The New Yorker Summer Fiction Issue

20 Under 40 — Twenty writers under age 40. Visit the link to read their Q&A for The New Yorker and check out their stories. Great Stuff!!

RIT Future of Reading Conference

I meant to post about this before it happened, but was out of town and lost track of time. RIT’s Future of Reading Conference (2010) featured speakers like author Margaret Atwood and Wired editor, Chris Anderson. Since I’ve become somewhat obsessed with e-readers while avoiding actually buying one because I love my books so much [...]

Evening Post

I was considering taking this week off from blogging, but didn’t consider it soon enough to prepare posts for the week. Instead of disappearing, I decided to start brainstorming for as many future posts as possible. Since the holidays are coming up and my due date is Dec 20th, I’m going to be ridiculously busy [...]

Domestic Violence Awareness

Most people know that October is Breast Cancer Awareness month. You’ve seen the all the pink products everywhere you went all month, even while watching football. What you may not know is that October is also Domestic Violence Awareness month. Having been in an abusive relationship myself, domestic violence awareness is an especially important cause [...]

New Concord Free Press Book Today

The third book from Concord Free Press is available tonight at midnight. They’re once again giving away 2,500 free copies via the website and their network of indie booksellers. Get the book, read it, make a donation and post it on CFPs website, then pass the book along. The Next Queen of Heaven was written [...]

Banned Books Week

Banned Books Week\ just passed (9/26 – 10/3). Living somewhere so rural, I was unable to get involved in any local BBW events. However, there were so many events across the country, I couldn’t keep from blogging about it, even just in general. The ALA (American Library Association) website has a great section about banned [...]

Still Alive & Reading

As you may have noticed, Reading is Sexy has not been atop my list of priorities lately. I have been reading and I have been thinking of you, though. I finished The Joy of Pregnancy last week and actually bought (for $1 at a yard sale) Belly Laughs. So far, Belly Laughs is kind of [...]

Updates

I haven’t been posting much lately as life has been a little hectic. Yesterday I turned 27. Since I’m pregnant and my husband had to spend most of the day out in the desert training soldiers, it wasn’t a big to-do. We had pizza for dinner, then ice cream cake later that night. UPS still [...]

New Concord Free Press Book

Concord Presses second book, Push Comes to Shove, was recently reviewed in The Washington Post. Push Comes to Shove and Give & Take have raised $78,000 in donations already. They are all out of copies of the second book now, but their next release is due out next month — The Next Queen of Heaven [...]

On Reading Last Journey — Review to Come

I finished Last Journey on Monday and am still processing. Usually, while I read a book, I am already thinking about what I want to say about it. In fact, I frequently jot down notes and pages I’d like to revisit or quote from. I have to admit that this book was particularly difficult for [...]