News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Book News Amazon cancels plans to build NY headquarters but plans to go ahead with the Virginia HQ2. (CNN) The New Center for Fiction Is Opening… Read more »
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Book News J. K. Rowling’s return to Harry Potter makes her world’s richest author in 2017. The article also lists the year’s top 10 earners. (The Guardian) … Read more »
Game Review Shortly after I got my smartphone, Robin got me into the oddly addictive Little Alchemy game. It’s free, and it’s available for iPhone and Android (through Google Play); you can also play online. The rules of play are simple. You start with four elements: air, earth, fire, and water, which… Read more »
Lone Wolf Games‘ The Lost Ship, The Lost Treasure, and Blackthorn Castle are all point-and-click puzzle games — what I like to call call “Myst lite.” In other words, they are games in which you solve a series of puzzles or clues in order to reach some end goal… Read more »
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is Ten Websites I Love That Aren’t About Books. Obviously, I spend a lot of time on bookish websites: Goodreads, NetGalley and Edelweiss, Amazon, my library, other book blogs, author blogs… But there are… Read more »
