Discussing and Remembering Dewey
It is a sad week within the book blogging community. Dewey from Hidden Side of a Leaf passed away this past week. To say that she leaves behind a huge void is a understatement. Not only was she a prolific reader, reviewer and blogger but she was also the founder and organizer of Weekly Geeks, the Bookworms Carnival, and the 24 Hour Read-a-Thon. And I'm sure I'm unaware of many others. We have all been influenced by her amazing energy, creative juices and bringing the community together. She was a wonderful friend. Florinda at The 3 R's: Reading, 'Riting, and Randomness perhaps summed everything up best on this well thought out post. She already has a list of bloggers willing to help.
There has been a lot of discussion on many blogs and twitter about how to cope with that loss.
Some of that discussion has included:
1 - How to best express our condolences to Dewey's family. Many of us have her address in which to send cards/packages. It's been mentioned to donate money/books to her local library, donate money to have her family plant a tree in her name, gather all the online tributes to make sure that Dewey's family doesn't miss them all, send flowers, etc.
2. - How to best carry on the amazing community building events that Dewey started. Many have already expressed interest in taking up some of these projects, includes challenges, Weekly Geeks, the 24 Hour Read-a-thon (this has gotten so big, it probably should have a dedicated blog), secret santa (with Nymeth), and the Bookworms Carnival. Dewey already had a lot of help on many of these projects so I'm sure many feel more prepared than others to step up to the plate.
3 - Raych from Books I Done Read has asked for a RIP button to place on our blogs.
4 - Keeping Dewey's husband in the loop. He mentioned that he would like to either see Dewey's blog continue or just let it rest. Either way, I think he should be in the know how.
So what now? Let's figure it out! Ideas, like to help, etc? I thought that we should get a discussion going in just one place, so it's not spread out among everybody. This certainly doesn't make me the "moderator" here. I just want to be able to talk amongst ourselves. What have I missed?
And if you're reading this discussion that get the word out and direct traffic over here. I'll set up another discussion to list links of our remembrance posts.
There has been a lot of discussion on many blogs and twitter about how to cope with that loss.
Some of that discussion has included:
1 - How to best express our condolences to Dewey's family. Many of us have her address in which to send cards/packages. It's been mentioned to donate money/books to her local library, donate money to have her family plant a tree in her name, gather all the online tributes to make sure that Dewey's family doesn't miss them all, send flowers, etc.
2. - How to best carry on the amazing community building events that Dewey started. Many have already expressed interest in taking up some of these projects, includes challenges, Weekly Geeks, the 24 Hour Read-a-thon (this has gotten so big, it probably should have a dedicated blog), secret santa (with Nymeth), and the Bookworms Carnival. Dewey already had a lot of help on many of these projects so I'm sure many feel more prepared than others to step up to the plate.
3 - Raych from Books I Done Read has asked for a RIP button to place on our blogs.
4 - Keeping Dewey's husband in the loop. He mentioned that he would like to either see Dewey's blog continue or just let it rest. Either way, I think he should be in the know how.
So what now? Let's figure it out! Ideas, like to help, etc? I thought that we should get a discussion going in just one place, so it's not spread out among everybody. This certainly doesn't make me the "moderator" here. I just want to be able to talk amongst ourselves. What have I missed?
And if you're reading this discussion that get the word out and direct traffic over here. I'll set up another discussion to list links of our remembrance posts.
Replies to This Discussion
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Permalink Reply by Miriam Parker on -
Thanks, Chris. Dave King, author of THE HA-HA saw that his book was included in the Challenge. I told him about Dewey and he wrote, "Oh, how lovely. I'm really touched." Thank you to all who chose to read it.
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Permalink Reply by Literary Escapism on -
Okay, so what was decided for the Bookworms Carnival? I'm doing the first half of December and I was just thinking that we should get something going for the future carnivals.
So if you want in on this discussion, head over to the YGroup as I'm starting it up.
Someone had a page set up already....I can't remember who and I really don't want to field through the comments, so (Bluestocking??) make sure you head over. :P
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Permalink Reply by Literary Escapism on
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Speaking of websites....whoever gets Weekly Geeks and all of Dewey's other projects going, let me know and I'll make sure to link to them on the BWC's page.
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Permalink Reply by Literary Escapism on
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the website - http://bookwormscarnival.wordpress.com/
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Permalink Reply by Ali on -
Very nice. It does my heart good to see the site up and running, Jackie. Thank you!
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Permalink Reply by Literary Escapism on
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For any Bookworms Followers (or past and future hosts), I've put up some news at the site.
Basically, we're not going to contact Dewey's husband for any of the information, so we have no clue what Dewey has. We may contact him eventually, but I just can't do it during the holidays. This has to be a hard time for Dewey's family right now.
Anyway, mainly this means that we're missing some vital info, so if you have some or want to know what we're looking for, hit the website.
Thanks!
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Permalink Reply by Maw Books on -
Great Jackie! I was looking for a place to contact you on the website, but I don't see anything. Might be useful to have something up for people interested in hosting/questions. Anyways, I wanted to snag the next open spot as a host.
I know Dewey's husband just said "run with it." I think you all are doing a great job.
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Permalink Reply by Literary Escapism on
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bookwormscarnival at gmail dot come
I need to splash that around more do I? Got it.
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Permalink Reply by Ali on
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Hey all, does anyone know of any plans to continue Dewey's Graphic Novel Challenge in 2009? Alea and I are willing to take it on together, but if someone else is already planning something we're good with that, too. We just don't want to see it die.
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Permalink Reply by Ali on
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We found one! So, if anyone else wants to sign up for this challenge it's at http://graphicnovelschallenge.blogspot.com/
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Permalink Reply by Literary Escapism on
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Oh! Book Bloggers Top 10 of 2008 ends tomorrow night...have you voted? http://www.literaryescapism.com/wgtop10-2008/
Weekly Geekers - can you make another mention of it? Last chance is tomorrow and we've already had 1237 voters! The last 24 hours are upon us.
I'm snowed in for the weekend (so not traveling in this weather), so I should have the results posted Sunday night.
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