Have you found your happy place? Does it look like this kitty’s?
So are you Read-a-thoning tomorrow? I am signed up anyway. I’m taking a relaxed approach to it this time. Here are a few book news stories from around the web.
*Just in case you don’t know, the Pulitzer prize for fiction is rewarded to no one and no one’s happy.
*Kobo gets into self-publishing.
*Once upon a time a tiny book became a big book.
*The Orange Prize shortlist is announced.
*Oscar Wilde gave his boyfriend a book one day and now someone is going to pay big money for it.
*The ebook pricing hullabaloo comes to Canada.
*Take that CSI Miami! The case of the invisible manuscript.
*Etsy Love: Speaking of brains…How about some Zombie bookends from Knob Creek Metal Arts? They have several clever book end sets but this one makes me laugh.
Have a good one!
Good for the Pulitzer people-- it lends them more credibility as far as I'm concerned.
ReplyDeleteI know I should be behind Edugyan, as a Canadian, but surely one of those other books should win the Orange Prize -- and that's without having read any of the others on the shortlist.
And I seriously hope this means e-book prices will drop now. If it wasn't printed on paper and shipped out, I don't know how so many publishers think they deserve the same cost as an actual book. I've even seen some e-books price as more expensive then the paperback version, given the same price as a hardcover. Why??? Ridiculous.
I haven't read any of the Orange Prize short list. I used to pay more attention to book awards, but I haven't the last couple years.
ReplyDeleteI hope you have fun read-a-thoning! I am thinking I might try and unofficially participate tomorrow because I still have to finish The Left Hand of Darkness... And it would be nice to finish some other things. I have only finished 4 books in the last two weeks. Sad!
Oh my gosh, I love the zombie bookends!!!
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