http://read.blee.net/blog The Billerica Public Library's Reading Blog Wed, 08 Sep 2010 12:55:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Knowing how popular of an author she is, I thought I'd alert everyone that Janet Evanovich will be appearing at Borders in Braintree next Tuesday, September 14, at 6:00 pm! She'll be signing her new book, Wicked Appetite, which releases that day. For more info, visit the Borders Braintree site. http://read.blee.net/blog/2010/09/08/janet-evanovich-in-braintree/ Ape House by Gruen - I, and several others I know, loved Gruen's Water for Elephants. Here, she returns to the human-animal connection in a tale of great apes and the people who share their lives in a language lab. The lab gets bombed, and the apes are sold off ... http://read.blee.net/blog/2010/09/07/new-books-week-of-sept6/ The Huffington Post launched its new book site last October, and in the past almost year it has become a thing of note. Authors beg to have their books featured, The New York Review of Books has partnered with them to provide content, and bloggers frantically try to post something ... http://read.blee.net/blog/2010/09/03/weekly-web-spotlight-huffington-post/ MOCKING JAY by Suzanne Collins - The big news around here today is the release of the final book in Collins's amazing Hunger Games trilogy! This series is gripping, leads to compulsive reading, and causes angst when each book is done and one must wait for the next to come ... http://read.blee.net/blog/2010/08/24/new-books-week-of-august-23/ Wow, where has the time gone?! This summer has been incredibly busy! I know this is my first post in about a month, and I apologize for the lapse. But here's some great new titles from this week and last to get us back into the swing of things (click ... http://read.blee.net/blog/2010/08/16/new-books-week-of-august-16/ This week I’d like to feature the site Fantastic Fiction. Its colors may be a bit harsh and gaudy, but the site is so full of information you’ll soon not even notice the atrocious design. The site claims to have information on 30,000 authors and 350,000 books and those numbers ... http://read.blee.net/blog/2010/07/16/weekly-web-spotlight-fantastic-fiction/ Last weekend, I was shocked to find out that right around the corner (in Burlington, MA) the Shirley Jackson Awards were being presented (as part of a larger conference, Readercon) and I hadn't heard about it! I hopped right over and attended, and was glad I did. The presenter of ... http://read.blee.net/blog/2010/07/15/scifi-and-fantasy-awards/ Digging Up The Dead by Michael Kammen I wanted to like this book, in fact I expected to like this book. I mean, who wouldn't want to hear bizarre stories of people being dug up and reburied for various reasons? I love sort-of "weird history" books, and this one definitely fit ... http://read.blee.net/blog/2010/07/15/digging-up-the-dead/ The New Dead - a Zombie Anthology edited by Christopher Golden. Like with many anthologies, this collection had some that hit it out of the park and some that were less successful. There were definitely enough good ones to make it worth reading, though I did find myself a bit ... http://read.blee.net/blog/2010/07/14/the-new-dead/ Page Turners is a book blog by Becky in Sydney, Australia. (It seemed appropriate with the heat we've been having lately to feature a blog from "down under"). I was brought to this site by a link for Book Beginnings on Friday, a meme I might actually join and start doing ... http://read.blee.net/blog/2010/07/09/weekly-web-spotlight-page-turners/