Diana D. posted an article on Reading is Sexy! - Jan 27, 2012, 9:45 am
An inspirational song for all my friends to get through Friday…
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Diana D. posted an article on Reading is Sexy! - Jan 17, 2012, 5:06 pm
Just a quick note to let all of you know that Reading is Sexy will be down tomorrow in solidarity with the Strike Against SOPA. If you don’t know what SOPA is or aren’t sure about it, check this out: PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo.
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Diana D. posted an article on Reading is Sexy! - Jan 17, 2012, 10:30 am
Download a digital copy of Deborah Coonts’ Lucky in Love novella for just $1.99 today. Quick dose of Lucky O’Toole for less than $2! Links to Amazon.com digital download, so you can order with 1-click right to your Kindle or other Kindle Reader enabled device.
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Diana D. posted an article on Reading is Sexy! - Jan 10, 2012, 10:43 am
Special thanks to a wonderful friend for sharing this with me. This video was created in Type Books in Toronto. A previous video, Organizing your Bookshelf is pretty neat, too.
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Diana D. posted an article on Reading is Sexy! - Dec 12, 2011, 3:08 pm
Remember when I told you guys about Three Little Birds? Cedella Marley has adapted another of her father’s famous songs, One Love, into a gorgeous board book with an excellent message. One Love features more bright, fun illustrations by Vanessa Newton. The text is simple and easy to follow or rea...
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Diana D. posted an article on Reading is Sexy! - Dec 9, 2011, 8:00 am
Request your copy of A Handbook of American Prayer while there are still copies left. Remember the goal of Concord Free Press is “generosity-based publishing.” If you wish to support Concord, buy a book from Concord EPress, where 50% of the proceeds got straight to the author and 50% help fund C...
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Diana D. posted an article on Reading is Sexy! - Dec 8, 2011, 12:28 pm
This is the year-end message from Jumpstart President & CEO, Naila Bolus. If you did not receive this in your email and you’d like to get updates on Jupmstart via email, you can sign up for the Jumpstart Mailing List.   For more information about Jumpstart and Read for the Record, check out this...
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Diana D. posted an article on Reading is Sexy! - Nov 28, 2011, 7:00 am
Lucky Stiff comes out in paperback tomorrow (see my review here). In celebration of its release, Deborah Coonts is guest posting today. So, here’s a special little paperback-release present for all Reading is Sexy! followers. If you haven’t checked out the Lucky O’Toole series yet, check it ou...
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Diana D. posted an article on Reading is Sexy! - Nov 21, 2011, 5:01 pm
If you haven’t heard yet (I didn’t until today when @devourerofbooks tweeted about it — check out her awesome blogs), IndieBound has created an Android app for downloading and reading books from independent booksellers on your Android-based devices (and coming soon to iOS devices, too). Any ta...
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Diana D. posted an article on Reading is Sexy! - Nov 15, 2011, 10:35 am
If you pre-ordered a Kindle Fire, it will be arriving soon. If you’ve been waiting until they are in to buy one, then today is the day to order yours! Full color, multi-touch 7″ Kindle Fire Tablet just $199The Kindle Fire includes free cloud storage for all your downloaded content, a fast web-b...
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Diana D. posted an article on Reading is Sexy! - Nov 9, 2011, 10:41 am
I would like to introduce all of you to one my newest blog obsessions: Bookfessions, a blog created by “book lover, bibliophile, book addict, reader, lover of literature, and nerd,” Justyna. Bookfessions is open to suggestions via the Ask Box. I would define a bookfession in the following manner...
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Diana D. posted an article on Reading is Sexy! - Oct 11, 2011, 10:23 am
If you haven’t yet signed up for Book Riot, this is the kind of great article you’re missing: The White Male Fck-Up Novel: A Guest Post by John Warner | BOOK RIOT. Book Riot had a very hype-driven, vague launch. I couldn’t really tell what it was going to be, but signed up on the promise that...
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Diana D. posted an article on Reading is Sexy! - Oct 8, 2011, 11:23 am
BAFAB happens the first weeks of every of January, April, July and October. I don’t always post about it (because I can barely keep track of taking my vitamins in the morning), but I love this event. Books are wonderful gifts. I especially enjoy reading any book a friend gives me because they love...
