I saw this today on Galleycat:
Scholastic announced that Suzanne Collins’ Mockingjay has sold 450,000 copies counting both hardcover and eBook sales since its August 24th release. That’s an average of 45,000 books sold per day.
That’s a lot of books! And it’s good to see that reading is still alive and well. But I admit, I haven’t read any of this series yet. I’m sure I’ll like it; from the description of the series and the reviews, it fits the type of book I’d enjoy. So why haven’t I read any of them yet?
The simple truth is that I don’t like to be kept hanging waiting for the next installment of a trilogy. Sometimes for years. And in the meantime I forget a lot of the plot details. So I generally wait until the complete set is published and then read them all at once. Also, there is always the fear that I will invest time in a trilogy that will never be completed. I have been disappointed a few times with a series that abruptly ended after only one book. So now it’s time to read them all at once.
Congratulations to:
Dawn, Emily and AmandaSue
Each won a copy of New Tricks by David Rosenfelt.
Thanks to all who stopped by to enter.
Musing Monday is a weekly meme hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading. This week’s musing is:
If your house was burning down –and you could SAFELY grab a book on your way outside to safety– what book would you make sure you ‘rescued’? Why?
The book I would save would be Charlotte’s Web. This was the first real hardcover book I received as a child way back in the 60’s. It was a gift from my cousin and this copy is irreplaceable. Now if I was grabbing a book to read while I waited for the fire to be put out I would make a different choice, but I digress.
To join in stop by Should Be Reading.
Mailbox Monday is touring through blogs in the upcoming months. In August it will be hosted by Chick Loves Lit.
Mailbox Monday was created by The Printed Page. It is the gathering place for readers to share the books that came into their home last week.
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In my mailbox last week:
A copy of Still Missing by Chevy Stevens from a Blogoversary Giveaway at The Crowded Leaf.
On the day she was abducted, Annie O’Sullivan, a thirty-two year old Realtor, had three goals—sell a house, forget about a recent argument with her mother, and be on time for dinner with her ever- patient boyfriend. The open house is slow, but when her last visitor of the day pulls up in a van as she’s about to leave, Annie thinks it just might be her lucky day after all.
Interwoven with the story of the year Annie spent captive of a sadistic psychopath in a remote mountain cabin, which unfolds through sessions with her psychiatrist, is a second narrative recounting events following her escape—her struggle to piece her shattered spirit back together and the ongoing police investigation into the identity of her captor.
An ARC of The Wake of Forgiveness by Bruce Machart from Barnes & Noble’s First Look Reviewer group.
Reminiscent of Kent Haruf’s portrayals of hope amidst human heartbreak and Cormac McCarthy’s finely hewn evocations of the American Southwest, Bruce Machart’s striking debut is as well wrought as it is riveting. It compels us to consider the inescapable connections between sons and their mothers, between landscape and family, and between remembrance and redemption.
I’m always excited to find new authors and new publishing houses. And this morning while reading Paperback Dolls I learned of Clan Destine Press, a newly launched Australian publishing house. They specialize in crime fiction, true crime, thrillers and adventure, science fiction, fantasy, urban fantasy or other type of genre writing, some favorites of mine, and feature Aussie writers. I must read some of these. For those of you who have not had the pleasure of traveling down under, it really is a wonderful, sometimes strange and very beautiful place, and a great setting for a novel.
And now here’s the exciting part, a giveaway!
Paperback Dolls is celebrating the launch of Clan Destine Press with an interview with Lindy Cameron, author and launcher of the new publishing house, and by giving away the first three books off the presses to three lucky winners. Contest is open through September 3rd.
Can you name a book by looking at a portion of it’s cover? Try this little quiz and see how well you do.
I could only name half of them but I should have done better.
A weekly meme about (mostly) books and reading. This week’s question is:
Have your reading choices changed over the years? Or pretty much stayed the same? (And yes, from childhood to adulthood we usually read different things, but some people stick to basically the same kind of book their entire lives, so…)
My reading tastes have for the most part stayed the same. I still have the same favorite genres but I read all types of books.
Occasionally I’ll go through a phase where I discover an author and read a lot of their books, like when I decided to read all of Ann Rice’s books back in the 90’s and burned out on vampires, but otherwise I’ve always been a ‘wide variety of books’ type of reader. I usually describe my tastes as eclectic and dependent on my mood at the time. I just bought the first eight Dresden Files books so I could go on a reading spree again… maybe!
Under My Apple Tree 