Book Embargo

I finished Eclipse. (yes a while ago, but summer is busy, what can I say!) Wowsers was it good!

I had ONE MAJOR PROBLEM with it though… I bet a LOT of you shared my dilemma……

I could not IMMEDIATELY sit down and read book 4… other than that, I loved it. Good news Breaking Dawn is scheduled to be released in the fall of 2008, so hope is near… not TERRIBLY near, but near enough.

ABC has a video interview with Stephenie, linked here, and yeah, its a fun interview. :). My favorite line in the interview,

“There are so many heroes out there who have super magical powers and they can do these great things. I identify more easily with someone who is just human. And I think that’s a lot of [Bella's] appeal. All of us can understand being just human.”

Eclipse was wonderful, and don’t forget that Stephenie is touring across the country, and I will be at the Mass signing.

Tuesday, September 11, 2007
at 7:00pm Q & A/signing
Barnes and Noble — LOCATION CHANGE
98 Middlesex Pkwy, Burlington, MA 01803
781/273-3871

Let me know what you think, and if you are going to be at the signing too!

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The Hindi Bindi Club was released at the beginning of the summer. It has sold really well at our store as a great beach read. We got some promotional items before it came out. Gorgeous paper with an actual jewel, filled out like an invitation, very snazzy. Here was our promotional kit.

A close-up of the “invitation.”

Ahhh… and here is the jewel.

It looks to be a fun novel. Check out the Website for even more information, and in the meantime, a blurb from the site,

Between mothers and daughters lies a very special world. Follow the relationships of two very different generations of women with everything to learn from each other…

For decades, they’ve gathered together, dressed in saris and sweater sets, to share recipes, arguments, and laughter. They are the Hindi-Bindi Club, a nickname given by their American daughters to the mothers who left India to start life anew. Daughters, now grown, and facing struggles of their own.

Kiran, Preity, and Rani are coming home for the holidays. Home to the suburbs of Washington, D.C., and of course, to the Hindi-Bindi Club. For what holiday would be complete without their mother hens’ mouthwatering food, their gossip - and their unsolicited advice? For Kiran, a successful career can’t fill the void left by her estrangement from her parents. Five years and one divorce later, she’s ready to mend fences… and find a new husband the old-fashioned way. Good girl Preity’s marriage is nearly perfect, but lately she’s haunted by the memory of her first love-and her mother’s interference in that romance. Then there’s Rani, the wild child with the brains of a rocket scientist - and the weight of a dark burden she’s carried all her life.

Now, as East meets West across time and tradition, six women will take their first steps toward true sisterhood, shattering long-kept secrets, sharing joy and tears, and allowing the real power of the Hindi-Bindi Club to take hold.

And a review,

“At the beginning of this debut novel, American-born Kiran Deshpande returns home as the divorced prodigal daughter of Indian parents. But her story quickly unfolds into the larger tale of her mother, Meenal, and Meenal’s friends, whom Kiran and her childhood friends Preity and Rani had dubbed the Hindi-Bindi Club because of their old-fashioned Indian ways. Each chapter is narrated by a different character and explores the diverse experiences of these mothers, daughers, and wives who struggle to be Indian and American. Readers learn about cherished family recipes and the history that brought these women to the present. Pradhan imbues the narrative with such honesty and real emotion that the novel is difficult to put down. Highly recommended for readers who enjoy mother-daughter fiction and all popular fiction collections.”

—Library Journal

Hope you enjoy!

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My friend Shana’s book has a DATE!!!!

If you remember my post about “Libby Fawcett’s Secret Blog, you will remember that I have a friend who not only has written a book (well… many fine books though none of those are published…) she has a book coming out this spring of 2008.

Well, now called, “Something to Blog About,” the blogging novel of Libby Fawcett will tentatively be released on April 1st!!!!

Here is the Amazon page with only minor details. Still!!! So exciting!!!

Oh boy Oh boy!!! So remember, April 2008 rolls around, you better run to your local Independent and check it out!!!

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Harry Potter, ah the wonder of it all. Needless to say, I loved it. I think that Harry Potter is a fabulous series of books, and that some people might want to relax a little bit and just remember, it is a KIDS BOOK SERIES. It has made kids read like there is no tomorrow, made ADULTS read like there is no tomorrow and created an international sensation, about a sad little orphan boy with great friends.

The rules about Harry for purchase as a bookstore were pretty intense. We ordered through Scholastic, and part of our contract, besides not selling the book ahead of time (duh…) was that we could not share how many we ordered or how many we sold each day. Very interesting. Also, something that I liked was that you could not order more of book 7 than you had SOLD of book 6. This would be books ordered minus books returned after the hubbub wore off for the Half-Blood Prince. Not a problem for us.

Here is a cut-out from the Ingram Advance catalog. According to this, for guaranteed delivery through Ingram, you had to have a signed affidavit, an agreement to the street day, have ordered before April 27th, AND all orders had to be in case quantities of 10 books.

There was some weirdness about the April 27th deadline. Apparently libraries across the country were not told about the deadline, so they were all faxing in their orders on the 27th, which needless to say made a giant busy signal to all those crazed librarians. We actually had a library from the southern corner of the state (librarian is the daughter to a local librarian) order through us because it was easier.

It is sad that the craze is over. JK Rowling did not say “never” to any more Harry Potters, but I think it is safe to say it would be a long long long while before she writes any more in the Potter-verse. However…. I cannot wait until that day, however unlikely it is!

