By Cook Or by Crook by Maya Corrigan Series: Five-Ingredient Mystery #1 Published by Kensington on 2014-10-28 Genres: Cozy Mystery, Mystery Pages: 320 Source: the publisher Add to Goodreads Haunted by the car accident that ended her career as a cookbook publicist, Val Deniston has traded in the chaos of… Read more »
Top Ten Books I Want to Reread
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is Top Ten Books I Want to Reread. I reread books all the time, so you’d think this would be easy for me. But my rereading is entirely mood-based, so today’s list… Read more »
Not again! Print books vs. ebooks
This showed up on Facebook recently, shared by an author who doesn’t agree with it. I have to say that I’m getting tired of this argument. The content is the book, and the book is the content. Paper or electronic is just the medium. It’s fine to prefer one medium… Read more »
News & Notes – 11/01/14
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Today’s News & Notes is very short because of my current workload – sorry! Book News J. K. Rowling released a “new Harry Potter story”… Read more »
Halloween Book Covers
Need a quick idea for last minute Halloween decorating? How about dressing up some of your books? Here are some printable book covers – just click the photo to go to the page where you can download them. Love these vintage-looking covers from Little House on the Corner! She suggests… Read more »
NaNoWriMo starts on Saturday
I wasn’t going to tell anyone. I was just going to keep it a secret and maybe admit to it if I finished. But the NaNoWriMo folks urge you to tell people so you feel accountable. And so they know why you’ve dropped out of sight for a month. So…. Read more »
Characters I Want to Be for Halloween
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is Top Ten Characters I Want to Be for Halloween. I’m too old to play adolescent characters anymore, but there are some wonderful adult characters of all ages that would be lots of… Read more »
The Collector, by Nora Roberts
The Collector by Nora Roberts Published by Putnam on 2014-04-15 Genres: Mystery, Romantic suspense Pages: 267 Format: Hardcover Source: the library Add to Goodreads Also by this author: Dark Witch, Shadow Spell, Night Moves, Whiskey Beach, Jewels of the Sun, Tears of the Moon, Stars of Fortune, Tribute, The Search,… Read more »
Sunday Post – 10/26/14
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 This week has been crazy busy with indexing work, and the next… Read more »
News & Notes – 10/25/14
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 Economist Paul Krugman says “Amazon’s Monopsony is Not O.K.” (New York Times) For an opposing view, read Matthew Yglesias’s “Amazon is doing the world… Read more »