My rules?
1. All content must be appropriate for children in grades kindergarten through eighth grade. NEW 2. Please link to your original content, not the content of others. 3. Websites that you link to must be child friendly since lots of kids visit this site and if they click on your link, I want it to be appropriate for them. 4. Positive reviews only, please... we only spread love here at The Lemme Library! 5. Books must be available in The US. (you are welcome to link to ARC reviews)6. I reserve the right to remove any reviews that don't meet criteria 1-5.
In the link title field, be sure to include the title of the book you are reviewing and your site name. In the URL field, please link to this specific post that contains the book review (That way people don't have to scour your blog looking for it!)
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For
newcomers & visitors: Definition of "Book Talk" from Wikipedia: "A
booktalk in the broadest terms is what is spoken with the intent to
convince someone to read a book. The booktalker gives the audience a
glimpse of the setting, the characters, and/or the major conflict without providing the resolution or denouement.
Booktalks make listeners care enough about the content of the book to
want to read it. A long booktalk is usually about five to seven minutes
long and a short booktalk is generally thirty seconds to two minutes
long.
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Pro-Cras-Ti-Nation. That is an ever present thing for me. If it wasn't for the last minute, I wouldn't get anything done. Seriously. Book Talk Tuesday, for example. Last week, I knew it had to be done, but I waited and I waited- and before I knew it, I was 24 hours late. Then, I felt guilty. Then I had to apologize to all of my loyal readers who missed it. Then I ended up with 8 lovely posts (lovely as they were, it was only 8.) That is what procrastination does to me on a daily, hourly basis. Then, today, I saw this video. This video explains that we procrastinate because we don't care about our future selves- so what if future Kelly has to bust her but to get Book Talk Tuesday posted tomorrow- present day Kelly is havin' a blast. The video explains that you have to fight the urge to blow off the future you- and feel bad for her (or him) so that you might actually get things done before you have to. I am going to work very hard at thinking about thinking this week- and trying to NOT procrastinate. I did the dishes early today (before dinner) and I am posting BTT now, 2 small steps for mankind, 2 huge steps for me.... future Kelly. Watch this video and let me know your reaction. Do you procrastinate? How do you avoid it?
