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Like Free Books?
Are you on Goodreads yet? If not, you should be. One of the reasons why is because you can get free books! Let me explain. There’s a section in Goodreads called First Reads. Authors list a giveaway of a hard copy of their book. They can give out one, or they can give out 100, whatever they want. The giveaways are listed for a limited amount of time and you can sort through by ones that are ending soon, popular, most requested, etc. Goodreads users can enter to win by just giving their mailing address. THAT’S IT! So easy.
The books listed are ones that haven’t been released to the public yet. The whole idea is that if you win, you get a “first read” of it so that you can start to post reviews early to help promote the book. And you don’t need a blog or anything to do that; you can just post a review on Goodreads.
I am SO excited because I finally was chosen for a giveaway! And it’s a book that I was going to buy anyway. Score! I’ll be getting “The Song Remains the Same” by Allison Winn Scotch. I guess it’ll take a few weeks to get to me, but that should still be in advance of the release date of April 12. I’ll be posting about it here as soon as I’m done!
It’s also a good way to learn about up-and-coming new authors and releases, and who knows, maybe you’d win a book from someone new to you and gain a new favorite author!
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Upcoming New Releases
I went just a wee bit crazy on Amazon recently pre-ordering books for my Kindle. I admit that I’m not very good at keeping up with what new books are coming out, but Amazon’s “Recommended Items” that show up whenever you buy something else are FANTASTIC. Thanks to that handy little tool, here’s everything that I pre-ordered…
- “Home Front” by Kristin Hannah – this just came out on January 30 but I haven’t started to read it yet
- “I’ve Got Your Number” by Sophie Kinsella – February 14
- “Lone Wolf” by Jodi Picoult – February 28
- “Another Piece of My Heart” by Jane Green – March 13
- “The Song Remains the Same” by Allison Winn Scotch – April 12
- “Jeneration X: One Reluctant Adult’s Attempt to Unarrest Her Arrested Development; Or, Why It’s Never Too Late for Her Dumb Ass to Learn Why Froot Loops Are Not for Dinner” by Jen Lancaster – May 1
- “Summerland” by Elin Hilderbrand – June 26
- “The Next Best Thing” by Jennifer Weiner – July 10
- “Where We Belong” by Emily Giffin – July 31
Looks like I’ll be busy for the next six months or so. This list is just about all of my favorite authors. 2012 is gonna be AWESOME!
By the way, have you started your 2012 Reading Challenge yet on Goodreads? I’ve already read 8 books out of the 35 that I predicted as my goal for the year. I have a feeling I’m going to go over since this is only February. I’m thinking about doing a contest for my readers to guess how many I’ll go over by and then whoever comes the closest at the end of the year will win some sort of a prize… what do you think? I credit author Jenn Thorson for the contest suggestion during a recent discussion on Twitter. Thanks Jenn!
Seasons Greetings and Reading Resolutions
I know I’m a little late for some of the holidays this month, but I hope all of my readers had a wonderful holiday season! It doesn’t feel like winter in my part of the world so it really didn’t FEEL like the holidays compared to past years. On another note – look at this cute book tree that I found on Pinterest!
Did you get any good gifts? Any good gifts involving BOOKS? I know quite a few people who were gifted Kindle Fires. I’m really curious about them but it doesn’t seem to make sense for me to get a tablet like that since I already have a smartphone, Kindle 2, and a laptop. But they look pretty awesome! I’ve noticed that the traffic here has been pretty steady over the past few days – I guess a lot of people are searching for new books to download to their e-readers and tablets!
One of my Twitter friends is a librarian, avid reader, and blogger and gave me an idea. She had set a goal of 45 books to read in 2011. And she hit the goal with a few weeks left in December! Holy cow! When I heard that, I thought I’d check Goodreads to see how many books I’ve read this year because I knew it had to be a lot. I was slightly disappointed to see that it was only 26, but then I realized that 1) that’s a whole lot more than most normal people read per year (or per five years! Or ten!), and 2) I was planning a wedding for the first half of the year and was too busy doing DIY stuff to read in my spare time. So I GUESS I can be okay with 26. But I bet I could get more than that next year. 35 maybe? I also have to keep in mind that I have to pay for most of these books so I can’t go too crazy. Although I still have a ton of books on my Kindle that I haven’t read yet for numerous reasons, so at least I have a stock to go to if I’m short on cash.
What’s your reading resolution for 2012? Finish a series? Read a classic that you’ve had your eye on for awhile? Beat me in the number of books you read?
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Become my friend on Goodreads!
Do you see that little widget over there to the right that says “What I’m Reading”? (There’s no book cover picture up there now because the book I’m reading, ”Ordinary World” by Elisa Lorello, didn’t have a cover photo uploaded for some reason.) I recently signed up with Goodreads.com to track the books that I read or want to read. Don’t have much on there yet, but I like how I can link it up to my blog so you all can see what I’m into! Feel free to add me as a friend by viewing my profile here: http://www.goodreads.com/fortheloveoflit.
