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 Print Unit Sales Rose 2% in First Half of 2018 (Publishers Weekly) And while audiobook sales are up overall, CD sales are down… Read more »
An updated version of this post is now a separate page, which you can see here. As anyone who looks at my logo can tell, I love dragons! That said, I haven’t read all the books on this list (not even close), so I can’t vouch for the… Read more »
July New Releases I Can’t Wait to Read The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal (July 3) I loved Kowal’s Shades of Milk and Honey and Ghost Talkers, two historical fantasies set in very different time frames. In The Calculating Stars, Kowal expands on an alternate history based on her Hugo Award-winning novelette “The Lady… Read more »
The Sunday Post is hosted by the wonderful Kimba, the Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news, recap the past week, take a look ahead, and showcase our new treasures—I mean books! The Last Two Weeks I had a busy week leading up our vacation, trying to… 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 The Locus Award winners were announced at the Locus Awards Weekend (July 22-24). Best SF Novel went to John Scalzi’s The Collapsing Empire, Best Fantasy… Read more »
The Sunday Post is hosted by the wonderful Kimba, the Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news, recap the past week, take a look ahead, and showcase our new treasures—I mean books! My Week The ants appear to be deterred from entering the inside of the house, though… 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 Worth Reading/Viewing BookExpo and BookCon 2018: Authors Explore the Multiplicities of Diversity (Publishers Weekly) BookExpo 2018: Reaching the Romance Reader (Shelf Awareness) A BookExpo panel… Read more »
The Cottages on Silver Beach by RaeAnne Thayne Series: Haven Point #8 Published by HQN Books Genres: Contemporary Romance, Western Romance Pages: 384 Format: eARC Source: the publisher Purchase: Amazon | Bookshop | Barnes & Noble Add to Goodreads Also in this series: Snow Angel Cove, Redemption Bay, Evergreen Springs,… Read more »
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. The meme was originally the brainchild of The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is Books That Awaken the Travel Bug in Me. Lots of books make me want to travel — often to places… Read more »
The COYER Big Summer Birthday Bash has started! COYER stands for “Clean Out Your E-Reader,” but for a while now, the summer COYER event has allowed print and audiobooks in addition to ebooks. The challenge is sponsored by Michelle and Berls of Because Reading Is Better Than Real Life. This… Read more »
