Category: Saturday Miscellany

Mostly lighthearted odds ‘n ends this week about books and reading that caught my eye — apparently all from 2 sites. Really, I do read other sites.

• These Stereotypes About Book Lovers Are Absolutely True, And That’s A Good Thing — HuffPo pays tribute to Book Lovers
• 20 Things That Happen When You’re a Book Nerd — and so does Book Riot
• A Book-Binge Survival Guide — with the holidays coming up, some good advice
• Book Marketing Predictions for 2014 — as someone on the receiving end (eagerly so) of this marketing, I found this quite interesting
• In Defense of Liking Books — felt a little strange about all my 3 & 4 star ratings lately, but at the end of the day, I like liking things (and have a couple of negative-ish ones coming up as soon as I find the time). This little article helped me remember it’s okay.
• Goodreads Best Books of 2013 — how’d your faves do? I think I only backed 3 winners. Only one winner bothers me . . . Inferno, really??

This Week’s New Releases I’m Excited About and/or You’ll Probably See Here Soon — easy to guess if you’ve read this site much lately:
• Lost Covenant by Ari Marmell — bah. I’d have saved dusting off the first two in this series until I could post them with the review for this if I’d paid attention.
• The Gods of Guilt by Michael Connelly — The Lincoln Lawyer, Mickey Haller, is back! Hearing many, many good things about this one.

Odds ‘n ends over the week about books and reading that caught my eye. You’ve probably seen some/most/all of them, but just in case:

• Four Series That Could Be the Next Big Thing in Paranormal Fantasy — Paul Goat Allen talks about 4 series that can step into the spots left by/being left by Sookie Stackhouse, Rachel Morgan and others. One of which I’m on board with, 1 of which I don’t get the appeal of, and 2 I’m clueless about. You have a take on it?
• Spying Concerns Driving Writers To Self-Censor — A disturbing note: “A newly released finds that a number of American writers avoid or are considering avoiding controversial topics for fear of government surveillance”
• This Tweet from Jim Butcher could possibly be the best thing I’ve read in weeks.

This Week’s New Releases I’m Excited About and/or You’ll Probably See Here Soon:
• Fiddlehead by Cherie Priest — so bittersweet — a new Clockwork Century novel — yay! the last Clockwork Century novel — boo!. Priest talks about the release.
• Chimera by Kelly Meding — Meding’s MetaWars series is one of my favorites in the last couple of years, I’m so eager to sink my teeth into this one.
• The Theory of Opposites by Allison Winn Scotch — Don’t know anything about this (honestly, haven’t even read that link) all I know is that Scotch is going to deliver a good read, full of charm and heart.

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Odds ‘n ends over the week about books and reading that caught my eye. You’ve probably seen some/most/all of them, but just in case:

• How To Drink Like Dorothy Parker — I’m a sucker for a Dorothy Parker article. And, I’m pretty sure I’m not up to drinking like her.
• Why Fun Matters — Rachel Bach (see below) talks about reading for fun (what a concept!)
• Daily On Set Journal — Michael Connelly’s documenting the process of filming the Bosch pilot.
• GIFs, memes and liveblogs: The controversial new language of book reviewing — Laura Miller talks about the new style of pop book reviewing in the age of Goodreads, blogs and tumblr. Interesting read.

This Week’s New Releases I’m Excited About and/or You’ll Probably See Here Soon:
• Fortune’s Pawn by Rachel Bach — can always use a good SF read
• Katya’s War by Jonathan L. Howard — I thought the first volume in this series was good read, in an interesting SF world. Looking forward to seeing where he goes with this