Ask, and Ye Shall Receive!

You guys are rocking my world with all your comments on the previous post. I’m going to keep the contest running for one more day, and will announce the winner of either Maureen Johnson’s new novel Scarlett Fever or Josie Bloss‘ forthcoming Albatross on Thursday. So keep commenting! And don’t worry about [...]

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Reading List

Rexroth, Trixie, and I are headed north this weekend to spend a week in snowy South Dakota with the Implausible clan. And, like the comic says, I am planning what I’ll bring with me. Presents, of course, and clothes and boring stuff, but also: BOOKS!

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Drinking and Reading

Everyone seems to love a post about your book piles, as I got maybe the most comments on a post ever. Very exciting! Let’s see if we can’t keep that trend going today. I followed a link from Publishing Insider to an article in the Denver Examiner (local!) about what alcoholic beverages one should imbibe depending on what you’re reading.

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Books, books, and more books

Let’s be honest here: like so many of you, I love to read. I read voraciously. Manuscripts and submissions, yes, but I still have my favorite authors as well that I need to keep up with. When I moved in with Rexroth, we combined our bookshelves (well, some of them), and I discovered a whole other set of books I want to dive into. So, the question of the day is this: how do you track not just what you want to read, but what you have read?

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To date or not to date?

Via Gawker, I read an interesting article in the Sunday New York Times about those books which can turn you off a prospective partner.

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