Bloggiesta Update #2

Day 2 of Bloggiesta, being hosted by Suey at It's All About Books and Danielle at There's a Book, has come to a close for me - I've been sitting at my computer all day and am starting to go cross-eyed, plus I have only about 50 pages left of the book I'm reading (Guilty Wives by James Patterson) and I really want to finish it!

I got a lot done today and am looking forward to another productive day tomorrow, where I plan to spend a chuck of time working on my Review Archive page - just need to decide on what format to use.

Here's what I have accomplished so far:

• Write up a few reviews that I need to post/set up posts for upcoming reviews 
• Wrote and posted 2 reviews
• Wrote  2 other reviews that I will post within the next few days
• Set up 3 reviews - now I just need to write the review itself
  
• Evaluate current review format - look into possible new formats 
• Added Discover the Author links and Purchase the Book links to bottom of reviews
  
• Clean up tags, category lists
• Update reading log and link reviews to log COMPLETED
• Update my challenge lists and link reviews COMPLETED
• Add an About Me page that includes review policy
• Decided to create separate Review Policy page and posted it
  
• Clean up my Google Reader subscriptions - COMPLETED
• Update Goodreads tbr read list  COMPLETED
  
• Update blog roll COMPLETED
  
• Prepare posts for up-coming Book Blogger Confessions questions 
• Set up and answered question for 4.2.12 post
• Set up post for 4.16.12, but still need to answer question
  
• Prepare questions for up-coming Q&A's with authors and send out
• Decide whether to do review archive by author and/or title - Started this
  
• Analyze and re-evaluate my blog - Started this
• Participate in at least 2 mini-challenges 
• COMPLETED Challenges
• Pinterest to Promote Your Blog hosted by Joy at Joy's Book Blog
• Social Media Icon Tutorial  hosted by Lisa at Adventures of 2.0.
• How to Build Readers for Your Blog Through Commenting hosted by Sheila at Book Journey 
• A Comment Challenge hosted by Danielle at  There's a Book
  

Things done that were not on my original list:

• Prepare Month in Review: March post
• Changed wording in commenting section
• Figured out how to adjust the width of my columns (special thanks for Jessica at The Midnight Bookworm for the tips on this!)
  

Time spent today: 10.5 hrs.

Current running time: 18 hrs.


As always, I welcome any feedback and suggestions.