Well, I gave in and joined Early Reviewers. I made the mistake of looking at the July titles and realizing there's a Catherine Jinks up for grabs. We read the first Pagan book for historical fiction book group. I went on to read the other 2-3. I'd also like to read her _Evil Genius_ series.

My questions:
` Have you received a book from Early Reviewers yet?
` Did you just get one ARC from a particular month's batch, or several?
` Did they come USPS or UPS? (I might have to un-sign up, if they come UPS - locked building.)
- Have you been nudged by the ARC's publisher? Given a deadline for your review?

Hope you're doing fine. Missed you at book group on Friday.

Renee

posted by ReneeMarie at 7:51 pm (EST) on Jul 8, 2008

p.s. -- Forgot to ask since I didn't see you at book group and didn't hear back from you: did you get your desktop publishing question figured out? What software you're using, etc.?

Renee

posted by ReneeMarie at 2:09 pm (EST) on Jun 11, 2008

Laura -

Have you visited the Web site http://www.literature-map.com/ yet? It's a site that visually maps relationships between similar authors. A reference librarian found it for me based on my description of a site I remembered. (It had sounded familiar to her, too.)

And, for reading suggestions, try using the name of an author you like and "readalike" or "readalikes" as search engine terms. Picked up that tip from someone in the Librarians Who Library Thing Group.

See you at book group, Renee

posted by ReneeMarie at 12:40 pm (EST) on May 28, 2008

The painting is by an early 19th century German painter, G. Kersting, and it's sometimes referred as "Lady at a Window".

Ellen

posted by ellenandjim at 10:49 pm (EST) on Apr 15, 2008