This week’s spotlight is on book blogger Stephanie and her blog Stephanie’s Written Word.
I pretty much end up putting every book reviewed by Stephanie into my to-read list. Which is hazardous since she reviews quite a lot of books and I apparently need to spend way more time reading. I’m thinking of getting myself a [...]
What would happen if a meteor struck the moon and moved it closer to Earth? Life As We Knew It, written in the format of a teenage girl’s journal, explores just such a happening. The tides are affected, the weather changes, and life as we know it is drastically altered. Widespread flooding, power outages, food [...]
Tomorrow’s releases are chock-full of suspense, mystery, and thrills!
Hot Pursuit by Suzanne Brockmann. This 15th book in the series finds Alyssa Locke assigned what is supposed to be an easy job: teaching self-defense techniques to a newly elected assemblywoman and her chief of staff. However, soon dead bodies start turning up and Alyssa must track [...]
The newest edition of NPR’s book notes arrived in my e-mail, and I noticed its headliner is the book Farm City by Novella Carpenter. This is the story of a woman who is running a farm on a squatted parcel of land in the ghetto. No, really, she is. Her memoir is an amazing [...]
This week’s spotlight is on living read girl. Her blog covers all things pop culture, including, but not limited to, books (just like the library - we also have way more than books to offer!).
I especially liked her recent posts on Remarkable Music Remakes and Jane Austen alternative/monster books. She also did a very nice [...]
I just have to say that I am so excited about this year’s Fall line-up of releases. Everywhere I turn, I see news of yet another great author coming out with a new book this Autumn. There’s Phillippa Gregory, Tracy Kidder, Nicholas Sparks, Stephen King…hoo boy, I think I need to sit down a minute. [...]
Daniel Silva’s follow-up to Moscow Rules, The Defector, releases tomorrow. In this thrilling sequel, Gabriel Allon’s honeymoon is again interrupted by a call from London. The defector and former Russian intelligence officer Grigori Bulganov, who saved Gabriel’s life in Moscow, has vanished without a trace. Gabriel will enter a deadly duel of wits with Russian [...]
This week I’d like to have a little fun with the spotlight. Rather than featuring a site or blog that reviews books or offers reading suggestions, I’d like to point you towards a frivolously fun blog that shares with us truly awful book covers. Judge a Book by its Cover is run by public librarian [...]
I know I already posted a link for npr books, and last week I posted a voting thing, but I just can’t resist posting this link for npr’s “100 Best Beach Books Ever” poll (especially now that summer beach weather has finally made an appearance). They have created a list, based on audience nominations, of [...]
I don’t like to know too much about a book before I read it. If too much is given away beforehand, I feel like the reading experience is lessened. So much so, that I generally read only the first few lines of the jacket flap before deciding to read a book or not, because I [...]
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