<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:blogger='http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2478300019664452207</id><updated>2018-04-12T05:51:11.209-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Jules&#39; Book Reviews</title><subtitle type='html'>Come in, sit back with a coffee or hot chocolate, and read reviews of the books I&#39;ve read.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.julesbookreviews.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2478300019664452207/posts/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.julesbookreviews.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Jules</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15548374470375135651</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='https://images-blogger-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/gadgets/proxy?url=http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Kmh3RHhwJak/S0YSJ869QSI/AAAAAAAAAAY/pQzF_uO2NL8/S220-s110/flair6.jpg&amp;container=blogger&amp;gadget=a&amp;rewriteMime=image/*'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>2</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2478300019664452207.post-3982535279456133314</id><published>2018-03-24T14:16:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2018-03-24T14:16:05.238-04:00</updated><title type='text'>My first published book is available now!</title><content type='html'>&lt;br /&gt;I wanted to share with you, that my first book, Lester&#39;s Great Adventure, is now available for sale.&lt;br /&gt;It has been a very exciting week, and exciting journey to having the book published.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ozxy2p7tSRM/WraTj-h61QI/AAAAAAAAGIA/oQJ-Hgt9b7Y9d9v2hdU11KFY5f4Ob6TiwCLcBGAs/s1600/Lester%2527s%2BGreat%2BAdventure%2BCover.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;512&quot; data-original-width=&quot;512&quot; height=&quot;320&quot; src=&quot;https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ozxy2p7tSRM/WraTj-h61QI/AAAAAAAAGIA/oQJ-Hgt9b7Y9d9v2hdU11KFY5f4Ob6TiwCLcBGAs/s320/Lester%2527s%2BGreat%2BAdventure%2BCover.jpg&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you wish to purchase a copy you can do so by going to one of the links below - I&#39;d love to hear/read your thoughts on the book. I should have a book page up on GoodReads soon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://books.friesenpress.com/store/title/119734000051042211&quot;&gt;FriesenPress&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.amazon.com/Julie-M.-Dobson/e/B07BNZKTRM/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1521915006&amp;amp;sr=1-1&quot;&gt;Amazon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/lesters-great-adventure/id1362746496?mt=11&quot;&gt;iTunes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://play.google.com/store/search?q=9781525518782&amp;amp;c=books&quot;&gt;Google Play&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&#39;ve been working away the last couple of days, promoting the book and designing my new website. The website is still a work in progress, but you can go &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.juliemdobson.com/&quot;&gt;visit it here&lt;/a&gt;. I hope to have more information up soon, but for now, you can see all of the details about the book, and I hope to have a blog-like feature up shortly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I don&#39;t know if I will do full on reviews, but I will be posting some of the books I&#39;ve read and you can still see what I&#39;m reading on &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1395951-julie&quot;&gt;GoodReads&lt;/a&gt;. And of course you can find me on Twitter (@DobsonJulieM). I may post some of my favourite reviews/books up, but some of them need some editing, as I have some rather, embarrassing, grammar mistakes in them (it&#39;s why editors are so awesome!), but I&#39;m undecided on that as well.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Again, I want to thank everyone who has stopped by the blog over the years, it&#39;s a goodbye to the blog, but not to me. I hope to still see you all around.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;~Julie M. Dobson aka Jules/Bookwormjules&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.julesbookreviews.com/feeds/3982535279456133314/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.julesbookreviews.com/2018/03/my-first-published-book-is-available-now.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2478300019664452207/posts/default/3982535279456133314'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2478300019664452207/posts/default/3982535279456133314'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.julesbookreviews.com/2018/03/my-first-published-book-is-available-now.html' title='My first published book is available now!'/><author><name>Jules</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15548374470375135651</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='https://images-blogger-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/gadgets/proxy?url=http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Kmh3RHhwJak/S0YSJ869QSI/AAAAAAAAAAY/pQzF_uO2NL8/S220-s110/flair6.jpg&amp;container=blogger&amp;gadget=a&amp;rewriteMime=image/*'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ozxy2p7tSRM/WraTj-h61QI/AAAAAAAAGIA/oQJ-Hgt9b7Y9d9v2hdU11KFY5f4Ob6TiwCLcBGAs/s72-c/Lester%2527s%2BGreat%2BAdventure%2BCover.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2478300019664452207.post-415831539129768767</id><published>2018-03-18T11:51:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2018-03-18T11:51:17.580-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Saying Goodbye to the Blog. </title><content type='html'>After a lot of thought, I&#39;ve decided to say goodbye to this blog.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&#39;m both sad and relieved about this decision. On one side, I&#39;ve dedicated nearly ten years of my life into reviewing books on this blog, and I&#39;ve met and discussed books with some fantastic people. On the other side, my drive to review books is no longer where it was. As you&#39;ve seen, in the last few years my posts have declined significantly, while some of that was due some personal hiccups in the road, I also don&#39;t have that desire to review the books I read. It&#39;s become a chore, rather than a fun hobby.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another reason for saying goodbye is I&#39;m focused on a new adventure in my life - becoming an author. I&#39;m working on an author website, writing more books, and promoting the one (and hopefully more), I have published.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have saved a backup of the blog, in case I decide to come back to it, and you can still find me on Goodreads, and eventually my author website.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;Where to find me:&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/DobsonJulieM&quot;&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.instagram.com/dobsonjuliem/&quot;&gt;Instagram&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.facebook.com/LestersGreatAdventure/&quot;&gt;Facebook Page&lt;/a&gt; (for my first book, Lester&#39;s Great Adventure)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/JulieMDobson&quot;&gt;GoodReads&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thank you to everyone who has stopped by over the years - it has been fun and, I look forward to sharing this next step in my life with you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;~ Julie M. Dobson</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.julesbookreviews.com/feeds/415831539129768767/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.julesbookreviews.com/2018/03/saying-goodbye-to-blog.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2478300019664452207/posts/default/415831539129768767'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2478300019664452207/posts/default/415831539129768767'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.julesbookreviews.com/2018/03/saying-goodbye-to-blog.html' title='Saying Goodbye to the Blog. '/><author><name>Jules</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15548374470375135651</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='https://images-blogger-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/gadgets/proxy?url=http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Kmh3RHhwJak/S0YSJ869QSI/AAAAAAAAAAY/pQzF_uO2NL8/S220-s110/flair6.jpg&amp;container=blogger&amp;gadget=a&amp;rewriteMime=image/*'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry></feed>