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Diana D. posted an article on Reading is Sexy! - Oct 7, 2011, 7:00 am
I was approached by Emily Moberly, founder of Traveling Stories, about featuring their new Reading is Sexy calendar to raise funds for Traveling Stories. Traveling Stories is a 501c.3 nonprofit organization which provides books to kids who have none and works to inspire a love for reading everywher...
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Diana D. posted an article on Reading is Sexy! - Oct 6, 2011, 6:00 am
Today is Jumpstart’s Read for the Record. You can go here to sign the pledge saying: I pledge to read Llama Llama Red Pajama by Anna Dewdney with children in my life on October 6, 2011. By sitting down to read, I’ll be joining more than 2 MILLION people in calling for an end to America’s earl...
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Diana D. posted an article on Reading is Sexy! - Sep 28, 2011, 1:08 pm
This might be enough to get me to finally take the leap. Fantastic pricing on the new Kindles and the Kindle Fire, a Full Color 7″ Multi-touch Tablet with Wi-Fi. Do a little happy dance.
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Diana D. posted an article on Reading is Sexy! - Sep 28, 2011, 9:00 am
Connal Halloween 2010 This year: running around playing with his panda ears. I can’t get over how much my little guy has grown in just a year. I am also a little excited and a little afraid of what trick or treating will be like. Eek!
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Diana D. posted an article on Reading is Sexy! - Sep 26, 2011, 9:00 am
... of P.O.ed honeybees. Lucky finds the district attorney, naked, ... Babylon. A skanky, old bookie, “Numbers” Neidermeyer, turns up in the ... chase a recording career (at Lucky’s urging), but it leaves ... Vegas. Interestingly, this case takes Lucky through the remaining side streets ...
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Diana D. posted an article on Reading is Sexy! - Sep 22, 2011, 8:00 am
Stand Up For Girls Today is International Day of the Girl. Litworld is asking all of us to Stand Up for Girls. At noon today, wherever you are, whatever you’re doing, Stand Up. Take a photo of yourself standing up and post it to Litworld’s Facebook Wall.  From Litworld: “Two thirds of all th...
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Diana D. posted an article on Reading is Sexy! - Sep 13, 2011, 11:13 am
It’s been a while since I wrote anything about Glyde.com. I still love the selling experience. Listing items it super fast and easy, then when someone buys your item, Glyde sends you a prepaid envelope addressed and ready to mail. You just pop your book or item inside, seal it and put it in your m...
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Diana D. posted an article on Reading is Sexy! - Sep 11, 2011, 10:39 am
Ten years ago I was just beginning my Sophomore year in college. My high school boyfriend was in the Army National Guard, an Infantry man. He’d returned from basic training the year before feeling like he wanted to be in the “real Army.” In early September 2001, we made plans for me drop him o...
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Diana D. posted an article on Reading is Sexy! - Aug 24, 2011, 11:45 am
By now you’ve probably heard about the controversial children’s book Maggie Goes on a Diet. If you haven’t, this bit from Good Morning America will fill you in on both the book and the author’s intent, as well as the popular reaction to it – disgust. Book reviewers and bloggers like myself...
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Diana D. posted an article on Reading is Sexy! - Aug 23, 2011, 10:00 am
Deborah Coonts Wanna Get Lucky? is the first in an exciting mystery series that I’ll absolutely be following. Wanna get Lucky? introduces Lucky O’Toole, the smart, self-made, snappy head of customer relations for The Babylon, a premier Las Vegas casino. Lucky’s sarcastic banter is both endeari...
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Diana D. posted an article on Reading is Sexy! - Aug 18, 2011, 3:22 pm
I just came across this and thought it was a neat sweepstakes promotion from Nestle. Some of you might be interested: Nestle Share the Joy of Reading Program :: Instant Win Game has 174 daily winners until 12/29. You can request a free code to play without purchase. For every entry 10 cents is dona...
