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Books: I like ’em
Time for a rundown of some reading I’ve done lately: :: Born Standing Up, by Steve Martin. If you come to this book expecting a “wild and crazy” book of comedy-in-print, you’ll walk away disappointed. If you come, instead, looking … Continue reading
Stuff!
Some lazy linkage for a snowy Thursday evening: :: Lynn Sislo hasn’t posted in several days. As she lives in Oklahoma, I assume that this is due to the ice storm they had in those parts. I hope she’s back … Continue reading
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The siren call of a blank endpaper….
Sheila has a pretty wonderful link: the Book Inscriptions project. (As of this writing, the site’s not loading, but it was loading an hour or so ago, I swear!) The site posts images of inscriptions written in the fronts of … Continue reading
Listenin’
I’ve just started reading Alex Ross’s The Rest is Noise. I’ll have more to say on the book when I’ve finished with it (and that’ll be a while; I’m only about fifty pages in as of this writing), but in … Continue reading
Readin’
Time to catch up on some recent reading I’ve done: :: As research for a short story I finished drafting a few weeks ago, I read a fascinating book called Stradivari’s Genius: Five Violins, One Cello, and Three Centuries of … Continue reading
Bring your kids!
About a month ago I mentioned a new children’s bookstore opening soon in Orchard Park, “B is for Books”. Well, the store is going to open this week! They’re doing a soft-open on October 9, with a grand opening bash … Continue reading
The Wheel stopped turning
Fantasy author Robert Jordan has died. I wasn’t a fan, but lots of readers are. Condolences to family, friends, and fans.
A publishing-type question
For any readers who know stuff about the publishing biz: since the Goldman family now holds the rights to OJ Simpson’s book If I Did It, does that mean that all royalties go to them as well? If so, that … Continue reading
Save the Books!
Yesterday was my favorite quarterly event: the Book Sale at my local public library. I adore this sale! And as usual, my haul amounted to under ten bucks. Here is just the stuff I got for myself: I’m not sure … Continue reading
Book Quiz!
I don’t think I’ve seen this quiz before I ran across it at Sheila’s place, which seems odd, because surely by now I’ve seen (and done) every blog quiz that exists, right? Anyway, it’s about books: What are you reading … Continue reading