Dear Amazon, I’ve been buying books from you for years. I’m a fan. I buy books so often that I reasonably can’t afford to make all my purchases at independent bookstores, which I love to support. Nonetheless, I’m entranced by your 37% off list price and free shipping, and so I buy books from you […]
Beth Revis, author of Across the Universe, A Million Suns, and Shades of Earth is doing something amazing: she is giving away almost FIFTY YA books from her personal collection, and they are all SIGNED. Pretty cool, right? These are the books: But there’s a reason she’s doing this. She wants to spread her love […]
We’re already six days into August, and I have a full plate of books to consume. I’m not sure what happened, but I’ve agreed to read and review a number of books this month, and I need to get cracking. Here’s what my brain feels like right now: That’s right, overcrowded and confused! But what […]
It’s official. I am a Dexter fanatic. Well, I have been for a while, but lately Showtime has been running past seasons of the show to gear up for Season 7, which premiers in September, and my fanaticism is in high gear at the moment. As I watch these past episodes, I am reminded of […]
This week’s Top Ten Tuesday, hosted by The Broke and the Bookish, is a freebie! Which means, we can pick whatever Top Ten Topic we want. I wanted to do something completely different this time, and since I recently participated in Camp NaNoWriMo, I’ve decided to share some things I learned while writing a novel. […]
OK, I’ll admit it. I’ve been intrigued by Fifty Shades of Grey for a few weeks now. Since books are my thing, it’s especially gratifying when a book makes headlines. Even a book about (gasp) sex. The fact that Fifty Shades of Grey started out as fan fiction on the internet, based on the Twilight […]
Anyone who doesn’t know today is opening day for The Hunger Games is living under a rock, or maybe just doesn’t have internet or tv service. If you live in a house with preteens or teenagers, or if you are a female of any age who has read Suzanne Collins’ books, you have most likely […]
Well, here I am. In the Comic Con waiting room. This is the virtual room where tens of thousands of people “wait” to get into the online Comic Con registration area. Tickets went on sale at 8:00 a.m., and it took me half an hour just to get into the waiting room. When the page […]
OK, no one cares about this but other book bloggers, but I now have my very own, shiny new Blog Button! I don’t know exactly why I need it, but other book bloggers all have them, and they look really cool. I guess my hope is that someone, somewhere will want my button on their […]
Thanks to WordPress, I can have snow fall on my blog for the next 30 days or so. This is awesome! Yes, I want snow on my blog. I live in a part of California where it hardly ever snows. (OK, we did get a freak snowfall last winter…) So I brought in this Yeti […]