Social media and privacy–do you have any idea who sees your information and how they might use it? Lori Andrews, a law professor and consumer activist, writes about social networks and what she calls the “death of privacy” in her new book, I Know Who You Are and I Saw What You Did: Social Networks and [...]
I read a blog post yesterday that served as a kick in the rear… a much needed, overdue one. It’s been a thought provoking week which started with, as things often do for me, me picking up a new book to read. I’ve got a stack of work related books, a stack of motivational writer-type [...]
Writing book reviews can be tricky. If it’s just a review you feel inspired to write upon reading the book, you can take any tact you want and give the pros and cons. But, what if you’ve been asked to review a book? This happened to me when a blogging friend asked me to help [...]
Sometimes we overshoot the mark, or underestimate our time and/or ability. I set a grandiose goal last year of reading 100 books! Ha! It was spurred on by excitement after reading a blog of another woman with that goal-only at the time I didn’t realize she was a writer of young adult fiction and was [...]
Well, we didn’t win the $500 giveaway at Chronicle Books! Sadly enough. But, because we participated in the event, from now through Thursday, the 16th of December you can get 35% off + free shipping on any purchases. Use this promo code at checkout: HAULIDAYS. That’s a pretty good treat, here’s the link: Chronicle Books.
Chronicle Books has a wonderful promotion going on for the holidays. They call it the Happy Haul-idays . I select $500 worth of books I’d like to have and enter my blog. If I should win, one of you will win $500 worth of books as well. All you have to do is leave a [...]
The 60′s were tumultuous times for many, and for those in the Deep South it was a time of tension and fear and racism. I was an adolescent, growing up in Virginia during those years, though admittedly because of my sheltered, small town upbringing I was oblivious to what was happened all around. The era, [...]
I decided at the first of the year to try and read 100 books this year, I even publicly announced it and set up a page with my list of books. Well, realistically that ain’t happening. I’m nowhere near 100 books, actually I’ll be luck to read 50 books by the end of the year. [...]
I”m doing research in preparation for my 5 minutes with a literary agent. Part of that involved searching the internet for titles of books on the topic of online dating and midlife women who were dating. I need to see what others are writing on that topic to be able to talk about the market [...]
Since 1982 more than a thousand books have been challenged in the United States, according to the American Library Association. Every year libraries, bookstores and schools recognize Banned Book Week in an attempt to counter such censorship, and celebrate the written word-in all it’s glory and sometimes at it’s worse. In 2009 the Top Ten [...]
