links for 2009-01-17

Bloggers Search for Best Social Networking Books Site – mediabistro.com: GalleyCat “Here are the results so far, after 206 votes: 27 percent use Library Thing, 20 percent use Shelfari and 25 percent use GoodReads. 45 percent don’t use any social networking site for books. Follow this link to participate in the poll.”I vote for LibraryThing. [...]

I am a winner, and you can, too!

Does it pay to enter the Book Festival Mixed Bag challenges? Oh yes it does! I won a lovely Virginia Festival of the Book 2009 bag stuffed with valuable coupons. Current challenge: Name a great place to read a book.

I saw you reading

I saw you reading: What: Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon Where: Bodo’s on Preston Avenue When: Tuesday a.m., January 13, 2009

BookBalloon Reading Club selections announced

FEBRUARY: What Was Lost, by Catherine O’Flynn. Discussion begins February 9. MARCH: Book: Olive Kitteridge, by Elizabeth Strout. Discussion begins March 4. Join us! Registration is free.

The Year in Reading: July 2009

Summertime, and the reading was … skimpy. Not really. I didn’t read many books this month, but the ones I did read were very rewarding. July The Master Bedroom: A Novel, Tessa Hadley, pub. 2008, F **** A quiet but gripping novel of a lonely woman who returns to her childhood home and causes lots [...]

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