A while back I wrote a Sunday Salon post about Four Letter Word, a collection of fictive love letters edited by Joshua Knelman and Rosalind Porter. This is what I had to say, shortly before giving it a 5/5: This book is amazing. I began it this afternoon and finished it this evening, on the [...]
Posts from ‘August, 2008’
Don’t Forget: BBAW Nominations
Nominations for Book Blogger Appreciate Week are open! Don’t forget to vote! Here are the categories. You can nominate up to two bloggers in each of them: Best General Book Blog Best Kidlit Blog Best Christian/Inspirational Fiction Blog Best Literary Fiction Blog Best Book Club Blog Best Romance Blog Best Thrillers/Mystery/Suspense Blog Best Non-fiction Blog [...]
BTT: Stories
Here’s this week’s question: If you’re anything like me, one of your favorite reasons to read is for the story. Not for the character development and interaction. Not because of the descriptive, emotive powers of the writer. Not because of deep, literary meaning hidden beneath layers of metaphor. (Even though those are all good things.) [...]
I’ll Link to Your Reviews
I’ll skip the preamble* and get straight to it: anytime I write a review here of a book you have already reviewed, let me know in the comments and I will link to your review. Reciprocity would be appreciated but I won’t be stringent about it. Here’s a full list of reviews (click-through on their [...]
Review: First Daughter, by Eric van Lustbader
I had been seeing this book advertised in Shelf Awareness for a while, and was intrigued by the premise, but was not able to procure a copy for myself on account of not living in the States. So sad (well — for that reason only). But then I was offered First Daughter by the very [...]
Review: When We Were Romans, by Matthew Kneale
There is something inescapably charming about galley proofs. I love seeing pages that say nothing but “Blank page viii” or “A Note About the Type — TK”. I like the little spot on the front cover that tells you that the book is a bound galley and not for sale. I like the tentative sale [...]
Review and Interview: What If . . .? by Steve N. Lee
I always get a little bit nervous when I get a book directly from an author. What if it’s horrid? What if I hurt their feelings? What if I write a negative review and the author retaliates? I mean, you hear about things like this and this and this happening, and that’s just not cool. [...]
BTT: Libraries
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 [...]