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Diana Gabaldon Reads Dana Stabenow Too

Title of Post: The Methadone List (April 27)
For those who like series, mys­ter­ies, books with rich, idio­syn­cratic set­tings, engag­ing char­ac­ters, Strong Women (which frankly, I think is get­ting to be some­thing of a cliché’—not the women them­selves, of course, but the men­tion of them as a talk­ing point for a book. I mean, who rec­om­mends a book by say­ing, “The hero­ine is

Taking a Brief Break From Blogging

Debated on post­ing this but I think I will for those few of you who check this blog on a reg­u­lar basis. This is just a brief note that to say that I will be tak­ing a brief break from blog­ging right now. I have a new job with new respon­si­bil­i­ties and this will be (and already has) taken up a lot of

BN: Where’s the Ebooks?

Remem­ber the com­mer­cial: where’s the beef? Yeah, where’s the ebooks? Barnes and Noble ebook store has this motto on their twit­ter page that boasts:

Enjoy eBooks Any Time, Any Place at the world’s largest eBook store
Can’t be all that big since two titles are miss­ing from it but can be found every­where else includ­ing Fic­tion­wise. Nice going B&N.

Territorial Rights and Ebook Readers

Ran across this some­what brief arti­cle from Dig­i­tal Book World that dis­cusses the ter­ri­to­r­ial rights that pro­hibits read­ers from buy­ing ebooks from other coun­tries. The arti­cle isn’t all that in depth but it briefly explains why ter­ri­to­r­ial rights were estab­lished. Quite frankly, read­ers don’t care any­thing about why they are restricted or what ter­ri­to­r­ial rights

Must See This to Believe, Authors “Having Fun.”

Ran across Mrs Gig­gles site and what do I find, a YouTube video of Con­nie Brock­way, Teresa Medeiros and Eloisa James doing — some­thing (not singing of course, cer­tainly not that) with a Cindy Lau­per 80’s tune. Enjoy.

Author, Scott Turow Set to Release Sequel to Presumed Innocent

Wow, color me sur­prised to learn on Twit­ter (no less) that Scott Turow is set to release the sequel to his block­buster hit novel, Pre­sumed Inno­cent (1987). I saw the movie, never read the book about a man accused of killing his mis­tress. The movie was good! And that end­ing! What a twist, huh? I love these kinds of

Morning Report

This a quick run down of the articles/posts I’ve read this past week.
Super Bowl 2010
What about that Super Bowl 2010, huh? Con­grats to the New Orleans Saints! I’m sure this win has spe­cial mean­ing for the peo­ple of New Orleans who’ve had some tri­als and tribu­la­tions this past few years. Con­grat­u­la­tions to you all.
I was at work so I didn’t

Upcoming Mystery Releases

Here is what I’ve found to be avail­able within the next few months that I am buying/reading:
Bro­ken (June 22) by Karin Slaugh­ter, it’s the next book in the Grant County series. The first book in the series was Blind­sighted (cap­ti­vat­ing). I see that Will Trent’s men­tioned in the syn­op­sis and dammit, I will be read­ing this book

No Thanks, Apple, Already Have An Ereader

This is short and sweet as I’m sure many of you could care less for this topic but this is how I feel about Apple’s new cre­ation (and no, nobody asked me). Here we go: No, thanks. The iPad changes noth­ing for me. In fact, it’s just a big iTouch with an ebook app among other things