I’m pleased to announce that the winner of The Geography of Bliss Giveaway is Mia!

Congrats Mia! Your book will be on its way to you soon.

Thanks so much to all who entered!

Scribblenauts for DS (Sept 15)
Odd and the Frost Giants by Neil Gaiman (Sept 22)
I and Love and You by The Avett Brothers (Sept 29)
Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger (Sept 29)
Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby (Sept 29)
Good Eats: The Early Years by Alton Brown (Oct 1)
The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Prisoner’s Dilemma (Oct 6)
Mary Tyler Moore Season 5 (Oct 6)
War Dances by Sherman Alexie (Oct 6)
Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son by Michael Chabon (Oct 6)
Look at the Birdie by Kurt Vonnegut (Oct 20)
Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer (Nov 2)
Battle Studies by John Mayer (Nov 17)

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My new job involves working with social media, and I’m now using Facebook and Twitter for both personal and work networking.

I am really enjoying it – it’s very fun.

However, I feel like my current Twitter account is unfocused. I was mainly using it to write about books and reading (much like this blog) as well as other personal stuff like movies, music, etc. But now that I use that one for work, I felt like I should have another account where I only tweet about books and reading. The main reason is that I felt like I couldn’t update as much as I’d like (extremely often) about books to the main account, since more and more people are following me there for other reasons. So I made a second account:

NEW – http://twitter.com/emilylovesbooks – tweets about books I’m currently reading, book quotes, updates on book sales or shopping, author events, etc. Any and all things related to books and reading.

ORIGINAL – http://twitter.com/chowmeyow – tweets about what I’m doing, traveling, movies, music, links to fun stuff on the internet, and links to articles about social media

If you already follow me at chowmeyow, I hope you’ll continue, and I’d love to connect with you all on emilylovesbooks as well. :)

I hope this isn’t too annoying, the goal is to tweet more in general, now that I can focus what I’m posting on each account.

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Just wanted to post a quick update:

I got back from Michigan late Sunday night, and have been pretty swamped since then.

I still need to respond to many comments, and catch up on my neighbor’s posts. More posts will come soon, and I have lots of pictures from the trip. Planning on catching up on everything over the weekend.

I hope everyone is having a lovely week!

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Today is my last day at my old job. I’m very sad to say goodbye to all my fabulous co-workers.

Tonight I have a flight home to Michigan, where I’ll spend a long weekend with family and friends before starting my new job on Monday.

I’m extremely excited for Saturday – my friend Emma and I are taking a road trip to Milwaukee. We are heading up early in the day and going to explore the town. We will definitely stop at this used bookstore that my parents found when they went to Milwaukee a few weeks ago. We “named our own price”-ed a hotel, and got the Hilton right downtown.

Then, Saturday night, we have 3rd row seats to James Taylor. I’m so ridiculously excited!

Books I’m bringing with me: Betsy and the Great World & Betsy’s Wedding by Maud Hart Lovelace, The Lone Pilgrim by Laurie Colwin, and The Tenth Muse: My Life in Food by Judith Jones.

I hope everyone has a great weekend – I’ll return next week, hopefully with book reviews and photos from Michigan and Milwaukee.

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