Tonight I finally picked up a book that I've been meaning to read for almost two years now: The Kindling, first book in the Fire-Us trilogy, by Jennifer Armstrong and Nancy Butcher ( Read more... )

I finished Freaks, and liked it, with two exceptions right at the end. Both are fairly spoilery, so they're under the cut.

( Issues! )

You know what, I just really love beta-reading people's original novels. In the past year or so I've done four fulls and two partials, and I really get a kick out of it.

Tonight I'm having my car inspected, so I'll get to spend some time in Wendy's reading my sister's ARC of Freaks: Alive, On the Inside!. That's pretty fun so far ( Read more... )

Has anyone here read Jeff Shaara's Gone for Soldiers: A Novel of the Mexican War?

My flister mpbarker is having a virtual book release party on the Class of 2k8 blog to celebrate the release of her YA novel, A Difficult Boy. I don't know what a virtual book release party is, but apparently it involves imaginary booze. Shampagne?

I picked up A Difficult Boy because it's set in 1839. I spent most of 2007 (halfheartedly) writing in 1843, ( Read more... )

Okay! So this week has been a little nuts, and I've been writing out LJ posts only to let them fester in .txt files. So I have decided to put them all in one big long stupid post. Here they are!

1. ( Reading and Review of Perry Moore's 'Hero' )

Book raffle? Book raffle. Follow the link for a chance to win a copy of Debbi Michiko Florence's debut book, China: A Kaleidoscope Kids Book. I think it was cathellisen who I just had an exchange with about how awesome kids' nonfiction books are for basic research, because they just lay it out for you and don't bog themselves down with sounding smart. So: if ( Read more... )

Today is the biannual library used book sale, where you get a grocery bag of books for four dollars, which is just the best day of my life, basically. I can't list all the awesome things I loaded into my bag, but I have got to show you this (huge, slow-loading) scan of the amazing treasure I found buried in a compilation of "best sci-fi short ( Read more... )

If I had a pie chart of my friends list and their occupations, the librarians would make up a satisfying slice. If you're a librarian and you like free books, you might want to enter this-here contest for a copy of I HEART YOU, YOU HAUNT ME.