Saturday, March 31, 2007
Buy A Friend a Book Week April 2007
A quick Spring Reading Thing Update before I get to Buy a Friend a Book Week fun...
I gave up reading Dead Man's Island (Carolyn G. Hart) and it's already been mooched from me. A Darker Place (Laurie R. King) was also abandoned partway through, and is available either from PaperBackSwap, BookMooch, or ... (what a segueway, Susan!)
... this quarter's Buy a Friend a Book Week contest.
There are two ways to win:
The first three people who e-mail me a scan of their receipt for Steven Lee Beeber's The Heebie Jeebies at CBGB's will get my last three copies of Lyrical Life. So make sure you include an address with your e-mail. Buy it for you, for a friend, for the rocker-type down the street. Steven and I don't care. Just buy it and read it. It's a really cool book, and Steven's a truly cool dude.
The other way to win a book between now and the 7th, with the winner announced shortly thereafter, is to visit my bookshelf at BookCrossing. Look under the available titles -- but be careful, because if there's anything in parentheses after the word available, that means I don't have the book anymore. Leave a comment here on this post (because there will be quite a few posts this week, I suspect, so let's keep things where they belong) and tell me what book you want, and WHY. Whoever has the best reason will win the book and I'll happily send it to you.
Be warned: I like multiple winners. And I've got enough books here to sink a rowboat, I suspect. Have at it.
Now, I know that in my Thursday Thirteen this week, I promised you more fiction about Mitchell's desk. It's coming. But you guys helped me have one of my busiest Thursdays yet, and I'm still digging out from it. Keep it coming and I'll reward you with, as always, more and better.
Happy Buy a Friend a Book Week! (and yes, if you run out today and buy Heebies for a friend's Easter basket, I'll count it as a purchase)
I gave up reading Dead Man's Island (Carolyn G. Hart) and it's already been mooched from me. A Darker Place (Laurie R. King) was also abandoned partway through, and is available either from PaperBackSwap, BookMooch, or ... (what a segueway, Susan!)
... this quarter's Buy a Friend a Book Week contest.
There are two ways to win:
The first three people who e-mail me a scan of their receipt for Steven Lee Beeber's The Heebie Jeebies at CBGB's will get my last three copies of Lyrical Life. So make sure you include an address with your e-mail. Buy it for you, for a friend, for the rocker-type down the street. Steven and I don't care. Just buy it and read it. It's a really cool book, and Steven's a truly cool dude.
The other way to win a book between now and the 7th, with the winner announced shortly thereafter, is to visit my bookshelf at BookCrossing. Look under the available titles -- but be careful, because if there's anything in parentheses after the word available, that means I don't have the book anymore. Leave a comment here on this post (because there will be quite a few posts this week, I suspect, so let's keep things where they belong) and tell me what book you want, and WHY. Whoever has the best reason will win the book and I'll happily send it to you.
Be warned: I like multiple winners. And I've got enough books here to sink a rowboat, I suspect. Have at it.
Now, I know that in my Thursday Thirteen this week, I promised you more fiction about Mitchell's desk. It's coming. But you guys helped me have one of my busiest Thursdays yet, and I'm still digging out from it. Keep it coming and I'll reward you with, as always, more and better.
Happy Buy a Friend a Book Week! (and yes, if you run out today and buy Heebies for a friend's Easter basket, I'll count it as a purchase)
Labels: BookCrossing, books, Buy a Friend a Book Week, contest, prizes, punk rock, Spring Reading Thing, Steven Lee Beeber
Sunday, March 25, 2007
Susan's Book Talk: mysteries, Buy a Friend a Book Week, and more on punks
First off, let me tell you that I've finished my first book for the Spring Reading Thing challenge: Linda Fairstein's The Kills. I really liked it, so if you'd like to read it, you can get it one of three ways: by requesting it at PaperBackSwap, by mooching it from me at BookMooch, or by leaving me a comment here and asking for it. Be sure to leave me an e-mail address, if I don't have an address on file for you.
My copy's a hardback and yes, it's registered at BookCrossing. I'd love it if you'd leave some thoughts about what you think of it.
