Chelsea Handler’s new book Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang came out today. Did anyone else go pick it up?
Not going to lie, the first chapter made me nervous about life. If you read it, you will know what I’m talking about. Can’t wait to read the rest though. Her writing style is very funny.
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Imagine that, I read another vampire book. Maybe people making comments about me loving vampire stuff are onto something. Sookie Stackhouse series, Twilight, Vegas Vampires….yeah I’ve read a few.
Well finally I caved and decided to read The Vampire Diaries by LJ Smith. I used a date a guy that made fun of me so [...]
http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/services/education/youthlit/readalert/index.php/2010/02/25/barnes-and-noble-age-branding/
www.commonsensemedia.org
Sex, violence, kissing, gay relationships, angels, soda drinks…are things things that parents need to be aware that their kids are reading about? Well according to Barnes and Noble, they seem to be. Recently B&N online joined forces with Common Sense Media to provided ratings and information on books for children and young adults.
My first [...]
Last week I was lucky enough to see a reading with Audrey Niffenegger of her newest novel Her Fearful Symmetry. Afterwords she answered questions from people. I meant to do a little write up about it last week but as things seem to be going this year, I just now got time.
First, I [...]
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/23/books/23kindle.html?pagewanted=1&ref=global-home
Give something away free and if it is good enough, people will want more. This is such an easy concept that we see all over the place. A month free trial period of tv channels, free lipstick samples, free song downloads…this list could go on a long time. When I came across this article talking [...]
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article6988740.ece
So here we are in 2010. Technology seems to be the ‘it’ topic right now. From tons of sources lately I have heard things like, don’t buy external hard drives, back up online, no more cds and dvds, everything needs to be digital, and of course, move over paper books, e-books are here.
This [...]
******Contains details from Sookie Stackhouse books and some spoiler/info I’ve found on season three.*********
So I’ll admit, the first few Sookie Stackhouse novels by Charlaine Harris did not really catch my attention. The first two books I thought were okay but they did not stand out to me. I found them entertaining but I thought [...]
Sorry about being so MIA lately. I’ve spent way more time reading than I have on my computer these days. And dating but that is a whole other story, lol. But I’m back. Well at least I hope. I think I’ll try to do the news stuff again starting next week [...]
http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2009-01-14-top-100-titles_N.htm
Love her or hate her, Stephanie Meyer has done something no other author has ever done. She took the top four slots in the Top Sellers of 2008 list. Another article on the same site stated that one in every five books sold between Thanksgiving and the end of the year was written by [...]
So I just saw John Green post this on twitter.
http://www.visualeconomics.com/how-the-average-us-consumer-spends-their-paycheck/
As he pointed out. Look how much is spent on books. Only $118 between two or three people. How sad is that? They are spending almost 2600 on entertainment thought. Aren’t books a great form of entertainment too?
I guess this number isn’t as bad [...]