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Diana D. posted an article on Reading is Sexy! - Aug 18, 2011, 10:31 am
I just discovered KidsCount.org (part of the Annie E Casey Foundation) and was intrigued by the data in their 2011 Kids Count Data Book. You can search through a myriad of data by state or nationally and there are quite a few useful graphics and charts. You can also view the whole 88-page report as ...
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Diana D. posted an article on Reading is Sexy! - Aug 12, 2011, 12:30 pm
I first heard about Giant Microbes from my mom. As soon as she showed me the site, I wanted one. Giant Microbes are plush (and now vinyl, too!) real microbes. Each one comes with real, scientific information about it.     The microbes range from the flu to bookworms to herpes. I never thought I...
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Diana D. posted an article on Reading is Sexy! - Jul 27, 2011, 1:40 pm
You may have noticed frequent changes in appearance here lately. I love tidy, matchy blog themes. I love organization. I like to do things myself. It seemed no matter what I tried, it didn’t quite fit. Themes were either too plain, too eye-molesting, or crappily made by me. I might have an eye for...
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Diana D. posted an article on Reading is Sexy! - Jul 22, 2011, 11:33 pm
If you haven’t heard already, Borders is officially closing its doors. Borders filed bankruptcy in February and closed over 200 stores. They even launched a new “touch” version of their not-so-popular Kobo digital reader in May. However, their “plan to be purchased by private-equity company...
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Diana D. posted an article on Reading is Sexy! - Jul 22, 2011, 10:00 am
The Oswego Bookmobile Oswego actually isn’t my hometown. Martville, NY is. It’s the nearest city to where I grew up though, and it is home to my alma mater, SUNY Oswego and my favorite bookstore in the whole country, River’s End Bookstore. The Oswego Bookmobile is a project I first heard abo...
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Diana D. posted an article on Reading is Sexy! - Jul 21, 2011, 1:13 pm
I recently came across this article on Babble. It’s a collection of 18 books to address common stumbling blocks toddlers and parents deal with, like sharing, lying, and problem solving. Children’s Book Lessons: 18 books for kids to read and learn from. It’s from Babble.com so it’s in that (I...
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Diana D. posted an article on Reading is Sexy! - Jul 18, 2011, 1:27 pm
My Little Man I’ve been an Amazon customer for years. I discovered Amazon around the time they acquired CDnow, you know back in the high-tech days of buying Compact Discs from online mega-retailers cheaper than mall stores. I was pretty bummed when that happened. I haven’t got a clue when List...
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Diana D. posted an article on Reading is Sexy! - Jul 17, 2011, 10:00 am
The third and final book in Christopher Moore’s Love Story series, I hope, was dismal by comparison to the first two. The hilarity and charm of Tommy and Jody’s back and forth in Bloodsucking Fiends is gone in this book. We spend the majority of the book inside the head of Abby Normal, whose int...
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Diana D. posted an article on Reading is Sexy! - Jul 16, 2011, 12:37 pm
When my husband got orders to Fort Irwin, CA, we made a list of all the things we wanted to do while we were in CA. Pregnancy and lack of funds cut a lot of things off that list, like amusement parks. However, as we move around with the Army, I notice that a lot of people don’t make the most of wh...
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Diana D. posted an article on Reading is Sexy! - Jul 15, 2011, 12:05 pm
I read the first book in Christopher Moore’s Love Story trilogy, Bloodsucking Fiends, last summer. One year later, I’ve finally finished the other two. You Suck (Love Story #2) was another quick, hilarious read. Bloodsucking Fiends ended with Jody and her maker bronzed in Tommy’s apartment. In...
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Diana D. posted an article on Reading is Sexy! - Jun 23, 2011, 2:02 pm
LitWorld’s book drive “From Harlem to Kenya” is going on right now.  They’re looking for donations of books, crayons, notebooks, etc. to distribute via The Children of Kibera Foundation’s Red Rose School (“a beacon of hope for the children of Kibera, and is a positive learning environm...
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Diana D. posted an article on Reading is Sexy! - Jun 22, 2011, 3:05 pm
Our held mail arrived Tuesday and inside was an airmail envelope containing the sweetest thank you note and a Polaroid of Naomi Bulger’s marbles.
