My 2008 DIKs
(from debut - June 2005 *)
My January column
My February column
My March column
My April column
My May column
My June column
* Co-authored Oct column
 What was begun as an online journal of the books I read evolved...or maybe it devolved...to also feature behind the scenes goings-on at All About Romance from my perspective (mostly based on my personal feelings - okay, it's a personal pity party); topics I've gone over ad nauseum in commentary at AAR, including the nature of reviews and online behavior; and my non-cyber life (including family and items in pop culture that capture my interest, which is just about everything). Please do not violate my trust. I restricted certain AAR-related and personal entries for a reason...to keep them as private as possible. Now that my blog is read-only, to access restricted entries you must already have a password; if you do, hold onto it so that you can continue to read restricted entries. This blog is not part of All About Romance. I ask that you keep comments or questions regarding restricted blog content off of AAR. |
AAR's Annual Reader Poll
| Our annual reader poll, which closes at midnight, February 17th, is right now between one third and one half complete in terms of time. But as you can see to your right, voting has not kept pace with time in recent days. It's for that reason in specific that I changed my approach in posting interim results today.
Until today, I kept the voting threshold for each category as low as possible, so as to allow as many titles as possible the opportunity to have their time in the sun. But then it occurred to me...perhaps if I began to show more of the daily drama involved, as titles move off and on the public list based on votes in comparison to other titles, I could spur voting while at the same time not turning it into a horse race or limiting titles readers might vote for. And so, that's what I did today. As a result, in most categories there are nine or ten titles included, rather than thirteen, fourteen or more. In others there are eight titles. In some categories there are even fewer, and in one, a huge number of titles remains; were I to apply the next threshold to it, the number of titles appearing in that category would diminish too greatly. It's always a juggling game; how to maintain suspense and not nudge the vote in any particular direction while at the same time doing whatever I can to encourage voting. |
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I've now linked to the graph you see to your right from the main page of our forums, first under "Announcements", and will update it every couple of days. In a perfect world, by Sunday night we'd be at 50% (right now we're at 35%).
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TTFN, Laurie Likes Books