Hey BBers!
We want to wish everyone in our BB community and all book peeps everywhere an early "Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!" Now that it is December, we at BB feel we can say that for real (others have been decorating since Halloween...crazy!) Plus we know how crazy this time of year can be and we wanted to make double sure that you knew we were thinking about you all and wishing you well.
We have a ton of great books in NewzBundlz this month! So join in the reading and discussing. Don't forget, BOOKS make great gifts for your friends, colleagues and families. (Hint! Hint!)
Making our book lists and checking them twice,
All of us at BookBundlz
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2011 Book Club Book Pick Winners!
We've had a lot of great reads with the BB Book Club.
The top favorites are:
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What were YOUR thoughts on these books? We want to know!
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Our December Book Pick for our
BB Book Club
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Our Other Monthly Features Include:
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Non-Fiction:
Steve Jobs
By Walter Isaacson
…a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries…
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Teens:
I Am Half-Sick of Shadows: A Flavia de Luce Novel
By Alan Bradley
11 year-old Flavia is back! And nobody is prepared when a body is found, strangled to death with a length of film. As the storm worsens and the list of suspects grows, Flavia must use every ounce of sly wit at her disposal to ferret out a killer hidden in plain sight.
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Kids:
Neville
By Norton Juster
Written by the acclaimed author of The Phantom Tollbooth, this is a simply told story about a boy who moves to a new neighborhood and finds a unique way to make friends.
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Literacy News:
Books for Africa
Books For Africa. A simple name for an organization with a simple mission. We collect, sort, ship, and distribute books to children in Africa. Our goal: to end the book famine in Africa.
Books For Africa is the world’s largest shipper of donated books to the African continent. Since 1988, Books For Africa has shipped over 24 million high-quality text and library books to children and adults in 46 African countries. Millions more are needed.
It costs $9,800 to send a sea container to most major sea ports of books and computers to Africa. Your donation will enable Books For Africa to send even more books to children in Africa who are hungry to read, hungry to learn.
To learn more about groups currently fundraising to ship books to specific African countries go to www.booksforafrica.org
Oh, if the whole world could read, what a world it would be!
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Author's Corner:
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One of the most frequent questions I'm asked at book signings or when I teach writing classes is this one: “When do you write?”
The aspiring writers who ask this questions are searching for a recipe to follow. They want me to say something like: “If you sit at your desk from six to nine every morning, you will become a writer.” Or maybe: “If you set a goal of writing just 500 words every day, you'll have a novel in a year! Easy as ABC!”
Even people who aren't aspiring writers ask me this question. Maybe it's because they struggle to imagine what writers actually do. They imagine us on safari or having affairs like the characters in novels, or maybe kicking back with a brandy at noon.... Click here to read more
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