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Diana Gabaldon Reads Dana Stabenow Too

Apr 27th

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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

Mar 4th

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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?

Mar 2nd

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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

Feb 28th

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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

Thinking About Leaving A Bad Review on Goodreads? Are You Sure?

Feb 25th

Posted by Avid Reader in Avid Musings

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Be pre­pared for some of the authors to respond in a hos­tile fash­ion (no links) on Goodreads or any other pub­lic forum for that mat­ter. I’ve read or enter­tained myself thus far with two authors who are learn­ing the hard way what it truly means to attack a reviewer. It’s not like “reviewer” is a revered posi­tion. It’s

Installing Python on Mac and PC, Manga Recs and More

Feb 22nd

Posted by Avid Reader in Avid Musings

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Just in Case You Missed It…
Jane (tech­ni­cal guru) wrote out the tuto­r­ial for installing Python and Pycrypto to your Mac or PC or both (you can have it your way). I am a new Mac user (pur­chased an iMac) and have already printed out the instruc­tions to give it a go on my next day off because I have

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

Feb 13th

Posted by Avid Reader in Avid Musings

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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.

New Lord John Novella in “Warriors” Anthology

Feb 12th

Posted by Avid Reader in Avid Musings

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Fans of Diana Gabal­don may want to go ahead and order this new anthol­ogy that fea­tures a BRAND NEW Lord John Grey short story that’s fea­tured in War­riors edited by George R.R. Mar­tin and some other guy (just kid­ding) & Gard­ner Dozois. Gabal­don also gives read­ers a sneak peek of this novella (go read). Kin­dle price

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Author, Scott Turow Set to Release Sequel to Presumed Innocent

Feb 8th

Posted by Avid Reader in Avid Musings

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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

Ebook Quality Control

Feb 8th

Posted by Avid Reader in Avid Musings

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Dig­i­tal Book World and it’s blog whose mis­sion is to “[focus] on pub­lish­ing strate­gies, not tools; solu­tions, not the­o­ries; prac­ti­cal­ity, not pun­ditry” spot­lights Liza Daly’s pre­sen­ta­tion (Ms. Daly is an expe­ri­enced soft­ware engi­neer and con­sul­tant for dig­i­tal pub­lish­ing). Her pre­sen­ta­tion at the 2010 Dig­i­tal Book World Con­fer­ence talked about essen­tially, ebook qual­ity con­trol. Timely topic

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Morning Report

Feb 8th

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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

Norwegian Crime Novelist, Jo Nesbo, Upcoming US Events

Feb 3rd

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Seems that my favorite crime nov­el­ist from Oslo will be com­ing to the US! He has some sched­uled events where unfor­tu­nately, it looks like he won’t be in my neck of the woods. Damn. Well, if he’s in your area, go meet him!
The web­site says he’s pro­mot­ing Neme­sis from his most excel­lent Harry Hole

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Upcoming Mystery Releases

Jan 29th

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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

Jan 28th

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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

2010 Reissues From Author, Jennifer Crusie

Jan 27th

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Seems that Jen­nifer Crusie’s pub­lisher is reis­su­ing some of her back­list for 2010 so BOLO. Tell Me Lies, Crazy For You and Trust Me On This, etc are all being released this year with new cov­ers. She men­tions that Tell Me Lies and Crazy For You will be com­ing out in trade paper­back. The covers

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