Today’s question, from Wendi’s Book Corner: Prior to today, were you aware of Open Shelves Classification? Have you helped to classify any books yet? Is this something you are interested in? Did you know that if you classify any books, it will also show you who else has classified the book? I was aware of the Open Shelves project when… Read more
I’m not sure what I did to get on Mesorah Publications’ mailing list, but boy, am I glad I did it! Back in December, I reviewed Kosher By Design Lightens Up! and shortly after that I received a new book from them, Crafting Jewish. It’s a lovely book and I have had a great time looking through it. I’m not… Read more
Coming up on Thursday, January 29th, I’m going to have a special guest post from Emily Bryan, author of Vexing the Viscount. Now, I warned Emily that I am not a big romance reader, but she’s a great sport and wants to stop by anyway. As a special treat, she’s going to offer a free copy of Vexing the Viscount… Read more
According to his bio, “Mathias B. Freese brings the weight of his twenty-five years of experience as a clinical social worker and psychotherapist into play as he demonstrates a vivid understand of – and compassion toward – the deviant and the damaged.” I’ve read since that he wrote about half of these stories before he began his career, but the… Read more
I haven’t done one of these in while! Today’s Tuesday Thingers question comes from Wendi’s Book Corner: Have you ever used the Swap This Book function which can be found on the main page of any book? If so, what do you think about it? If not, are there any other swap sites you utilize to exchange books once you… Read more
It’s Tuesday again, time for another edition of Teaser Tuesdays! You all know the rules by now (grab a book, find a couple of great sentences and don’t give away the big twist at the end), so here we go… Today’s sentences are from a fabulous book I’m finally getting a chance to finish – The Gone-Away World, by Nick… Read more
What I learned from this book: if you are about to drive your car over a cliff so that it crashes and catches fire, this is not the time to spill a bottle of bourbon in your lap. That is catastrophically bad timing. The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson is a love story, but an unusual one. The Narrator (who is… Read more
I haven’t posted one of these in ages! I’m not going to try to catch you up on everything that has joined my library in months, just the things that came in during the last 2 weeks, while I was in Florida on business. Throw Out Fifty Things by Gail Blanke – this is from LibraryThing Early Reviewers and anyone… Read more
TEASER TUESDAYS asks you to: – Grab your current read.– Let the book fall open to a random page.– Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.– You also need to share the title of the book that you’re getting your “teaser” from … that way people can have some great book… Read more
I was tipped off to this by Gwen at Literary License: The annual rating of America’s Most Literary Cities has been announced. Where does your city [or the closest city to you] rank? 1. Minneapolis, MN2. Seattle, WA3. Washington, DC4. St. Paul, MN5. San Francisco, CA6. Atlanta, GA7. Denver, CO8. Boston, MA9. St. Louis, MO10. Portland, OR11. Pittsburgh, PA12. Cleveland,… Read more