New Fiction Releases August 16 Kindle

It's finally here! Ready Player One is now available for download to your kindle. And yes, it is as good as the hype. This one book you want to download now. Clear your calender for the weekend - hopefully you will have some great weather so you can get outdoors and read.

You can offset this new hot predicted to the book to buy this week with what I am reading now. (I usually read 2 books at a time anyway - or more). Somehow I missed Weekend In Amsterdam when it came out earlier this year. I love a spy novel and I have to say...this one is getting interesting. Maybe we can get the author, Ray Higgins, to tell us some secrets...the short blurb on Amazon says he was approached to be 'secret spy' in the 1960s. I am sooo hooked. Sadly, the book is not availble for Kindle at this time. It is worth ordering anyway. And, I don't say that often...plus, I have not evenfinished the book yet. I'll keep you posted. And hopefully we will see it out on Kindle soon. Request it on the Weekend in Amsterdam page.



Of course, there are other great new releases today if Ready Player One and cyber world adventure a la Willa Wonka for adults is not your cup of cocoa...Hideout from Kathleen George is another one of our favorites for the week. We look forward the reading The Sauvignon Secret by Ellen Crosby and The Submission....The Tempting of Men....is there a memo we missed?

Here is a sample of new releases for the week. As always, please let me know what I missed and I will add it ASAP.

Bye Bye Baby Nate Heller
Dry Ice by Bill Evans
Hideout by Kathleen George

Ready Player Onespan> by Ernest Cline
The Sauvignon Secret by Ellen Crosby
Second Grave on the Left by Darynda Jones
The Submission by Amy Waldman
The Tempering of Men by Elizabeth Bear

The Rules of Civility Kindle

Happy Indie Monday. Are looking for a great read? Pick up a good indie book today for Indie Monday.

My suggestion? If you have not read The Rules of Civility what are you waiting for? This amazing novel by first time author blew me away. I originally red the book as a review galley on my computer. I later bought the book on Kindle. (ebook gallies blow up and disintegrate after 29 days,3 hours, and 34 minutes). Or something like that.

The Rules of Civility is wonderful from its original narrator, the spunky Katey Kontent from Coney Island to the descriptions of time and place. You will feel like you are in New York with Katey and the other characters on the eve of World War II.

What drives the novel? A love triangle, what else. However, Towles makes it seem fresh and new. Katey and two friends, the gentleman Tinker Grey and the beautiful Eve Ross are in a terrible accident. Eve comes away from the accident with the most damage. Ever the gentleman, Tinker chooses Eve over Katey even though he is truly drawn to Katey. How is this resolved? Oh, you have to read the book to find that out.

Along the way you will be absorbed in the manners of the time. For example, this was and era when gentlemen were gentlemen, as my dad would say. Tinker conducts his life as a great gentleman might, taking his lead, and furnishing the book's title, from George Washington's "Rules of Civility & Decent Behavior," the 110 maxims of conduct the future leader copied when he was 16 from a 16th-century set of precepts compiled by French Jesuits.


Clearly, Towles is having great fun diving into the habits of the period, the food, the dress, the rituals. I get the sense that he had as much fun writing the book, celebrating the glories of the time, as the reader does in devouring it. "To begin, Wallace ordered aspic, of all things, and I had the house salad -- a terrific concoction of iceberg greens, cold blue cheese and warm red bacon. If I were a country, I would have made it my flag."

Towles' Manhattan owes more to fiction than history, the gift of invention, or reinvention, that you could get ahead by bending truth and breaking rules. (Like "Mad Men," decades later.) His characters speak not so much as people might, but how we wish they might. Katey and Eve and all Katey's smart friends at work banter much as the bright women of Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman's "Stage Door."

"But in general, investments that need their own food and shelter don't amount to much," Tinker's icy, glamorous godmother observes. It's not altogether clear she's speaking about horses.

"Rules" is populated by men named Val and Wallace, and women named Wyss and Bitsy. I didn't mind. There's something greater going on than the arthritic rules of the entrenched upper class. Just as I adored Tom Rachman's "The Imperfectionists" last year, "Rules of Civility" is the book that I've been waiting to read, a gift for the summer. It's the kind of charmer you can't wait to share with other people, as you might any delicacy, saying, "Here, enjoy."

New Fiction August 9, 2011 Kindle

Fall releases for Kindle are hitting the wispernet waves today. There are several new novels that are big players in the publishing that will be released today. Three of my favorite authors are on the list.



Linwood Barclay steps up with the release of Accident and Lisa Unger releases Darkness, My Old Friend. I am currently knee deep in Darkness, My Old Friend and it fascinating to return to the Hollows with some old friends. You can download both of these novels on your Kindle today, plus many others, today.

Plus, do not forget The Magician King. A follow up to what some people thought was the best book of the year - The Magicians - The Magician King looks like a really good read. I enjoyed The Magicians even though I was probably one of the last of my friends to read the book. I don't know why I kept putting it off, but once I began I was enchanted. I won't make the same mistake with The Magician King. Downloading it to Kindle today!

Don't forget about My So Called Kindle Life Kares. Every single dollar counts. You can read about what we do in the box to the right. We are excited and getting rolling for the school year. Last year, we were able to pass out Kindles as prizes for reading competitions at one school in addition to all of the other great things we did. How cool is that? The kids were amazed. Many of them had no idea what a Kindle was - the area is severely economically challenged and we also gave each child who won an Amazon gift card to get them started. The bottom line...we can do so much but we need your help! Thanks to all of you who have already stepped up this year! You are FABULOUS!

A sample of this weeks new releases:
13 Million Dollar Pop by David Levien
Acceptable Loss by Anne Perry
Accident by Linwood Barclay
All the Pretty Hearses by Mary Daheim
Ascension by Christie Golden
Bad Intentions by Karin Fossum
Darkness, My Old Friend by Lisa Unger
The Family Fang by Kevin Wilson
Girls in White Dresses by Jennifer Close
House of Holes by Nicholson Baker
The Ideal Man by Julie Garwood
The Lantern by Deborah Lawrenson
The Magician King by Lev Grossman
Spycatcher by Matthew Dunn
The Twelfth Enchantment by David Liss
Victory and Honor by W.E.B. Griffin
WyattWyatt by Garry Disher