Books, Coming and Going
January 3rd, 2008
This post is somewhat in the New Year's spirit of "out with the old, in with the new..."
Although I've worked around books for a long time, two things happened last week that have never happened to me before:
Books, Coming:
I was chosen to be a LibraryThing Early Reviewer! I've been trying ever since they started, but this is the first time I've gotten to participate.
A copy of Tim Dorsey's Atomic Lobster showed up on my doorstep right after Christmas '07, even though it's not being published until 1/22/08. I've never read anything by him, let alone the preceding books in this series, but I'm always open to reading new things.
Thank you, LibraryThing and HarperCollins. I'll read and review it as soon as I finish one of my Christmas presents, Water for Elephants.
Books, Going:
Faithful readers may remember me mentioning the idea of an Airport Public Library, and then using BookCrossing to kick it off.
Since then, every time I've flown somewhere, I leave books in airports. My trip to Ohio for Christmas resulted in the APL's first circulation - someone "captured" and registered one of my books on the site.
What a good week for books.
January 3rd, 2008 at 5:46 pm
Water for Elephants is quite tasty. I just finished it, although I have yet to review it for the Rage in the Page blog. I was unsure whether I’d like it or not based on the description, but then I couldn’t put it down!