More International Book Giveaways

The Book Smugglers are hosting Kathryn McKenna from Simon an Schuster UK and she will be giving away a copy of each of the following books to on lucky winner: The Thirteen Curses by Michelle Harrison, The Uglies series by Scott Westerfeld, The Island by Sarah Singleton, Hex Hall by Rachel Hawkins, Dark Life by Kat Falls and Perfect Chemistry by Simone Elkeles. All these books look really good and you just have to fill out a form to enter. Contest ends on Dec. 12th Misfit Salon has two copies of Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book and two copies...

My Book Wishlist

As a Hanukkah gift to myself (one of the downsides of being an adult is I rarely get presents anymore) I've decided to treat myself to a couple of books from my ever-growing To Be Read list. Since most of these books are not even available in Israel, I would need to order them from outside the country (oh how I miss American libraries! Those amazing buildings full of free books in English), probably through The Book Depository which offers free international...

Favorite Fictional Character: Princess Cimorence

This is a fun feature that Ryan at Wordsmithonia came up with and which I've been meaning to participate in for a while.I was recently reminder of one of my favorite book characters, who I haven't visited with for quite a while, but who I always think of fondly. And she is Cimorene from Patricia Wrede's Enchanted Forest series. Cimorence is a princess who dares to be different. Rather then learning etiquette and embroidery she takes on fencing, Latin...

SciFi for Beginners: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep

A couple of months ago I had decided that I needed to become more familiar with science fiction, since I run a scifi and fantasy website. In order to do this, I would start by reading one science fiction book a month. The first book I read was Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein; a really odd book that took me a while to recover from. This month I chose to read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, by Philip Dick. I picked this book because...

I got a blog award!!

I just received this awesome blog award from Ramona at Alone in the Holy Land and I just want to give her a huge "thank you!" Now I just need to find a good place to hang my award up so that everyone can admire it....

Books to reread: Pawn of Prophecy by David Eddings

I recently decided to start re-reading some of the fantasy books that I had read and enjoyed when I was a teenager and first began reading fantasy. One reason is simply because I've forgotten what most of these books were about and I would like to recommend them to other fantasy readers, which means I have to actually remember the story lines. The second reason is that I want to see if I will still find these books to be enjoyable, reading them as...