Filed under: 24/8 Musings
nightstands, bookshelves or better yet go to the bookstore and stock up. It is three full days that you could spend reading and reading and reading. You know all of those titles you can’t wait to get to but there is always something that prevents you from doing so.
Tell us about any good reads, we love to hear from you.
Filed under: 24/8 Musings | Tags: 24/8 Book Club, For Her Information, Good Reads
24/8 Book Club is proud to collaborate with For Her Information on books. We are happy to participate in all things books. The new selections have been posted and will remain on the For Her Information site through September.
When you have a moment take a look at this month’s selections, http://www.forherinformation.com/goodreadsart10808.php. My editor who will remain nameless worked me very hard this month to ensure that the postings were much better for all of you then when they started out. I have new found respect for all of our authors and the excruciatingly painful task of editing.
Falise
Filed under: 24/8 Musings, News | Tags: A Distant Magic, Book Giveaway, Mary Jo Putney
Author Mary Jo Putney who is a New York Times Best Selling author in addition to winning just about every other writing award and honor in the romance genre, is partnering with 24/8 to provide a book for our winner.
For this particular giveaway we are asking you to provide answers to the MJP trivia questions, http://www.248bookclub.com/blue_plate_specials/blue_plate_specials.asp. The winner will receive a personally autographed book from MJP of her latest title A Distant Magic. This is the third book in the guardian historical fantasy trilogy.
If you are among the millions of fans that Mary Jo Putney has around the world you will want to play today. But remember to win you need to be signed up for our mailing list The first person that is signed up for the 24/8 Book Club mailing list and sends the four correct answers to falise@248bookclub.com will win.
We have a number of exciting book giveaways on the horizon so check back often!
If you are in Chicago and wondering what ball you can attend, why not head to the Printer’s Ball. This once a year event is being held at the Museum of Contemporary Art and there will be featured artists, music and free stuff too. http://poetryfoundation.org/programs/events.html
Museum of Contemporary Art
220 East Chicago Avenue
Chicago
Directions to the MCA
21+ only
Free admission
Event Contact: Fred Sasaki, 312.787.7070 ext. 8005,
fsasaki@poetrymagazine.org
The Printers’ Ball is an annual celebration of print literature in Chicago, hosted by Newcity, Poetry, and the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), in collaboration with CHIRP, MAKE: A Chicago Literary Magazine, Proximity Magazine, Stop Smiling, Venus Zine, and over 100 local literary organizations. The event showcases a diverse selection of print publications, available free of charge, including magazines, journals, weeklies, posters, and broadsides, plus a full night of live entertainment.
Filed under: 24/8 Musings | Tags: Jane Green, LIsa Daily, The Debutante Ball
On deck author at 24/8, Lisa Daily, is cooking up some fun with another 24/8 friend Jane Green. Today, Jane Green will be guest blogging at The Debutante Ball.
The Debutante Ball is a grog (group blog) of five debut novelists (Eileen Cook, Unpredictable; Lisa Daily, Fifteen Minutes of Shame; Jenny Gardiner, Sleeping With Ward Cleaver; Jess Riley, Driving Sideways; Danielle Younge-Ullman, Falling Under), and a debut memoirist, (Gail Konop Baker, Cancer Is A Bitch). The Debutante Ball (www.thedebutanteball.com) is now in its second season, and once you visit the ball you will want to return.
Today is no exception with Jane Green talking about her latest book, Beach House. Be sure to stop by the ball, wwwthedebutanteball.com today and feel the beach air in your hair with New York Times best selling author Jane Green.
It’s a ball and you are invited and there is no dress code, you can even attend in your bunny slippers. A cute site with fun posts and great guests too. Enjoy the ball, you will be glad you went.
Filed under: 24/8 Musings | Tags: Jeffrey Zaslow, Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
This quiet, yet distinguished man went from being a professor, dad and husband to a celebrity courtesy of the traditional “Last Lecture”, delivered at Carnegie Mellon University last September. In Pausch’s case this was to be his last lecture as he had just found out that he had but a few months to live.
Pausch, a professor in computer science at Carnegie Mellon, delivered his lecture to a full house. He had a special audience in mind when deliverying this lecture, his children, he hoped they would view this one day. Instead, 10 million people across the world viewed it courtesy of its being posted on the internet.
Enter journalist, Jeffrey Zaslow who collaborated with Randy Pausch to expand the “Last Lecture” into a book with the same name. So many of us have read the book and many more will. Thank you Randy for sharing of yourself, especially at a very private time in your life. You have taught us so much by your actions, strength and grace.
To Randy’s family, our deepest sympathies are extended at this time.
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