Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion, and Jewelry

Shop Indie BookstoresImportant Artifacts (featured on VSL this month) is an amazing venture in literature. The book takes the form of an auction catalog. The auction is for the physical remnants of the relationship between Lenore and Harold. Lenore is a food writer and Harold is a photographer, although they aren’t real. From Macmillan,“Through photographs [...]

IndieBound Updates

The IndieBound site is really coming along and rather quickly, I might add. They’ve added info pages for books and cover links for affiliates to use (which I’ll be testing out very soon). They launched IndieBound to Go, which is packed full of materials to help you promote independent booksellers. Their store finder map is [...]

One Million Pages

Recently, Skyler Kanegi, left a comment here on RIS about his non-profit’s literacy project called One Million Pages Also, . Check out that inspiring statement. “At One Million Pages, we believe that art, including literature, breaks down barriers of prejudice and ignorance. By joining together as readers, we can show the world how easy it [...]

And The Winner Is…

Out of all four entries (giving each of you a 25% chance of winning!), the winner is…Bluewingz (aka. Margo) of Write at Home Mom. Congratulations!! Also, if you’re a freelance writer or a blogger thinking about getting into freelance writing, Bluewingz’ blog is a really good one to check out and subscribe to. Congratulations, again [...]

Book Giveawy

Just a reminder to comment this post for a chance to win a copy ofGive+Take tomorrow. Today’s your last chance to sign up to win, so get going folks!

Review: Swallows of Kabul — Yasmina Khadra

Shop Indie BookstoresWritten by Yasmina Khadra (actually Algerian army officer Mohammed Moulessehoul), The Swallows of Kabul is a work of art. It’s been quite a while since I’ve read a novel with such beautiful prose and sensory-fulfilling imagery. Khadra’s words have a lyrical quality that sweeps you through the story. I should insert some kudos [...]

Sharing My Wishlist

There’s an option to put your wishlist in your Amazon store. I don’t do that. Something about it just seems off. I decided this morning, though, to share with you ten books that have been sitting on wishlist for a very long time. These books are ones I genuinely want to read, but just haven’t [...]

Wonderful Sunday

I spent my day catching up on reading blogs (my Google Reader has been guilt tripping me). I did some sewing. I even read some of Pieces a short story collection with an introduction by Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower). So far, I’m enjoying it. I picked it up on a whim [...]

Kindle 2 and The Simple Dollar

The Simple Dollar is a great financial blog that I subscribe to. Like most people, my Google Reader usually shows a lot more unread than read, but I try to keep up. As I was sifting through it this morning, I noticed that The Simple Dollar Weekly Roundup post was subtitled The Kindle Edition. Obviously [...]

Kindle version 2

It’s official. The second version of Kindle has been announced on Amazon’s front page. There have been rumors across the internet about this release, like this article over at Cnet. Today Cnet has posted this great slideshow of Kindle 2 pics and this article includes live coverage of New York’s Morgan Library and Museum event [...]