So Joe Hill (Heart Shaped Box) is having a contest. Buy a book from an indie store and enter for a chance to win one of several awesome signed books.

Short version: Go to a local independent bookstore. Buy something. Save the receipt. Send a photo or scan of the receipt to this address: indie@joehillfiction.com. Make sure either your e-mail or your ( Read more... )

feel the same way I do about author's reading their own books (when it comes to actually listening to a book instead of reading one ( Read more... )

read a book recently and i won't mention the name in case others may like it, but good lord, it sucked. i mean way down to the hero dying in the most ridiculous way only to be replaced by someone else so very unconvincingly the "next hero" that you just wanted the book to start talking, "wait wait, lemme explain ( Read more... )

 Ok, so remember when book 7 of Harry Potter came out? And everyone read it in a day? I was vaguely amused when several people I know went back and reread the book within 2 weeks of finishing it. Sure I may re-read it someday, but not so soon. Well... after reading Twilight last Friday night (and finishing it in one night), I started reading it ( Read more... )

 Is it strange for a 30 year old to be reading young adult books and totally falling in love with them?  I'm not talking about that book you read when you were 10 that stayed with you.  The one you pick up every now and again cuz you're feeling nostalgic or just need a comfort read.  I have a book like that A Ring of Endless Light by Madeleine L' ( Read more... )

But Snow Patrol was no joking matter.
Well, they're funny and so were Ok Go and Silversun Pickups, but all three of them rocked!
I can't express how much I love Snow Patrol. Silversun Pickups who I missed the first night, weren't bad at all. Certainly worth looking into (or listening), and great stage presence. Great sense of humor.  I had such ( Read more... )

Anybody else ever equate certain songs with certain books? I don't mean in the-song-fits-the-M.O.-of-the-book sort of way. See, I have this thing where I sometimes tend to put on music when I read so as to drown out the rest of the world, but in order to keep the music from being a distraction itself, I put on one song on repeat. Usually it's ( Read more... )