With the fall leaves almost gone and daylight saving time behind us in the US, I thought it’d be a good time to look at some of my favorite fall reads. The nights are getting longer and the weather cooler, so what better thing is there to do than to curl up with a good book and read for those few extra hours of darkness? I missed the boat on Halloween reads, but I’ve included a bonus list at the end of some great Halloween reads!
Tag: Random
Other People’s Bookshelves #53 – Geoff Whaley
Hey Everyone! Check out my bookshelves on “Savidge Reads: Other People’s Bookshelves!”
This Makes Me Happy
A really long book domino chain from the Seattle Public Library.
Lunch Break Interlude III
Like I said on the last Lunch Break Interlude barely two weeks ago. It never fails that if I post a regular update something else awesome comes along that I want to share. So lucky for you dear blogging world I don’t have a set schedule!
After all the hullabaloo (aka my What about Anne Brontë? series here, here and here) I realized I didn’t have any clue where my copies of Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre are and I tried to find three editions of those two and any Anne novel but couldn’t find separate editions 🙁 Instead I splurged and spent most of my remaining Amazon gift cards from Christmas/Birthday on a nicer collection and a gift for Tom to the right. The book contains Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre and Agnes Grey.
On a completely different note, and the REAL reason for this post, last week Claire over at Word by Word (direct link to the post) posted about Tagxedo. Tagxedo is an awesome program you can enter a blog address or any amount of text and it will create a designed tag cloud for you. Mine is below.
My First Advance Reader’s Copy
The (not very exciting) Back Story
A little over a month ago someone filled out my Recommend a Book form. I didn’t think anything of it as mostly the recommendations I get are from Tom and Alie telling me to read the Twilight series, or my own entries reminding me of titles I want to look into.
However, this time I was wrong. I’d received a REAL book recommendation and not just any book recommendation, but an offer of an Advance Reader’s Copy. Not knowing 100% what this meant I scoured my brain because I’d read mention of them on a blog before and I was correct. Thanks to Bev and her review policy over at My Reader’s Block, I was able to figure out a few things (with her kind help answering some random questions by email), I decided to go for it. So I contacted Christine at Henry Holt and Company and within two weeks my very first Advance Reader’s Copy of a novel arrived in my mailbox.
I believe Christine recommended the book, The Land of Decoration by Grace McCleen*, because of my multiple Emma Donoghue reviews; and since the book received a cover quote from Emma Donoghue and had a child narrator and reminded me of a cross between Roddy Doyle’s Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha and Zaddie Smith’s White Teeth, I thought why not give it a go (there were also mentions of similarities to Jeanette Winterson’s Oranges are not the Only Fruit). I will post my review of the novel tomorrow afternoon and get to these comparisons and my thoughts.