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Diana D. posted an article on Reading is Sexy! - Jun 20, 2011, 7:59 pm
We just returned from two weeks in sunny Florida visiting my parents. Yep, my husband finally got leave. It was a much-needed break from the stressful couple of months we just got through and, though we’re both suffering vacation hangovers (the urge to abandon life as you know it and move to the l...
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Diana D. posted an article on Reading is Sexy! - Jun 12, 2011, 9:24 am
Here, Home, Hope Kaira Rouda’s Here, Home, Hope was a fun summer read. Its humor and honest take on mid-life make it a thoughtful, fun read. Main character. Kelly Mills Johnson, is a stay at home mom of two school-aged boys who are off at summer camp. Like many women, Kelly starts to wonder who s...
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Diana D. posted an article on Reading is Sexy! - Jun 10, 2011, 11:24 am
Concord Free Press is a non-profit book publisher. They put out one book at a time, giving away thousands of copies completely free. All they ask is that you make a charitable donation ($5 to the Humane Society, a sandwich for a hungry person, etc.) and share what you donated on their website. When ...
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Diana D. posted an article on Reading is Sexy! - Jun 3, 2011, 7:37 am
  thredUP is a site where parents can send/receive boxes of gently used children’s clothing.They have a great military program and live customer service chat, which I love in any website. This summer thredUP has launched a book swap program. Parents can send in boxes of their gently used books ...
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Diana D. posted an article on Reading is Sexy! - Jun 1, 2011, 11:47 pm
Last week, my neighbor asked me to foster a dog for a few days until her friend could come get him. She has four Chows of her own, so when she fell for this beautiful blue Chow who was at animal control on The List, she had to adopt him but couldn’t keep him in her home. The friend backed out of ...
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Diana D. posted an article on Reading is Sexy! - May 24, 2011, 11:44 pm
Airmail is one of the most engaging, thought provoking novellas I’ve ever read. In short order, Naomi Bulger delves into the possibilities of story telling. This quirky, left of center story sucks the reader into a sometimes magical world that seems to balance between the possible and impossible. ...
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Diana D. posted an article on Reading is Sexy! - May 18, 2011, 2:38 pm
The Gathering of Elders This review has been a while in the making, but I finally finished The Gathering of Elders last night. It’s a short collection, but it is one that begs to be ingested slowly. I had never read any of Wesli Court’s work. Perhaps a piece here or there in college, but not a ...
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Diana D. posted an article on Reading is Sexy! - May 12, 2011, 5:04 pm
You may have read about this in the past few months, but if you haven’t here’s the gist: Harper Collins (and soon other publishing giants) has enacted a policy to make their digital library books self-destruct after being checked out 26 times. The ability for libraries to loan ebooks was a huge...
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Diana D. posted an article on Reading is Sexy! - Apr 27, 2011, 1:09 pm
I’ve been away for a little while. Things around here have been tough. On April 10, just a few months before her 6th birthday, my dog Aislinn passed away suddenly. She developed a neurological deficit as a young puppy that left her with a paralyzed front limb. She was a happy, loving girl. My firs...
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Diana D. posted an article on Reading is Sexy! - Apr 3, 2011, 6:15 pm
Laurel from Accidental Moments was kind enough to let me know that she wasn’t able to comment on my blog. Since a lot of you leave comments on Facebook via Networked Blogs, I had no idea. The comments are working now, though they won’t show up immediately because I have to approve them. You can ...
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Diana D. posted an article on Reading is Sexy! - Apr 3, 2011, 12:35 pm
I have meant to post a Sunday Salon for (I’m being honest now) years. Here it is. I’m just going to ramble on a bit. After pushing myself through two books I didn’t enjoy much, I read Tuck Your Skirt in Your Panties and Run. I enjoyed it, but it was so short, so I decided to indulge in more g...
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Diana D. posted an article on Reading is Sexy! - Mar 29, 2011, 5:12 pm
Tuck Your Skirt in Your Panties and Run When I was offered the opportunity to read Tuck Your Skirt in Your Panties and Run I couldn’t pass it up. What a title. Author Lucy Adams, author of If Mama Don’t Laugh, It Ain’t Funny, is a humor columnist, teacher, mom and wife, and dyed-in-the-wool S...
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