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April SOTT & Author interviews
The April State of the Thing, LibraryThing’s monthly newsletter of features, author interviews and various forms of bookish delight, should have made its way to your inbox by now. You can also read it...
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May Early Reviewers batch is up!
The May 2013 batch of Early Reviewer books is up! We’ve got 134 books this month, and a grand total of 4,345 copies to give out. First, make sure to sign up for Early Reviewers. If you’ve already...
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Better Facebook sharing
LibraryThing’s Mike Topper has just pushed a big change in how members share their LibraryThing news on Facebook. The change—integrating into Facebook’s Open Graph structure—makes the things you share...
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Sync your Goodreads to LibraryThing
Wait … what? Did you know that you can now sync between Goodreads and LibraryThing? You don’t have to choose. Use both sites! Getting started To sync, go to Import books from Goodreads. If you’re...
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Flash-mob: Help catalog Eisenhower’s Library!
Thanks to LibraryThing member kcgordon, we have a list of the books at the Eisenhower National Historic Site in Gettysburg, PA, so we thought it would be fun to do a quick flash-mob of these (there...
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Better Twitter sharing for LT reviews
Mike has just pushed some new enhancements to review-sharing on Twitter. When you share a review, Twitter will now recognize the link as a LibraryThing review and you’ll see a “View summary” link below...
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Join the June ReadaThing!
Mark your calendars! Coming up soon is a weeklong, start-of-summer June ReadaThing. All are welcome, and you don’t have to read for the full week: the goal is to have a few people from around the world...
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Books received in Ghana!
We are very happy to report that nearly 3,000 books for the Bright Future School in Keta, Ghana have been successfully delivered and were happily received by the students there earlier this month!...
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Author interview: Colum McCann on “TransAtlantic”
For the May State of the Thing newsletter, I had the chance to interview Colum McCann, winner of the 2009 National Book Award in fiction for Let the Great World Spin. His new novel, TransAtlantic,...
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Author interview: Jennifer McVeigh on “The Fever Tree”
Some excerpts from my interview with Jennifer McVeigh, which appeared in the May State of the Thing newsletter. Jennifer studied English literature at Oxford and has worked in the film, television and...
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Author interview: Julie Wu on “The Third Son”
For the May State of the Thing newsletter, I had the chance to interview Julie Wu about her debut novel The Third Son (Algonquin Books). Julie studied literature at Harvard and medicine at Columbia,...
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