"book-club" Articles & Blogs:
"Blows to the Head: How Boxing Changed My Mind" -- THE MOVIE!!!
| These days, in the wild west of book promotion, a book video trailer is a very useful tool -- mine is up on YouTube, featured as "Book Trailer of the Day" in Shelf Awareness, a great independent publishing site, and entered in a contest for ForeWord Revie...[Read on] |
Patti Smith wins National Book Award!
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Congratulations to my favorite artist of all time, Patti Smith, who won the National Book award last night for her memoir, Just Kids. If you have not read this book, go get it! It's thoroughly entertaining and very inspiring. Here's a quote from the Times...[Read on] |
Not Oprah's Book Club: Along for the Ride
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Talking about this book today. Transcript after the jump!
<p>Hi everybody! I'm Miriam and I'm doing this week's Not Oprah's Book Club. I'm standing in for Courtney because I wanted to talk...[Read on] |
Who Should Ghostwrite Christine O’Donnell’s Book?
| Yesterday, word broke that unsuccessful senatorial candidate Christine O’Donnell had landed a book deal, a boon to both contemporary literature and bars in the vicinity of M.F.A. classrooms. “You heard the spin about the 2010 elections. It's t...[Read on] |
NY Times book review discovers women writers
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Everybody knows that women are the ones that buy books. I’ve heard statistics that say that women buy upwards of 60% of all books. But the NY Times Book Review has always been a boy’s club. Happily, this week the section was actually readable an...[Read on] |
Read On: Pretty Tough Book Club
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Last month I received a note from a teacher at Apopka High School in Apopka, Florida who is a huge fan of ”Pretty Tough” by Liz Tigelaar, the first book in our young adult fiction series.
JoJo says, “I loved it as a teacher who sees students...[Read on] |
George W. Bush Penning Book on Presidential Decisions
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George W. Bush is hard at work on a book about his life’s greatest decisionsGeorge W. Bush | Today 10:45 am
George W. Bush is keeping his forthcoming memoir simple.
Rather than rambling on and on about his life, the former president will inste...[Read on] |
Exclusive! Excerpts from the Indefinitely Suspended Sarah Palin Children’s Book
| Speaking Up: The Sarah Palin Story is (was?) a biography of its titular subject geared toward Christian youth. However, it has been suspended “indefinitely” by publisher Zondervan. According to the Associated Press, “Cheryl Lundberg, Zondervan's dir...[Read on] |
Meghan McCain Snags Six-Figure Book Deal
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No details yet on what the outspoken blogger/Ann Coulter hater will write about, but it’s likely to give some pointers to the GOP about how to surviveMeghan McCain Book Deal | Today 10:10 am
Meghan McCain already has "blogger extraordinaire&q...[Read on] |
A Warning: The 2011 True E-Book Challenge Story
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Thanks to Juju at Tales of Whimsy, I’ve joined a challenge! If you haven’t heard of it (or more rightly, guessed) it’s the 2011 E-Book Challenge which is totally right up my alley.
A lot of the freebies on Amazon are romance novels. And I personal...[Read on] |
This Just In!: Breaking News with Meg Cabot
| The latest on the Insatiable vampire invasion has been released.
For book previews and other Overbite goodies, please click here.
Overbite (the sequel to Insatiable), is scheduled to come out July 5. Is anyone else counting down the days?
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Book Review: The Pleasure of My Company
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Author: Steve Martin
Pages: 176
Date Started: 2/7/11
Date Finished: 2/10/11
Simple Summary: Due to various fears and neuroses Daniel Cambridge is confined to his one bedroom Santa Monica apartment… and a very strange route to the Rite Aid. Through vario...[Read on] |
Book Review: Slave
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Author: Cherly Brooks
Pages: 320
Series: Cat Star Chronicles #1
Date Started: 1/1/11
Date Finished: 1/5/11
Simple Summary: Jack need to buy a slave to pose as one to rescue her sister. This intergalactic trader has her hands full when she buys one-of-a-ki...[Read on] |
Musical Mondays: Insatiable Banshees
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This is a weekly installment I’ll be doing, well, weekly! It’s easy and fun, and works like so:
Pick the book you’re currently reading, then think of a song or album that best matches the book. Even hitting shuffle on your musical player will do th...[Read on] |
Tina Fey: She likes us, she really likes us!
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Today a very special box of books came into our office.We’ve been waiting very patiently for Tina Fey’s new book, Bossypants, and man are we stoked and honored to be mentioned on its pages! I plan on reading the entire book immediately but so ...[Read on] |
Musical Mondays: Superstition Time
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So what’s “Musical Monday”? Just pick the book you’re currently reading, then think of a song or album that best matches the book. Even hitting shuffle on your musical player will do the trick. I don’t know about you, but songs pop into my head ...[Read on] |
Amy Sedaris Talks about New Book and Dicks on Letterman
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Check out this fantastic clip of Amy Sedaris being as funny and charming as ever on Letterman last week. She talks about her new book "Simple Times: Crafts for Poor People" (out November 2nd), and even gives us a little taste of the kinds of crafty crafts...[Read on] |
Book Review: Insatiable
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Author: Meg Cabot
Pages: 454
Date Started: 8/15/10
Date Finished: 8/17/10
Simple Summary: Meena hates the whole vampire hype, but falls for the visiting prince vamp, Lucien. Lucien is there because there has been a killing spree of human girls all over th...[Read on] |
Set Visit: With Bridesmaids, Can Judd Apatow’s Dude-Friendly Formula Go Girly?
| Apatow’s ladies’ night? Rose Byrne, Maya Rudolph, Kristen Wiig, and Ellie Kemper. Courtesy of Universal Pictures.
By now, the legendary Judd Apatow filmmaking formula is so well known, we’ve memorized it: find talented comedians, give th...[Read on] |
Larsson's 'Hornet Girl' Stirs Summer Book Buzz
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(WOMENSENEWS)--Female authors this year have produced something for every type of summer reading, from light, fluffy and popular to feminist tracts and epic literary explorations.
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Musical Monday #22: Hall Pass to Hell
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So what’s “Musical Monday”? Just pick the book you’re currently reading (or just finished), then think of a song or album that best matches the book. Even hitting shuffle on your musical player will do the trick. I don’t know about you, but song...[Read on] |
Book Review: Artemis Fowl & the Opal Deception
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Author: Eoin Colfer
Pages: 352
Series: Artemis Fowl #4
Date Started: 7/23/10
Date Finished: 7/24/10
Simple Summary: Opal Koboi has returned and Artemis has to get his memories back in order to save the fairy world. DUN DUN DUN!
Rating: ★★★★★ ...[Read on] |
Book Review: Maybe This Time
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Author: Jennifer Crusie
Pages: 352
Date Started: 9/4/10
Date Finished: 9/8/10
Simple Summary: After a decade of being divorced Archer asks his ex, Andie, to be caretaker/ nanny for his distant (second) cousins at a supposedly haunted house.
Rating: ★...[Read on] |
Book Review: No One Lives Twice
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Author: Julie Moffett
Pages: N/A (e-book)
Series: Lexi Carmichael Mystery #1
Date Started: 9/20/10
Date Finished: 10/8/10
Simple Summary: Lexi is a NSA computer geek plunged into the world of spies and corruption after she receives documents from her frie...[Read on] |
Book Review: Strange Bedpersons
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Author: Jennifer Crusie
Pages: 256
Date Started: 8/29/10
Date Finished: 8/29/10
Simple Summary: Tess and Nick are total opposites but were once crazy about each other. Nick needs a fake fiance for the weekend to impress a potential client and thinks of Te...[Read on] |
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