Via GalleyCat.
Printing on demand would definitely make it easier for the small to medium bookseller to compete with the immediateness of an ebook. However it would mean the end of browsing rows and rows of titles which I love to do. I don’t expect the printed book to ever completely disappear and this looks like the way printing may be heading.
Musing Monday is a weekly meme hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading. This week’s musing is: What element, if a book has it, will make you almost always read that book (and name a book –or books– that contain it)!
A new twist this week: Each participant to MM today needs to ask their own question for the next person to answer, in addition to answering the previous person’s question. You don’t answer ALL of the questions… just the question asked by the person who left a comment before you (or by me, if you’re the first one here to play in MM this week!)
My answer:
I will always read a book that has the element of time travel. I just love them!
A few of my favorites are:
- Replay by Ken Grimswold
- Lightening by Dean Koontz
- From Time To Time by Jack Finney
- Now And Then by Jacqueline Sheehan
- The Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
- The Light Of Other Days by Arthur C. Clark
Now for my question. Do you judge a book by it’s cover and are you ever disappointed that the cover had nothing to do with the story?
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 review copy of New Tricks by David Rosenfelt from Hachette Books.
Attorney Andy Carpenter is about to represent an adorable Bernese mountain dog puppy, whose owner was brutally murdered, in a custody fight. Few can rival Andy’s affection for dogs, and he’s determined to keep Waggy from falling into the wrong hands. But this playful pup possesses a valuable secret that some people will resort to violence to obtain. It will take more than Andy’s usual courtroom theatrics to save Waggy, including help from the lawyer’s golden retriever, Tara. Andy soon discovers that everyone around him is in danger, including his longtime girlfriend, Laurie–and only some high-risk new tricks will save those he cherishes most.
A finished copy of The Particular Sadness Of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender in a giveaway contest at A Musing Reviews.
On the eve of her ninth birthday, unassuming Rose Edelstein, a girl at the periphery of schoolyard games and her distracted parents’ attention, bites into her mother’s homemade lemon-chocolate cake and discovers she has a magical gift: she can taste her mother’s emotions in the cake. She discovers this gift to her horror, for her mother—her cheerful, good-with-crafts, can-do mother—tastes of despair and desperation. Suddenly, and for the rest of her life, food becomes a peril and a threat to Rose.
An ARC of Keep The Change by Steve Dublanica through Shelf Awareness.
Tipping is huge in America. Almost everyone leaves at least one tip every day, more than five million American workers depend on them, and we spend $66 billion in tips each year. And everyone recognizes that queasy feeling — in bars and restaurants, barbershops and beauty parlors, hotels and strip clubs and everywhere else — when the check arrives or the tip jar looms. Omnipresent yet poorly understood, tipping has worked its way into almost every part of everyday life.
A weekly meme about (mostly) books and reading. This week’s question is:
What is the first book you remember reading? What about the first that made you really love reading?
Aside from the assorted Golden Books that I read as a child, my first full length book that I remember reading was Charlotte’s Web. I still have my original copy of it on my bookshelf. From then on I started asking for more books and remember receiving a few in the Nancy Drew series. I absolutely loved A Wrinkle In Time and that set off my love for the science fiction genre. What made me love reading? I could envelope myself into the world the author created and escape into the story.
Thanks to Anna at Hachette Books I have 2 copies of The Link by Colin Tudge to give away to my readers. If I receive over 30 entries I will draw a third winner. I have not read this book yet but being interested in all things science and nature it sounds fascinating to me. Below is a description from the publisher:
The Link
by Colin Tudge
Category: Science, Social Science
Format: Trade Paperback
Publish Date: 8/11/2010
ISBN: 9780316070096
Pages: 272For more than a century, scientists have raced to unravel the human family tree and have grappled with its complications. Now, with an astonishing new discovery, everything we thought we knew about primate origins could change. Lying inside a high-security vault, deep within the heart of one of the world’s leading natural history museums, is the scientific find of a lifetime – a perfectly fossilized early primate, older than the previously most famous primate fossil, Lucy, by forty-four million years.
About The Author
Colin Tudge is a biologist by education and a writer by inclination–on biology, food and agriculture, and the philosophy of science. His books include The Tree, Feeding People Is Easy, Consider the Birds, and The Time Before History. For more information about the author, go to www.colintudge.com.
