Congratulations to Lynne of Lynne’s Book Reviews, who won the signed copy of Jennifer Weiner’s latest, Fly Away Home! I’ll get it in the mail to you as soon as possible. You’ll have to provide your own cupcakes, though! I knew it wouldn’t last. It couldn’t last. Life and its schedules would settle back into something resembling normal, and an unusually productive season of reading would limp to the finish line. Now I’m trying to […]
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Sunday Salon: The Books of BlogHer’10
I’ve been to New York City twice this summer, and I’ve yet to get to the Strand Bookstore! It was actually on the list of things Melissa and I wanted to do when we were in the City for BlogHer’10 last weekend, but between a pretty full conference agenda and my inability to follow the walking directions I got from Google Maps, it didn’t happen. But don’t feel too sorry for me – I came […]
Cupcakes with Jennifer Weiner, and a Book Giveaway!
This is my week to be surrounded by smart, inspiring, funny women. I’m currently in New York City at BlogHer’10, and this past Monday night, I was at Vroman’s Bookstore in Pasadena in the entertaining company of best-selling author Jennifer Weiner. I don’t read a lot of “chick lit,” but I do read Jennifer Weiner‘s fiction – she’s been a favorite of mine since her first novel, Good in Bed. Her best characters are conflicted, […]
Sunday Salon: Reading ARCs, and a Read-Along announcement!
It’s exciting to snag those advance reader copies, isn’t it? There’s a thrill in knowing you’re one of the first to read an upcoming book, and then being able to talk it up and help it become a hit. However, those advance copies are nearly always marked as “uncorrected proofs,” and as such, they may contain typos, grammatical errors, and factual mistakes. And as hard as I try not to let those things distract me, […]
Sunday Salon: Bookkeeping, Bookmarks, and Reading, Online-style
The Sunday Salon When I went on vacation last month I had a few guest bloggers fill in here, and I think the one who got the biggest response was Molly from The Bumbles Blog, with her tips for managing feed-reader clutter. I’ve implemented one of her suggestions and have been using it for a few weeks now, so I thought I’d let you know how it was going. If your preferred browser is Firefox, […]
Weekly Geeks 2010-23: The Tale of the Trailer
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 […]
Sunday Salon 7/11: Reflections of a One-handed Reader
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! […]
BBAW is Coming Back – Awards and All!
It’s barely summer yet, but some of us are already looking ahead to the fall, and the third annual Book Blogger Appreciation Week in September! What: Book Blogger Appreciation Week is a week-long festival celebrating the community of book bloggers and their contribution to preserving a culture of literacy through book reviews and recommendations, reading reflections, and general bookish chat. BBAW events include daily blogging topics, blogger interview swaps, special guest posts, and so much […]
Sunday Salon 6/13: “Readin’ on a Jet Plane” Edition
It’ll be a brief visit to the Sunday Salon for me this week – I’m leaving for the East Coast first thing tomorrow morning, and I’ve got packing to do. I’ll return to the Salon after I get back from my vacation – see you then! I’m leaving the blog in excellent hands, with a great lineup of guest bloggers posting while I’m away: Average Jane gives a peek inside the world of a polygamous […]
Sunday Salon 6/6: What I *might* read on my summer vacation
Guess who still hasn’t figured out what books are coming on vacation with her? Good thing we’re not leaving till next Monday! The only thing I know for certain is that the Kindle is coming, and I have plenty of (e-)books waiting for me there (all fiction, except for one) (no links, because I don’t log e-books into LibraryThing until after I’ve read them): Committed, by Elizabeth Gilbert (the only non-fiction title, and the one […]
Sunday Salon: “After-(Armchair)BEA” Edition
Thank goodness it’s a three-day weekend in the USA, because I suspect there’s a lot of BEA recovery to be done – both from the real thing in New York City and from Armchair BEA! If you joined in the virtual book-blogger convention this week, you probably didn’t have much time to suffer from “BEA envy” – I know I didn’t! Over 170 people officially signed up to participate, but as things got going, I […]
Armchair BEA’s BBC Roundtable: Writing what you want to read, in your own voice
I honestly haven’t been eating my heart out over not being at BEA this week, but I do regret missing out on the very first Book Blogger Convention. Granted, I am going to BlogHer’10, which I committed to before the BBC was announced, but it won’t be the same – the content is broader and the crowd is different (not to mention a lot larger!). If there’s a BBC in 2011, I’m going to have […]
