My foray into children's lit continues. I read Number the Stars by Lois Lowry last week, and this week I'm working on Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech. For class next Monday I have to read Alia's Mission which I think I need to track down a copy of also.

And I owe msbelle an email... t note to self

I mentioned this over in Natter, but it's probably better here. I was weak at B&N on Saturday and brought home three books.

• America's Hidden History: Untold Tales of the First Pilgrims, Fighting Women, and Forgotten Founders Who Shaped a Nation by Kenneth C. Davis, who does all those Don't Know Much About... books. A freebie advance reader, and one I'll eventually read, probably when I go on vacation in April.

• Dearest Friend, the collected letters of John and Abigail Adams, which I am definitely looking forward to reading, being the long-time Adams fan that I am (ever since I saw 1776 back in junior high)

• Lost Christianities by Bart Ehrman, which I'm on page 20 of and really didn't want to go to work this morning because I'm already getting engrossed in it.

After sj posted the link to American Gods, I started reading it at the link (because it's not like I'm going to *work* at, you know, work). So when the end of the day rolled around, I had read a chunk of it, and needed to keep reading it, so I went to Half-Price Books and bought it. I'm about 2/3 of the way through it.

Yay! You just proved the point Gaiman made in his blog the other day when he was chastized by a bookseller for giving away a book for free.

Well, technically, Gaiman didn't get any money from that transaction, right? Heh.

No, but his point was more that people would still buy books, even if some were offered free. He didn't get into new versus used, but it was more about the booksellers than his making money or not.

It helps that the online version was basically scanned pages and not at all satisfying in a bookish way.

Speaking of online books I guess I should note that my second book Lost in the Grooves is now online in Google Books.

So if you were at work and wanted to look something up in it, it is no further away than your browser.

I'm sure this will do wonders for sales. Hmph.

The next installment in A Song of Ice and Fire is up for pre-order . . . I can barely believe it!

It doesn't look like that much of Lost In The Grooves is on Google Books. Enough to tempt readers to buy it, I think.

It doesn't look like that much of Lost In The Grooves is on Google Books. Enough to tempt readers to buy it, I think.