Just a reminder that time is running out to enter my portion of the 50 Books in 50 Days Contest! Win a signed copy of Joy Nash’s latest entry in The Immortals series. Click here to register. Read more
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Tuesday Thingers
From The Boston Bibliophile: do you have friends in real life that you met through LibraryThing? Have you attended any LT meet-ups in your area? Would you be open to attending meet-ups or is LT strictly an online thing for you? I have made some of my very best friends in the world on-line. I was maid of honor in… Read more
Teaser Tuesdays!
Welcome to another episode of Teaser Tuesdays! In this exciting edition, S.J. ponders the subtleties of communication in New Orleans The speech patterns in certain New Orleans neighborhoods approach the complexity of Chinese in the shades of meaning that can be extracted from the tiniest gradations of inflection and timing. Sometimes these gradations can mean the difference between life and… Read more
Confessions of a Contractor by Richard Murphy
Harry Sullivan reads renovations the way a fortune teller reads tea leaves: he can predict the course of your marriage by the tiles you’ve chosen for the master bath. At the end of a project, when he has been part of your family and had access to your most intimate spaces, he knows more about you than anyone else. In… Read more
New to my library!
This has been an excellent week for new books! I haven’t posted about my good fortune in a while, so here’s what’s new on Mount ToBeRead: City of Refuge by Tom Piazza: A breathtaking novel of two families, one white and one black, whose lives are torn apart by Hurricane Katrina and then pieced back together again in ways they… Read more
50 Days… 50 Books… 50 Chances to Win!!
Joy Nash’s Immortals: The Crossing–sixth book in Dorchester’s USA Today Bestselling series Immortals–hits the bookshelves on September 30. But 50 lucky readers will win autographed copies on or before that date! Yes, that’s right – 50 copies of The Crossing will be given away on 50 participating websites and blogs, which means readers have 50 online chances to win this… Read more
Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys and the Battle for America’s Soul, by Karen Abbott
Ever wonder where the phrase “getting laid” comes from? The answer might surprise you. Check the comments after this review for the answer. Sin in the Second City is the story of the Everleigh Sisters, who ran the most notorious brothel in Chicago in the 1890’s/early 1900’s. This was at a time when brothels were not exactly illegal: prostitution and… Read more
Teaser Tuesdays
Okay, I know when we talked about memes last week I said I was only doing one and that was enough. Well, I might have been wrong. Teaser Tuesdays is just too much fun to pass up. Here’s how it works: ? Grab your current read.? Let the book fall open to a random page.Share with us two (2) “teaser”… Read more
A Giveaway!
There’s a giveaway at Blood of the Muse – a hardcover copy of Court of the Air, which I have had on my wishlsit for a while. I’m always torn about posts like this! I want to keep the contest all to myself…but I also want the extra entry, greedy thing that I am. The book looks great, so good… Read more
Tuesday Thingers
Today’s question from The Boston Bibliophile: What’s your favorite bookstore? Is it an online store or a bricks-and-mortar store? How often do you go book shopping? Is your favorite bookstore (or bookstores) listed as a favorite in LT? Do you attend events at local bookstores? Do you use LT to find events? My favorite bookstore is Joseph-Beth Booksellers in Cleveland.… Read more