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Bookstores are dead/ LONG LIVE BOOKSTORES!
Wednesday, 25 August 2010
Last week, The Wall Street Journal ran an article called "Clearance Sale: Barnes and Noble Didn't Evolve Enough." Read it here. The main premise of the article is that Barnes Noble was too slow to embrace the world of e-readers and e-books, but also didn't do enough to maintain that "shop around the corner" bookstore feel. And, now it is being outpaced by Amazon and...
Read more...Tags bookstore | e-readers | ebooks | indie bookstore | kindle | nook | publishing
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Books for the Surf-Obsessed
Thursday, 29 July 2010
surfing on the cape fear coastI am surf-obsessed. It's true. I started learning to surf last summer, and I'm so stoked. I blog about surfing over at Chicks on Sticks. But, I blog about books over here, and I read a LOT of surfing books. (I posted a little rant about surf book writers over at COS, so try not to freak out if you read it. BUT, these books we have here at Pomegranate are pretty fantastic, and, well, wh...
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Creating a Memorial Garden Workshop
Thursday, 29 July 2010
altar-in-the-worldJoin Lorraine Perry, the Healing Arts Coordinator from Lower Cape Fear Hospice LifeCare Center who presents a workshop with a Horticultural Therapist from the New Hanover County Arboretum. They'll be presenting "Creating a Memorial Garden-a workshop for grieving people." Gardening is a healing, therapeutic activty that helps ease grief. Remembering a loved one with a garden create...
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Make the French Connection
Monday, 12 July 2010Books with a French Connection. From a little Wilmington, North Carolina bookstore. Finding them is easier than you think! And, during the week of July 12-16th, any book to which you can make a "French Connection" is 20% off. All you have to do is explain the connection to the person working at the shop that day. Are you stumped? Here are some ideas for you: Was an excerpt recently pu...
Read more...Tags bastille day | book sale | event | french | sale -
The Best Mysteries EVER: Tana French
Saturday, 03 July 2010
in the woodsI honestly can't remember how I got hooked on Tana French. I think I probably read a review of the In the Woods on a website or magazine, or, it is possible that I just picked it up at a bookstore, read the back, and decided to take a chance on it. I love mysteries! I don't read as many as I used to, but many of the novels I pick up have some sort of puzzle or mystery element to them. I...
Read more...Tags faithful place | in the woods | mysteries | tana french | the likeness -
Catastrophe Fiction
Tuesday, 25 May 2010I've had a fascination with catastrophe fiction lately. I touched this briefly in one of my early blogs on our old Blogspot blog in a post called "Books as Train Wrecks." That post covered a wide variety of train-wrecky things, from imperialism and pandemic flu to destruction of the envrionment. Today, I'd like to focus on my current obsession: disaster books. Not just any kin...
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Book Recommendations from Christine Johnson, Author of Claire de Lune
Wednesday, 12 May 2010Today we’re lucky to have a guest post from Christine Johnson, the author of Claire de Lune. This book drops into bookstores TODAY! This is our inaugural blog post on our brand new Pomegranate Books Blog. I grew up with Christine, in Indianapolis, and had NO IDEA that she was a novelist! To celebrate the release date of her first novel from Simon Pulse, a division of Simon and Schuster, we’re part...
Read more...Tags book blog | book recommendations | christine johnson | claire de lune | guest blog | simon pulse | werewolf | werewolf book
