The Rook

1. Don’t forget Friday, September 7th from 1-2pm CST- Erin from Deep South Mag (@deepsouthmag) will be tweet chatting with Kathy Patrick (@pulpwoodqueen). For more information on this, click HERE!

Erin always hosts a great chat- interesting questions, sometimes a giveaway of a book, and generally another Southern Lit author stops by in the chat for a bit.

The chat will have hashtag #southernlit. Erin uses Tweet Chat (but also posts the link to full chat- in case you missed it- on the Deep South Mag facebook page.

2. My library finally came through and ordered The Rook by Daniel O’Malley from inter-library loan. The downside? I’m just not loving the book thus far. I’m determined to read the book since I’ve been in an on-going battle for months over getting this book. Anyone read it? Worth the hype? Not? No spoilers, please, but encouragement is welcome!

3. In case you missed yesterday on my blog- 3 different interviews are posted- 1 with a self-published author, 1 with a blogger/author, and 1 with a blog group dedicated to finding books to discuss and helping show men that reading is good.

Happy Reading and have a great day!

I live in a itsy-bitsy town- basically a one-horse town. For years, I bought books- but due to space problems, I was having to slow down my buying. Then my brother gave me a Kindle- which helps. However, I decided to go really old-school and just borrow some books from the library.

Anyway, back in April my friend Keetha began talking about this book Ready Player One by Ernest Cline and telling me I needed to read it. So a couple of weeks later, I put in a request at the library since they did not have it to borrow from inter-library loan. Was told the book should arrive in a couple of weeks, and I’d get a call when it did. Weeks go by, I continue to check; but to no avail. Finally, the beginning of June and still no book. Come to find out the book was never requested officially. So with great restraint (and because I’m thinking mistakes happen) I simply request the book again AND add the book The Rook by Daniel O’Malley (another Keetha recommendation). Again, I’m told a couple of weeks and the books will be here.

Today is July 10. The books are still not here. At this point, I’m going to be stubborn and not buy the books; because I should be able to request books and have them arrive in a timely-fashion.

I’m not against libraries- I understand wait-lists, etc. I get that if I really wanted these books- I could go and buy them. I’m standing firm on this issue, though. I’m getting these books through the inter-library loan OR some kind soul is going to drop them off for me in a fit of kindness.

So, my title is a bit cheeky- you see people waving protest signs over many other things (well I don’t because I live in a one-horse town; but I see it on TV). So while I’m not really the protest-type person, I’m waving my invisible sign that says “Free The Books! Free The Books!”