Word Nerd

Title: Adverbs Author: Daniel Handler Length: 288 pages Genre: literary fiction Plot Basics: This book is sort of a collection of short...

The July experiment, for anyone who just tuned in, was Word Nerd's plan to read only books written by men in July. (Calling it the July ...

Whew. Word Nerd crossed her July word count goal of 55,000 yesterday with a few days left in the month to try to get a jump on August. The w...

Title: Mortal Stakes Author: Robert B. Parker Length: 167 pages Genre: mystery Plot Basics: Spenser's third outing takes him to Fenw...

Note: Word Nerd knows it's not Tuesday yet, but her day job requires her to be around airplanes all day tomorrow so she's posting th...

Title: God Save the Child Author: Robert B. Parker Length: ~180 pages Genre: mystery Plot Basics: Suave PI Spenser is hired by Boston s...

Title: Creepers Author: David Morrell Length: ~ 350 pages Genre: thriller Plot Basics: Frank Balenger joins up with a group of urban ar...

Title: The Godwulf Manuscript Author: Robert B. Parker Length: 187 pages Genre: mystery Plot Basics: When a small college outside of Bo...

This week’s spotlighted author, John Scalzi was nominated for a Hugo Award and is a writer whose first two sci-fi offerings were named as ...

Title: The Star Fraction Author: Ken Macleod Length: 320 pages Genre: sci-fi Plot Basics: Mercenary/security man Moh Kohn knows how to ...

Word Nerd has blogged in the past about how the first sentence of a novel is so important for hooking a reader. To prove this point, some go...

Title: Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About Author: Mil Millington Length: 373 pages Genre: comedy/literary fiction Plot Basics:...

For the first day of her new national book tour, Word Nerd is spotlighting Margaret Weis , one of the co-authors of the best-selling Dragonl...

Maybe you heard -- there's a new Pirates of the Caribbean movie out in theatres and it made a ton of money over the weekend. Pirates are...

Title: Sandman Vol. 6: Fables and Reflections Author: Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean, et. al. Length: 259 pages Genre: graphic novel Plot Basi...

Word Nerd does trade in her books for DVDs sometimes and this holiday weekend, she found herself watching MirrorMask . This was an interesti...

Romance writer Anne McAllister is this week's featured author. She's written more than 50 books. Her most recent novel, "The A...

Word Nerd has realized lately that most (not quite all, but most) of the books she has been reading have been written by women. This is quit...

Since today is the last day of June, that means bibliometer day since Word Nerd isn't likely to finish reading anything in the next 16 h...

The final chapter of Harry Potter VII could be the final chapter for Harry Potter himself. News in the boy wizard's book world is that t...