reading

As per my last post, I am eagerly devouring my TBR pile. Right now I am reading The Night in Question by Kelsey Roberts. Talk about suspense. Things are really heating up and I know I’m in for a good ride.

Starting out as a newbie writer, I gleaned my most valuable piece of advice from an online “how to” article. I wish I could remember who the author was, but I’ll never forget what she said: “Don’t hoard the good stuff.”

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Taking that to heart, I have poured every emotion, every twist, every creative fiber of my being into every single story…as if it were my only book. My final book.

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Because you just never know.

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The imagined to-do lists of six iconic figures: Ghenghis Khan, Eric the Red, Mozart, Bill Gates, Jane Austen, and Mikhail Baryshnikov.
http://keirasoleore.blogspot.com/2009/03/lists-of-legends.html

One hundred and ninety-five years ago, today, the first edition of PRIDE & PREJUDICE was published in London by Thomas Egerton of Whitehall in exchange for £110 setting into motion the novel and inspiring legions of readers and writers. 

As avid readers, we all have heaps of bookmarks. But do you where the first bookmarker originated? And how they came into vogue as collectors' items in and of themselves?

http://keirasoleore.blogspot.com/2009/01/history-of-bookmarks.html

Libraries have fascinated people from ancient Sumeria to high-tech online communities. Visit here (http://tinyurl.com/bd4xbh) to read about book collections of clay tablets, carved bones, parchment scrolls, printed bound manuscripts, and digitized records. 

3 years ago I read a book and moved on. I didn’t buy books, I
borrowed them from the library and I never, ever looked at an author’s
name, I went by the cover and the blurb. I had young kids who loved to
clear shelves faster than you can say
Supercalafragilisticexpealedotious. I grabbed and left.

     Well, well, well.  I'm quite pleased to be here yet again today to mention that....

I'M UP TO 362 BOOKS... and I'm going to be doing my darnedest to finish the year off with a grand total of 400 read for the 2008 100,000 Book Challenge.

Looking for a few good folks to interview for a documentary film!

Here's YOUR chance to be a STAR.  Julie Moggan, a fan of romance fiction is making a documentary that’s going to celebrate the success of Mills & Boon books around the world. She wants to make a warm, intelligent documentary that will take us into the private worlds of Mills & Boon’s readers and writers. She  hopes to uncover the secrets of the romance novel’s enduring success and find answers to the perennial question “What do women really want?”

I just noticed:  I've hit 100 books!  I finished Debbie Macomber's DAKOTA BORN last night, so really it's 101 already, but I've already blogged 100 books!  Can't believe it.  I really like these challenges.  They let me keep track of what I've read, while recommending good books to others.  Thanks, eHarlequin!