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Well, I haven’t read Eclipse yet, so NO SPOILERS HERE. Not that there would be ANYWAYS. Did you know that EVERY one of my “top incoming searches” is for “eclipse spoilers.” Come on now people!

Regardless of your choices, I will not be starting (and finishing presumably) Eclipse until tomorrow night. Sadly, Sadly, Sadly…. So you can’t even think about spoilers here until then!

I wanted to list all the quotes from Stephenie’s website for July and August, leading up to Today!!!! They are on her website at www.stepheniemeyer.com/ecl_quotes.html.

July
1st) “And speaking of Italy and sports cars that I stole there, you still owe me a yellow Porsche.” — Alice Cullen

2) “I prefer brunettes.” — Edward Cullen

3) “We’re a bit sensitive to blood around here. I’m sure you can understand that.” — Bella Swan

4) “There’s something…strange about the way you two are together… The way he watches you—it’s so…protective. Like he’s about to throw himself in front of a bullet to save you or something.” — Renee Dwyer

5) “I don’t have any leeches on my speed dial.” — Jacob Black

6) “I’m really glad Edward didn’t kill you. Everything’s so much more fun with you around.” — Emmett Cullen

7) “Here’s the thing… I’ve already gone crazy once. I know what my limits are.” — Bella Swan

8 ) “Edward’s only human, Bella. He’s going to react like any other boy.” — Angela Weber

9) “I never thought I needed to teach you how to throw a punch. Guess I was wrong about that.” — Charlie Swan

10) “This hostage stuff is fun.” — Alice Cullen

11) “Does my being half-naked bother you?” — Jacob Black

12) “Do you ever think that your life might be easier if you weren’t in love with me?” — Edward Cullen

13) “I already know how strong you are. You didn’t have to break the furniture.” –—Bella Swan

14) “Would you like to hear my story, Bella? It doesn’t have a happy ending—but which of ours does? If we had happy endings, we’d all be under gravestones now.” — Rosalie Hale

15) “You aren’t exactly the best judge of what is or isn’t dangerous.” — Edward Cullen

16) “I didn’t have quite the same…upbringing as my adopted siblings here. My beginning was something else entirely.” — Jasper Hale

17) “I think I might have been wrong before, you know, about not being able to be friends. Maybe we could manage it, on my side of the line. Come see me.” — Jacob Black

18) “It’s the thought that counts. I ought to know.” — Edward Cullen

19) “Well, that just sucks! I guess I’m stuck with Mike Newton after all.” — Bella Swan

20) “Fall down again, Bella?” — Emmett Cullen

21) “Did you seriously just stamp your foot? I thought girls only did that on TV.” — Jacob Black

22) “Hey, vampire girl!” — Embry Call

23) “Besides…the more time I spend with you, the more human emotions seem comprehensible to me. I’m discovering that I can sympathize with Heathcliff in ways I didn’t think possible before.” — Edward Cullen

24) “Do you think either of them would give up if you died? They’d still fight, we all would. You can’t change anything, so just be good, okay?” — Alice Cullen

25) “I was just wondering why you stabbed him. Not that I object.” — Edward Cullen

26) “The stories say that the Cold Woman was the most beautiful thing human eyes had ever seen. She looked like the goddess of the dawn when she entered the village that morning; the sun was shining for once, and it glittered off her white skin and lit the golden hair that flowed down to her knees. Her face was magical in its beauty, her eyes black in her white face. Some fell to their knees to worship her.” — Billy Black

27) “It’s a good thing you’re bulletproof.” — Bella Swan

28) “I offered eternal servitude, remember. I’m your slave for life.” — Jacob Black

29) “I feel like screaming!” — Jessica Stanley

30) “Would you please tell me what you are thinking? Before I go mad?” — Edward Cullen

31) “Maybe you should pick on people your own size.” — Charlie Swan

August
1st) “I can’t imagine how awful that must feel. Being normal? Ugh.” — Bella Swan

2) “I know you think that I have some kind of perfect, unyielding self-control, but that’s not actually the case.” — Edward Cullen

3) “The right thing isn’t always real obvious. Sometimes the right thing for one person is the wrong thing for someone else. So…good luck figuring that out.” — Charlie Swan

4) “I never thought I’d see the day where I’d be willing to take a bet against you, Alice, but it has arrived.” — Bella Swan

5) “You’ve experienced the way I can manipulate the emotions around myself, Bella, but I wonder if you realize how the feelings in a room affect me. I live every day in a climate of emotion. For the first century of my life, I lived in a world of bloodthirsty vengeance. Hate was my constant companion.” — Jasper Hale

6) “Quite a pity how things turned out, isn’t it?” — Jane

Hope you enjoy and remember even if YOU want to be spoiled… don’t spoil it for others!

Enjoy the quotes
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From Stephenie Meyer’s website…

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***Last Eclipse Quote of the Day*** (8/6/07)
“Quite a pity how things turned out, isn’t it?” — Jane

OH DEAR!!!!!!!! A little extra freaky that the Volturi weren’t supposed to bother with Bella for what… 15 years? Oh dear… Oh dear!

Remember, TOMORROW!!!!!!!!!!!

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***Eclipse Quote of the Day*** (8/2/07)
“I know you think that I have some kind of perfect, unyielding self-control, but that’s not actually the case.” — Edward Cullen

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TUESDAY FOR ECLIPSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Can you believe only Four More Days and Twelve Hours??

I am almost done re-reading New Moon and I am making fun T-shirts for the staff of my bookshop. Crazy Excitement BUILDING!!!!

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