BookieMonster’s Father’s Day Gift Generator!

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Aug 242010
 
BookieMonster’s Father’s Day Gift Generator!

Father’s Day is almost here! And aren’t Dads just great to shop for? They’re always so easy, right, you know exactly what to get them, there’s always something they need… Ahem. Sorry, I was lost in some strange parallel universe there for a minute. Dads are awful to shop for. You never know what to get them. You want to get them something that tells them how amazing you think they are, yet doesn’t look like something you made in Standard 3 with macaroni. So they end up with another BBQ tool set. *sigh* Fear not, gentle readers! BookieMonster’s here to save the day with our handydandysuperduper Father’s Day Gift Generator! Just scan the detailed “Dad Descriptors” and choose the nearest fit to your Dad, click on the link, and before you know it it’s Father’s Day and you can present your gift with little-to-no embarrassment. And, helpfully, we’ll keep [...read more...]

Win books with BookieMonster! What the Dog Saw or Cannibal Jack or Family Album

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Aug 242010
 
Win books with BookieMonster! What the Dog Saw or Cannibal Jack or Family Album

Competition time! Hurrah! I am going to giveaway my review copies of three wonderful books that I lurrrrved and you will too! I wish I could make my photos look purdier. Anyway… Yep – What the Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell, Cannibal Jack by Trevor Bentley aaaaaand Family Album by Penelope Lively! I’m going to give these away individually so you have three chances to win! Does that make sense? That’s right, three brandspanking new release great reads. So to enter please fill in the form below.  That’s all you have to do! But if you’re really keen you can also get extra entries by: Leaving a comment on the blog during the time the competition is running. Purchasing a book from us on Trade Me – visit http://www.trademe.co.nz/Members/Listings.aspx?member=1998646 to check out our aaawwwesome range of books for sale – new and secondhand! You can tell us what you’ve bought [...read more...]

Book Review: What the Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell

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Aug 202010
 
Book Review: What the Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell

What the Dog Saw and other adventures by Malcolm Gladwell, Penguin, RRP $30, ISBN 9780141044804, Available now. You can always count on Malcolm Gladwell to deliver an entertaining and informative read – the one problem is when you gather the shorter essays in a long form like this it starts to look a little repetitive. But, honestly, when you’re dealing with journalism/essay-writing as good as this that becomes a small distraction. Gladwell just has a great knack for taking odd subjects (the history of the birth control pill, reading a mammogram, the secrets of informercial hawkers, plagiarism) and making them engaging for everyone. Because what he’s really about here is not the subjects themselves, per se. He’s not a journalist in the traditional reporter sense, or even in the traditional features writer sense. Gladwell is definitely an essayist and what he’s essaying is what goes on inside brains. Not just [...read more...]

BookieMonster’s sales and sympathy pitch

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Aug 182010
 
BookieMonster’s sales and sympathy pitch

So I am a bad blogger, bad bad BAD blogging monkey! I have not been entertaining you like I should with my witty words and general gab. But SRSLY I am BUSY you guys! I just have an amazing amount of stuff going on. My life is stuffed with stuff. Some of it involves reading and books but at the moment, not enough! You can help – please buy from us! We’ve got almost 800 listings at the moment and I know it’s a lot to go through but duuuuuuuude – there’s got to be something in there for everyone! Father’s Day is coming up you know. Hint, hint. And if you don’t feel like buying anything then please tell (send the link http://www.trademe.co.nz/Members/Listings.aspx?member=1998646, go on) your family, your friends, your enemies, your workmates, your neighbours, your cats, your dogs – open up a bank account in your guinea pig’s [...read more...]

This just in: books are selling!

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Aug 162010
 
This just in: books are selling!

This week I’m selling books! Okay, I sell books most every week but this week I’m taking advantage of my own advertising space to tell you about the books I’m selling! So here’s some recommendations from me of books that you can buy (now, right away, this instant!): Classics (for the refinement of one’s mind) The Darling Buds of May by H.E. Bates A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf A Passage to India by E.M. Forster Vanity Fair by Thackeray The Rescue by Joseph Conrad New Zealand (struth cobber!) A Dagg at My Table : Fred Dagg Beak of the Moon by Philip Temple Rosetta by Barbara Ewing Daylight by Elizabeth Knox Unsolved Murders in New Zealand by Tony Williams Non-fiction (for the edumacated amongst us) D-Day by Stephen Ambrose Coffee, Tea, or Me? Katey : The Life and Loves of Dickens’s Artist Daughter Great Books : My [...read more...]

The Widow’s Daughter – a different perspective

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Aug 122010
 
The Widow’s Daughter – a different perspective

One of the great things about the interwebs is reading all the perspectives and opinions on books – a perfect example is the new novel by New Zealand author Nicholas Edlin, The Widow’s Daughter, which as you know I didn’t enjoy – but for a totally different and much more positive experience of the same book check out this great review by A Certain Book : The Widow’s Daughter by Nicholas Edlin

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