Do you usually dress up for Halloween? Have you ever dressed up as a character from a book?
September 28, 2010, 82 voters
In today's guest post, regular contributor Heather Johnson shares some details from the Baltimore Book Festival. Did you get a chance to go? Or will you be hitting any of the other Book Festivals this fall? If not - change your plans. They really are a lot of fun!
September 22nd marked the first of day of the fall season. Which means school is in definite full swing. When you drag yourself sleepily out of the bed and wish for another life that did involve bad school lunches, heavy books, difficult assignments and loud, crowded hallways.
The Guardian offers its top 10 stories about sisters...
Chin on hand, office candid and the rest of the author photo cliches...
What to read on jury duty? Crime books, of course!
In today's guest post, Jamie Layton, Regular Contributor and Manager of Duck's Cottage Coffeeshop & Bookstore, talks about an experience she had at her store recently. As a former independent bookstore owner myself - I totally get where she's coming from. If you love your local independent and appreci
Approximately what percentage of the books you read appear --- or have appeared --- on bestseller lists?
September 24, 2010, 474 voters
September 24, 2010
Last Sunday I was reading --- and enjoying --- MINI SHOPAHOLIC while sitting poolside on what was a brilliantly sunny late summer afternoon. The main character in these books, Becky Brandon is always scheming and thinking out of the box. Typically some wild consequences result as whatever she touches turns her into some modern fashion-addicted version of Lucy Ricardo. That said reading her escapades is one of those things that gets your brain going.
