DailyLit’s Question of the Week is: Which are your favorite books of 2010? You can answer here in DailyLit’s forum.

Thanks to the Guardian U.K. for inspiring this week’s question (although, of course, our friends at the Guardian would prefer “favourite”!)

A week ago I challenged DailyLit readers to come up with a new slogan for DailyLit. With 119 suggestions, readers have shown their generosity and creativity. Here‘s a taste of what’s been submitted:

DailyLit – Get your Lit, bit by bit (by ajm9230)
DailyLit: Once Upon a Day (by dkaufman1)
You lit up my life (by pollyannacat)
A little Lit goes a long way (by dlarson)
Got Lit? (by PixPixie)
Expanding your mind one page at a time. (by billzo72)
Keep mentally fit with Daily Lit! (by Helli)
A little Lit. Daily. (by juliagriswold)
DailyLit…for all that’s writ. (
by katina.jones)
Inserting more chapters into your life. (by Jesslyn721)
DailyLit – get lit (by rebeccasjones)
Read a bit with DailyLit (by d29e30)
I break for books! (by alfred_weber)

You can find the other suggestions here in DailyLit’s forum.

DailyLit is incredibly lucky to have such a warm and engaging audience. Many thanks to all of you who’ve contributed!

And to all DailyLit readers, I’d love to have your feedback on these (and other) slogans submitted. You can include your feedback in the same forum as the suggestions here. If you have other suggestions, I’d welcome them there as well.

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Here’s DailyLit’s latest from our November newsletter — enjoy!

CONTENTS

Note from the Founder
Spotlight: Seth Godin
Creative Challenge: DailyLit Slogan
New: Facebook Integration
Character Vote
Featured Feature: Holiday Pauses
For the Kid in You
Mrs. Beeton’s Turkey

NOTE FROM THE FOUNDER

This month I’m celebrating creativity and the courage to turn our creative ideas into actions. I see that in my kids. They decided this summer to raise money for charity so they baked cookies, made lemonade, set up a stand in our driveway and sold out — all in one afternoon. How many times have we come up with an idea and then found excuses not to act on it? Author Seth Godin encourages us to take risks and put new ideas into action. And that’s why he’s our featured author this month. I’m also featuring children’s books to help us remember our creative, courageous child-like selves. And with all that creativity being tapped, I’m hoping you’ll help me come up with a new creative slogan for DailyLit.
So cheers to the courageous, creative child in each of us!
-Susan

Susan Danziger
Founder and CEO, DailyLit
sdanziger@dailylit.com
Twitter:@susandanziger, @dailylit

SPOTLIGHT: SETH GODIN

Author and marketing guru Seth Godin inspired me to push for new, creative ideas and turn those ideas into action. I’m hoping he can do the same for you. You can find some of his books (available for free, of course) on DailyLit:
Unleashing the Ideavirus (87 parts)
The Bootstrapper’s Bible (30 parts)
Flipping the Funnel: Company Edition (13 parts)
Flipping the Funnel: Non-Profit Edition (12 parts)

CREATIVE CHALLENGE: DAILYLIT SLOGAN

This month for the creative challenge I’m doing something a bit self-serving (I hope you don’t mind!) I’m asking you to help come up with a slogan for DailyLit. So please tap into your creative selves and suggest some memorable slogans that will make people take notice of DailyLit. You can enter them here.

NEW: FACEBOOK INTEGRATION

For all you Facebook fans, you can now link your DailyLit profile to your Facebook page. That’ll keep your friends up to date about the books you’re reading, and they can crack open the champagne as you finish each book. All you need to do is go to the Link Your Profile page here on DailyLit and follow the simple steps. For those of you who missed the Twitter integration (which needed updating), it’s now back and better than ever. So, if you haven’t yet done so, you can now link your DailyLit profile to Twitter on the same Link Your Profile page here.

CHARACTER VOTE

I asked DailyLit readers which fictional character they’d vote for. Here are their nominees: Albus Dumbledore (Harry Potter); Atticus Finch (To Kill a Mockingbird); Dagny Taggart (Atlas Shrugged); Glinda, the Good Witch (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz); Leto Atreides I (Dune); Zaphod Beeblebrox (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy); Samuel Pickwick (The Pickwick Papers) and Forrest Gump. There’s still time to cast your vote or write in your own candidate here.

FEATURED FEATURE: HOLIDAY PAUSES

For all of you planning to take a break and go off-line for the holidays, I thought I’d remind you of our “suspend and resume” feature which allows you to suspend your books while you’re away (so installments don’t pile up) and then have your books automatically resume on the return date you set. You can trigger this feature by hitting the “Suspend delivery of this book” link at the bottom of any book installment or go to the Manage Your Books page here.

FOR THE KID IN YOU

Here are some books to help bring out the kid in you:
The Golden Goose (2 parts)
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (37 parts)
Hans Christian Andersen’s Fairy Tales (69 parts)
The Secret Garden (101 parts)
Grimm’s Fairy Tales (115 parts)
Famous Stories Every Child Should Know — includes stories by Dickens and Hawthorne (116 parts)
You can find lots more for your inner-child among our Children’s Books here

MRS. BEETON’S TURKEY

Now, in honor of Thanksgiving, I thought I’d include a few lines from Mrs. Beeton’s Book of Household Management, published in London in 1861:
The turkey, for which fine bird we are indebted to America, is certainly one of the most glorious presents made by the New World to the Old….We can hardly imagine an object of greater envy than is presented by a respected portly pater-familias carving…his own fat turkey, and carving it well. The only art consists…in getting from the breast as many fine slices as possible; and all must have remarked the very great difference in the large number of people whom a good carver will find slices for, and the comparatively few that a bad carver will succeed in serving….The carver should commence cutting slices close to the wing…and then proceed upwards towards the ridge of the breastbone: this is not the usual plan, but, in practice, will be found the best. The breast is the only part which is looked on as fine in a turkey, the legs being very seldom cut off and eaten at the table: they are usually removed to the kitchen, where they are taken off…to appear only in a form which seems to have a special attraction at a bachelor’s supper-table, — we mean devilled: served in this way, they are especially liked and relished.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!