February 2008

Random House has decided to take a bold move this week, making one of its hottest titles available for free download for a limited time. Charles Bock’s debut effort Beautiful Children has set the literary world aflame, attracting glowing notices from the New York Times, Washington Post, and elsewhere, and nosing onto the NYT Bestseller List.

The download went live last night at midnight and is up until Friday night at midnight. The pdf of the book is also being hosted at Amazon for a limited time.

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I don’t know if it’s any good but hey, it’s free! Offer ends tomorrow.

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I wanted to post this perhaps 3 hours ago, but met with some kind of error when I tried uploading this photo. It’s fixed now, but that’s how much time I lost trying to figure out what went wrong. Keeping my fingers crossed and hoping nothing else explodes in my face.

This is part of the loot from the last couple of months. Some have been lent out and there’s a few illustrated children’s book that are too big to fit into this photo and to flat to be stacked. Some I forgot about until I now. Half of them have been read.

My shelves are noticeably more bloated. At some point, I’ll move some things around, make more room and reorganise. Right now, I need to make up for lost time.

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Seems like an awfully long time since I took my camera out just for fun.

I didn’t watermark this one because I uploaded it on my flickr. While I don’t mind if you want to nick my photos to repost on your blog, I do expect credit and a link if it isn’t already there.

I bought a metre of black felt. Now I have enough material for one certain project.

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