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Compliments are a good investment, and nobody should keep his/her admiration for someone else hidden: ever since I wrote this dithyrambic piece about Emily’s blog, she has been consistently checking here for new material, commenting on every other post, and sending blogging awards my way. Apparently, the effect has still not worn off, because she just confessed she loved my blog. That means I have to name at least seven blogs I love, in an exponential series of compliments.

Unfortunately, I have been too busy recently to make new blogging friends, so the list will have to revolve around the usual suspects.

I’d love to put Emily’s Telecommuter Talk on top of the list, but apparently, the rules require that I name seven other blogs, so here we go:

Charlotte’s Web is where I go first when Emily fails to post for two days in a row. I love the sense of humour, the writing, the family anecdotes, the viewpoints on Germany (I have been to Bremen, Hamburg, Munich, Berlin, Nürnberg, Darmstadt, Würzburg, but apparently, Charlotte will only write about Berlin and Mannheim) and the rest of Europe, and above all the pieces on her South African upbringing (Charlotte, any clue as to when your award-winning I am From post will find its way to the audio world for real?)

Tai’s Aerophant is a collections of quotes, aphorisms, short musings, accompanied by an unexpected picture or otherwise graphical material. Very refreshing. Sometimes absurd. Always contemplative. And she’s a writer too.

Healingmagichands’ The Havens is the blog of a dream garden (and an indimidatingly romanesque life), by a woman from Alaska that the other woman from Alaska would probably have burned a few hundred years ago (did I hear ‘magic hands?). Forget the other woman from Alaska and read what Ellie has to tell us. As we French people say: she does not keep her tongue in her pocket.

Cori’ Pirate’s Library is outside the usual suspects. Her blog revolves around all her magnificent Librivox projects. If you are looking for free audio versions of classic works, go to Librivox advanced search and enter ‘cori’ as the reader’s name. You will certainly not be disappointed.

Smithereens is almost a professional book review blog. Apparently, I am not the only French person out there reading books and writing blogs in English, but she’s much more assiduous than I am at writing down about the books she reads. Unfortunately, as with most bloggers who publish often, I have fallen behind in the past few weeks (months?). I will try to correct that.

What we Said is nobody’s blog in particular: that’s where we bloggers write about everything feminism. Please have a look, and if you want to join as an author, we’ll be flattered. And for those like me who have not written in a while: what are we waiting for?

And then there’s always BlogLily - but as she’s been very busy with real writing, we have been missing her a lot lately.

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