Aug 5, 2014
The town was paper, but the memories were not.
John Green Papertowns
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The town was paper, but the memories were not.
John Green Papertowns
Book Clubs, Subscriptions and Memberships
Your method for selecting a book is replaceable. It always has been, but maybe you haven't seen the latest options?
Book Clubs
Indiespensible (Powell’s Subscription Club) will send you a new, first edition signed book plus cool stuff every six weeks.
The Rumpus Book Club (Poetry Club also avail) will send you a book that hasn’t come out yet and provide an opportunity to join a moderated, online discussion with the author at the end of each month. Transcripts of the discussion are archived and available to slower readers, like me.
Publishers
Some small presses have started to offer memberships or subscriptions to help fund their plans for publication and get a clearer sense of demand.
Curbside Splendor offers a Gold membership that will get you eight books, as they're released, at a discount.
Emily Books will send you an ebook plus bonus content every month for a year.
Ugly Duckling Presse has multiple subscriptions and memberships, many of which sell-out, for their books, chapbooks and magazines which often contain handmade materials.
Book clubs, memberships and subscriptions are a way of investing your method for selecting a book in return for curation.
What other publishers are offering book clubs, memberships and subscriptions that are worth the investment?
Summer Reading
One reason I am very excited for summer is that I can be a bookworm. I feel like I never have time during the school year to read books I want to, other than textbooks, so I try to take full advantage of summer time to read books of my choosing.
I cannot wait to lay outside in the sun and read some great books!
stories the tide brings in (by manyfires)
Book Thing: starting summer with a thousand words
There's so many things I want to do this summer including finishing several books. On my current list right now:
Hunger Games Trilogy The Mortal Instruments The Wolves of Mercy Fall Wicked Lovely Dark Visions
I like fantasy ad also a sucker for romance which sort of explains the list. I'm done with Shiver (The Wolves of Mercy Fall #1) and Wicked Lovely's first book (currently halfway Ink Exchange, book 2). My summer is devoted to finishing my list though I have doubts in my ability to focus and chose priorities (I still have some advance studying to do BTW). So far I'm doing fine since summer family activities this year is blank. Nada. None planned.Which is disappointing and soothing at the same time -more time to rest and read.
In between the series I tend to drift my attention to stand-alone novels. So far I've read Keegan's Lady by Catherine Anderson (on her way to my list of most favored authors) and Kiss and Tell by Sandy Lynn (what do you think of that?)
I'm really looking forward to reading all of them right now but it's past one in the morning and I'm tired so I'm giving my poor eyes a break. Tomorrow maybe I'd write a few things about the awesome books I just finished. ^^, ttfn.