Other stuff...
Barb at Front Street Reviews has asked me to tell you guys to check out a cool profile she's done of Capital Crime Press. Two of their more prominent authors are the extremely funny Robert Fate (author of Baby Shark) and Troy Cook (author of 47 Rules of a Highly Effective Bank Robber). This feature is in conjunction with Small Press Month; don't forget to finish off the month with some small presses!
Buy a Friend a Book Week is fast approaching. I'm going to do a small contest for it, so watch the blog for more details. But here's a hint: anyone who e-mails me a scanned receipt for the purchase of Steven Lee Beeber's The Heebie-Jeebies at CBGB's will win a cool book from me. I'll have other books to give away during BAFAB week, if only because I have too many here again and would like to get them moving through the world.
And while I'm talking about Beeber and punk rock, I'd like to once again put forth my willingness to review Clinton Heylin's new book on punk. Babylon's Burning. Not only am I curious to read it, I want to see how it stacks up against Beeber's book. Now pushed back to a July release, I'd love to be part of some pre-publication reviews -- and I'll offer up Barb's Front Street Reviews as a spot for which to post that review. Ain't it great to have friends?
My copy's a hardback and yes, it's registered at BookCrossing. I'd love it if you'd leave some thoughts about what you think of it.
Other stuff...
Barb at Front Street Reviews has asked me to tell you guys to check out a cool profile she's done of Capital Crime Press. Two of their more prominent authors are the extremely funny Robert Fate (author of Baby Shark) and Troy Cook (author of 47 Rules of a Highly Effective Bank Robber). This feature is in conjunction with Small Press Month; don't forget to finish off the month with some small presses!
Buy a Friend a Book Week is fast approaching. I'm going to do a small contest for it, so watch the blog for more details. But here's a hint: anyone who e-mails me a scanned receipt for the purchase of Steven Lee Beeber's The Heebie-Jeebies at CBGB's will win a cool book from me. I'll have other books to give away during BAFAB week, if only because I have too many here again and would like to get them moving through the world.
And while I'm talking about Beeber and punk rock, I'd like to once again put forth my willingness to review Clinton Heylin's new book on punk. Babylon's Burning. Not only am I curious to read it, I want to see how it stacks up against Beeber's book. Now pushed back to a July release, I'd love to be part of some pre-publication reviews -- and I'll offer up Barb's Front Street Reviews as a spot for which to post that review. Ain't it great to have friends?
Labels: BookCrossing, BookMooch, books, Buy a Friend a Book Week, contest, Front Street Reviews, Linda Fairstein, PaperBackSwap, punk rock, Spring Reading Thing, Susan's Book Talk
Friday, December 15, 2006
Susan's Book Talk: Who Knew Punk was so Hot?
Another book about punk rock has entered my radar: Babylon's Burning: From Punk to Grunge, by Clinton Heylin.
Best known as a biographer of Bob Dylan, Heylin's apparently written other books about punk: From the Velvets to the Voidoids, and All Yesterday's Parties: The Velvet Underground in Print, among other books about music.
Well. If you don't remember what happened the LAST time I blogged about a book about punk, let me refresh your memory.
One book hardly makes me an expert on the genre of books about punk, but I'm sure game to turn myself into one. Therefore, I'd like to hand down this challenge:
If Barb at Front Street Reviews is willing, and if someone in Mr. Heylin's camp is willing, I'll read Babylon's Burning and review it for all of you. We'll see how this Brit's take on punk compares to Steven Lee Beeber's.
Given that we've got the perspectives of two different countries, each rich in punk tradition, I think this could be an interesting project.
Best known as a biographer of Bob Dylan, Heylin's apparently written other books about punk: From the Velvets to the Voidoids, and All Yesterday's Parties: The Velvet Underground in Print, among other books about music.
Well. If you don't remember what happened the LAST time I blogged about a book about punk, let me refresh your memory.
