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 »
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 National Book Award finalists for 2014 were announced this week. (National Book Foundation) Richard Flanagan wins the 2014 Man Booker Prize. You can… Read more »
The Unbound cover was released on SFSignal on Thursday. I love it! Can’t wait for the book to come out. Oh, wait, it’s not coming out until January. Darn! Here’s the book blurb: For five hundred years, the Porters have concealed the existence of magic from the world. Now, old… Read more »
Codex Born by Jim C. Hines Series: Magic Ex Libris #2 Published by Penguin on August 6th 2013 Genres: Fantasy Pages: 400 Format: Hardcover Source: a friend (borrowed) Add to Goodreads Also in this series: Libriomancer Also by this author: Libriomancer Isaac Vainio’s life was almost perfect. He should have… Read more »
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: Elizabeth Catton’s The Luminaries wins the 2013 Man Booker Prize (Liz Thomson, Publishers Weekly)… Read more »
… is sarcastic, satirical fun. You may know Jim Hines as the author of Libriomancer, Codex Born, and the Princess series featuring Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, and Snow White as three-dimensional, kick-a** heroines. Or maybe you know him as that guy who dresses up and poses like the women on SF… Read more »
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is Top Ten Authors Who Deserve More Recognition. Over half of my choices for this topic are older authors (two are dead) who were active in the mid- and late 20th century. … 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 add to the hoard. I can’t wait for Codex Born, the sequel to last summer’s Libriomancer (which I reviewed here.) Libriomancer was seriously good… Read more »
artist’s conception of the interior of the BiblioTech Two interesting developments on the library front: In North Carolina State University’s new library, robots bring you the books you want; the stacks are closed to humans. (Flavorwire) And Bexar County, Texas, is about to open BiblioTech, the first all-ebook… Read more »
Top Ten Favorite New-To-Me Authors I Read In 2012 Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. I set myself a challenge this year to read more “new” books and authors — not necessarily newly published, but new to me — and I did,… Read more »
