I'm on one of my book buying binges. It doesn't help that I know in a few weeks I'm going to have another $25 gift card to amazon.com or that I know in a few weeks after that, I'll have a $75 gift card to spend as I please (and trust me when I say, it will go towards books at amazon.com). Which is why I need your help. As you might remember, I've ordered so many books from them that amazon has started recommending books in different languages to me.
So, I'm looking for suggestions on books to put in my cart (so that I'm ready to go when the gift cards come in, because I can't wait . . . not that I have a problem or anything!). Have you read anything recently that you just loved? Why did you love it?
Or, tell me how you decide to give a new author a chance? Word of mouth? Website? And speaking of websites, what do you look for in an author website? Me, I like excerpts from books. I've bought several books after amazon recommended them to me (and I liked the cover or the title - or both) and I checked out the website. I'm telling you, a good excerpt and that book is mine. Which means an author without excerpts, well, I might still buy the book but the chances are better if I get a taste of it.
And what about book trailers? I still say that the trailer for The Fidelity Files was great! Sold me AND the book lived up to the trailer.
Oh, but about the giveaway. . . all you have to do is post a comment (maybe answer a question or two above, although I suppose that's optional) and you're entered to win a book that I have duplicates of.
2 comments:
I just finished Too Good To Be True by Kristan Higgins and LOVED it. It was funny, the characters felt real, the setting felt real, the hero was all kinds of yummy and the heroine was fun. Loved it. Seriously. (I really hope my opinion on this book wasn't affected by the fact that I'd just finished a different book in the same genre that totally didn't resonate with me.)
I'm delving into JQ's latest right now - What Happens in London - but I suspect you either already have that one, or will soon. :)
I just finished "Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict." I loved it. I won it on a blog contest and I'm so glad I did! I had the book for a couple of weeks sitting on my dresser. (I'm supposed to be reading "The Time Traveler's Wife for my book club, but I couldn't resist opening the Jane Austen book to take a peek, and then I was hooked!)
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