Musing Mondays (04.13.09)

Musing Mondays is hosted by Rebecca at Just One More Page... Today’s post is about blog comments.

How do you respond to the comments on your blog? Do you try to email individually or comment on post yourself answering the comments above? What do you think is the best way to respond to comments and do you respond to all of them? Do you feel slighted if you don't receive a response back from the blog owner? (question courtesy of Jenn)

Today's question is timely as I've recently been thinking about commenting and the best way to respond to others' comments. I try to do a combination of replying to comments within my own blog, as well as visiting bloggers who have commented and leaving comments on their blogs.

On several sites about blogging and attracting comments, I've seen that it is really recommended for you to comment back on your own blog, which may be true if the commentor does not have a blog of their own... But in this community, there are so many book bloggers, and I feel like it's better for me to try and visit other blogs and leave comments there. After all, we all know how much comments mean to us!!

I don't feel slighted if I don't receive a response from a blog owner. I don't think I'm able to respond to every individual comment, either, so who would I be to complain about not getting replies to my own comments?!

But everyone reading this should know that I love your comments and welcome them gladly. A huge THANK YOU to everyone who has taken the time to comment on my blog!!

Musing Mondays (03.23.09)

So this is my first time participating in Musing Mondays, which is hosted by Rebecca at Just One More Page. This post is coming to you thanks to the ability to set up auto-posts in advance with Blogger. And I have to thank Rebecca for posting this on Sunday so that I was able to go ahead and write my entry for Monday :-) See? I promised I wouldn't leave you totally high and dry while I was on vacation!

Today’s MUSING MONDAYS post is about bookstores…

How many bookstores do you frequent? Do you have a favourite? If so, which one and what makes it so?

I really had to answer this question because I L-O-V-E bookstores. I also felt like it was a good time to make a confession: I'm a bit of a bookstore snob. For five years I worked for Barnes & Noble College Bookstores, which is a sister company to the B&N stores all of you are familiar with. Many of their newer stores have the look and feel of a B&N, but with the addition of school spirit apparel, textbooks, and everything else that's more unique to a college bookstore. So because of this, I am naturally partial to Barnes & Noble for my book-shopping. I just love the atmosphere, decor, and smells of a B&N. Borders and Books-A-Million just don't do it for me and never have.

That being said, I also love used bookstores! I love the opportunity to trade my books in for other well-worn books. Currently, I frequent Yawn's Bookstore in Canton, GA. They have a great little set-up for both new and used books and I was thrilled to discover it several weeks ago with my mom! They also have their own publishing company, which I thought was pretty cool! I haven't checked out any of those authors yet, but I plan to soon!

Great question for MUSING MONDAYS!!