In honor of my second anniversary of blogging, I’ve given my blog a makeover.
I added two new features: The ‘Exploring Adoption’ Bookstore and an adoption poll.
The store, located at the top of the right sidebar, contains my recommendations for books in the following categories:
- Adoptees
- Adoption Anthologies & Compilations
- Children’s Books
- Picture Books
- Fantasy and Science Fiction
- Adoption-Related Children’s Books
- Fiction
- Infertility
- Magazines
- Memoirs & First-Person Reflections
- Parenting
- Support, Guidance, & General Adoption Issues
- Intercountry Adoption
- Special Needs Adoption
- History, Psychology, and Theology of Adoption
- Foster-Adopt & Older Child Adoption
- Transracial Adoption
- Unplanned Pregnancy
If you read this blog regularly, you know that I review lots of adoption-related books and products. I’ve either read or reviewed all of the products featured in my store. I think you’ll enjoy the easy access and user-friendliness of the new bookstore. I look forward to adding more books and I invite you to suggest your favorites or to contact me if you have an adoption-related book you’d like me to review.
The adoption poll (located directly below the Book of the Week in the right sidebar) is a fun way for you to interact with my blog. I’ll post a new survey every month.
Another feature that a lot of readers enjoy is the ability to subscribe to my blog, either through e-mail excerpts that are mailed directly to your Inbox whenever I post something new, or via FeedBurner’s RSS feed (see the links in the top left corner of my blog to subscribe). Beginning soon, readers who subscribe via e-mail will be eligible to receive some "freebies."
Other popular features remain:
- Book of the Week link (moved to top right corner)
- Adoption Search Engine (right sidebar, below Book of the Week)
- Top 20 Articles (left sidebar)
- Adoption Blogroll (moved to left sidebar). This blogroll is one of the most comprehensive you’ll find on any adoption blog, as it not only lists the name of each blog, but gives you some information about its theme.
For more news and information about adoption, visit www.laurachristianson.com.