Weekly Geeks #1 - Favourites

I am so glad that Weekly Geeks is back. I can't think of a better tribute to Dewey than to keep the events that she started and was passionate about going. This week's Weekly Geeks theme:

In the spirit of the amazing community building that Dewey was so good at, tell us about your favorite blogs, the ones you have bookmarked or subscribe to in your Google Reader, that you visit on a regular basis. Tell us what it is about these blogs that you love, that inspire or educate you or make you laugh. Be sure to link to them so we can find them too.

Now, you may have noticed that I don't do things in small numbers. You only have to look at the number of books I have out from the library to realise that, and blog reading is similar. I have 750 subscriptions in my Bloglines account and it is constantly growing. In order to try and help cope with that, I have my feeds divided into several categories including Authors, Historical Fiction, Craft and the ever helpful Others category (which includes things like LOLcats and Cake Wrecks). Two of the categories are Must Reads, and then Book Reviewers and Romance blogs i.e everyone else. The Must Reads are the blogs that I, well, must read. So if I only have 10 minutes, I will work my way through those blogs, and then come back later and read all the rest. Even if your blog isn't in the must reads category, I will always make an effort to get down to 0 unread at least twice a week, so it's not that I don't read your blog. I do...eventually. I kind of don't like singling out blogs because there are loads that I like to read, and I am always adding more.

In my must read book reviewers category a lot of them are for people who I have either been friends with through boards etc, or who I feel have become friends through blogging, and then those that I read because I really enjoy their content, even though I am probably on the periphery of their blog world! There are more than 50 of those alone, so it would take forever to link to them all so instead I am just copying the lists from Bloglines to here:

* A Reader's Respite (0) (0)
* A Striped Armchair (0) (0)
* A Work in Progress (0) (0)
* an adventure in reading (0) (0)
* B O O K L U S T (0) (0)
* B&b ex libris
* book-a-rama (0) (0)
* Bookfoolery and Babble (0) (0)
* Books 'N Border Collies (0) (0)
* Confessions of a Book Addict (0) (0)
* Cosy World (0) (0)
* dovegreyreader scribbles (0) (0)
* Hey Lady! Whatcha Readin'?
* J. Kaye's Book Blog
* Le Canapé (0) (0)
* The Literate Housewife Review (0) (0)
* Matilda
* Musings of a Bookish Kitty (0) (0)
* MYSTERIES in PARADISE
* Oklahoma Booklady (0) (0)
* Random Jottings of an Opera and Book Lover (0) (0)
* Rhinoa's Ramblings (0) (0)
* Sassymonkey Reads (0) (0)
* Saving my Sanity ... (0) (0)
* So Many Precious Books, So Little Time (0) (0)
* Stephanie's Confessions of a Book-a-holic
* things mean a lot (0) (0)
* The Written World

When it comes to romance blogs, these are my must reads:

* Aneca's World
* BABBLING ABOUT BOOKS, AND MORE!
* Book Binge (0) (0)
* The Book Bitches (0) (0)
* bookgirl's nightstand (0) (0)
* Dear Author.Com (1) (0)
* The Good, The Bad and The Unread (0) (0)
* Jennie's B(ook)log (0) (0)
* Julia's Books Corner !
* Karen Knows Best (0) (0)
* the life of a dumpling - books, books and books (0) (0)
* The Misadventures of Super_Librarian (0) (0)
* nichtszusagen (0) (0)
* Nobody asked me... (0) (0)
* Nocturnal Wonderings (0) (0)
* Nose In A Book (0) (0)
* Ramblings on Romance Etcetera, Etcetera (0) (0)
* Rosario's Reading Journal (0) (0)
* Sandys Reading Journal (0) (0)
* Smart Bitches, Trashy Books
* thebooksmugglers.com (0) (0)
* Thrifty Reader (0) (0)
* The THRILLIONTH page (0) (0)
* Zeek's Page (0) (0)
* ~ Stacy's Place on Earth ~

You know, it probably isn't so great to list them all like that because it makes it clear how much of an issue I have when it comes to doing things in moderation! LOL!