How many best books?
In time for everyone’s holiday shopping, the best books of 2011 lists are popping up everywhere. This is in spite of the fact that 2011 still has two whole publishing months yet to go! And maybe it’s...
View ArticleSelecting the best romance ebooks of 2011
Last week I volunteered to select the best romance ebooks of 2011 for Library Journal. The article that resulted from the endeavor was posted at LJ this morning under the title: Librarian’s Best Books...
View Article11 for 2011: Best reads of the year
2011 is coming to a close. It’s time to pause and reflect on the year that is ending. There’s a lovely quote from Garrison Keillor, “A book is a present that you can open again and again.” There’s a...
View ArticleNotable Books and Advance Galleys: It’s so much fun to say “We knew you when”
I’m so very pleased (actually giddy) to say that this post will appear on April 6, 2012 as the first of their “Librarian Voices” columns at NetGalley. It can be fun to look at someone famous and say “I...
View ArticleWhat is a Teen Novel? Vote for your Favorites at NPR
NPR is at it again! It’s summer, so they’re in the midst of what looks like it’s becoming an annual tradition. And what a terrific annual tradition it is. Last year they asked their readers to...
View ArticleA Labor of Love: Picking the Best Ebook Romances of 2012
It looks like an annual tradition. Well, I’ve done it two years in a row, so I’m hopeful. One of the pleasures of being a book reviewer and a librarian is that I review ebooks for Library Journal, one...
View Article12 for 2012: The Best Dozen Books of My Year
It’s surprisingly difficult to decide which books were the absolute best from the year. Not so much the first few, those were kind of easy. But when it gets down to the last three or four, that’s where...
View ArticleOnce More with Feeling: The Best Ebook Romances of 2013
In spite of what the opening paragraph of the article at Library Journal says, this is actually the third year that I’ve been asked to choose the Best Ebook Romances of the Year for Library Journal....
View ArticleThe Sunday Post AKA What’s On My (Mostly Virtual) Nightstand 12-29-13
Last weekend was a little too wild. When the movers left Saturday night, we were in the middle of an absolute sea of boxes. I think I was completely shell-shocked last Sunday. I’m so thankful that...
View ArticleA Baker’s Dozen of the Best Books of 2013
As 2013 draws to a close, it’s time to take a look back and attempt to decide which books were the best of the year. OK, so this list is the best of my year. Why not? Everyone else is doing it! But...
View ArticleThe Sunday Post AKA What’s On My (Mostly Virtual) Nightstand 1-5-14
It’s the first Sunday Post of 2014. It took me a couple of tries to get the title set up. That “14″ looked really strange in the header on first (and second) glance. How often have you caught yourself...
View Article14 for 14: My Best Books of the Year
I do three different “best of the year” lists in different contexts. This is my personal list, but…I also do a Best Ebook Romances of the year for Library Journal, and I’m one of the judges for the...
View Article15 for 15: My Most Anticipated Books for 2015
I took a look at last year’s list, and was surprised and pleased to discover that I read almost everything I was looking forward to, and even better, liked them! (I have the other two books, but just...
View Article15 for 2015: My Best Books of the Year
As always, compiling my best books of the year list is both a labor of love and a pain in the ass. On that one hand, I have to go through my entire year’s reviews at Reading Reality, The Book Pushers,...
View Article16 for 2016: My Most Anticipated Books of 2016
Looking back at last year’s list, it is always good to discover that the stuff I wanted to read last year isn’t still on my TBR pile for this year, either because I didn’t get around to reading it, or...
View Article16 for 2016: My Best Books of the Year
And here we are again, for another wrap up of best books of the year. This year, just like every year, compiling this list is both a labor of love and and a pain in the ass. It’s always fascinating...
View ArticleBest E-Originals of 2016
I debated whether or not to post this, but decided to do so just in case it ever gets lost from the LJ archives. This is my original text for my Best E-Originals 2016 column for Library Journal. Up...
View Article17 for 2017 : My Best Books of 2017
I always say I’m not going to keep doing it this way, that the numbers just can’t keep going up every year, but then I get to actually doing the list and discover that it works out. Again. This is my...
View ArticleBest Books of My 2018
I really, really, really had to stop my trend of adding an extra book each year. It was cute in the beginning, but it’s getting rather unwieldy. And certainly can’t continue indefinitely. This feels...
View ArticleBest of My 2019
I give up. Not on doing this list, but on pretending I have any kind of clue about how long it’s going to be or why it needs to be a certain length. I’ve seen plenty of lists where it’s everything...
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