Four of the books I reviewed this month are on sale today, each of them books I really enjoyed:
Sweetsmoke by David Fuller - My Review - Purchase this book
“Sweetsmoke” is the story of Cassius, a slave on a Virginia plantation, during the Civil War. This book You can also read a Q&A with David Fuller [...]
American Wife: A Novel by Curtis Sittenfeld
Release date: Tuesday, September 2, 2008
This is among the best books I have read this year. I actually got frustrated while reading this book because it is yet another strong contender for best book of the month, and I have no idea how I am going to choose.
“American Wife” [...]
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Please go and vote for your favorite entry in the Far World: Water Keep contest!
Some time ago I joined my first challenge, the ARC Reading Challenge from So Many Precious Books, So Little Time. I listed the following ARCs as books I was going to read:
The Spirit of the Place
Water Keep
The Lace Reader
The Glimmer [...]
My blog, specifically my post on the “Monique and the Mango Rains Opportunity,” was mentioned yesterday in the publishing industry newsletter, Shelf Awareness.
You can read yesterday’s issue here.
This is super cool!
As long as you’re reading this, go and vote for your favorite entry in the Far World writing contest.
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The Dangerous Joy of Dr. Sex by Pagan Kennedy
Release date: Monday, September 1, 2008
Well that is certainly a catchy title.
The book is catchy too.
In “The Dangerous Joy of Dr. Sex,” Kennedy has put together a collection of her creative-nonfiction essays, most of them originally published in The New York Times Magazine and The Boston Globe [...]
Whether you usually read off of your own book pile or from the library shelves NOW, chances are you started off with trips to the library. (There’s no way my parents could otherwise have kept up with my book habit when I was 10.) So … What is your earliest memory of a library? Who [...]
…now it is up to all of you to decide the winner! Who will win a $10 gift certificate to Amazon.com? Seven stories were sent to me in the Far World: Water Keep contest. J. Scott Savage, author of Far World will be choosing his favorite entry to win a personalized, signed [...]
Happy Birthday to you,
You live in a zoo.
You look like a monkey,
And you smell like one too.
Oh, and I hope you sent in your Far World contest submission by now, or you aren’t going to have anywhere to live when you move to Chicago =)
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Matrimony by Joshua Henkin
Paperback release date: Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
“Matrimony” is the story of Julian, then of Julian and Carter, then of Julian and Mia. All three, along with a girl named Pilar are students at Graymont College. Julian is a child of privilege, his father is an investment banker and they live in a [...]
