October 8, 2010 / Leslie

Friday Finds / Book Blog Hop ~ Oct 8 – 11

The Book Blogger Hop, a weekly event hosted by Jen at Crazy For Books, is a place just for book bloggers and readers to connect and share our love of the written word!

Post about the Hop on your blog. Spread the word about the book party! The Hop lasts Friday through Monday. If you don’t have time to Hop today, come back later and join the fun! Each week there is a new discussion question for your post. This week’s question is:

“What’s your favorite beverage while reading or blogging, if any? Is it tea, coffee, water, a glass of wine, or something else?”

In the morning it’s coffee. Strong coffee. Sometimes espresso or latte. Hot or cold. Love my coffee in the morning. The rest of the day it’s iced tea or water.

Thanks for hopping by this week.

What great books did you hear about/discover this past week? Share your FRIDAY FINDS! This weekly event is hosted by Should Be Reading.

I was very excited to find out that there is a prequel to the excellent Ringworld series.

Betrayer of Worlds by Larry Niven, Edward M. Lerner

Since fleeing the supernova chain reaction at the galactic core, the cowardly Puppeteers of the Fleet of Worlds have just barely survived one crisis after another. The rebellion of their human slaves. The relentless questing of the species of Known Space. The spectacular rise of the starfish-like Gw’oth. The onslaught of the genocidal Pak. Now fresh disaster looms, as though past crises have returned and converged. Who can possibly save the Fleet this time?

When there is a bird on the cover of a book I go right to the description to see if I’ll like it. I admit, I can be enticed by the cover, and since I’m a birder (yes, one of those people who go on hikes with binoculars and stalk birds!) this one caught my eye. And it sounds like a good story too.

The Bird Sisters: A Novel by Rebecca Rasmussen

When a bird flies into a window in Spring Green, Wisconsin, sisters Milly and Twiss get a visit. Twiss listens to the birds’ heartbeats, assessing what she can fix and what she can’t, while Milly listens to the heartaches of the people who’ve brought them. The two sisters have spent their lives nursing people and birds back to health.