Odds ‘n ends about books and reading that caught my eye this week. You’ve probably seen some/most/all of them, but just in case:
An Unstandardized, Decentralized Carnival Fire: How Rare Books Are Cataloged—something I’d never given a moment of thought to before, but now I kind of want to spend weeks studying (Morgan Freeman voice-over: He won’t).
Benedict Jacka’s new series officially announced—he’s been talking pretty vaguely about this for months, but now things are official enough that we get details.
I Was a Teenage Pop Culture Detective: Hector DeJean on the delights of discovering cultural offerings in the days before the internet.—this goes beyond books, but I still think it counts. Readers of a certain age will identify with a lot of this. Younger readers might grow in their appreciation for how good they have it.
Beyond the Wardrobe: A Commendation of the Wider Works of C.S. Lewis
Reading in a Fallow Month
How I plan my blog posts—Wait, what? You can plan these things?
The Big, Long List of Awesome Indie Books—Great idea. And one I wish I had years ago. I was inspired for about 3 minutes by this to come up with my own. Then I started thinking about all the work involved and opened Twitter instead.
Speaking of great ideas involving a lot of work…The Longest SFF Series by Word Count
Are Wild Adaptations of Your Work a Sign You’ve “Made It” As an Author?
Why Rereading Books is Worthwhile: Rediscovering Old Favourites
A Book-ish Related Podcast episode (or two) you might want to give a listen to:
Fiction Fans Author Interview: The Hero Interviews by Andi Ewington—since I finally got around to writing about the book this week, I could let myself listen to this. A good chat about a good book—brought up a lot of stuff I forgot to say, too.
Fiction Fans Author Interview: Mrs. Covington’s by K.R.R. Lockhaven—Sara and Lily talk to Lockhaven about the Kickstarter for his new novel.
A Little Help for Our Friend
Kickstarter: Mrs. Covington’s: A Cozy Fantasy Novel—It’s almost at 40 percent after 4 days, if you haven’t kicked in yet, why not do it today?
This Week’s New Releases that I’m Excited About and/or You’ll Probably See Here Soon:
Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto—a delightful mystery about tea, found family, loneliness, and (sure) a murder. I tried to express how happy it made me earlier this week
Good Dog, Bad Cop by David Rosenfelt—It really feels like The K Team series is coming into its own with this one. I talked a bit about it recently.
Lastly, I’d like to say hi and extend a warm welcome to SHANNON K SEXTON, who followed the blog this week. I hope you enjoy the content and keep coming back.
WS_BOOKCLUB
Thanks for including my list! I’m happy about a 3 minute inspiration. 😜
HCNewton
You know full well that most of the inspiration you’ve given me has lasted more than 3 minutes. But this time your fairly-irresistible force ran into the unmovable object of my indolence.
Bookstooge
Planning is good!
And as a side note, do you ever look at the people who start following you?
HCNewton
I do look at them. I frequently wonder why I should bother (and occasionally don’t) with the thanks, but there are probably a lot of bloggers out there that take a quick glance at mine when I follow and wonder WTH?