“Fiddle-de-dee’s not English.”

Oh dear. I’m late with this.

This is the end-of-week (literally, it seems, despite the fact I was supposed to write this by Thursday) report for theme #2 of Weekly Geeks! This week we’re supposed to exchange links with other readers who’ve read the same book, and I have not been very successful.

Here are my excuses:

1. It has been a lousy week. I come home from work, exhausted, and I mope a bit, and then try to fall asleep and generally fail trying to fall asleep, and get even more morose the next day.
2. I am horribly, painfully shy. I don’t mind making a lot of noise when I am alone here, you see, because more often than not, I’m talking to an empty space, but actually going to other people’s blogs and saying “Hi!” kinda scares me. (I always have this feeling that I would be obliged afterwards to read other things they posted. And sometimes I do just that — read the last few posts, just because I’d feel guilty if I didn’t try to get to know them a bit.) I, uh. I didn’t leave any comments at other bloggers’ posts. At first it was because I couldn’t find anyone who’s reviewed the same books, but later I just shied away. Um.

However, some people did drop by and leave comments. Thank you for stopping by! I’ve linked them all up, with the only exception being Renay’s reviews (which were all nicely listed in a page, hooray!), since our books overlap quite a bit — no surprise, really, since I steal stuff from her reading list a lot, and I’m still going through some of her reviews I skipped before. I tend to skip reviews of books I haven’t read — I’ll take note whether it’s recommended, and put it in my to-read list, and by the time I’ve finished reading it, I forget who’s reviewed it.

I’ll admit I liked fiddling with the blog more than searching for reviews. I put up a notice on the sidebar, tweaked the template and the CSS so that I’ll have a nice, customisable section for review-linking at the bottom, and played with the threaded comments plugin (which doesn’t seem to like OpenID, for some reason) instead of going around searching for and linking reviews. Partly it was because it’s so hard to browse through the entries to find books in common! (But mostly it’s just because of the excuses already given above.)

This will probably work better when not done for old posts. I think. I’d probably browse around and link to other readers’ reviews when I post something new, but whether or not I’ll drop by and say hello is another matter altogether, I guess. Pingbacks are acceptable, right? Right?

Oh well.