Saw this on the Interwebs and thought it was a brilliant (and Machiavellian) plan to get support for library funding.

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I'm about to get on a ship for a 7-day cruise and I'm not sure how great the internet will be - so this is a heads up if there's a lack of posts for the next 7 days. In the meantime, here's a picture of the world's largest indoor photo (it's a 360 view of the Strahov library)! Man, I would not say no to bookshelves like these.

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It's been nine days since I posted! Oh well.. life has gotten very busy. I'm spending most of me free time shopping for gifts for the family and working on a gift I'm making for my husband. So not much reading going on, but I have some backlog reviews I may be able to put up soon, I hope.

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I have reviews to do but I'm lazy so here's a funny book cover that gave me some chuckles. This was from a website that posts particularly hilarous covers and blurbs of self-published books. This too was found through twitter a few months ago but I forgot to post it. This cover is my favorite but there are so many funny ones. It kind of reminds me ( Read more... )

I love twitter. I found out about everyone's reading there from eagle-eyed @Lou_bookpushers a couple of days ago. I've been meaning to try out Deanna Raybourn for a while now, so the first book from her series being out there for free is great. Also amusing: 7 out of the 10 books here have a baby/pregnancy in them!!! (By the way you can download ( Read more... )

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OK for some reason today is the day for things that make me snort. Two reviews for books I've read had me chortling away:


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Some interesting contests going on out there right now:

• Mark Henry is hosting a contest with a variety of great prizes to celebrate the release of his second book - Road Trip of the Living Dead. Prizes include a Dinner and a Movie package, Coffee and Gas package and a basket of books. All you need to do is preorder his book and send a copy of the ( Read more... )