Lars Walker at Brandywine Books has awarded the Foothills a Premio Dardo Award! I like his description of it:

It’s a sort of chain award, requiring you to pass it on to 15 other bloggers, with the ultimate Ponzi-like result that eventually everyone will have one and it will mean nothing.

Nevertheless, it’s always nice to be noticed. (Thanks, Lars!)

A quick Google search reveals a bunch of blogs that have received it from other blogs, but it’s not at all clear where the award originated, or precisely what the rules are. There are signs that they’ve morphed a bit; Lars says you’re supposed to pass it along to fifteen other blogs, whereas some of the blogs I see on Google say you’re supposed to pass it along to five other blogs. I gather that it’s for literary blogs, in particular.

The difficulty is, I don’t read many specifically literary blogs; the main one is Brandywine Books.

Semicolon: I don’t actually read Semicolon all that much, these days; most of the books are childrens’ and young adult books, which I’m not all that interested in at the moment. But it remains in my feed reader, and I do take a look at it from time to time. As host of the Saturday Review of Books, Sherry certainly deserves a Premio Dardo.

Happy Catholic: Julie’s place isn’t strictly a literary blog, but she does review books from time to time; and anyway, a talking frog is way cool.

John C. Wright: As a published science fiction author, I’d say that Mr. Wright’s blog qualifies as a literary blog; and I certainly learn things from it.

So there you go. Three’s what I can do, today.