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
Today’s question from The Boston Bibliophile: what other weekly memes or round robins do you participate in? Is this the only one? Why Tuesday Thingers and not some other weekly Tuesday meme? Or do you do more than one? Tuesday Thingers is my only meme and I plan for things to stay that way. I got involved in this one… Read more
Todays question from The Boston Bibliophile: What cataloging sources do you use most? Any particular reason? Any idiosyncratic choices, or foreign sources, or sources you like better than others? Are you able to find most things through LT’s almost 700 sources? Like most people, I use Amazon most often, simply because it comes up first and I’m not going to… Read more
I try to find something good to say about every one of the books I review. There is usually a story, a turn of phrase, a plotline that intrigues me, so I can provide a little something positive. Not so here. The book should be titled Another Chapter, Another Hangover. In the first 50 pages of the book, Lawyer managers… Read more
Today’s question from The Boston Bibliophile: Today’s topic: Recommendations. Do you use LT’s recommendations feature? Have you found any good books by using it? Do you use the anti-recommendations, or the “special sauce” recommendations? How do you find out about books you want to read? Honestly, I have not found the Recommendations feature to be much help. I have checked… Read more
I got three new ARCs while I was out of town on business (Milwaukee this time, not Amsterdam): – So Long at the Fair by Christina Schwarz. Once again, someone has got my name in the system twice, because I received 2 copies. You know what that means! Keep an eye out here for a giveaway. – Happy Hour is… Read more
From Boston Bibliophile: Today’s topic: Book-swapping. Do you do it? What site(s) do you use? How did you find out about them? What do you think of them? Do you use LT’s book-swapping column feature for information on what to swap? Do you participate in any of the LT communities that discuss bookswapping, like the Bookmooch group for example? Right… Read more
Anya Achtenberg calls The Stories of Devil-Girl a novella, but it reads more like a poem – a wild, surreal poem that occasionally bursts out in pain, in suffering so clearly described that it’s painful to read. The stories are not straightforward, but it is easy to pick out the threads – abuse (both physical and sexual), poverty, rape, prostitution… Read more
The mail carrier showed up today with 5 new books for me! I am going to have to quit my job and devote my life to my reading pile! The Stories of Devil-Girl by Anya Achtenberg (for Library Thing Early Reviewers)The Heretic’s Daughter by Kathleen KentTan Lines by J.J. Salem and best of all… Two copies of Stealing Athena by… Read more
From The Boston Bibliophile, here’s Tuesday’s question: Since we’re past the Fourth of July and the summer season has officially started, what are your plans for the summer? Vacations, trips? Trips that involve reading? Reading plans? If you’re going somewhere, do you do any reading to prepare? Do you read local literature as part of your trip? Have you thought… Read more