by Kimba at Caffeinated Book Reviewer.
What's Happening on the Center Stage
- Review and Giveaway: This Crumbling Pageant by Patricia Burroughs (The Fury Triad #1). Giveaway is being sponsored by Candace's Book Blog.
- Quote of the Week: Abraham Lincolin. What makes you happy?
- Feature and Follow #196-13: Don't Read This!
- $25 Amazon Gift Card Giveaway in association with the upcoming release of This Crumbling Pageant by Patricia Burroughs.
- Share your favorite Summer Dream Camp over at Alison Can Read.
- Did you know that e-Books have been around for 40 years?! Check out this infographic.
- In my non-book blogging life, I subscribe to The Daily Blur and one of the daily emails this week I felt was worth sharing with all my fellow bloggers: The Top 40 Website Fundamentals For Small Businesses.
- Check out Apocalypse Later: Why Dystopian Novels Speak To Us by Josh Corman.
- This week I started and "quickly" abandoned Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin. I felt like I was chewing scenery and not make progress in the book and then suddenly after about 250 pages the "main" characters are gone! The book is 700 pages long. WTH! There's a right way and a wrong way for an author to "disappear" a character or characters. Book Riot compiled a list about this very topic recently: How to Kill Off Characters.
- My picture of the week! It's finally spring in Iowa and I grilled out twice last week. TWICE!!
- I realized last week I failed to mention that my friend, Erin, and I met 3 authors at Chi-Fi 0! And of course, I came away with the following books:
- Apocalypticon by Clayton Smith
- Fan Phenomena: Doctor Who by Paul Booth
- Aberrant (Aberrant #1) by Ruth Silver. After I bought this book, and looked it up on GoodReads I realized that it was already on my to-read list.
- Watching: The West Wing Season 2, Supernatural Season 2, The Big Bang Theory Season 7, Suburgatory Season 1
- Read or Reading: Through Time: An Unauthorised and Unofficial History of Doctor Who by Andrew Cartmel. Dorothy Must Die by Danielle Paige.
What did you read or watch this week? Anything good? Something I should add to my to-read or to-watch list?