Member: topcat21

Noticed you liked The Glass Castle, and I was wondering if you'd be interested in reviewing my new novel and posting your comments here as well as a few other book-related sites. Thought you might like my book since it's also about a dysfunctional family (and also a bit dark). I could e-mail you the novel in an e-book format if you'd like (I'm out of physical copies at the moment). Let me know if you're interested. Here's a link to a summary in case you're interested:

http://christophertusa.com/

Thanks,

Chris

posted by cmtusa at 9:37 am (EST) on Aug 31, 2009

Oooh I see you're reading Tailchaser's Song - one of my favourites. :)

Stole your map, too, nicest one I've seen yet.

posted by Severn at 11:24 am (EST) on Aug 19, 2008

Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed the review. The Glass Castle certainly took me by surprise because I hardly ever read non-fiction. I was afraid I wouldn't get past the first chapter but it turned out to be much more engrossing than I anticipated.

posted by Jenson_AKA_DL at 3:08 pm (EST) on Apr 20, 2007

Here's how you get book cover images on your profile:

Go into Edit my profile and add two things: the url of the works page, and the source url of the image of the cover. To get that, I just right-click on the cover image in the works page and "copy image location".

Here's an example:

Currently reading: <br>
<a href="http://www.librarything.com/work/6460"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/081296..." ></a>

You should make sure you leave a space between the </a> of one book and the <br><a href of the next.

posted by sabreader at 5:27 pm (EST) on Mar 23, 2007

Hey topcat21, Thanks so much for putting me onto the Oblivion Society! It looks like a really fun read!

posted by NativeRoses at 2:40 pm (EST) on Mar 20, 2007

Multiple books ...

There's my current audiobook Birds of a Feather by Jacqueline Winspear. Technically, I'm not reading another audiobook right now, but only because I just finished a second one I was listening to on my other mp3 player (Hillinger's California) at the same time; I was going to start a different audiobook after Hillinger, but it looks as though that can wait until after I finish Birds.
For actual print books, there's Viva Mallorca by Peter Kerr that I read away-from-home (restaurants, bus rides, etc.). I'm working my way through The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor a couple at a time as bedside reading. Then there's a project I recently picked up again: Le Vallon - Agatha Christie's The Hollow translated into French; kind of taxing that one, so not more than a chapter at a time - at most!

No, it's not just you.

posted by Seajack at 3:33 pm (EST) on Mar 8, 2007