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 Princeton alum bequeaths rare book collection worth $300 million to the university. The collection includes Shakespeare folios and a Gutenberg Bible, along with music… Read more »
Tough Travels is a meme hosted by Fantasy Review Barn. Each Thursday, inspired by ‘The Tough Guide to Fantasyland’ we have in hand, we shall tour the mystical countryside looking for adventure and fun (and tropes) from all over fantasy. KNIGHTS Um. Noble rich people on horseback. Come on, you… Read more »
A Beautiful Blue Death Series: Charles Lenox #1 on June 26th 2007 Pages: 309 Add to Goodreads Also in this series: An Old Betrayal, The Laws of Murder, The September Society, The Fleet Street Murders, Home By Nightfall, The Inheritance, The Woman in the Water, Gone Before Christmas, The Vanishing… Read more »
Enchanted by Alethea Kontis Series: Woodcutter Sisters #1 Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt on 2012 Genres: Fairy Tales, Fantasy, YA (Young Adult) Pages: 308 Format: Paperback Source: the library Add to Goodreads It isn’t easy being the rather overlooked and unhappy youngest sibling to sisters named for the other six… Read more »
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is Top Ten Book Related Problems I Have. 1. My TBR is a monster! This one has 3 parts: My TBR shelves are overflowing. Yes, I said shelves. I have two-and-a-half bookcases plus… 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 So much for staying ahead! I’ve got two posts done for the… 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 Little Free Libraries on the Wrong Side of the Law (Los Angeles Times) Grove Atlantic and Electric Lit to Launch Literary Hub, a website… Read more »
Here’s another fun “get to know the blogger” meme. I love the pun in the title! Kaja of On Dragons and Hearts tagged me to participate in this questionnaire, and I decided to go for it even though I just did the 20 Questions one last week. Four names that… Read more »
The Accidental Alchemist by Gigi Pandian Series: Accidental Alchemist #1 Published by Llewellyn Publications on January 1st 2015 Genres: Cozy Mystery, Paranormal mystery Pages: 360 Format: eARC Source: the publisher through NetGalley Add to Goodreads Also in this series: The Masquerading Magician Also by this author: The Masquerading Magician, A… Read more »
Anna over at Herding Cats & Burning Soup has a discussion-starter post about whether Kindle Unlimited is hurting authors’ sales, or whether the problem is just market saturation. I started to reply to her post, and realized I was writing a whole post of my own… so here it is…. Read more »
