Yesterday we hosted a fantastic interview with Lizzie Skurnick and Nancy Pearl on our Blog Talk Radio show (you might have read about it here and here). Nancy and Lizzie dished on both popular and underrated YA classics, and there was certainly plenty to talk about. If you didn't get a chance to tune in, the show is now archived for your listening pleasure. Enjoy!
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We've already gotten some fabulous reader reviews for Jane Stanton Hitchcock's Mortal Friends. Diane LaRue calls it a "clever, seductive society story," on her blog bookchickdi, and Lauren Gibaldi blogs, "Mortal Friends is an incredibly fun book, that's as juicy as tabloid columns." Nancy Viens writes: "I read the book Mortal Friends,and found it chatty and fun. Very hip and good strong characterization. I liked it so much I loaned it to a friend!" And Karina Worlton sent us a very thoughtful review, all of which is included after the jump. If you'd like to review Mortal Friends, please email us at [email protected]. We'd love to hear from you!
And here's Karina's review:
I enjoyed Mortal Friends! It was a good murder mystery, although it certainly wasn't a whodunnit. There was no way to figure out who had done the murders. Indeed, every time I thought I knew who was the murderer, some other secret came out! It was such an adventure to see what happened next.
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If you're a fan of our blog, you might have noticed a few posts on Twitter Wit (9780061897276): the first book about Twitter to be officially approved by the site's creators. Twitter Wit includes some amazing celebrity tweets, from the likes of Ashton Kutcher, Jimmy Fallon, Stephen Colbert, Margaret Cho, Stephen Fry, Rainn Wilson, Diablo Cody, Neil Gaiman, Michael Ian Black, Paula Poundstone, Russell Brand, Lisa Lampanelli, and more. To help celebrate the launch, we're holding a Twitter Wit video contest with a grand prize of an iPod touch. Learn more about the contest here, browse inside the book, or follow us, @harperlibrary!
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The Roaring 20s has a new look, and a new post! Now that ALA 2009 is behind us, I will be posting regularly again on Roaring, so be sure to send me some feedback on the new design! And while you're checking out the page, take a peek at my Fall/Winter picks from our Title Presentation. Trust me, you don't need to be a 20something to enjoy these books.
-Kayleigh
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Here in the Library Marketing department, we're gearing up for ALA 2009. But there's another important event that takes place first: Independence Day. Check out some fun facts about the 4th from Ken Davis' blog-- I guarantee you'll learn something new!
-Kayleigh
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In his blog today, Ken Davis, author of the informative and fun Don't Know Much About series presents a list of some of his favorite history books with a common theme--they all take you down to the water. Dip into any one of these and bathe yourself in information! And for more of our posts on Ken, click here.
-Virginia
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By now you all know how much we <3 Ken Davis, so it's no surprise that we're giving you some info on Ken's latest Twitter adventure. Ken will now start each day will a "This Day in History" tweet that links to a blog on either his website, The Huffington Post or both.
"This Day in History" will alternate with other tweet-a-gories such as "Fun Facts," "Homework Helper," and "History Behind the Headlines." The topics will span history, science, pop culture, literature, current events, etc.
So in conclusion, when you don't know much, follow Ken Davis on Twitter: http://twitter.com/kennethcdavis
And wasn't it Descartes who said. "I tweet, therefore I am"?
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Remember our last post on Twitter Wit? Here's an update! The on sale date is now September 8, 2009, and we're pleased to give you a quick list of our star-studded contributors, who include:
Ashton Kutcher, Jimmy Fallon, Stephen Colbert, Margaret Cho, Stephen Fry, Rainn Wilson, Penn Jillette, Diablo Cody, Neil Gaiman, Michael Ian Black, Paula Poundstone, Eugene Mirman, Russell Brand, Aziz Ansari, Lisa Lampanelli, John Hodgman, Susan Orlean, Judah Friedlander, Scott Aukerman, Paul Scheer, Graham Linehan, Peter Serafinowicz, Michael Showalter, Kevin Rose,Ana Marie Cox, Doug Benson, Warren Ellis, David Wain, Felicia Day, Joel McHale, Sasha Frere-Jones, Jonathan Coulton, Bill Corbett, James Urbaniak, Leo Laporte, Will Durst.
If you're on Twitter, be sure to become a follower at http://twitter.com/harperlibrary-- we're almost up to 700!
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Today Charlie Haas, author of The Enthusiast, is guest blogging for us. Here's what he wrote:
"I grew up in a town where a bookish family stuck out like a page-turning thumb. My dad made things worse: he became president of the public library board, and fought the local establishment for money to keep our one-branch library going. My sister worked there through high school and into college. My brother and I hung out there and campaigned for permission slips that would let us take out books that were too “mature” for us.
The head librarian was a world-weary guy with hair flopping over his eyes and a cigarette permanently dangling from his mouth (yes, in the library -- I go back a ways). He issued me an adult-book permission slip, but also warned me, as he squinted through his smokescreen, that it was possible for a person to be too smart. It would be a long time before I had any idea what he was talking about.
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The Daily Beast gave Binnie Kirshenbaum's latest novel, The Scenic Route, a hefty dose of love today. Taylor Antrim writes: "Divorced, mid-40s New Yorker takes off to Italy, meets dashing stranger in small Tuscan village, embarks on whirlwind romance. You’ve already read this book—Under the Tuscan Sun, Summer in Tuscany, A Thousand Days in Tuscany, etc—and you probably don’t want to read it again. Except Binnie Kirshenbaum’s clever, offbeat novel The Scenic Route is an antidote to all that soft-focus sentiment. This is indeed a woman-has-midlife-crisis-and-finds-romance-in-Italy story, but it is so resolutely unsentimental, even antisentimental, that you won’t be dialing Alitalia anytime soon. Instead of escapist fantasy, narrator Sylvia Landsman offers a reality check, sobering truths about family, regret, loss, history." Browse inside the book and be sure to check out the full review.
-Kayleigh
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