'Books' Category
Tweeting a Book
I am trying an experiment with Twitter using the book I am currently reviewing. The book is “Vanished Smile: The Mysterious Theft of Mona Lisa” by R.A. Scotti. This is the true story of the theft of the Mona Lisa from the Louvre in 1911. I am twittering as I read. Here are my first [...]
BAFAB Week!
With the stress of passing out I haven’t been reading my regular blogs and completely forgot that it’s Buy A Friend A Book (BAFAB) Week. The first week of January, April, July, and October of each year is BAFAB Week so it is time to run out and buy a book for a friend for [...]
Top 1000
I started reviewing books on amazon back in 2001. At the time, I was running the book review department for JavaRanch and received many free books from the various book publishers. The ranking in amazon is based on a formula that uses the number of helpful votes a review receives as its basis. For some [...]
Free Classic Audio Books
Aunt Tina sent me an email a few months ago (notice a theme here?) about a website called FreeClassicAudioBooks that has mp3 and m4b (iPod) versions of classic books that are downloadable for free. Some of the books featured are, The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells, Heart of [...]
The Book Meme
Jennifer at Pinwheels tagged me with a book meme and since I was looking for something to blog about I figured why not? Total number of books? Right off we have a problem. Total number of books what? Read in my lifetime? Owned? Sitting waiting to be read? I have no idea how many books [...]
The Amazon Vine Program
Back in August I was invited to join The Amazon Vine Program. The program is described by Amazon: Amazon Vine is a program that enables a select group of Amazon customers to post opinions about new and pre-release items to help their fellow customers make educated purchase decisions. Customers are invited to become Amazon Vine [...]
It’s BAFAB week!
It’s Buy A Friend A Book (BAFAB) Week again. The first week of January, April, July, and October of each year is BAFAB Week so it is time to run out and buy a book for a friend for no particular reason other than that it is BAFAB week. What better way to say hi [...]
Bookins
I just joined a used-book swapping club called Bookins. I had heard about it from Debra over at the deblog so I decided to give it a try. The process is fairly simple… you create two lists. One is a list of books that you have that you are willing to give up and the [...]
Yellow Submarine Revisited
Last November I blogged about the long-lost yellow submarine that had been built to find the lost treasure of the Andrea Doria but was accidentally sunk on its initial launch. I learned about the submarine from Cousin Kevin’s site, Forgotten NY. Since the submarine is clearly visible on Google maps (see image at left) I [...]
Liar Liar!
I started reading Fer-De-Lance by Rex Stout. This is, of course, the first book in the Nero Wolfe series of detective novels written by Stout in 1934. Stout was an interesting person. He had strong liberal leanings and was on the original board of the American Civil Liberties Union. In the early 50′s, he was [...]
