Yesterday was World Book Night 2012, if you regularly read my Ramblings, you already know that my daughters and I participated in the event, giving away copies of Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game.
We got set up at the local coffee shop near my office, the Village Bean.
By 8am we were all ready to go, books set out. Now we just needed people to arrive to get their morning caffeine fix 
Two crazy and fun hours later… all 20 copies had found new homes.
If you had the chance to take part, please leave a comment about your thoughts on the event. If you didn’t, please consider helping out with this worthy and fun cause next year.
[UPDATE: 4/27/12] The girls and I also recorded a segment about this for How To Grow Your Geek, the podcast posted there today.
- World Book Night Update (laith.wordpress.com)
- World Book Night 2012 Part 2 (sallyjenkins.wordpress.com)
- World Book Night 2012 (daniellebeauvais.com)
- HTGYG #128: World Book Night and Kevin’s Favorite Books (howtogrowyourgeek.net)
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- World Book Night (confesionsofabookaholic.wordpress.com)
My latest book review of Discount Armageddon by Seanan McGuire is up over at The Dragon Page. As with many of my reviews for this wonderful website and podcast, you can also catch the audio version by subscribing to the podcast feed.
While you are at it remember to stop by The Dragon Page on Monday for a special series in honor of World Book Day/Night.
As I said a few months ago I am participating in next weeks World Book Night event.
Tonight I attended a get together with a number of other local book givers at our book pickup location, a local independent book store Beaverdale Books. It was a fun time discussing our selected books and our plans for handing the books out.
On an interesting note while there was a good selection of this year’s books chosen by givers, my choice to hand out Orson Scott Card‘s Ender’s Game was the only one with multiple givers (3 of us) so score one for the Science Fiction section 
I’m planning on handing out these special editions of Ender’s Game to non habitual readers next Monday at The Village Bean here in Des Moines.
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- World Book Night: Update (myintelligentlife.wordpress.com)
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Those who follow my blog should be familiar with my hyping Scott Sigler’s work, his latest book release Nocturnal is out in stores today.
From the author’s site:
NOCTURNAL is simultaneously a horror/thriller, a high-action comic book of a novel, and a throwback to classic 80s buddy-cop movies.
Based on this New York Times best-selling novelist’s previous works I can’t wait for a chance to read this one.
You can find out more about the book over at ScottSigler.com
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Yesterday afternoon I went to see John Carter with my middle brother, we both enjoyed the film.
However, despite it being on our to read lists, neither of us had actually read the original Barsoom tale A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs. I have read some of his other works and enjoyed them.
I was planning on having my weekly post be a review of the film. Then it hit me Princess isn’t that long of a story and it would be interesting to write about my thoughts of the movie before and after reading the source material.
(Photo credit: Wikipedia)
So I’m reading it on my Kindle and the review should appear in the next few days.
As a side note I have a few other recently completed books that I’m working up reviews for which will probably appear over at The Dragon Page.
There are a few other cool things in the works but I don’t want to go into too much detail just yet lest I jinx them.
review available at The Dragon Page
Hey all, my latest book review is now up over at The Dragon Page!
It is my review of the excellent Science Fiction anthology Alien Contact edited by Marty Halpern. This anthology includes stories from greats such as:
- Harry Turtledove
- Orson Scott Card
- Stephen King
- Neil Gaiman
and many others.
So pop on over and check it out.
World Book Night is a really interesting effort to put books into the hands of light or non-regular readers. “Get them interested and hopefully they will read more”, is the general idea.
The event is April 23rd, UNESCO International Day of the Book, the date of Shakespeare ‘s birth as well as his and Cervantes deaths (April 23rd 1616)
Anyway I had signed up and recently got the confirmation that on April 23rd 2012 I will be joining many others across the country (and the UK) in giving out 20 free copies of a book I’ve read and enjoyed. My current plans are to give them out at a local coffee shop near my office (More details on where and when closer to the time).
Anyway the organizers have decided to extend the deadline to register to Feb 6th at Midnight EST. So if you are interested head over and sign up tonight or tomorrow!
Good morning all,
My latest book review for Empire State by Adam Christopher is up over at The Dragon Page!
Please head on over and check out my thoughts on this wonderful genre bending tale.
Over the weekend I had two new blog posts go up over at the Dragon Page.
These posts are the recommendations from the Year in Fantasy 2011 panel at World Fantasy Con. We are hoping for some discussion of the titles or others that you might think should be on the list.
Please head on over an join the discussion!
Part 1 can be found here and Part 2 can be found here.
Hey all, my latest submission over at The Dragon Page is now up, it is my review of Trent Jamieson’s “Roil”.
We got an audio version done this time so it is in the podcast feed as well. The podcast is worth the listen, head over and subscribe today
You can find the review here.
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