http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/booknook/ Book Nook provides readers with insights into the world of books. Vick Mickunas takes you into the center of the publishing world with the latest book buzz, book reviews, and exclusive chats with authors..Vick Mickunas reviews books for the Dayton Daily News. Find things to do In a hurry? ActiveDayton.com's twice-a-week e-mail newsletter lets you know the top five things to do in the area twice a week. Sign up en-us somatomes@gmail.com 2010-02-09T11:52:27-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/booknook/entries/2010/02/09/were_in_good_hands_with_sarah.html Who needs a teleprompter? Sarah Palin just writes her notes all over the palm of her hand. The former governor, former VP candidate, current FOX News commentator, and the author of a new memoir, Palin knows how to stay in... 16610603@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/booknook/ looks good on paper 2010-02-09T11:52:27-05:00 somatomes@gmail.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/booknook/entries/2010/02/08/my_desert_island_reading_list.html Libraries are magical places. I spend such pleasant hours surrounded by stacks of books — a library is like home away from home. So when the Washington-Centerville Library asked if I would make some reading suggestions for their patrons I... 16599803@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/booknook/ escapism 2010-02-08T12:25:32-05:00 somatomes@gmail.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/booknook/entries/2010/02/07/desireseductionecstasy.html Valentine’s Day is one week away. I have been trying to find some appropriate books to feature. I just checked out the three volumes of The Notebooks of Madame B (Tarcher Penguin). There’s “Desire,” Seduction,” and “Ecstasy.” Gasp! This is... 16594203@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/booknook/ secret passions 2010-02-07T16:47:25-05:00 somatomes@gmail.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/booknook/entries/2010/02/06/super_bowl_predictions.html Robert Crais, the crown prince of LA crime fiction writers just sent me an e-mail with his Super Bowl prediction. Crais gives away his La. roots and allegiance in his subject line: Cajun Ex Pat. Crais was born and raised... 16589003@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/booknook/ booms and busts 2010-02-06T09:34:08-05:00 somatomes@gmail.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/booknook/entries/2010/02/05/google_world_domination_postpo.html one more clue Google’s plans to publish millions of “orphan” books has been stalled. Here’s more from the New York Times:... 16580003@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/booknook/ clearing the cobwebs 2010-02-05T11:50:20-05:00 somatomes@gmail.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/booknook/entries/2010/02/04/another_anonymous_clue_has_arr.html the mystery deepens The mail just arrived and it contained another clue; a postcard that reads IT’S SAD. On the reverse side it says what the other card said - COMING JULY 2010. Read my previous post to see about... 16567603@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/booknook/ confessions of a galley slave 2010-02-04T12:02:11-05:00 somatomes@gmail.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/booknook/entries/2010/02/03/book_teasers_are_the_worst.html Super! Book teasers can drive a reviewer wild. I got this postcard in the mail. It says “It’s Super”. Now, if it was really super it should have an exclamation point, right? “It’s Super!”. But it doesn’t. Who sent it?... 16565003@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/booknook/ confessions of a galley slave 2010-02-03T22:27:17-05:00 somatomes@gmail.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/booknook/entries/2010/02/02/no_wonder_palins_book_was_a_be.html Well, Sarah Palin certainly found an effective way to boost the sales numbers for her memoir Going Rogue. Apparently she has forked out 63 thousand dollars (so far) to buy copies of her own book. Cool. Read more by clicking... 16548603@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/booknook/ looks good on paper 2010-02-02T18:38:59-05:00 somatomes@gmail.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/booknook/entries/2010/02/01/john_edwards_sex_tape.html barf-o Andrew Young, the former John Edwards aide is making the rounds of talk shows promoting his sensational book about that disgraced former somebody who once counted on Young’s loyalty. His book is “The Politician: An Insider’s Account of John... 16536603@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/booknook/ booms and busts 2010-02-01T23:06:13-05:00 somatomes@gmail.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/booknook/entries/2010/02/01/amazon_backs_down.html The eBook wars get more interesting with each passing day. Amazon’s Kindle eBook reader is leading the market right now but publishers are upset at the way Amazon has been pricing Kindle downloads. Amazon has essentially been selling them for... 16528503@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/booknook/ in the Amazone 2010-02-01T11:56:10-05:00 somatomes@gmail.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/booknook/entries/2010/01/31/dayton_sure_beats_colorado_spr.html Whenever somebody starts complaining about Dayton perhaps you should suggest that they might be happier in Colorado Springs. According to an article today in the Denver Post:... 16523303@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/booknook/ The melting slushpile 2010-01-31T13:15:19-05:00 somatomes@gmail.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/booknook/entries/2010/01/30/if_you_could_never_go_to_sleep.html “Sleepless” by Charlie Huston (Ballantine Books, 353 pages, $25). For the past five years, I have been reading various reviews of books written by Charlie Huston. Those reviews piqued my curiosity. He has one series about a crime-solving bartender and... 16520003@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/booknook/ escapism 2010-01-30T14:12:21-05:00 somatomes@gmail.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/booknook/entries/2010/01/29/reporting_book_reviewers_to_th.html (From the I can’t even make this stuff up department) An article in the British newspaper The Guardian called When Authors Attack is one of the most bizarre things I have read lately. Check it out-click HERE: Vick Mickunas... 16514203@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/booknook/ confessions of a galley slave 2010-01-29T16:49:50-05:00 somatomes@gmail.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/booknook/entries/2010/01/29/jd_salinger_howard_zinn_and_da.html JD Salinger the reclusive novelist who wrote The Catcher in the Rye died earlier this week. He had barely been seen by anybody over the past 50 years. Residents of the small New England town where Salinger resided would spot... 16508403@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/booknook/ we remember 2010-01-29T11:26:43-05:00 somatomes@gmail.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/booknook/entries/2010/01/28/the_genius_behind_the_bank_bai.html money money (Unfortunate Timing Department) In the waning days of the administration of George W. Bush his Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, Jr. engineered the 700 billion dollar bank bailout. Hank took it to the bank. Was he a hero? Or... 16497003@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/booknook/ booms and busts 2010-01-28T11:16:31-05:00 somatomes@gmail.com