Read an excerpt. Visit Revealing The Link.
How to enter the Giveaway:
- Contest is open to residents of the US and Canada only, no PO Boxes. Contest runs through August 30th.
- For one entry leave a comment and include your email address.
- For an additional entry, follow my blog by email through wordpress or feedburner. Leave a separate comment.
- For an additional entry post on your blog, sidebar is ok, or tweet on twitter. Leave a comment with the link.
I will draw the winners using random.org on August 31st. Be sure to leave an email address for each entry so that I can contact you if you win. Winners will have 48 hours to respond with a mailing address.
Thanks to Anna at Hachette Books I have 3 copies of Fit For Life by Harvey and Marilyn Diamond to give away to my readers. Description from the publisher:
Fit For Life
by Harvey and Marilyn Diamond
ISBN: 0446553646
Published by: GRAND CENTRAL PUBLISHING
Genre: HEALTH & FITNESS
Published on: 8/16/2010
Format: TRADE PAPERBACKIt’s the program that shatters all the myths: FIT FOR LIFE the international bestseller that explains how to change both your figure and your life. Nutritional specialist Harvey and Marilyn Diamond explain how you can eat more kinds of food than you ever ate before without counting calories…and still lose weight! The natural body cycles, permanent weight-loss plan that proves it’s not only what you eat, but also when and how, FIT FOR LIFE is the perfect solution for those who want to look and feel their best. Join the millions of Americans who are FIT FOR LIFE and begin your transformation with:
* The vital principles that bring you permanent weight loss and high energy
* The FIT FOR LIFE secrets of timing and food combining that work with your natural body cycles
* A 4-week meal plan, menus, shopping tips, and exercise
* Delicious recipes and more.
Read an excerpt.
My Review:
If you are interested in learning about a healthier way of eating, then this book is for you. I bought this book when it was first published in the mid 1980’s. It is not a diet, but rather a modification of the way you eat. Yes, you will lose weight, but you will also feel better and have more energy. You can do as much or as little modification of your diet as you choose. While the authors stress a meat-free diet, and the underlying message is that a vegetarian or vegan diet is healthier, they recognize that not all of us can do a vegetarian diet and include recipes with meat and fish.
The criticisms of this program is that it lacks scientific backing. I don’t find that to be a valid; this is not a diet plan where you are taking pills or steered into unhealthy eating. You make as much or as little change to your diet to lose weight, gain energy and feel good. You will not be hungry on the Fit For Life program.
One of the permanent lifestyle changes I made from reading this book was to eat fruit in the morning and to stop eating heavy, calorie filled foods like pastry for breakfast. Okay, a few times a year I still have my bacon and pancakes, but the majority of the time I have fruit. The immediate result was to lose 5 pounds and it has stayed off and I feel better. I have incorporated many of the suggestions in this book into my diet and occasionally still refer back to it as a reference.
Highly recommended. 5 of 5 stars.
How to enter the Giveaway:
- Contest is open to residents of the US and Canada only, no PO Boxes. Contest runs through August 29th.
- For one entry leave a comment and include your email address.
- For an additional entry, follow my blog by email through wordpress or feedburner. Leave a separate comment.
- For an additional entry post on your blog, sidebar is ok, or tweet on twitter. Leave a comment with the link.
I will draw the winners using random.org on August 30th. Be sure to leave an email address for each entry so that I can contact you if you win. Winners will have 48 hours to respond with a mailing address.
Musing Monday is a weekly meme hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading. This week’s musing is: What book tops your TBR (to be read) pile right now? Is it something you own, or something you have to borrow, or something you’ll be purchasing? Why do you want to read it so badly?
Top of my pile is an ARC of Antiphon by Ken Scholes. This is book three of The Psalms Of Isaak, a scifi fantasy series. I can’t start it until I finish book two, which should happen today or tomorrow. Book discussions with the author begin this week over at the Barnes and Noble forums and I don’t want to miss out on any of it.
Any Science Fiction / Fantasy readers out there, this is truly an excellent series of which I was unaware until I read about them on the forums. I will be doing a review soon.
Under My Apple Tree 