Friends of Washoe Co. Library Booksale
FRIENDS OF WASHOE COUNTY LIBRARY January 2013 Booksale Please join us for the FIRST booksale of the READ AGAIN BOOKSTORE, formerly Book Warehouse, in
FRIENDS OF WASHOE COUNTY LIBRARY January 2013 Booksale Please join us for the FIRST booksale of the READ AGAIN BOOKSTORE, formerly Book Warehouse, in
I’m happy to welcome Dave Holt as a reviewer this month. Dave read and reviewed Lucille Lang Day’s latest book. Married at Fourteen and published by Heyday
Christmas greetings from Converse, Indiana! I headed to the Midwest for a visit with my son Lukas’ in-laws this holiday season. Also took along Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas
Reading Journal, November 30, 2012 A member of our Clayton Community Library Book Club recommended David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas to me quite a few months ago.
Thanks again to Mediabiistro and GalleyCat for their breaking news about Simon Schuster’s entry into the ever-increasing world of self-publication. “Simon & Schuster has created
Veterans’ Day is a day to not only honor veterans, but also those authors who have written about the wars in which veterans have fought:
Karen Hesse’s photographs which illuminate and give depth to her YA novel, Safekeeping, got me to poking around online to see who else likes illustrated
Harper Voyager Accepting Unagented Manuscripts for Two Weeks For all you writers of science fiction and fantasy who are without a literary agent, this may
If you don’t dress in black or hang out in coffeehouses, why would you want to read poetry? I mean really, you squeaked through all
Reviewing the self-published book: After a lot of thought and meetings with both editors and authors, I’ve decided, for the time being, and with a
With thanks to the Huff Post Books, I enthusiastically share this inspiring and important link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/01/the-book-bradbury_n_1930901.html?1349198200 It is an excerpt from Ray Bradbury’s introduction in http://www.amazon.com/Best-American-Nonrequired-Reading-2012/dp/0547595964?tag=aolbooks-20
I admit that although I may not judge a book by its cover, I’m a pushover for a book that just begs to be at
I found this link to a NYT article about authors buying five-star reviews in today’s Galleycat (9/3/12). The article in the New York Times is worth every
Things are leveling out for independent bookstores. This from today’s Shelf Awareness: Effective tomorrow, Amazon will begin collecting sales tax on orders shipped to Pennsylvania,
This short blog is a heads-up to the second review of Ellen Feldman’s Next to Love. I figured if the NYT Book Review can review a
This one makes me so happy: Irish writer Benjamin Black’s Quirke novels (A Death in Summer) will be coming soon to your local tv or whatever
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