Category Archives: Rambles

Buying books for nonbook lovers is so much easier

I saw this series of Pickles comics in the last few days and thought I’d share for those who haven’t seen them. My other half just finished reading a book I bought him over a year ago (it was the one and only book in his to-be-read pile). With his memory I could probably get [...]

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The last winner of a Hachette Holiday Season book pack.

Sorry for the delay in picking the last winner (it’s been crazy here–more so than usual–is my only excuse). It was also really hard to pick one winner from the stories that were submitted. After a lot of dawdling and thinking I picked the following story by Wrighty:
I have so many Christmas traditions and memories [...]

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Free Book Downloads - Part 25

For those who downloaded the Charlie Huston’s Caught Stealing back in October (mentioned in part 18 of this series), you can still download the second book, Six Bad Things, until the 16th (that’s tomorrow, so get a move on — I’d forgotten about this one myself). The third and last book, A Dangerous Man, will [...]

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Meet me at The Book Bloggers

My interview is up at The Book Bloggers for anyone who is interested in knowing more about this blog and how books end up getting reviewed here. The Book Bloggers was conceived to let authors know which book bloggers they should target, but I’ve actually found it useful as a book blog reader. I like [...]

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Making iTunes play nice with your audiobooks

I don’t know about you, but most of the time when I put an audiobook into iTunes it shows up as music. So what you say? Well, having audiobooks show up as music means your audiobooks show up in smart playlists. It also means that you can’t easily look at all of your audiobooks at [...]

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