Premio Dardos & Versatile Blogger

A big thank you to Bibliophiliac for the The Premio Dardos award.
"The Prêmio Dardos is a way to acknowledge the importance of bloggers committed to spreading cultural, ethical, literary and personal values, showing their thoughts are alive through their letters and words. The rules to follow are: 1) Accept the award, post it on your blog together with the name of the person that has granted the award and his or her blog link. 2) Pass the award to 15 other blogs that are worthy of this acknowledgment. Remember to contact each of them to let them know they have been chosen for this award.

It's very exciting to be acknowledged by fellow bloggers like this and I love passing them on. There are a lot of great blogs, but each award is different and I feel it's important to pass it on to those blogs that meet the specifics of the award, which takes some time to research. So, I'll be doing that in bits and pieces, starting with 5 today.

These are the blogs I'm passing the award on to and that I hope you'll check out:
Bloggin' bout Books
Bookworm With A View
Homespun Light
I Prefer Reading
Stuck-In-A-Book

Another big thank-you to Reading With Tequila for The Versatile Blogger award.

The Rules for the award are:
1. Thank the person who gave you this award
2. Share 7 things about yourself.
3. Pass the award along to 15 bloggers who you have recently discovered and who you think are fantastic for whatever reason! (in no particular order…)
4. Contact the bloggers you’ve picked and let them know about the award.

Seven things about me:
1. My book club meeting is always the highlight of my month.
2. At last count there were 256 authors on my tbr list.
3. I make lists. Lots and lots of lists.
4. I'm a Montreal Canadians fan.
5. In the past year I have discovered that if I don't like a book I don't have to finish it. It only took me 58 years.
6. I speak fluent pig-latin, a sad confession for a 58 year old, but I lack other talent to brag about.
7. When I was 16 I won a national limerick contest. The subject was hometown tourist attractions and I wrote an unflattering verse that I realize now probably didn't do our town any good, but hey, it did win me the contest.

The first five blogs I'm passing this award along to are:
A Reader's Journal
And The Plot Thickens
Life Happens While Books Are Waiting
The Book Buff
Words, Words, Words

Again, thanks for the thumbs up
Dianne