News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, giveaways on this and other blogs, and other cool stuff. Books & Ebooks in the News: Alice Munro, © shapton 09 “Alice Munro wins Nobel Prize in Literature” (Publishers Weekly)… Read more »
Tamora Pierce, 2013 National Book Festival. Photo © K. Pekar Let me tell you, Tamora Pierce is awesome. She writes amazing fantasy with fantastic characters. She’s funny and fierce and she has attitude, and I want to be like her when I grow up. (I’m actually less than a decade… Read more »
2013 National Book Festival. Photo © K. Pekar I had a great time at the National Book Festival. . . was it really two and a half weeks ago? Apparently so. The Festival ran for two days: Sept. 21 and 22. We weren’t able to go up on Saturday because… Read more »
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is Top Ten Best/Worst Series Enders. One challenge of this week’s topic is that a lot of the series I read don’t exactly end, especially the mysteries. They may stop, either because… Read more »
Description: Will Scarlet is on the run. Once the sheltered son of nobility, Will has become an exile. While his father, Lord Shackley, has been on the Crusades with King Richard, a treacherous plot to unseat Richard has swept across England, and Shackley House has fallen. Will flees the… Read more »
The Sunday Post is a meme sponsored by the wonderful Kimba, the Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news. A post to recap the past week, showcase books and things we have received and share news about what is coming up for the week on our blog. Whew! So… Read more »
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, giveaways on this and other blogs, and other cool stuff. Books & Ebooks in the News: Library of Congress main reading room. The Library of Congress is closed during the… Read more »
Description: Carrie Slayton, a big-city society-page columnist, longs to write more serious news stories. So her editor hands her a challenge: She can cover any topic she wants, but only if she first scores the paper an interview with Finn Dalton, the notoriously reclusive author. Living in the remote Alaskan… Read more »
Description: Evaline Stoker and Mina Holmes never meant to get into the family business. But when you’re the sister of Bram and the niece of Sherlock, vampire hunting and mystery solving are in your blood. And when two society girls go missing, there’s no one more qualified to investigate. Now… Read more »
Shannon at River City Reading and a few of her friends have created a Book Blogger Survey to find out what kind of posts bloggers do, what stresses they feel, what helps them keep going/avoid burnout, and how blogging has impacted their reading habits. It doesn’t take long to fill… Read more »
