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: Library of Congress main reading room. The Library of Congress is closed during the… Read more »
REVIEW: Starry Night by Debbie Macomber (plus a GIVEAWAY!)
Description: Carrie Slayton, a big-city society-page columnist, longs to write more serious news stories. So her editor hands her a challenge: She can cover any topic she wants, but only if she first scores the paper an interview with Finn Dalton, the notoriously reclusive author. Living in the remote Alaskan… Read more »
The Clockwork Scarab by Colleen Gleason (review)
Description: Evaline Stoker and Mina Holmes never meant to get into the family business. But when you’re the sister of Bram and the niece of Sherlock, vampire hunting and mystery solving are in your blood. And when two society girls go missing, there’s no one more qualified to investigate. Now… Read more »
Book Blogging Survey
Shannon at River City Reading and a few of her friends have created a Book Blogger Survey to find out what kind of posts bloggers do, what stresses they feel, what helps them keep going/avoid burnout, and how blogging has impacted their reading habits. It doesn’t take long to fill… Read more »
BLOG TOUR: INTERVIEW, REVIEW & GIVEAWAY: Larissa Reinhart, “Still Life in Brunswick Stew”
I’m very pleased to have Larissa Reinhart with me today. Larissa is touring Still Life in Brunswick Stew, the second book in her mystery series featuring Cherry Tucker. Larissa has generously offered an ebook copy to one lucky reader. Just the giveaway near the bottom of the post! Lark (Bookwyrm’s… Read more »
Top Ten Reading Turn-offs
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is Top Ten Book Turnoffs — the things that will make you avoid, lose interest in, or turn away from a book. Seems to me we did one a lot like this… Read more »
A Seaside Christmas, by Sherryl Woods
A Seaside Christmas by Sherryl Woods Series: Chesapeake Shores #10 Published by Harlequin MIRA on 2013-09-24 Genres: Contemporary Romance Format: eARC Source: the publisher Add to Goodreads Also in this series: The Christmas Bouquet, Dogwood Hill, Willow Brook Road Also by this author: Midnight Promises, Where Azaleas Bloom, Catching Fireflies,… Read more »
News & Notes – 9/28/13
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. There’s a lot of book news this week! Books & Ebooks in the News: Goodreads will start deleting content focused… Read more »
Book Blogger Hop — Weekly Memes
The Book Blogger Hop is sponsored by Billy Burgess at Ramblings of a Coffee-Addicted Writer.The question for Sept. 27-Oct. 3 is “What weekly memes do you follow on a regular basis?” Blog memes are a lot of fun, because you get to see what other bloggers are reading/looking forward to/thinking… Read more »
Top Ten Tuesday – Best Sequels Ever
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is Top Ten Best Sequels Ever. I read a lot of series, which gives me a huge pool to draw from. So to narrow things down a bit, I used these criteria:… Read more »