September reading club selection at BookBalloon.com

Posted on August 26, 2008 by Elizabeth McCullough

September BookBalloon reading club selection: Gaudy Night, by Dorothy L. Sayers This delightful “whodunit” unfolds at the all-female Shrewsbury College at Oxford. It features Harriet Vane, a returned alumna and mystery writer and Lord Peter Wimsey, noted detective and sometime boyfriend of Ms. Vane. Discussion begins Sept. 8! If you’re already a registered member, click [...]

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links for 2008-08-26

Posted on August 26, 2008 by Elizabeth McCullough

Maud Newton: Blog “For the seven others out there who might have interest in collecting fragments of one of the great epic poems of the English language in 1-2 small shards a day: here’s my Twittered Paradise Lost.” –Count me in! You can follow too, at http://twitter.com/paradiselost Storyglossia: Storyglossia Issue 29 has Published Editor Steven [...]

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Summer Reading Series: Kevin McFadden and Angie Hogan

Posted on August 26, 2008 by Elizabeth McCullough

Summer Reading Series: Kevin McFadden and Angie Hogan Kevin McFadden and Angie Hogan presented an evening of poetry and letterpress at WriterHouse on Wednesday, August 20, 2008. Kevin McFadden is the author of Hardscrabble, an inaugural selection of the VQR Poetry series. Originally from the Cleveland area, he was a Henry Hoyns Fellow at the [...]

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LibraryThing strategy in an age of Amazon/Shelfari | LibraryThing

Posted on August 26, 2008 by Elizabeth McCullough

Tim at LibraryThing contemplates the future, now that Amazon has acquired Shelfari: Any any case, once the Amazon/Shelfari deal goes through, we are competing against Amazon. The second element, as many also know, is that Amazon recently announced its intention to acquire Abebooks, the Canadian used-books aggregator that owns 40% of LibraryThing. The acquisiton will [...]

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