Comments on: Wrapped up in Books 09: Confessions of a lowly book blogger

By: joanne

joanne — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 03:16:24 +0000

I used to handle author signings for B&N and had to deal with many self-published authors looking to promote their books. I fully agree with your crazy cow lady assessment. We had lots of books about guardian angels (which happened to be the fad at the time I worked there; now it would be vampires, I suppose) and cats, and the authors were relentless. Relentless! And the books all sucked.

Anyway. You are like my daughter about the book recommendations. There are just a handful of books I’ve recommended to her that she’s actually kind of liked, and if I mention any book more than once, I am certain it will never get read because she’ll think I am “pushing” it on her.

Happy new year.

By: Jodi

Jodi — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 20:36:36 +0000

Consider it added to the list for Rock & Roll June.

By: Victoria

Victoria — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 20:19:36 +0000

I’m interested to see what you think of Stephanie Kuehnert* and her book “I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone” for your Rock N’ Roll June.

*I do not work for Ms. Kuehnert; she’s someone who came to mind as a female author who writes about rock n’ roll.

By: Barrett

Barrett — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 13:57:28 +0000

Back when I reviewed books for an alt-weekly, I got a self-published one whose author was really giving it the hard sell. Finally, after receiving a second copy, I opened it up, flipped through it, and noticed immediately that the word "Epilogue" was misspelled. I quietly closed the book and put it away forever.

By: Chris C

Chris C — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 06:07:12 +0000

My goal was 26 books and I only made it to 25. My first of the year came via your blog (Await Your Reply) and it was a fantastic read. You should link to and read my blog, which, having said that and based on #1 above means that you totally won’t.