26 February 2009

Book Banter -- Land of a Hundred Wonders

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Title: Land of a Hundred Wonders Author: Lesley Kagen Length: ~280 pages Genre: literary fiction Plot Basics: Gibby McGraw is the local...
19 February 2009

Book Banter -- Tripwire

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Title: Tripwire (Jack Reacher, bk. 3). Author: Lee Child Length: ~400 pages Genre: mystery/thriller Plot Basics: Reacher is tracked dow...
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13 February 2009

My interview

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Jennifer, over at Adventures of Badgergirl , was offering to send interview questions to fellow bloggers. Since I normally interview people ...
12 February 2009

Author Answers with Kelly Parra (redux)

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Word Nerd's taking the day off from blogging and letting author Kelly Parra talk about her new book and the writing life in this edition...
09 February 2009

Book Banter -- Love in the Time of Fridges

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Title: Love in the Time of Fridges Author: Tim Scott Length: 347 pages Genre: Sci- fi Plot Basics: Huckleberry Lindbergh returns to the...
05 February 2009

Last four chapters. Again.

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Word Nerd is rereading her own book and marking it all over with purple pen after her beta readers provided their feedback. First, it is imp...
04 February 2009

January 2009 Bibliometer

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The readings for the last month were: 9 books 2,177 pages 70 pages/day The YTD totals are obviously the same.
02 February 2009

Book Banter -- Lord of Misrule

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Title: Lord of Misrule ( Morganville Vampires, bk, 5) Author: Rachel Caine Length: 247 pages Genre: YA paranormal Plot Basics: Claire ...
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29 January 2009

Book Banter -- Brighton Rock

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Title: Brighton Rock Author: Graham Greene Length: 247 pages Genre: literary fiction Plot Basics: Newspaper contest man, Hale, is murde...
26 January 2009

Book Banter -- The Graveyard Book

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Title: The Graveyard Book Author: Neil Gaiman Length: 307 pages Genre: Juvenile fantasy Plot Basics: A murderer goes after an entire fa...
22 January 2009

This just in

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Jasper Fforde has a new book coming out in July. Jasper Fforde of the Thursday Next and the Nursery Crime serieses ( serieses ? ... oh bo...
14 January 2009

2008 Words of the Year

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Word Nerd's a bit tardy on sharing these this year, but she still finds it interesting to see what words topped dictionary lists in 200...
12 January 2009

Book Banter -- Backup

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Title: Backup: A Novella of the Dresden Files Author: Jim Butcher Genre: urban fantasy/paranormal Length: 70 pages Plot Basics : Thomas ...
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09 January 2009

Beta Readers and the End of the Hiatus

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Word Nerd's beta readers are starting to chime back in with comments about her novel. Word Nerd is finding this to be an exciting proce...
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08 January 2009

Book Banter -- Obedience

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Title: Obedience Author: Will Lavender Length: 287 pages Genre: literary fiction/mystery Plot Basics: The students in Logic and Reasoni...
05 January 2009

Book Banter -- The Dairy Queen

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Title: The Dairy Queen Author: Alison Rushby Genre: chick lit Plot Basics: Dicey seemed to have it all -- booming pajama business and a ...
02 January 2009

Loss of a Great

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The mystery genre has lost one of its great contributors with the death of Donald Westlake. Word Nerd started reading his series about the b...

December 2008 Bibliometer and 2008 Bibliometer Totals

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Well, Word Nerd's pretty pleased with how the Bibliometer stats turned out for this year (technically, last year now, since today is Jan...
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30 December 2008

Book Banter -- Die Trying

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Title: Die Trying (Jack Reacher , bk. 2) Author: Lee Child Length: ~400 pages Genre: Mystery/thriller Plot Basics: Drifter Jack Reacher...
23 December 2008

Best of 2008 -- Top Ten Books

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Here's the moment you've all been waiting for -- Word Nerd's Top Ten Books of 2008. Without further adieu... the envelope pleas...
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