One book hardly makes me an expert on the genre of books about punk, but I'm sure game to turn myself into one. Therefore, I'd like to hand down this challenge:
If Barb at Front Street Reviews is willing, and if someone in Mr. Heylin's camp is willing, I'll read Babylon's Burning and review it for all of you. We'll see how this Brit's take on punk compares to Steven Lee Beeber's.
Given that we've got the perspectives of two different countries, each rich in punk tradition, I think this could be an interesting project.
Labels: book reviews, books, challenge, Front Street Reviews, publishing, punk rock, rock and roll
Saturday, December 02, 2006
Susan's Publishing News
Go to Front Street Reviews and click on Non-fiction.
See a review for a book I've mentioned here a few times? You know, that Heebie Jeebies book?
See who wrote it?
Yeah, that's right. That'd be me.
Read the review. Buy the book. Read the book. Read the review again; I'm worth a second look.
Then, go back to Front Street Reviews and find more good stuff to read.
See a review for a book I've mentioned here a few times? You know, that Heebie Jeebies book?
See who wrote it?
Yeah, that's right. That'd be me.
Read the review. Buy the book. Read the book. Read the review again; I'm worth a second look.
Then, go back to Front Street Reviews and find more good stuff to read.
Labels: book reviews, cool stuff, Front Street Reviews, music, publishing, punk rock
Monday, November 06, 2006
Susan's Book Talk: Fat Kid Rules the World
I've been suffering under the delusion that Trevor's a true original. But then Karen! sent me a book that totally left me exhilarated at how good it is, and at the same time, left me deflated as to how close to Trevor the character of Curt was drawn. This isn't necessarily a bad thing.
Rather, I think it says a lot about the people who are drawn to music, and drawn to making it (although for Trevor, making music is by and large, a means to an end). And author KL Going's descriptions of the inside of The Dump, her fictional club, invoked both memories of CBGB's and other backstages I've been in. Totally real, totally vivid.
Anyway, the name of the book is Fat Kid Rules the World, and you can buy it, but it looks like only used. (Here's a link.) Scour your used bookshops for it.
This one's a keeper.
Look for me to be picking up lots of copies whenever I can, and maybe giving them as prizes down the road.
I wish award-winning books were more like this one (which won plenty of awards) and less snooty, but that's just me and I've always preferred more accesible literature.
Ya know, sort of like I write.
Rather, I think it says a lot about the people who are drawn to music, and drawn to making it (although for Trevor, making music is by and large, a means to an end). And author KL Going's descriptions of the inside of The Dump, her fictional club, invoked both memories of CBGB's and other backstages I've been in. Totally real, totally vivid.
Anyway, the name of the book is Fat Kid Rules the World, and you can buy it, but it looks like only used. (Here's a link.) Scour your used bookshops for it.
This one's a keeper.
Look for me to be picking up lots of copies whenever I can, and maybe giving them as prizes down the road.
I wish award-winning books were more like this one (which won plenty of awards) and less snooty, but that's just me and I've always preferred more accesible literature.
Ya know, sort of like I write.
Labels: books, KL Going, punk rock
Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Speaking of CBGBs...
Check out this book! It was just published on the first of October; how's this for timely?
The Heebie-Jeebies at CBGBs: A Secret History of Jewish Punk, by Steven Lee Beeber.
I've got to get my hands on this puppy!
(added note: apologies to Steven, whose name was apparently misspelled in the source I'd found it in.)
The Heebie-Jeebies at CBGBs: A Secret History of Jewish Punk, by Steven Lee Beeber.
I've got to get my hands on this puppy!
(added note: apologies to Steven, whose name was apparently misspelled in the source I'd found it in.)
Labels: books, publishing, punk rock
Monday, October 09, 2006
Sad end of an era
I heard today that Sunday the fifteeenth will end the 33-year-run of the legendary bar known as CBGB. Having been inside, myself, I join thousands upon thousands who mourn the loss of this iconic, narrow, skanky joint.
The owner says he'll reopen in Vegas with as much of the original stuff as possible but sorry. It can't be the same.
The owner says he'll reopen in Vegas with as much of the original stuff as possible but sorry. It can't be the same.
Labels: music, punk rock, rock and roll
