I hope everyone’s having a fantastic holiday weekend! I didn’t end up traveling this year- my hubs and I are safely at home, being bums and loving every second of it.

A lot happened this past week at RBR, so let’s do a quick recap. Last week, we:

• Got pumped about an awesome Firelight Kindle Deal
• Checked out the Amazon Customer Selected Essentials for Young Adults list
• Listed our top ten books on our fall TBR
• Waited on the gorgeous butterfly cover book Incarnate
• Watched Laruen DeStefano’s behind-the-scenes Fever cover video
• Entered HarperTeen giveaways on GoodReads.com
• Talked about books whose endings we’d like to change
• Reviewed Firelight by Sophie Jordan

Oh and…

• Hosted a giveaway of VANISH by Sophie Jordan, which is coming out tomorrow!!! You can still enter- the giveaway ends September 6th at 12:01 a.m.

Plus here’s a few things on the agenda for this week:

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Labor Day BBQ

• Book Review: Watefall by Lisa T. Bergen
• Poll: What’s your favorite fantasy creature?
• NEW RBR FEATURE: The Frugal Fantasy Reader
• A Novel Accessory: Steampunk- Part 2 (heck yes!)

Enjoy the long weekend!

I’ve got a few updates that I wanted to bring to your attention!

First, the Search bar at the top right of the page is now in working order! It currently uses Google search to find information on the blog and, although it looks a bit funky for now, I think it will improve searching by 1000 percent (=extremely accurate). I’m really excited because I think the “findability” of blog content will be increased a ton!

I always think of this hat when I heard the word "sorted."

Second, I organized the Reviews page! All my book reviews are now sorted alphabetically by title. I personally think this makes a lot more sense than how I had it before (sorted by month I reviewed the book). I hope to add a “top books” sub-page to the Reviews section sometime month, as well!

The last bit of news is more personal. I always struggle with how much of my life to share on the blog- mainly because this blog is about a very specific topic.

Mentioning too many unrelated things seems like it would detract from my overall blog concept. Plus, some experienced bloggers have said that if you want to talk about your private life, you should make a separate blog about that.

Although I see their point, I always  love finding out about my blogger friends’ lives behind the scenes! It makes me feel they’re a real person instead of some nameless review machine.

As my little bit of news is related to blogging, I thought I’d go ahead and take the plunge. I recently changed jobs, and today marks my first day at my new company! (Don’t worry, I pre-write and schedule my posts, which means I’m not blogging from work!).

I’m beyond excited about this new opportunity because…it involves blogging! I’m going to be contributing to a corporate travel blog and will be working to write and edit articles.

I’m anxious to get started and begin growing even more as a writer and a blogger. I also can’t wait to share my knowledge here with you guys too!

Do you struggle with sharing too much about yourself on your blog? If you have a book blog, how much do you write about your personal life?