Cress Book Trailer (Marissa Meyer author)

Cress is book three of the Lunar Chronicles and is available now!!  The two preceding novels are Cinder and Scarlet with Winter to follow early next year (2015).

I Am So Excited!! Harry Potter Exhibition Coming to Edmonton. Watch the YouTube Trailer Here!!

Catching Fire Official Movie Trailer

Top 10 Reasons Your Book Club Should Be Reading A Land More Kind Than Home

Here's your reading group guide to give you a head start with your book club when you select A Land More Kind Than Home:  http://www.harpercollins.com/author/authorExtra.aspx?authorID=38225&isbn13=9780062088147&displayType=readingGuide

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I am really excited about this book!!!   I can't wait to read it and present my review here on My Bookshelf.  It looks so good!!!

Coming soon:  an interview the author, Wiley Cash, did with author Adriana Trigiani (author of The Shoemaker's Wife)!  Pretty cool, eh!!

Titanic : the Experience

Long Live the Book

The joy of books knows no bounds.  Do you agree?

I know two people who have e-readers and who recently decided they needed to go on a book buying binge because they missed the physicality of a book.  Have you ever felt this way?  I don't have an e-reader because I know that I would miss the very essence of a book. It's not just the story for me.  I love to hold the book, to smell it, to gently break it in, and to spend hours immersed within its pages.  How does an e-book even compare? Tell me, do you feel the same?  Anyone?

This is Where We Live.....

The Former Home of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle...

Located in Hindhead, Surry, England, Undershaw (former home of Sherlock Holmes author, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) may not remain the mansion-esque property as it appears in this video. It sat derelict, subject to the elements of nature, where it sustained some damage. Developers wanted to divide the home into three terraced houses, forever ruining the aesthetic quality and historical value and significance of this property.  Wouldn't it be a greater and more fulfilling task to return it to its former glory and perhaps make it into a museum or a bed and breakfast, at the least, where fans can stay and linger in the halls Sir Arthur Conan Doyle once wandered? 

The Undershaw Preservation Trust was set up to protect the house.


To read more about this property, see http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2012/03/holmes-home-saving-undershaw?WT.mc_id=10144

There is a Monster at the End of This Book!

This is such a cute story and a childhood favourite of one of my co-workers who kindly shared the story with me.  Not every child will have the luxury of having Grover read it aloud, but I bet you can do a pretty good imitation now, can't you?