Freebie Friday
Happy Friday, everybody! I hope you have fantastic weekends planned.
Let's get the happiness started a little early for rhapsodyinbooks, who's won Seen The Glory. Congratulations!
Right now, I'm reading Nick Douglas' Twitter Wit: Brilliance in 140 Characters or Less. With a foreward by a cofounder of Twitter, the book does a good job explaining the social networking site's impacts large and small. As a bonus, it's hilarious. I now want to friend everyone mentioned in it. A few gems:
Synopsis for Twilight: "And then, like, vampires," giromide
It seems no matter how ugly a place may be, it will have "Keep XYZ Beautiful" signs. New Jersey has them. Mordor probably does, too, jonathaneunice
Every time I turn a thousand pages to the back of Infinite Jest, I half expect the little footnote to read, simply, "Sorry," lianamaeby
The book comes out this fall, and while I've received this advanced version, it never hurts to sign up and suggest a few of your own favorite tweets at the book's Web site.
Next up: The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal, by Ben Mezrich. Mezrich's last book, Bringing Down the House, was made into a movie, and it looks like this one is well on its way to the same treatment, with the screenplay written by Aaron Sorkin himself.
Let us know what you're reading, and it could be yours!
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Comments
I just finished reading "The King of Lies" by John Hart. I read his newest one, "The Last Child," first and then backtracked to his first novel. He is very good at the mystery/thriller genre, and the writing is better than many of his contemporaries.
Posted by: Karl Hildebrandt | July 10, 2009 11:28 AM
I'm reading Last Light over Carolina by Mary Alice Monroe and I'm loving it so far. I heard Ben Mezrich speak and he talked about writing that book - it sounds fascinating!
Posted by: Kathy | July 10, 2009 11:48 AM
I read The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian, largely because I read on this blog that it was banned. The voice of the fifteen-year-old boy is really spot on. (This is written as though he were speaking to a peer, so he is a bit more frank than adults like to believe an adolescent would be) I have spent very little time on/around SouthWest Indian Reservations, but the poverty and despair described are what I remember seeing. I can see why certain mindsets wouldn't want their offspring to know such conditions exist. Otherwise, I'd put this in the Judy Blume category. (And, I know she's been banned in places. I worry for those places.)
In short, I enjoyed this book although parts of it broke my heart. If I still had an adolescent in my house, I try to get this on the Summer Reading List.
Posted by: Eve | July 10, 2009 1:28 PM
Yay! I'm excited to have won. What do I do now? Do I email you my address or...?
Posted by: rhapsodyinbooks | July 10, 2009 4:27 PM
I'm reading "Middlemarch" and loving it. When I was in high school and was force fed "Silas Marner" (hated that book!), I vowed never to read George Eliot again. My bad.
By the way, I like the new decor on Read Street. It's very elegant and also easy on the eyes. One minor complaint though. It doesn't seem to "remember" personal info. Each time you post, you have to fill in everything from scratch. Okay, I admit it, I'm lazy.
Yikes, that IS annoying. Let me see if there's anyway to fix that. NJ
Posted by: Gail Farrelly | July 10, 2009 7:33 PM
I'm reading "The Wave" by Walter Mosley. After finishing up Kindred I was in the mood for more dark sci-fi from an African-American author. I really enjoyed Blue Light when I read it a few years ago. So far The Wave is great.
Posted by: a parent | July 12, 2009 11:00 AM