Life of paperbacks versus hardback
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Comments (15)Thanks for all your responses and here's an update. The book sale was a great success and we took in significantly more than last year. I bought lots of books for my children and here's what I found for myself: The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad History of the English Speaking Peoples (whole set) by Winston Churchill Life of Elizabeth I by Alsion Weir The Essential Gesture by Nadine Gordimer Snow by Orhan Pamuk When You Lunch with the Emperor by Ludwig Bemelmans of Madeline fame The Gourmet Cookbook by Ruth Reichel Complete Book of Breads by Bernard Clayton Weird New England by Joseph A. Citro (my son and I had a grand time before Halloween reading this together) As for the children's books, I was most pleased with finding both hardback Christopher Paolini books and the Scribner Anthology for Young People. Also found a couple "You Were There.." histories that I remember reading as a kid. Now my problem is where to put all the books and what to read first....See MoreBooker Prize Collection
Comments (26)Vee, I recall reading several of the novels on that Whitbread List that I think you read as well, because we had some discussions about them here at RP. Small Island -- Andrea Levy; Music & Silence -- Rose Tremain; and maybe The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time -- Mark Haddon I have also read several of the biographies, including Bad Blood by Lorna Sage, that I remember you commenting about. I notice that Vernon God Little by D B C Pierre (Peter Finlay) won both the Booker Prize and the Whitbread Award in 2003. I thought it was tripe, the sort of satire/black comedy that appeals to those who think John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces is a masterpiece. I think Vernon might be the record holder for most curse words in a major prize winner and such descriptions as this: "Deputy Gurie tears a strip of meat from a bone; it flaps through her lips like a sh*t taken backwards." and lots more of the same caliber. [thanks to one of the reviewers at Goodreads for the quote -- he thinks it's "a gem"!] I haven't retained much of How to be both, but I'm sorry that I was unaware of your response to reading it until several months after you posted. You could have helped me greatly with the art part. I think I mostly read it wrong, so thanks to Martin and Sheri for setting me straight on some of my interpretations. Carolyn, the Poe story could have been "The Fall of the House of Usher" since incest is suggested there, too. But I think the incest in it is probably more obvious than in "The Tell-Tale Heart." I read the latter without grasping it at all, because at the time I was naïve and didn't even know that kind of incest existed. I don't remember it being mentioned, either, in any of my "Poe classes." Your mother was a better educator than the ones I had. Edit to add: I was on the right track about "jolly good reads." Thank you Annpan and Vee for verifying that. I share with you, Vee, a contentedness with reading DduM, Hill, and Franklin. :-)...See MoreAutumn Reading October
Comments (65)annpanagain, re your earlier comments on library closures, it turned out that the village we moved to in July lost its local library in April, part of cutbacks that saw 20% of libraries in the county council closed. There is a monthly mobile library service to the village. I am probably fortunate in that the county town is only 3 miles away and the central library there, readily accessible as I drive, is well stocked. After joining I came away with 3 books. The first, which I have already finished, was by a new author to me - Giles Kristian, with Raven Blood Eye, the first of a trilogy about Vikings' expansions into England. The other 2 were crime novels - 4th of July by James Patterson, a women's murder club offering; and a gentler The Coniston Case by Rebecca Tope, the third in her Lake District trilogy. I am looking forward to making good use of this library facility and saving myself a fortune. I have read over 50 books already this year and do not even want to think how much I have spent....See MoreHave you written a book?
Comments (29)I have written a book and had it published by a publisher. It was a nonfiction business book that I wrote with a colleague of mine. We thought we had a good idea for a book, but did not have an agent, so we doubted that we would have much chance of getting published. We did use the Writer's Market as Jay06 above suggested, and prepared a proposal that included sample chapters, an outline and the other things recommended in Writer's Market. We made a list of publishers that, based on their descriptions, might be interested in the book. We sent our proposal out to the top three, figuring that we would work our way down the list as we got our rejections from those publishers. To our surprise (and delight!), two of the first three publishers were interested. Each of them had very different ideas on how to price and market the book, and we chose the one that we thought could get more copies sold. Anyway, it has sold pretty well over the years and in any event, it's fun to see one's name in print. We have by no means gotten rich from sales, but the royalties have provided some consistent "extra money" twice a year. If you are trying to sell a book, definitely getting a publisher is much easier than self publishing unless you have the energy and talent to market it yourself. However, if you have no intent on publishing for sale and just want to have the book for fun, Shutterfly seems the perfect option....See Morematthias_lang
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