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GIVEAWAY!! Two Copies of If You Lived Here, You’d Be Home By Now by Claire LaZebnik

September 23, 2010 in chick-lit, giveaway by Kim | 8 comments

Claire’s latest novel, If You Lived Here, You’d Be Home By Now, hit the shelves this week!  We’re giving away two copies! Of course, Claire will sign them.  Here’s how you can enter our drawing:

  • Leave a comment with your e-mail for one chance to win,
  • Add a link to your favorite independent bookstore and we’ll give you an extra chance to win,
  • Tweet about the giveaway with a link to this page and tell us you did so in a comment and we’ll give you another chance to win.

The drawing will end at 11:59PM on October 3rd.  We will randomly pick two winners.  Good luck!

Claire has various book signings and she would love to meet readers of this blog, stop by and say say hello.  (Plus, she almost always has free food, I’ve already put in my request for hummus.)

Village Books in Pacific Palisades on October 2nd at 2PM  - This is Claire’s ‘home’ bookstore, so the atmosphere will be cozy and lots of us will be there to ask personal questions (actually, her kids are always good for a question that puts her on the spot a bit).

Vroman’s in Pasadena on October 16th at 5PM – Southern California’s oldest independent bookstore in a lovely area full of great restaurants so make a night of it.

21st Bank of America Festival of Arts, Books, and Culture in Cherry Hills, New Jersey on November 10th – Claire will be there along with a full roster of authors.

If you can’t see her in person, then join the online book club sponsored by Manic Mommies on October 20th at 5PM PST.

How ever you do it, get the book, you’ll love it!

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Winner of the Claire LaZebnik Novels Giveaway!

March 8, 2009 in chick-lit, giveaway by Kim | No comments

Talk about an overwhelming convergence around one opinion!  Given the choice between being the smart one or the pretty one, brilliance trounced beauty. 

The Majority

Here are some of the reasons commenters favored the smart one:

  • beauty fades and brains don’t, as Kelly said “beauty gives out WAY before your brain does” and Renee added “a beautiful mind lasts forever”
  • beauty is subjective, it’s in the eye of the beholder
  • beauty is contingent on the person’s personality
  • beauty can be purchased, but brains cannot
  • life without the brains to read books would be miserable
  • smart people can change their looks, as Nicole noted, “there’s always plastic surgery to become the pretty one”
  • true beauty is internal anyway, as Fran said “being beautiful in its truest sense, should be inside out” or Indigo said “take a shy intelligent woman and witness the compassion she has for everyone but herself . . .priceless.  I would rather that kind of beauty than the pronounced obvious one.”

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Should We Let Our Daughters Read Romantic Novels?

February 24, 2009 in chick-lit, childrens, young adult by Claire | 2 comments

Or will it ruin them for life?

God, I love a good romance. A book’s just not satisfying to me unless there’s some kind of passionate coming-together in it of a man and a woman. My love of romance started with The Witch of Blackbird Pond and the manly, frequently annoyed sailor Nat, and continued on through Rhett and Scarlett, every Austen book (although only Emma and Pride and Prejudice REALLY satisfy) and Bronte of course-oh and don’t forget The Scarlet Pimpernel where Sir Percy is so freakin’ in love with his wife that he KISSES THE STAIRS where she walked-after being mean to her because he can’t let her know he loves her . . . Oh, GOD, it’s fantastic.

Excuse me a moment.

Cold water in the face. Okay. I’m better now.

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Announcing the Independent Bookstore Reader’s Challenge!

January 21, 2009 in bookstore, Challenge, chick-lit, graphic novels, young adult by Kim | 6 comments

Announcing the Independent Bookstore Reader’s Challenge!

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Thank you Robin for the image!

I recently found scores of reader’s challenges on the Internet, I’d never heard of them.  There is a reader’s challenge for everything:  short stories, WWII books, world citizen (history and politics), art history, graphic novels (Claire should join this one), RYOB (read your own books), essays, chick lit (everyone participating in this challenge should read Claire’s three fiction books), Notable books, chunkie books (books longer than 450 pages), young adult books, and many more.  Then it occurred to me, Claire and I could do the same thing.  I’m really excited about hosting our own challenge right here on Bookstore People.  So we’re announcing the Independent Bookstore Reader’s Challenge.  Claire’s a bit terrified about the prospect, but I’m confident she’ll love it. 

Challenge Guidelines

Here are the rules: go to independent bookstores that are new to you between January 1 and December 31, 2009 and have some sort of interaction.  The challenge comes with different levels you can sign up for:

  • Scout – Visit 2 independent bookstores (easy!)
  • Specialist – Visit 2 subject matter specialty bookstores (i.e., travel, children, cooking)
  • Nationalist – Visit 2 independent bookstores and 1 additional bookstore in a state you do not live in
  • Continental – Visit 2 independent bookstores and 1 additional bookstore in another N. American country (that would be the USA, Canada or Mexico)
  • Globetrotter – Visit 2 independent bookstores and 1 additional bookstore on a different continent (if you’re going to Europe, check out Bookstore Guide)
  • Type A Personality to the Max – Satisfy any two categories

We’ll have a page dedicated to the challenge where you can sign up and leave comments.  Plus, we’d love to have a review of the stores you’ve found and liked (we ignore stores with bad service or stock), we’ll post it with a description of you and a link back to your blog (if you have one), just e-mail it to me at kim@bookstorepeople.com.  In fact, we encourage cross posting bookstore reviews so post on your blog, Indiebound, Yelp, City Search, City Guide and any other place that would like it. 

We’ll Give out a Prize!

But wait, there’s even more, at the end of the year we’ll have a random drawing among everyone who satisfied their challenge for a gift certificate from BookSense.  What more could you want?  Sign up now and start exploring the wonderful world of independent bookstores.

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Best Book Gifts for the Chick-lit or Women’s Fiction Reader

December 16, 2008 in chick-lit, gifts by Claire | 3 comments

A Guest Blogger Sifts Through the Choices

I first “met” S. Krishna when she contacted me via e-mail to ask if I’d be interested in sending her an advanced copy of my book to review on her blog.  I was and I did.  I was impressed by the depth and quality of all of her reviews–not to mention by how much reading she does–so she seemed the natural choice for this list. (And fortunately for us, she was willing to spend the time to put it together.)  Check out her blog for more reviews, and read the following (we won’t tell if you want to buy any of these books for yourself!)–Claire

When Claire asked me to write a top-ten list of books that appeal to women, I was at once honored and stumped.  After many, many list iterations, I decided to approach this using the assumption that women prefer a multitude of book genres, rather than the same, basic plot of girl-meets-guy, girl-screws-up, girl-wins-back-guy.  As such, I’ve picked out one book for each of ten categories (plus a few honorable mentions thrown in, just for good measure).  If you’re buying yourself a book, or purchasing a book for a loved one, you can’t go wrong with these titles.

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