Written by Rachel P. Ladies and Gentleman, May I present to you: the Fifty Shades Trilogy. Many of you may have already seen or heard of Mrs. E L James and her S&M erotica novels (if not, check out these links: Today Show or E L James) but I’m here to give you a local [...]
Posts Tagged ‘books’
Not Your Mother’s Romance Novel
Posted in books, tagged books, dark chocolate, ladies and gentleman on May 5, 2012 |
Scifi book club recap: Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde
Posted in books, tagged book club, books, jasper fforde, recs, scifi on May 8, 2011 |
First, an announcement: for June only, the Scifi book club meeting will be at 6pm on the SECOND Tuesday, June 14, instead of the normal first Tuesday. We will be reading The Mysteries of Udolpho, which is the book that Jane Austen parodied in Northanger Abbey, and was also one of Edgar Allen Poe’s major [...]
Night on the Town with Loveland 365
Posted in books, tagged books, event, night on the town on March 15, 2011 | 2 Comments »
On Friday March 11th for Loveland Night on the Town, we had the pleasure of hosting a promotional event for the Loveland 365 Book Project. The project, which was founded by local businessman John Giroux, is an attempt to showcase all the great people, places, and things that make Loveland America’s Sweetheart City. After years [...]
New happenings at Anthology
Posted in books, tagged anthology news, books on February 17, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Anthology Book Company is pleased to introduce the new events coordinator, Matt. Those of you who frequent the store will recognize Matt as the knowledgeable, well-read bookseller and trader. To add to his talents, Matt will be replacing me as coordinator of events and media relations. Additionally, Jessica, a long-time bookseller, trader and leader of [...]
A response to a comment on my e-book post
Posted in books, tagged books, copyright, ebooks, green, Sustainable living on February 6, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I started writing a response to Chad’s comment on my post E-books and illegal file sharing, but halfway through I realized my response was longer than some of my actual blog posts. So I’m just gonna put it out here on its own. More after the jump.
Jessica’s mini-review: We just got a used Departed Angels (Jack Kerouac: The Lost Paintings) yesterday, and it looks pretty cool. The first half is just a collection of Jack Kerouac’s terrible drawings and paintings. It’s kind of hilarious; the drawings range from awful to passable, but you could never accuse Kerouac of timidity, so despite [...]
E-books and illegal file sharing
Posted in books, tagged books, copyright, ebooks on January 18, 2011 | 4 Comments »
I very much liked this post about the ethics of file-sharing, especially of e-books: http://deepad.dreamwidth.org/61462.html Obviously, as an independent bookseller, I am in favor of physical copies of books. But there’s a lot to chew over in this space; e-books vs. paper books; illegally sharing e-books vs. using the library or buying used books. As [...]
Scifi Book Club 1/3/11: The Darkship Thieves
Posted in books, tagged book club, books, review, scifi on January 9, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Our December book club book was The Darkship Thieves by Sara Hoyt. Because of the weather and my poor memory, the author wasn’t able to join us after all, but we still had an energetic discussion. The story is a romantic space opera, told from the first-person perspective of a twenty-something princess with serious psychiatric [...]

