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The Written Nerd: Moving On, Moving Over
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Confessions of an independent bookseller and unrepentant book nerd. Tuesday, May 10, 2011. Moving On, Moving Over. Dear readers of The Written Nerd, if there are any of you still out there,. So I'm officially signing off from The Written Nerd. This means two things:. 1) If you are a publicist, please don't send books to The Written Nerd anymore. I get far more books than I could ever read through the bookstore (you can contact me there. 2) I'm still reading books, and I'd still like to talk about them, b...
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The Written Nerd: The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
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Confessions of an independent bookseller and unrepentant book nerd. Monday, March 08, 2010. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet. Random House, June 2010. Anyone who has ever read my blog, or ever met me, stands a good chance of having heard me talk about David Mitchell. It's rather satisfying, at my age, to have discovered my Favorite Living Writer. Ever since Cloud Atlas. And Number Nine Dream. And Black Swan Green. Will it move you in the same ...
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The Written Nerd: 2010 Year-End Roundup, and a Call for Ideas
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Confessions of an independent bookseller and unrepentant book nerd. Thursday, December 30, 2010. 2010 Year-End Roundup, and a Call for Ideas. Here are all the books I read. That I know of). In 2010, in crude alphabetical order. This doesn't include children's picture books, cookbooks, single-issue comics, magazines, or uh, the Internet. My own personal Best of the Year are highlighted in bold. And thanks to the superquick book search on greenlightbookstore.com. The call for ideas is at the end. By Joe Ke...
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The Written Nerd: May 10, 2011
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Confessions of an independent bookseller and unrepentant book nerd. Tuesday, May 10, 2011. Moving On, Moving Over. Dear readers of The Written Nerd, if there are any of you still out there,. So I'm officially signing off from The Written Nerd. This means two things:. 1) If you are a publicist, please don't send books to The Written Nerd anymore. I get far more books than I could ever read through the bookstore (you can contact me there. 2) I'm still reading books, and I'd still like to talk about them, b...
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folio: June 2008
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Monday, June 30, 2008. Customers Are Already in Our Good Book (and other advice from a bookseller). One of the things any publicist worth her salt will tell an author is to 'make contacts' with his or her area bookstores. "Just go in and say hi," I generally urge my authors. "Booksellers love it when you let them know you're local! I recently realized that the last time I asked a bookseller what they do and do not love was most likely in 1999, when I was working at a (now-closed) indie bookstore. Bringin...
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folio: Customers Are Already in Our Good Book (and other advice from a bookseller)
http://foliolit.blogspot.com/2008/06/customers-are-already-in-our-good-book.html
Monday, June 30, 2008. Customers Are Already in Our Good Book (and other advice from a bookseller). One of the things any publicist worth her salt will tell an author is to 'make contacts' with his or her area bookstores. "Just go in and say hi," I generally urge my authors. "Booksellers love it when you let them know you're local! I recently realized that the last time I asked a bookseller what they do and do not love was most likely in 1999, when I was working at a (now-closed) indie bookstore. Bringin...
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The Written Nerd: The Unnamed by Joshua Ferris
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Confessions of an independent bookseller and unrepentant book nerd. Thursday, January 28, 2010. The Unnamed by Joshua Ferris. Note to readers, if there still are any about: I've taken a long hiatus from regular posts on this blog, for the simple reason that I've realized the dream I wrote about in my very first post. And opened a bookstore. Regan Arthur Books, December 2009). I didn't read Josh Ferris' breakout debut novel, Then We Came To The End. In which one rather arrogant, powerful man's reduction t...
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The Written Nerd: The Sheriff of Yrnameer by Michael Rubens
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Confessions of an independent bookseller and unrepentant book nerd. Thursday, April 01, 2010. The Sheriff of Yrnameer by Michael Rubens. The Sheriff of Yrnameer. Pantheon, August 2009). In a bit of a cheat today (come on, I've got to get outside in the sun! I'm pasting this review in its entirety from an email I sent to a colleague in the book industry. I read it more or less concurrently with Old Mr. Flood. And it provided an entirely different set of pleasures. I read The Sheriff of. This was an excell...
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