Here we are!
Over a year ago, Tiara, Mogsy and Wendy discovered NetGalley, but without an acceptable outlet, we couldn’t participate as professional readers. That’s when a thought struck us. The three of us were already avid Goodreads users, making regular use of the site’s review options. We decided to join forces and revive Mogsy’s book blog, The Bibliosanctum, and now that we’ve cut our teeth, we’ve decided to get a little fancier.
Welcome to the new and improved BiblioSanctum!
Our time in the book review blogosphere has taught us so much and introduced us to so many wonderful people and experiences, and of course, to many, many new books! Everything we need to feed our bibliophilia (as if our obsession actually needed more encouragement!)
These are just a few of the wonderful experiences we’ve come to appreciate so much, and we wanted to thank you all, our readers, bloggers, publishers and authors, who’ve been so incredible.
The Review Blogosphere: There are many other reviewers who’ve been doing this book review thing for some time. Initially, their sites provided inspiration for our own, but as time has gone on, we’ve made a few friends and acquaintances and enjoyed many book-related conversations.
Sharing Our Book Love: Creating a book blog meant we could participate in NetGalley, but more importantly, we got to expand the opportunity to flail about books. When we love a book, we want to make sure you know about it. And while we might not be able to share it with you physically, we can at least steer you in the direction of a sale or two.
The To-Read Pile: Goodreads recommendations were already ensuring we’d never get through our to-read piles, but getting into the world ARCs and meeting all these new people means we’re constantly being inundated with more and more to read! And it’s just so darn hard to say no when everything looks so gooood…
Chatting with Authors: Something we didn’t expect was the opportunity to actually chat with authors. Not just in interviews about their books, but chatting about everyday stuff too. Turns out, authors are actually cool human beings who love to read and game and cook and, you know, do stuff too!
Watching Authors Chat: Sometimes, as fun as it is to chat with the authors, it’s just as fun to be a bit of a voyeur and watch their Twitter interactions with each other, especially after a major event in the book community. It’s a small world, it seems, and more importantly, a very close knit one filled with lots of fun and encouragement.
Publishers: We’re still a little amazed by all the wonderful publishers out there who value our opinion on the many wonderful books they produce.
Now that we’ve moved to our cozy new home in this corner of the internet, we’re looking forward to this and a whole lot more! Thanks for reading!
~The BiblioSanctum
The BiblioSanctum 
Welcome to WordPress!
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Congrats in finally making the switch tho WordPress! I’m sure you guys will live it!
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Yes, ladies, congrats on the move!
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Thank you! We’re already enjoying the differences. We still have some tweaks here and there to make in the design and transfer, but the logistics are much easier to handle.
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Yay! Congrats, don’t think you’ll regret it! Looks great so far and selfish bonus for me, blogger won’t eat my comments on your site anymore! 😀
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Oh heck, Blogger was eating my own comments on the site, so I understand the pain 😛
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OK, I had to come back and leave another comment that I LOVE the images you have for your features now!
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Thank Wendy who did all those! In fact, she pretty much set up this whole site, and it looks fantastic! I don’t know what we’d do without her!
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Aww *blush*
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Daaaang ladies! The site looks great! Congrats on making the move. I find WordPress to be much more user-friendly. I must confess the first time I commented on your blogger site I almost had a mental breakdown trying to figure out the comment system, hahaha.
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You won’t regret it!
Until a wordpress update breaks some of your code, but DONT WORRY ABOUT THAT.
Seriously though, probably the single best thing I did for my own blog was making this move.
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Just never update!
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Thank you all! And thanks Wendy, for setting up the site! 😀
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Heck yes! You will enjoy the crazy benefits of wordpress. Now I’ll see all your reply back comments! I’m so freaking ecstatis *does a crazy jig*
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Congrats! It’s about time you domained. Yes, that’s a word.
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Congrats on the domain name and the new site!
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I love WordPress and I’m sure you will too. Congrats on your new space!
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I have been wanting to, but have not dared to move
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We’ve actually been playing with WP now for a little more than a week before we launched this for real…and already I’m finding it much less of a hassle to deal with than Blogger. If you ever consider it!
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I know you have, I got an email every time you moved a Tough Travel post due to the backlink. Was hilarious.
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What a gorgeous looking site! Definitely welcome to WordPress – I wondered why my comments were disappearing (I thought maybe you were just deleting them because I was saying seriously silly things! – which, maybe you were but now I have this little glitch to pounce and blame it upon).
Hope WordPress works out well for you.
Lynn 😀
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LOL no we would never delete your comments! It was Blogger eating them all, ugh! Now I’m even more glad we decided to move! 😀
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Wow, thank you for everyone’s well wishes! I’m glad you’re liking the new site, because we are too!
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New site looks beautiful! and yay for wordpress. 🙂
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Thank you! 🙂
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Looks great!
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Thank you very much 🙂
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Woohoo! *highfive* on the update and the move, I’m lovin’ the look! Can’t wait to see what you all do with your new digs and what we can look forward to – one thing is for sure is that it’ll be awesome! 😀
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haha thank you! We’ve been busy figuring out the ins and outs and loving (most of) what we’ve found so far.
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Congrats of your new website! I know I’m not a long time follower but I love all your reviews and it’s always interesting to learn more. I hope you’ll continue like that for a long time!
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We certainly hope to be around for a while and moving here is part of that plan. 🙂 Glad to have you here with us!
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Elengant-looking site! Congratulations! 🙂
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