Diversity on the Shelf: Links and Resources

Inspired by the POC Reading Challenge

The Diversity on the Shelf 2014 Reading Challenge starts in 3 days and counting!! (Sign up here for 2015)
If you are new to making a conscious effort towards diversifying your bookshelf and need a few suggestions check out these links I have collected.  By the way they are not in any particular order and some of them are not very recent but still useful.
 This list will grow and change as I find more resources, so check back every once in awhile.

~ Former Reading Challenge~

POC Reading Challenge
The bloggers who hosted the reading challenge linked a ton of great resources and you can also read the reviews they linked up each month.

~Diversity Promoting Blogs~

Color Online
White Readers Meet Black Authors
Writers of Color Blog Tour
The Brown Bookshelf
Linus's Blanket
Kinna Reads
Reads for Pleasure
Literary Marie's Precision Reviews
Global Women of Color
SORMAG's Blog
 Reading Has Purpose
Girlxoxo
The Write to Make A Living
Sew Transformed
The Reader's Suite
Reading in Color
Gathering of Books
Nita Bee's Buzzin' Books & Poetry WebBlog
Joy's Book Blog
Diversity in YA
The Open Book
Rich in Color 
S Krishna's Books

Bloggiesta Mini-Challenge: 50 Bookish Things

During Bloggiesta I participated in a mini-challenge hosted by The Book Wheel and Love at First Book.  
The challenge is to create a list of 50 Bookish Things you want to do before you kick the bucket.  
This took me awhile to get my list together.  After reading the other list from various bloggers, they all seem to be the same things in mind.  I have a few things that are, I guess, not what most of the book bloggers want.   Here is it!

Scary Cover Love

It's Halloween time.   I love like Halloween just as much as I love Christmas and Thanksgiving but for completely different reasons.  I think I like the scare of Halloween along with the dress up...of course.  Wait!  I love the dress up way more than the scare.  Anyways, I thought I would feature a few book covers that scream SCARRY!!     To me the best covers have little to them but say a lot.  What do you think of these book covers?  Do they bring on the scare?  Click on the covers to go to the Amazon store. 

Bloggiesta Update ~Day 3

Good morning everyone!  This is day 3 in my Bloggiesta Fiesta 2012!  I got soo much done yesterday that I treated myself to a pedicure.  The only bad thing was when I got home my motivation to finish the list out died.  

If you haven't heard of Bloggiesta.  The idea behind Bloggiesta is to keep our mascot Pedro  (Plan. Edit. Develop. Review. Organize) happy by spending these next three days working on perfecting your blog and connecting with other bloggers doing the same thing.

Bloggiesta 2012

Yes!  I am going to commit to doing Blogiesta this year!  Never heard of it.  Well, I hadn't either until a month ago when I saw this cute button on so many sites.  About 100+ have  signed up to this event.  Here is the basics of it.  From March 30, 2012 to April 1, 2012 bloggers commit to completely finishing their Blogging To Do List.  And like all great blogging events there are mini-challenge giveaways and tons of Tweeting.  If you want to join the party, go to It's All About Books.

If you decide to participate, here's what you can expect: