My name is BrontëBlog, and I am a bookaholic

On BrontëBlog we try to maintain a small profile. We like to see ourselves as compilers and as a meeting point of all Brontë-lovers around looking for a place where they can share how much alive their works still are. We don't like to enter into personal stuff and we don't feel like discussing the lives of the people behind the posts but it's true that to maintain a blog like this one is not always an easy task. It demands time and lots of research.

So, when this task is recognized by your readers or even reported in a newly published book, it's something that we really appreciate.

The Bookaholics' Guide to Book Blogs
Compiled by Rebecca Gillieron and Catheryn Kilgarriff
Marion Boyars Publisher

UK Pub Date: 20 October 2007
Price: £7.99/$17.95
ISBN: 978-0-7145-3151-9
Literature/Criticism

Comprehensive guide to the top book bloggers on the internet which asks who are these people, what are they writing about and why? With some book bloggers gaining hundreds of hits a day, this book aims to show all book lovers that these blogs are an informative and fun alternative to literary criticism in the press.

In an industry where the success of a new book can be bought with marketing campaigns that cost thousands, book bloggers represent a new and entirely independent literary force. The internet has granted the reader a voice, and with hundreds returning to particular sites daily to hear what these self-elected reviewers have got to say, literary critics, booksellers and publishers are having to sit up and take notice. But who are these people? Why are they important? Motivated entirely by the love of books, what have they got to say and why are they so keen to say it?

This first ever guide to the top book blogs aims to tempt anyone new to this phenomena to log-on and get reading – including interviews and sample reviews from the leading contributors as well as tips on new book bloggers.

Reviews of the book can be found here.

BrontëBlog is featured in the section of Fan Blogs. We will not post here the four pages that they devote to us (or some very funny inaccuracies that we invite the readers of the book to discover), including the post A laidback Heathcliff, Bertha Rochester and The Sopranos (published in June 2007). Let us reproduce here, nonetheless, the last paragraph, and apologies for the shameless self-indulgence:

It would be difficult to find a fan site that is more dedicated to its literary heroes – or in this case literary heroines – than this one.

Categories: Books, Messages from BB