This week, Weekly Geeks are considering the newest trend in book marketing: the book trailer. Bernadette says: In the last year or two a new entity has arisen in the publishing world: the book trailer. Apparently every self-respecting book has to have one these days so it seemed a good time to have a chat about them. Feel free to answer as many (or as few) of these questions as you like. Do you watch […]
Part 1, in case you missed it… Day Four, Thursday 6/17: On a sunny, hot, and breezy Thursday morning – duh, it’s Washington DC in June, but I will say it was slightly less muggy than usual – we hopped aboard the Tourmobile bus to make the rounds of some of the city’s famous Presidential and war memorials. Seeing these places in person, when I’ve seen them in photos and on screens so many, many […]
Disclosure: I received an ARC (Advance Reader’s Copy) of this novel for review purposes via Artemis Azima at Engelman & Co. The book is available in stores as of today. * I am an Amazon Associate. Purchasing links in this review are provided by Amazon.com and will generate a small referral fee for me if used. Fly Away Home: A Novel Jennifer Weiner (blog) Atria (2010), Hardcover (ISBN 0743294270 / 9780743294270) Fiction, 368 pages Opening […]
It so happens that To Kill a Mockingbird was, technically, the very first book I reviewed on this blog. I thought it might be nice to revisit it in connection with the novel’s 50th-anniversary celebration – and while I’m at it, spiff up the discussion just a bit. Book description: “Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ’em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” A lawyer’s advice to his […]
The last four weeks have been pretty productive reading time for me, between vacation and convalescing with my dislocated shoulder! I started and finished three books during the two weeks we were away, and in the two weeks since we came home, I’ve completed four more. I honestly can’t remember the last time I read seven books in a month – and I’d also forgotten how much I like tearing through one book after another! […]
Thanks to my unfortunate incapacitation and temporary one-handed state, I had to revise my vacation-recap blogging plans to be more photo-sharing and less story-telling. (It takes fewer left-handed keystrokes to browse and paste pictures.) This is the first of several installments, and just a sampling of the pictures. It will take longer than I anticipated to cover the whole trip… Day One, Monday, 6/14: After a long day that started very early in order to […]
Disclosure: I purchased this book for my personal reading. *Purchasing links in this review are through my Amazon Associates account, and I will net a small referral fee for their use. The Local News: A Novel Miriam Gershow Spiegel & Grau (2010), Paperback (ISBN 9780385527620 / 0385527624) Fiction, 378 pages Opening Lines: “After my brother went missing, my parents let me use their car whenever I wanted, even though I only had a learner’s permit. […]
Inspired by Kim at Sophisticated Dorkiness (and others), I’m taking a look back at my half-year in reading. (Since I’m still typing one-handed, it will be a relatively brief look.) I’m pretty satisfied with my 2010 reading so far, both in quality and numbers. Currently, my LibraryThing reviews are more up-to-date than my reviews on the blog; I’ve changed my routine to post them there as soon as they’re written, while the reviews here post […]
It’s been 12 days since I dislocated my right shoulder. I’ve been cleared to return to work as of today. However, I still can’t drive myself anywhere and I only have rides to work lined up for today and tomorrow; and after spending two weeks of vacation public-transiting around two cities where it actually works, I’m more annoyed than usual with LA’s lack of good alternatives to car commuting. In any case, I have a […]
I’m supposed to return to work on Tuesday, and I expect it to be CRAZY after three weeks out of the office, so I’ve decided to save some of my prepared posts for the next couple of weeks and not put one up today! Besides, it’s the Independence Day holiday weekend in the USA, so we should all celebrate our freedoms – including the freedom to take a blogging break! Waving to you with my […]
Disclosure: I was provided with a copy of this book by Lisa Roe, Online Publicist, and she has had to wait an unfairly long time for me to read and review it – sorry, Lisa! *I am an Amazon Associate; purchasing links in this review are provided by Amazon.com and will generate a small referral fee for me if clicked and used. Admit One: My Life in Film Emmett James FizzyPop (2010), Hardcover (ISBN 0984258108 […]
