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Bookish Events in New York City: January 12th – 16th
It looks like another amazing week for bookish events in New York City. Usually, I try to limit myself to recommending two options a day, but this week I just couldn’t control myself. Get your teleportation and cloning devices ready, otherwise you will have to make some difficult decisions.
Posted by Jennifer Morell
My Least Anticipated Reads of 2015
Wow, this book is…what's the opposite of riveting? Poorly-welded? (image via)
It’s a new year, which means readers everywhere are rejoicing: parties in the streets, ticker tape parades, bacchanals of bookishness about the fantastic new novels and nonfiction we finally get to get our sticky mitts on and read, read, read.
Which, great. Make all the lists you want. But you know what I’m really NOT looking forward to? All the stuff I’ll have to read, or read in desperation, or read in order to fulfill the prerogative of a needlessly complicated blackmail scheme. Here, therefore, are my LEAST anticipated reads of 2015.
Posted by Blair Thornburgh
The Perfect Book for Your Failed New Year’s Resolution
New Year’s has come and gone, with the requisite silly hats, warm champagne, and half-hearted midnight well wishes. You promised yourself 2015 would be different, that you’d stick to your resolutions, but real life picked back up and, well, things fell by the wayside. All your good intentions got buried in the daily shuffle, but hey, it happens. There’s no need to feel guilty about it, and here at Quirk we’ve prepared a reading list especially for you, to make you feel better about your—understandable—lack of follow through.
Posted by Alyssa Favreau
Come Clean: Which Famous Authors Do You Mix Up?
Who is who?! Which is which?!?!
Not to brag, but I would say I’m pretty good at reading. Like, I have finished entire books, sometimes in under a month. And I like to think that I’m decently acquainted with the literary canon (“Jane Eyre? She’s the one who wrote Pride and Prejudice, right?”).
But I have a secret shame: there are some authors I always, ALWAYS mix up. And I don’t think I’m the only one.
Posted by Blair Thornburgh
BookLikes Giveaways for January: Cookbooks & Stuff Books!
Hey BookLikes users! We've got some awesome giveaways for you this month!
You can enter to win The Mystery Writers of America Cookbook, Stuff Every Groom Should Know, and Stuff Every Golfer Should Know in our January giveaways. We can't wait to see some of your early reviews!
Good luck!
Posted by Eric Smith
Happy 2015: Win a Sneak Peek Into This Year!
Working in publishing, sometimes it can be really easy to lose all concept of time. All around the office, you can spot books that aren't set to come out for another, oh, six months or so. This is a common scene around the HQ:
"Did this come out yet?"
"No Eric, that book isn't out for another year."
"What about this one?"
"That book comes out today… did you have your coffee yet?!"
And you know what? I'd like to confuse you a little too.
The Mystery Writers of America Cookbook (March 24th), The Fangirl's Guide to the Galaxy (May 12th), and Nick & Tesla's Special Effects Spectacular (May 5th) aren't due out for a little while, and this is your chance to win a prize pack with all three! I'll even include a sampler of Manhattan Mayhem (April 7th), which includes four stories from the upcoming collection.
Go ahead and enter the Rafflecopter below. I've got THREE prize packs to send out. Good luck!
Posted by Eric Smith
