Ariel at BitterSweet Life thought up this whole Indie Blog thing. To be an indie blogger, you’re supposed to have minimal overall influence and negligible financial impact, and also be fiercely unique, illogically dedicated, unapologetically eclectic, and typically ignored. Or at least five out of the seven. Ariel thinks I qualify, and I’m honored to be an Indie Blog. Go here for the origins of the Idie Blog tag.
Now, these blogs that I’ve chosen are INDIE, not likely to become the most influential or talked-about blogs in the blogosphere. In fact they all feature material only a confirmed bibliophile (or bibliomaniac) could love, but I’m hooked:
The Book Inscriptions Project: “We collect personal messages written in ink (or pen or marker or crayon or grape jelly) inside books.
Pictures count. So do poems. So do notes on paper found in a book. The more heartfelt the better.
Send a copy of the cover and the inscription and any details about how, when and where you found it.”
Wonders for Oyarsa is blogging the Bible: “Blogs about reading a book I’ve read all my life don’t sound too exciting. And maybe it isn’t exciting, and I don’t really expect that many readers. However, it does seem like a really good idea for any Christian – to read the entire Bible, reflect on it, honestly write what comes to mind, and welcome conversation from others.”
Postman’s Horn is “a daily selection of correspondence by authors, writers, painters, poets and others: A letter can provide that sense of everyday life, a glimpse of the the trials and tribulations of another human soul; and they can underscore the humanity of writers who have become so very famous. I enjoy reading them, as does my wife, and we thought it would be a type of commonplace book where others could read them as well.”
Chesterton and Friends is “a site dedicated to G.K. Chesterton, his friends, and the writers he influenced: Belloc, Baring, Lewis, Tolkien, Dawson, Barfield, Knox, Muggeridge, and others.” It’s a case of independent bloggers celebrating some rather independent writers.