cute innuendo. =D



And here’s a cat looking scared stiff and not knowing if she should move or not.

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Bloggiesta Time!

Natasha @ Mawbooks is hosting  her annual Bloggiesta which runs from January 21 – 23, 2011. What’s Bloggiesta? is an event most book bloggers would look forward to as in excuse of housekeeping. It’s an opportunity to sit down, discuss on ideas and resources for things regular bloggers would find hard to do during other times. I, of course,  find this as an opportunity to ‘housekeep’ my When She Reads blog, and among other things. *creeps around for nachos recipes from her fellow bloggers*.

Some of you may be asking what is Bloggiesta? In short, it’s a blogging marathon.  A opportunity to cross those nagging items off of your to-do list and improve your blog while in the good company of other awesome bloggers doing the same thing. Our awesome mascot Pedro (Plan. Edit. Develop. Review. Organize) is ready to break out the nachos, enchiladas, drinks, mariachi music and whack a pinata or two!  It’s nothing short of an awesome fiesta!

Check out #bloggiesta in Twitter for fellow bloggers updates, conversations and fun! Of course and occasional Tips & Tricks!

My list if projects for Bloggiesta:

• Cleaning up "Review Books" Page
• Updating the About Me page.
• Write backup posts for rainy day.
• Work up on series posts.
• Write up those articles I have in my notebooks.
• Clean up my template posts
• Create cheat sheets
• Update my Gravatar
• Make fresh business cards!
• Update my GoodReads, Librarything,
• Create challenge progress bars
• Brainstorm weekly post
• Clean up side bars.
• Update publisher links
• Update Review Policy
• List up books I wish to read (good luck Lisa! Teehee!)
• and other things I can’t think of atm

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Bloggiesta: Wrapped

Bloggiesta June 11-13, 2010

hosted at: Maw Books

Well.. it's over... sadly.. In overall, I could only participate for like 2 days since work and thunderstorms were getting on my case. I do wish this event is longer than just 3 days, cause I feel like I have my work cut out on me for my reading blog. But heck, I will try and do my best to fix them this week or so.

Ok! let's recapped what I have done so far.

• Updated my About me page
• Added a Contact Me form
• 21 worth of pre published post
• A few TBR is now catalogue for my use in Goodreads.

Ahh yes.. I didn't get to do much I see. I guess I haveto concentrate on cleaning up my blog still with or without Bloggiesta. The up side is I am able to meet other blogger/reviewers around the world and we exchange ideas and tips with each others. Love you all and Thanks!

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Bloggiesta: 3rd day!

Bloggiesta June 11-13, 2010

hosted at: Maw Books

Sad to say, I didn't' do much yesterday due to work and later on, we had a terrible thunderstorm where I don't dare to switch on the computer.

Ok I am back in action now! Here's what I have done so far.

• Finished doing 21 days worth of pre-published posts. That took way too long than I have expected it would be. 
• Entered parts of my pile of TBR books and that just a few, considering I have bunch on them in hand still. o.o

Today I would be dealign with my Cheat Sheet. Hopefully....

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Bloggiesta Mark: 11 June 2010!

Bloggiesta June 11-13, 2010

hosted at: Maw Books

Whoot!! All I have to say is I am looking forward to this event! This would be my first time in joining, and yes! I hope i be able to do much this weekend, regardless work on Saturday. I just hope my internet will hold out on me.I will be Twittering my progress using the hashtag #bloggiesta

Reviews & Posts:
• Write reviews for A Living Nightmare (Cirque Du Freak, #1), The Vampire's Assistant (Cirque Du Freak, #2), Tunnels of Blood (Cirque Du Freak, #3) 
• Update my Reading challenges lists
• Update Reading Logs
• Drafts/schedule at least 10 posts
• Post my session with Neil Gaiman from Twitter
• Draft templates for all of my posts.
• Add/ Edit my About Me, Review policy, etc

Blog maintainence:
• Turn some of the navigation into pull-downs menu
• Try to figure out why my blog has porn ads to some visitors (I seriously has no idea why cause it didn't show up in my view)
• Update challenge Archive.
• Update my book stats. [Reviewed] [Received] [$$$ Spent] [$$ Estimated Cost] [Borrowed] [Pages]
• Add Meta Tags 
• Clean up my tags, archives, books reviewed list, TBR List
• Create a text file (or Google Doc) of cheat sheets (html codes, post url’s, etc)
• Clean up my sidebars!
• Connect my Social Sites with my main blog
• Clean out and organize my feed reader and blog subscriptions

Off Site
• Really update my TBR list (At least try to submit my new books into my Librarything account & Good Reads)
• Post my reviews to my GoodRead, LT, Amazon.com.
• update & compiles my Series list in my Oh! Serial Offender. Gonna update my comic list too.
• Organize my ARC by review dates (more of a what to read first)
• Update my Amazon Wishlist
• Redesign my business cards (maybe)
• Reorganized my TBRs by dates on received.
• Email authors, editors, agents, publisher, screenwriter for the last year (yes)

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