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Weekly links: Really bad lit sex, Literary Turduckens & a thriller-diller Great Expectations

Literary Review revealed their shortlist for the 2011 Bad Sex in Literature award on Tuesday, and the 12 nominees include 1Q84, 11/22/63 and The Land of Painted Caves. The winner will be announced on December 6. In the meantime, check … Continue reading

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Weekly links

Happy Friday, book-lovers! Here are some Internet tidbits we’ve been reading this week . . . enjoy! Random House asked readers to tweet about the most undateable characters in literature using the hashtag #undateableinlit. They started it off with a … Continue reading

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Weekly links

BOOM goes the long weekend! Will you be taking some time away from cooking out and playing with sparklers (or in my case, trying to calm down my dogs) for some good reading? Check out some of our favorite links … Continue reading

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Top 10 reader responses to Bristol Palin’s memoir

Yesterday we posted a little something on Bristol Palin’s memoir, Not Afraid of Life, including an excerpt and a quick summary of what readers might expect in the book. We then asked readers: Will you be reading Bristol Palin’s new … Continue reading

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Trailer Tuesday: ‘Goodnight, Tweetheart’

The name says it all; could Teresa Medeiros’ Goodnight, Tweetheart be anything but cute and clever? In this story—about a Pulitzer-nominated author who turns to Twitter for promotion, then finds romance—Medeiros “demonstrates the ways in which courting via computer can … Continue reading

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#whyiread

#Whyiread is trending right now on Twitter*, and I’ve enjoyed reading the varied responses (not surprisingly, many have to do with escape—from a bad day, where you live, ignorance). A big reason I was excited to see this hashtag is … Continue reading

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Best of the blogs

What book blog posts caught your attention this week? My picks: Twitter’s #dearpublisher hashtag takes off Posted by The Guardian’s Books Blog Most of you avid tweeters probably already know by now that a #dearpublisher thread took off on Twitter … Continue reading

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#booksthatchangedmylife

If you’ve got some time to kill online, or you’d like to join an interesting conversation about the impact of books, follow the “books that changed my life” thread on Twitter. (I’d say, at this moment, people are responding via … Continue reading

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Title tweet from Meghan McCain

Earlier this week, Meghan McCain shared the title of her upcoming book  on Twitter. (Read from the bottom up.) Other recent Twitter updates from McCain include I don’t care how un-politically correct it is, I love walmart. really sad to … Continue reading

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Historical Tweets

We’ve posted about bloggers getting book deals in the past, and that trend certainly seems here to stay. The latest: On April 27, 2010, Alan Beard and Alec McNayr’s site Historical Tweets will be published as a book by Villard. … Continue reading

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Twitter tips for booklovers

Media coverage of twitter—which was ubiquitous when they discovered it earlier this year and hasn’t let up much since—tends to focus on the sensational. Like Senators caught tweeting during a presidential address. Or celebs using Twitter to to break up. … Continue reading

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