A couple of weeks ago, I suggested that my experience at Book Expo America 2012 might not be all about books. And I guess that technically it wasn’t, since I cataloged slightly fewer books in a “Books from BEA” collection on LibraryThing this year than I did in 2011, but I brought back more than I’d expected to. And unlike last year, I actually did bring the books back home with me; they made my […]
Today is the big Giveaway Day at Armchair BEA Central! Those of us who are not hosting giveaways today (sorry!) have been asked to give up the names of some of our favorite books of 2012…books we’ve already read, and/or books being featured at Book Expo America this week that we can’t wait to read! As it happens, three of my best reads so far this year have a BEA connection, even if it’s not to […]
Good Monday morning, and welcome to one of the biggest weeks in the world of books and the people who blog about them! Book Expo America is getting underway in New York City today, and I’m there for my second visit. (I wrote this post before I left.) I will be one of the speakers at the session “Critical Reviews: Fine-Tuning Your Craft” at the BEA Bloggers Conference this afternoon, and all week long, I’ll […]
The Chaperone Laura Moriarty (Facebook) Riverhead (June 2012), Hardcover (ISBN 1594487014 / 9781594487019) Fiction, 384 pages Source: ARC from publisher Reason for reading: TLC Book Tour (last stop!) Opening lines: “The first time Cora heard the name Louise Brooks, she was parked outside the Wichita Library in a Model-T Ford, waiting for the rain to stop. If Cora had been alone, unencumbered, she might have made a dash across the lawn and up the library’s stone […]
