31 October 2007

Book Banter -- Greenwitch

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Title: Greenwitch (The Dark is Rising sequence, book 3) Author: Susan Cooper Length: 147 pages Genre: juvenile/fantasy Plot Basics: All...
24 October 2007

Book Banter -- Storm Front

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Title : Storm Front Author: Jim Butcher Length: ~320 pages Genre: sci-fi/paranormal Plot Basics: Harry Dresden is a wizard. And he advert...
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18 October 2007

Book Banter -- The Dark is Rising

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Title: The Dark is Rising (The Dark is Rising sequence book 2) Author: Susan Cooper Length: 218 pages Genre: juvenile/fantasy Plot Basic...
16 October 2007

Book Banter -- Over Sea, Under Stone

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Title: Over Sea, Under Stone (The Dark is Rising Sequence, book 1) Author: Susan Cooper Length: audiobook ... no page count this time Ge...
15 October 2007

Book Banter -- The Fourth Bear

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Title: The Fourth Bear Author: Jasper Fforde Length: 378 pages Genre: mystery/comedy Plot Basics: Nursery Crime Division Detective Chie...
12 October 2007

Book Banter -- Trigun Vol. 1

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Title: Trigun , Vol. 1 Author: Yasuhiro Nightow Length: 357 pages Genre: sci- fi / manga Plot Basics: Vash the Stampede, also known a...
11 October 2007

Book Banter -- The Pardon

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Title: The Pardon Author: James Grippando Length: 406 pages Genre: legal/thriller Plot Basics: Jack Swyteck is a high-profile defense ...
10 October 2007

Author Answers with Ben Bova

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This week's authors is one of the top names in science fiction today, Ben Bova. Bova has written many books, looking at the exploration ...
09 October 2007

Book Banter -- Kill All the Lawyers

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Title: Kill All the Lawyers Author: Paul Levine Length: 352 pages Genre: mystery Plot Basics: The lawyer team of Solomon and Lord is ba...
08 October 2007

Character Study -- Chuck Bartowski

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Word Nerd has admitted in the past how she does put down the book from time to time to watch TV shows. Particularly in the fall, when the ne...
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05 October 2007

The Book Meme

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Word Nerd spotted this great meme over at upcoming author Jamie Ford's site, and thought, this is a good meme, since it's not the us...
04 October 2007

September Bibliometer

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Here's the count for September. 6 books 2,315 pages average 77 pages per day YTD 68 books 24,034 pages Compared to August, the monthly b...
03 October 2007

Author Answers with Harry Hunsicker

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So Word Nerd temporarily forgot that today was Wednesday, but better late than never, here's today's author interview with Harry Hun...

Progress

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The September page count meter barely got filled by the end of the month, but Word Nerd squeaked it out... all 30 pages. Let's just be c...
02 October 2007

Book Banter -- The Dead Girls' Dance

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Title: The Dead Girls' Dance Author: Rachel Caine Length: 248 pages Genre: YA/urban fantasy Plot Basics: Claire Danvers , teenage g...
28 September 2007

Book Banter -- The Big Over Easy

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Title: The Big Over Easy Author: Jasper Fforde Length: 383 pages Genre: mystery/comedy Plot Basics: Detective Inspector Jack Spratt ha...
27 September 2007

Harry Potter and the Bothersome Punctuation

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Word Nerd was forwarded this commentary from Education Week and it was too good not to share. This will not dilute Word Nerd's fan statu...
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26 September 2007

Author Answers with Thomas Maltman

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This week's featured author is Thomas Maltman . Maltman's first novel, "The Night Birds" was chosen as a Book Sense and M...
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25 September 2007

Book Banter -- Fire Me Up

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Title: Fire Me Up Author: Katie MacAlister Length: ~380 pages Genre: paranormal/chick-lit/romance Plot Basics: Aisling Grey, recently d...
20 September 2007

Progress

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Yes, the page count meter is slowly creeping up this month. Since Word Nerd hasn't yet set pencil to paper for today, the meter is exact...
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