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 Candlewick Press will donate 275,000 books to FirstBook, a charity which distributes books to underserved classrooms and communities. (Children’s Book Council) JK Rowling wins PEN award… Read more »
If you’re like me, you can get on the Internet to do one thing–write a blog post or check Facebook, for instance–and surface hours later, wondering where on earth the time went. I thought it might be fun (and dangerous!) to look at where I go when I’m playing on… Read more »
In the Dragon’s Eye is where I share the books I’ve got my acquisitive eye on: the ones I’m really excited about and hope to read and perhaps add to the hoard. I also link to “Waiting On” Wednesday, hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine. Cover links take you… Read more »
Secret Sisters by Jayne Ann Krentz Published by Berkley on Dec. 8, 2016 Genres: Romantic suspense Format: Hardcover Source: the library Also by this author: Copper Beach, Dream Eyes, River Road, Eye of the Beholder, Lost and Found, Sharp Edges, When All the Girls Have Gone, Smoke in Mirrors, Falling… 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 I flew out Wednesday to Salt Lake City to spend almost a… Read more »
Forbidden Series: Old West #1 on Jan. 26, 2016 Pages: 384 Add to Goodreads Also in this series: Breathless Beverly Jenkins returns with the first book in a breathtaking new series set in the Old West Rhine Fontaine is building the successful life he’s always dreamed of—one that depends upon… Read more »
I’m joining Kimba the Caffeinated Book Reviewer‘s March Take Control of Your TBR Pile challenge. This one goes really well with my own The Backlist Reader challenge. Basically, for the month of March you concentrate on reading from your TBR pile. Kimba doesn’t specify, but she implies that the TBR… Read more »
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is Top Ten Books I Recently Added to My TBR. All of these are books I either bought, was given, or received as ARCs. In other words, I have them in my possession; they… Read more »
Thread and Gone by Lea Wait Series: Mainely Needlepoint #3 Published by Kensington on Dec. 29, 2015 Genres: Cozy Mystery Pages: 304 Format: eARC Source: the publisher Add to Goodreads Also in this series: Twisted Threads, Threads of Evidence Also by this author: Twisted Threads, Threads of Evidence When a… 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 It’s been a very sad week. In addition to the public mourning… Read more »
