We have a bunch of new book reviews, that are perfect reading material for the summer holidays (sorry to our fans in the northern hemisphere - they're probably good for winter holidays too!). Some light chick-lit with Bloom, And Then Things Fell Apart and The Unwritten Rule, some crime with The Cold Six Thousand and some regular fiction with Taming the Beast.
We hope you all had a fabulous christmas - we certainly did!
Nat
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Thursday, December 29, 2011
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Heading back to Australia
Well after spending the last seven months travelling around Europe in a motorhome the time has come for me to return back to Australia and hopefully get some more time to read. It is amazing how hard it has been to be able to sit down and read as there has always been something to do from sightseeing, driving, eating, more eating and drinking. I am sure Natalie will be excited to be able to hand over some of the book reviews as she has well and truly carried www.ourbookclub.net.au over the past twelve months.
I have been trawling through the bookstores here in London and it is sometimes disappointing to see how many of the new releases we have already read, so I have been looking back at some classics and have packed a few books for my plane trip home.
For my trip I had purchased a Sony eReader to avoid having to carry a library, but alas I still carried two cupboards full of books in the motorhome and almost gave up with the eReader. In the cold weather the batteries went flat very quickly and as we were disconnected from electricity having to use the laptop to charge the eReader was something that we couldn't do sometimes. So my experiment of whether I could swap away from physical books wasn't very successful and that isn't because I am old fashioned, but I can't feel anything for an electronic device compared to a physical book that gives me a sense of joy in selecting, purchasing and then reading.
While I have been away Natalie has also been extremely busy meeting up with local authors and www.ourbookclub.net.au is being noticed by some of the larger publishing houses and we are getting access to books, movie tickets etc which we will be using for competitions through 2012, so stay tuned for those. Information will be released through Twitter or Facebook so make sure that you sign up for those.
Well have a great christmas and New Year.
Tracy
I have been trawling through the bookstores here in London and it is sometimes disappointing to see how many of the new releases we have already read, so I have been looking back at some classics and have packed a few books for my plane trip home.
For my trip I had purchased a Sony eReader to avoid having to carry a library, but alas I still carried two cupboards full of books in the motorhome and almost gave up with the eReader. In the cold weather the batteries went flat very quickly and as we were disconnected from electricity having to use the laptop to charge the eReader was something that we couldn't do sometimes. So my experiment of whether I could swap away from physical books wasn't very successful and that isn't because I am old fashioned, but I can't feel anything for an electronic device compared to a physical book that gives me a sense of joy in selecting, purchasing and then reading.
While I have been away Natalie has also been extremely busy meeting up with local authors and www.ourbookclub.net.au is being noticed by some of the larger publishing houses and we are getting access to books, movie tickets etc which we will be using for competitions through 2012, so stay tuned for those. Information will be released through Twitter or Facebook so make sure that you sign up for those.
Well have a great christmas and New Year.
Tracy
Thursday, December 15, 2011
Embracing social media
Ok, we are embracing the new year by joining Twitter and promoting and using our blog! Stay tuned for more posts...
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