May 18, 2007

Online Book Clubs

The Friends of the Takoma Park Library has gifted us (and you) with a subscription to the Dear Reader online book clubs. A small five minute piece of a book is delivered to you via e-mail each day for a week. After a week you will have received one or two chapters which should be enough of a sample to determine whether or not you want to read the rest of the book or other books by that author. The next week another book starts. (The audio, science fiction and pre-publication books start every second week.) We won't own all the books, but when we don't, or our copies are checked out, you can probably find them at nearby libraries or local booksellers.

The books have been recommended by librarians and include some superb titles. We hope you discover some books that you would never have thought of reading.

You can choose as many of the following catagories as you wish: fiction; non-fiction; mystery; teen; romance; business; science fiction; audio; books that have not been published yet. Each one arrives as a separate daily e-mail.

Be sure to save at least one of the messages you get because they have your unsubscribe link. You may also need to whitelist dearreader.com if your spam filters are picky.

Unfortunately each e-mail segment also contains a chatty message from the Dear Reader staff, but if you find it objectionable you can just scroll down to the start of the book text. If you have already decided that you don't like a book, just delete the messages for the rest of the week. Don't feel guilty.

After you subscribe to a club, it may take a few days before the actual excerpts begin to arrive. You can ask for missing ones.

Here is a list of the upcoming books in the general fiction catagory.
5/21/2007: City of Glory by Beverly Swerling
5/28/2007: Fly Me to the Moon by Alyson Noel
6/4/2007: The End As I Know It by Kevin Shay
6/11/2007: Drenched in Light by Lisa Wingate
6/18/2007: The Widow of the South by Robert Hicks
6/25/2007: Shoe Addicts Anonymous by Beth Harbison
7/2/2007: Beneath a Marble Sky by John Shors
7/9/2007: Halfway House by Katharine Noel
7/16/2007: A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka
7/23/2007: Let It Rain Coffee by Angie Cruz
7/30/2007: His Lovely Wife by Elizabeth Dewberry
8/6/2007: The Time it Takes to Fall by Margaret Lazarus Dean
8/13/2007: Me vs Me by Sarah Mlynowski
8/20/2007: The Rebel by Andrew J. Fenady
8/27/2007: Bitsy's Bait & BBQ by Pamela Morsi

And here are the mysteries.
5/21/2007: Iron Orchid by Stuart Woods
5/28/2007: Stalking Ivory by Suzanne Arruda
6/4/2007: Hide by Lisa Gardner
6/11/2007: To Thine Own Self Be True by Judy Clemens
6/18/2007: Persuader by Lee Child
6/25/2007: Love, Lies and Liquor by M.C. Beaton
7/2/2007: The Blood-Dimmed Tide by Rennie Airth
7/9/2007: A Catered Valentine's Day by Isis Crawford
7/16/2007: Two Little Girls in Blue by Mary Higgins Clark
7/23/2007: The Blight Way by Patrick F. McManus
7/30/2007: By the Time You Read This by Giles Blunt
8/6/2007: Remains to be Scene by R. T. Jordan
8/13/2007: Labyrinth by Kate Mosse
8/20/2007: Kidnapped by Jan Burke
8/27/2007: Final Undertaking by Mark de Castrique

Posted by library at May 18, 2007 01:33 PM
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