I will no longer be updating the blog here. You can now find Reading is Sexy at http://www.readingssexy.com/ I look forward to hearing from all of you over at the new site. I’ll be closing this site down in a few weeks, but don’t worry. I’ll give you time to change your bookmarks and feeds. Read Full Story

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Book Review Blog Carnival received the Lemonade Award from Kindelicious last week. Clark, the Carnival Director, passed it on to all of us. I have a confession to make. Since I haven’t published an actual book review in a bit, I haven’t been participating in the carnival. I feel a little naughty accepting the award and posting it to my sidebar because of laziness. So, I decided to post the badge right here, in this post, for your oohing and ahhing  pleasure and also for safekeepin... Read Full Story

I just received an email from Concord. They have officially run out of copies of Give+Take. They will be introducing a new book early next year. In the meantime, they’re still looking for readers to chart their donations and pass the book on. I plan to have finished reading this book by January and then hold a contest in January to give it away. Be on the look out. Here is the email Concord sent out: Thanks again for being part of the Concord Free Press. Our first novel, GIVE + TAKE, ha... Read Full Story

Some of you may have already heard of Concord Free Press. From their website, you can take part in a new experiment. Think: Pay it Forward. The company is distributing 1,500 free copies of Stona Fitch’s novel, Give + Take. You don’t pay shipping or anything. The novel is totally free. Concord simply asks that you make a donation to a charity or to someone in need. You can see who has contributed and where on their website. If you make a contribution, tell Concord about it. I am ... Read Full Story

I haven’t been posting as much as I would like to. I realize that has probably made this blog a bit too boring for some of my readers. I’m sorry. I’m going to be making some big changes around here very soon. I want to make this blog an exciting and informative place. I want you to wait on the edge of your seat for new posts (and not make you wait too long for them). While I can’t tell you exactly what changes I’ll be making, it will all come around soon. For now... Read Full Story

19 west bridge street oswego, ny 13126 315 342 0077 info@riversendbookstore.com The River’s End Bookstore is my favorite bookstore. Now that I’m living on the other side of the country, I really am missing it. When I stumbled onto IndieBound, I found it in their listings and left a review. You can read my post about IndieBound here and you can find me on IndieBound here . I first discovered River’s End in 2000 (ish). It was just around the corner from my favorite Oswego coffee shop. When the ... Read Full Story

I want to share one of my favorite poets with all of you. I am not big on reading poetry, really, so there are a few select poets I’m crazy about. Wilfred Owen is one of those poets. He was an English soldier who served during World War I. During that era, most British soldiers had college educations. There was loads of propaganda about WWI. One common British WWI poster was the silhouette of a soldier, standing guard on a hilltop with the statement, “HALT! Who goes there? If you ... Read Full Story

I stumbled on the Progressive Book Club website a couple of weeks ago. I decided to share it here. Though I generally don’t get into politics in this blog (and I won’t really in this post except for the obvious), I really think this website deserves some attention. PBC offers cheap book purchases with your membership and has a good size community section where there are groups for discussion, individuals to connect with, events, and blogs. The site features Editor’s Picks a... Read Full Story

Remember the Book Blog Carnival I posted about a few days ago? Well it seems the folks at Blog Carnival really like our Book Blog Carnival. Our carnival will be feature on their homepage ALL day Sunday October 12th. It will be in their featured blog carnivals section to “highlight and acknowledge carnivals [they] really like.” How cool is that?? I have to say that getting that email seriously helped lighten my mood after having watched our two main presidential candidates debat... Read Full Story