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For Review:

• My Soul to Take by Rachel Vincent

Won:

• Iron Daughter by Julia Kagawa
• Liinger by Maggie Stiefvater

(Both from Buried in Books, thanks so much)

Bought

• Noughts & Crosses by Malorie Blackman
• A Million Little Pieces by James Frey

This is where I leave you

“It’s quite likely that I will never see either one of them again, and the thought saddens me. They were daily fixtures in my life for the last seven years or so, and now they are gone. Or, more accurately, I am. Just like that. That’s the thing about life; everything feels so permanent, but you can disappear in an instant.” — Jonathan Tropper, This Is Where I Leave You

Tropper’s books are the kind of easy, summer books I’d read. Well-written, filled with humour, easy to get through.

Gilmore Girls Library

The library in The Dragonfly Inn in Gilmore Girls is one of my favourite TV libraries. I know it’s small, but it’s so cosy and beautiful.

Matilda

Currently watching Matilda

Looking for Alaska Quote

“When adults say, “Teenagers think they are invincible” with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don’t know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail.”
—
Looking for Alaska by John Green

Wave Goodbye to Barnes & Noble?

Barnes & Noble, the largest book store company in the U.S., recently disclosed that sales from Nov. 1, 2009 to Jan. 2, 2010 were down 5% to $1.1 billion. Same-store sales were off 5.1%. Barnes $ Noble is up against a rapid increase in book sales over the internet which is dominated by Amazon and includes large retailers such as Wal-Mart. The rise of the e-reader and e-books is also in the process of undermining “bricks-and-mortar” book buying traffic. BKS peer Borders recently closed 200 of its Waldenbooks outlets and fired 1,500 people. Barnes & Noble has 775 outlets and 636 college bookstore. BKS will have to push online sales, marketing of it Nook e-reader, and close at least 100 stores.

Simply put, in the near future all Barnes and Noble stores could be out of business… Along with Borders.

Quote

"When I get a little money, I buy books. And if there is any left over, I buy food."

- Desiderius Erasmus