First up, the winner of a copy of Precious Williams' memoir, Color Blind, is...Lori Tharps! Congrats Lori! Unsolicited Plug Alert: Yes, it's the same Lori Tharps who's the author of Kinky Gazpacho and the upcoming novel, Substitute Me. She also blogs at My American Meltingpot. So, readers do yourselves a great service and pre-order both Color Blind and Substitute Me today. End plug.

Next, my one year blogoversary as a book blogger is in just under two weeks. After about five years of blogging, I finally found where I'm most comfortable in the blogosphere. My bee eff eff had pushed me from the beginning to blog about books and in my crazy mind I thought: who would read a book blog? Crazy, eh? But I was a newbie and it never occurred to me to even see if there were book blogs already out there. I guess it shouldn't have mattered. Nonetheless, I found my way home to an amazing blog family.

So, be sure to stop by here starting Monday, July 26th and see what kinda goodies I offer up for the humble celebration which is officially Saturday, July 31st.