Then We Came to the End

People magazine says this fiction book about office shenanigans in a Chicago ad agency should be called The Office: Hardcover Edition. I am prepared to be amused.

The Year of Fog

According to LJ, a possible Jodi Picoult readalike...

Photographer Abby Mason's life is changed forever by the disappearance of the young girl with whom she had been walking on a cold and foggy beach, and her desperate search for the truth behind the child's vanishing.

A Thousand Splendid Suns

New book out in May from The Kite Runner author! (Yes, there's now an order record to place holds.)

The Spellman Files

This fiction debut has a 150,000 first printing with film rights already sold to Spider Man's producer and reviews and annotations referencing Nancy Drew, Bridget Jones, Stephanie Plum, Veronica Mars, and Buffy. I'm excited about this one.

You Slay Me

Feeling the urge to read about sexy dragons or laugh at a hilarious talking demon dog? Oh, do I have the book for you! I recently had to read You Slay Me by Katie MacAlister for a workshop, and I loved it! I'm now on book 3 in the series. I think fans of Charlaine Harris' southern vampire mysteries would also like this series. (And book 2 has a Buffy reference.)

While conjuring up a demon in the form of a shaggy Newfoundland, Aisling Grey, the Keeper of the Gates to Hell, in an attempt to prove her innocence, searches for the elusive and sexy Drake Vireo, a wyvern and head dragon, who is responsible for a series of murders in Paris's immortal underworld.

Jane Austen--Teenage Sensation!

Unfortunately, end of the year and beginning of the year ordering left me with no time to blog. However, things have calmed down a little, so hopefully I'll be able to blog again on a regular basis.

For my first post in a long time I just had to share an article that I read this morning from the UK's Telegraph about several new film, TV, and book editions of Jane Austen's works:

Jane Austen to be the latest teenage sensation
Step aside Britney Spears. Movie moguls, television producers and publishers believe this year's teen hit will be the 19th-century "lit girl" Jane Austen....













Read the article:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/02/04/nausten04.xml

Best line: "A spokesman for Waterstone's, Britain's biggest bookseller, predicted it would sell more copies of Austen's works than at any time since Colin Firth emerged from a lake during the BBC's adaptation of Pride and Prejudice in 1995..."

Ah Colin Firth. Not sure how I feel about Anne Hathway as Jane Austen, though...