Sunday 18 January 2009

21st Bookworms Carnival (GLBTQ Literature) is out + I got an award!


This month is hosted by Renay. Go check it out!

From the books featured in the carnival I'm interested in:
Relief by L.E. Butler reviewed at Curl up with a good book, because it's set in Venice, in the 1910's and it's about painters and ballerinas.
Then of course I want to read Affinity by Sarah Waters reviewed by Alessandra. It's the only book by this author that I haven't read, since I had heard it wasn't her best. But Alessandra made me change my mind.
And Hero reviewed by Nymeth.
Then I'll stop here cause otherwise I'll just replicate the carnival on my blog and that would be stealing:P
Renay also included some links to gay teen literature which made me add more than one book to my wish list. It's just that they sound all so good!
I've added:
Parrotfish by Ellen Wittlinger
Luna by Julie Anne Peters
and Skim by Mariko Tamaki.

I think it's enough...

And now for the award! Emerald fire, Ms Ulat Buku and Shooting Stars Mag awarded me with the buttefly award. Thank you all so much!!! *sending virtual hugs*

the rules are:

1. Post the logo on your blog

2. Add link to the person who awarded it to you

3. Award up to 10 blogs

4. Add links to those blogs in your award post

5. Leave a message for awardee on their blog

This time I'd like to award some illustrator blogs that I visit regularly and which I think are awesome:
Lisa Evans
Irisz Agocs
Jackie Morris
P.J. Lynch
Niamh Sharkey
I love lots of other illustrators but they don't have blogs, or I don't know if they have one. I'll have to keep looking...

7 comments:

Unknown said...

Congratulations! You deserve it!

Ana S. said...

I added Relief to my wishlist too. The others I didn't because they're already there :P And thanks to you, Fingersmith was promoted from wishlist to tbr pile a while ago.

Congrats on your award! And oooh, illustration blogs! Must visit them all.

Anonymous said...

Hooray! Thanks for posting about the carnival. :D

Shooting Stars Mag said...

You're very welcome!

I liked the book carnival too. Luna is awesome, I'd recommend.

-Lauren

Trish @ Love, Laughter, Insanity said...

Congrats on the award Valentina! You are definitely deserving. :)

valentina said...

thank you guys so much!

can't wait to read all those awesome books!

Anonymous said...

Thanks for the mention and I hope you enjoyed Relief!