Posted in Tuesday Thingers on July 29, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Seen my giveaway? Enter for a chance to win “Surviving Ben’s Suicide“ by C. Comfort Shields! Only a few more days to do so!
And my newest giveaway can be found here!
Today’s question, courtesy of The Boston Bibliophile: Cataloging sources. What cataloging sources do you use most? Any particular reason? Any idiosyncratic choices, or foreign sources, or [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, Contests, Fiction-Teen, Interviews on July 29, 2008 | 23 Comments »
Seen my latest giveaway? Enter for a chance to win “Surviving Ben’s Suicide“ by C. Comfort Shields! Only a few more days to do so!
Title: “The Questory of Root Karbunkulus: Item One: Miist”
Author: Kamilla Reid
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 316
ISBN: 978-1419664045
Publisher: BookSurge Publishing
Date of Publication: May 31, 2007
”The race of a lifetime is about to [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, Fiction-Teen on July 27, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Seen my latest giveaway? Enter for a chance to win “Surviving Ben’s Suicide“ by C. Comfort Shields! Only a few more days to do so!
Hi guys, I’m not dead! I was on a much needed vacation last week at the beach and got in a lot of reading Not much internet access though, so [...]
Posted in Meme on July 17, 2008 | 11 Comments »
Seen my latest giveaway? Enter for a chance to win “Surviving Ben’s Suicide“ by C. Comfort Shields!
In order to promote her new site, LitGuides.com (a site dedicated to helping teachers/students navigate classic lit), Kristen over at Book Club Classicshas started her first meme – and thekoolaidmom over at In the Shadow of Mt. TBR tagged me [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, Contests, Interviews, Nonfiction on July 15, 2008 | 13 Comments »
Title: “Surviving Ben’s Suicide“
Author: C. Comfort Shields
Format: Hardcover
Number of Pages: 260
ISBN: 978-0-595-70530-6
Publisher: iUniverse, Inc.
Date of Publication: April 23, 2008
5 stars: How do you survive the suicide of a loved one?
“A month after Ben died, days and nights were long. I tried to fill them with early morning walks on the beach and early evenings of painting [...]
Posted in Book Reviews on July 15, 2008 | 2 Comments »
What? You still haven’t bought “Aberrations” by Penelope Przekop?
Despite my awesome review and interview with the author?
Despite finding out about the fan page on facebook?
Well how about reading a sample chapter?
Made up your mind yet? Buy it here!
Missed my last post? It was TUESDAY THINGERS.
Missed my last review? It was REVIEW: “WORLD MYTHOLOGY” (2ND EDITION) [...]
Posted in Tuesday Thingers on July 15, 2008 | 13 Comments »
Today’s topic, courtesy of The Boston Bibliophile: Book-swapping. Do you do it? What site(s) do you use? How did you find out about them? What do you think of them? Do you use LT’s book-swapping column feature for information on what to swap? Do you participate in any of the LT communities that discuss bookswapping, [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, Personal, tagged plagiarism on July 13, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Update/Recap on the plagiarism situation. After three weeks, ebay responded to my email with an automatic message directing me to the VERO forms. The VERO forms however appeared to deal with listings, not reviews. I asked Live Help if I was correct in assuming this. They confirmed that for me. But some of the Amazon reviewers that I notified sent [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, Fiction-Adult, Fiction-Historical on July 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Hey guys. I know I’m ridiculously behind on comments, visititing other blogs, challenges, and the like. It’s been a busy week with VBS and a bunch of other stuff! Here’s another one of those poor books that had no reviews on LT:
Title: “World Mythology” (2nd edition)
Editor: Donna Rosesnberg
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 584
ISBN: 978-0844257679
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Date of [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, Interviews on July 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Hey guys! Just wanted to let you know that a fan page for Penelope Przekop’s book “Aberrations” is now on Facebook here. If you’re on Facebook, feel free to become a fan of the page. Spread the word
And if you haven’t already, read my review of “Aberrations” and check out my interview with [...]
Posted in Tuesday Thingers on July 8, 2008 | 12 Comments »
Seen my post about Plagiarism? Please read it!
Since we’re past the Fourth of July and the summer season has officially started, what are your plans for the summer? Vacations, trips? Trips that involve reading? Reading plans? If you’re going somewhere, do you do any reading to prepare? Do you read local literature as part of [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, Fiction-Children's on July 7, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Seen my post about Plagiarism? Please read it!
(I was inspired by somebody (sorry I don’t remember who!) to go through my Librarything account and write reviews for books that either had none there or very few. Here’s one of them! )
Title: “Of Swans, Sugarplums, and Satin Slippers”
Author: Violette Verdy
Format: Hardcover
Number of Pages: 90
ISBN:0-590-43484-5
Publisher: Scholastic
Date [...]
Posted in Contests on July 4, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Seen my post about Plagiarism? Please read it!
Here’s an updated post of contests going on right now! There are tons more going on- this is just the tip of the iceberg. And of course I didn’t enter all of these, what would I do if I won them all!! (The ones ending soonest are listed [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, Personal, tagged plagiarism on July 2, 2008 | 24 Comments »
Well I suppose it had to happen sometime, although I didn’t know that somebody would be as petty as to steal a book review! But it appears there are those out there who have no problem doing so.
Not too long ago I was using google to see if any reviews came up that were similar [...]
Posted in Tuesday Thingers on July 1, 2008 | 22 Comments »
Courtesy of the Boston Bibliophile: Since some of us in America may be busy or traveling this holiday week, I thought I would keep things simple for Tuesday Thingers. Think of this as “Popularity of Books on LT, Part Three”.
Here is the Top 100 Most Popular Books on LibraryThing. Bold what you own, italicize what [...]
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