Sure, my book was technically released in print two months ago, but I didn't know you could do a giveaway on Goodreads until now! Enter to win a free copy.

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Forget the previous entry about DVDs. Clear it from your mind ( Read more... )

I am happy to announce (to anyone who hasn't already heard me squee) that my first novel is going to be published by Prizm Books on April 17! I can't wait.

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If the Just A Minute! regulars decided to record a radio play of the Sarah Caudwell mysteries, this would be the cast ( Read more... )

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I finally read the Hunger Games series like everybody said to!

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You all know that I like the "Alice" series of girl-growing-up books by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor. (Slice of life minutia of not very angsty teens is my comfort genre.) So far she's written about 20 of them, and you can't get through 20 books without some bizarre recurring themes. Without further ado I present to you

The Alice Series Drinking Game ( Read more... )

My most recent pop psychology book is The Paradox of Choice by Barry Schwartz. The thesis, which I haven't really seen explored elsewhere, is that sometimes having more choices can make you feel less free--or at least less satisfied with the outcome of your choices. It's really more the "counterintuitive results of choice" than a paradox, but it is ( Read more... )

In the new-to-me Baby-sitters Club book I'm reading, narrator Claudia informs us she will introduce the baby-sitters by explaining what animal they would be. Kristy, for example, would be a dog, because she is loyal and hardworking. I was interrupted before I got to read what the rest of them would be, so I don't know yet, but ( here are my guesses )

I'm reading another popular psychology book on the human brain/cognitive error, because for some reason I find them comforting: Why We Make Mistakes by Joe Hallinan, who despite his Pulitzer prize for investigative reporting seems to be not quite as compelling a storyteller as Jonah Lehrer. Perhaps his organization of the material just isn't as ( Read more... )