Free Audio Book: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

I know if it's kind of late but if you are lucky enough to catch this post before going to bed then you will have enough time to download for yourself a free audio book version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. I am certainly excited about this discovery, as I've been wanting to read this book for a while, and it makes up for the fact that at 4:30 in the morning I'm still fooling around on the computer instead of going to sleep.So apparently...

A Cheaper Alternative for Audio Book Listeners

If you enjoy listening to audio books but can't afford to buy them on a regular basis, or you want a more flexible and affordable service than what Audibles.com offers, than you might want to try the Kelso Public Library. The Kelso Library offers members access to the NetLibrary's entire catalog of over 3,000 audio books, which can be downloaded from anywhere. But even nonresidents can benefit from this service by becoming a member of the Kelso Library,...

The Book Challenge: Discover A Diamond in the Rough

I was sitting in front of my computer, trying to thing about something to write, when I noticed my name mentioned on one of the blogs on my Google Reader. I clicked on it and discovered a link to my site in a post about a book challenge that I had signed up for but have forgotten to follow up on.Oops. I'm feeling a bit sheepish here.But the challenge has only just started and so I'm going to jump into it now.In case you are a regular reader of my...

The Magicians and Mrs. Quent by Galen Beckett

I had never heard of The Magicians and Mrs. Quent or of it's author, Galen Beckett, before I saw the book on a library shelf, while on vacation in the US. Something about it, though, drew my attention and so I added it to my teetering stack of library books. And because this wasn't a book I was familiar with, and had never even read a single review of, it was unfortunately relegated to the bottom of the pile of books, where it remained.As my three...

A Land of Flourishing Bookstores

While running some errands in Jerusalem today I was surprised to come across a second-hand bookstore which I had somehow not known about, even though it's been open since April. I pride myself on knowing all the bookstores in downtown Jerusalem (and there are quite a few) and so it was strange that this one had managed to sneak past me somehow. And since I can't bring myself to pass a bookstore without stopping in, no matter how many unread books...

New Scifi & Fantasy Releases: Week of August 29

So this is the week I have been waiting for all year, when Brandon Sanderson's The Way of Kings will finally be released. A year never seems so long as when you are waiting to get your hands on a particular book. And ever since reading Gail Carriger's Changeless, which ended in that agonizing cliffhanger, I've been impatiently counting down the days until Blameless would finally become available (author's can be so cruel that way).While these are...