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: TechCrunch broke the news that Microsoft is considering offering $1 billion for Nook. The… Read more »
The Apple Orchard by Susan Wiggs Series: Bella Vista #1 Published by Harlequin MIRA on April 30, 2013 Genres: Contemporary Romance, Fiction Pages: 432 Format: eARC Source: the publisher through NetGalley Add to Goodreads Also in this series: The Beekeeper’s Ball Also by this author: Return To Willow Lake, The… Read more »
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is Top Ten Things to Read When You Need Something Light and Fun. Of course, “light” and “fun” are both wide open to interpretation. To me, “light” usually implies some degree of… Read more »
Inventor Henrietta Mason is retiring from airships and adventuring to return home to Philadelphia. Determined to erase all trails leading to her late father’s duplicity, she dismantles his lab and removes all records of the Badlands gold. While in the city, she can’t resist the lure of a charity gala… Read more »
The Sunday Post is a meme sponsored by 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. Tonight is the night… 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: “One Year Later, the Results of Tor UK Going DRM Free” (Julie Crisp, Tor.com). … Read more »
As I mentioned in this week’s Sunday Post, I’m joining the Clean Sweep ARC Challenge for May, hosted by Kimba the Caffeinated Book Reviewer and Kimberly at The Windy Pages. My goal is to read and review as many ARCs as possible during the month of May. I don’t have… Read more »
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is Top Ten Words/Topics That Instantly Make Me Buy/Pick Up A Book. I’ll have to go with “Words/Topics That Instantly Make Me Pick Up A Book,” because almost nothing is an insta-buy… Read more »
The Sunday Post is a meme sponsored by 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. The most exciting news… Read more »
I really wanted to like The Rose Throne. I enjoyed Harrison’s The Princess and the Hound, which I found refreshingly original. But The Rose Throne disappointed me from the first page. While Harrison’s ideas are good, her somewhat lackluster execution made much of the book a chore to slog through,… Read more »
