Kerry has given me permission to go for this, so here goes.

As the project director for a small college magazine, I get to run contests on my site sponsored by Hachette Books, in which the prizes for "winning" is a big box of books. 

Here's… Read full post »

Two things:

There's been some wrangling about the rules for the first-ever OS BOOK CLUB writing contest. Look for a finalization of the rules and how to submit on Sunday or Monday, whenever I have a chance to get around to it.

Until then, please hold your horses about… Read full post »

Kerry has given me permission to go for this, so here goes.

As the project director for a small college magazine, I get to run contests on my site sponsored by Hachette Books, in which the prizes for "winning" is a big box of books. 

Here's one… Read full post »

Rob St. Amant brought up a topic that I have been thinking of. I'm going to start the discussion by posting what I think of the first 143 pages, and I'll post some questions, but I fully expect that others will want to have separate discussions about the thoughts they had.… Read full post »

This is not the official start of the OS BOOK CLUB, but, rather, the smaller discussion of Appetites begun by hyblaean and fingerlakeswanderer. To see the full post, go to

Moms and Daughters.

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I've posted this on my own blog, but here's practice using the new gathering place for those of us who want to participate in the book discussions.

First of all, there's no need to "join." Just read the books that get selected, and show up on the date to make… Read full post »