Reading shouldn’t make one depressed should it? I had to eventually put down In the Company of the Courtesan by Sarah Dunant. I had such high hopes that it would be good and I even put down my Patricia Briggs novel to start it since it is due back to the library soon. My first DNF for this year.
More baffling or intriguing is that this book is garnering very good reviews. Maybe I’m just not in the mood for this kind of book. Every time I opened the pages, it felt like a trial so after 20 pages, I put it down and will be returning it to the library unfinished.
I am excited about joining the quest for the Holy Grail in Kate Mosse’s LABYRINTH from the library. I hope I have more success with that title than I did with the Dunant. **knock on wood**
MARKETING - I saw the new C.T. Adams & Clamp novel, Touch of Evil , on the shelf with no placement with the new releases. This makes me mad but what can you do? I’d been looking and looking for this title since forever. The Pamela Clare title I bought because it had been placed with the new releases and KristieJ loves her. Will read Surrender next.
It’s hard to get published you say? How hard is it to get noticed among the gazillion books published?
Yeah. That’s right. It’s damn hard. As readers with blogs - let’s help the mid-listers get noticed.
Are you with me?
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