The Black Sheep Dances

Blogmania has come to a close, so thanks for the participation and new interest! Wheresmyrain won the "Mom Pack" and DK won the ...

Easy as Pi:  The Countless Ways We Use Numbers Every Day by Jamie Buchan Give me the 411.  187-I got him at gunpoint Deep six it. Fahrenhei...

Between Water & Song New Poets for the Twenty-First Century, edited by Norman Minnick White Pine Press This collection is just too good...

I've been collecting reviews by various members of the Scandinavian Reading Challenge who have kindly sent me their links (if yours does...

Congratulations to Harvee for winning Your Presence is Requested at Suvanto .  I've emailed and hopefully they'll get back to me wit...

To be released April 27, 2010: The War Lovers:  Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst, and the Rush to Empire, 1898 by Evan Thomas is beyond fascinatin...

I started today totally pouting about not attending the LA Times Festival of Books this weekend (I wanted the damn tote bag, at least!).  I...

Hello readers! The giveaway for YOUR PRESENCE IS REQUESTED AT SUVANTO ends on April 25, 2010, so if you haven't entered, click on the li...

Blogmania Early Bird Check List: We want all of our visiting guests in our first Blogmania Event scheduled for April 30th to Get On Their...

The Russian Version was recently awarded the prize for 2010 Best Translated Book Award for Poetry by Three Percent (University of Rochester...

“Sunny withholds judgment but she knows, sometimes this happiness, this passive acceptance, sometimes it is the beginning of decline.” Su...

Congratulations to Bernadette in Australia for winning Woman with Birthmark by Hakan Nesser.  It's a great read and one of the Van Vee...

Have a few random things to mention: First, re the Henning Mankell giveaway:  Lynda has yet to respond.  I've emailed twice, posted h...

To preface this, I saw a book entitled Sexually, I'm More of a Switzerland by David Rose, who compiled the 'best of' personal a...

This poem was featured in this week's Londow Review of Books (April 8, 2010): Chlorophyll Rain at varying rates Breaks up the queues...

This is a strange little book.  It's a translated work of poetry (translation from the Spanish by William O'Daly) that is unlike any...

ENTRANCE AND PARTICIPATION HAS CONCLUDED FOR NEW MEMBERS, EXISTING PARTICIPANTS HAVE TILL DEC 28, 2010 TO NOTIFY ME OF THEIR COMPLETION! T...

Ready for more Scandinavian crime?  This is the latest in the Van Veeteren series from Hakan Nesser, Woman with Birthmark .  The fine prin...

Congratulations to Lynda from http://lyndasbookblog.blogspot.com/ for winning the giveaway for Henning Mankell's The Man from Beijing ....

This is a great new reference work that you might just find yourself curling up with as if it were a novel.  It explores 'the origin of ...

So far we have 23 participants, and the list grows daily.  This is a hearty bunch who is ready to explore new works and new authors. Remembe...

April 30, 2010 is just around the corner.  What does it mean for you?  How about the possibility of tons of great prizes and new books? S...

The Alchemist's Kitchen , by Susan Rich, published by White Pine Press ( http://www.whitepine.org/ ). To say that this compilation is ...

I Curse the River of Time is Per Petterson’s newest title, and it feels different from his previous novels. For one thing, there is a diffe...