| 12-28-03 |
Updated the new releases and new in paperback sections for each bookshelf. Changed the home page and added a missive on new year changes.
Added a review and excerpt of: The Known World by Edward P. Jones
Added a review of: Beyond This Time by Charlotte Banchi |
| 12-21-03 |
Added a review and excerpt for Mr. Timothy by Louis Bayard. |
| 12-16-03 |
Added a review of Skipping Christmas by John Grisham. |
| 12-7-03 |
Finished updating the Holiday Shopping pages. A little late, but better than never. |
| 12-3-03 |
Added an excerpt from Hegemony or Survival by Noam Chomsky |
| 11-30-03 |
Added reviews and some excerpts for: The Aniversary by Any Gutman, Moist by Mark Haskell Smith, Babyville by Jane Green, Money for Nothing by Donald Westlake, Ten Thousand Lovers by Edeet Ravel, Skytrain to Murder by Dean Barrett, Garbo Laughs by Elizabeth Hay, A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali by Gil Courtemanche, Breathtaker by Alice Blanchard, Death's Jest-Book by Reginald Hill, Old School by Tobias Wolff, War Torn by John Marks, American Woman by Susan Choi, The Way the Crow Flies by Ann-Marie MacDonald, The Movies of My Life by Alberto Fuguet
Also, updated the top picks list to reflect everyone's best reads for the year 2003.
December raffles are postpone until December 6, 2003. |
| 11-11-03 |
Added reviews and some excerpts for: What Was She Thinking? by Zoe Heller, Lie Still by David Farris, The Small Boat of Great Sorrows by Dan Fesperman, The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber, Walking into the Night by Olaf Olafsson, The Scarlet Letters by Louis Auchincloss, The Year of Ice by Brian Malloy, Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson, Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett , The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard. Vernon God Little by D.B.C. Pierre, Saul and Patsy by Charles Baxter, Postively Fifth Street by James McManus, The Great Husband Hunt by Laurie Graham |
| 11-2-03 |
Posted November Stocking Stuffer raffles. |
| 10-14-03 |
Updated
news for 2003 Man Booker Winner |
| 10-12-03 |
Added
Mirror, Mirror to the raffle. |
| 10-05-03 |
Added
reviews and excerpts for: Four
Spirits by Sena Jeter Naslund, Havana
by Stephen Hunter, A
Body to Die For by Kate White, Harvard
Yard by William Martin, How
To Meet Cute Boys by Deanna Kizis, Something
Might Happen by Julie Myerson
Added
a review for : Mirror,
Mirror by Gregory Maguire, Sharpe's
Havoc by Bernard Cornwell, Train
by Pete Dexter, Politics
by Adam Thirwell
New
raffles started today.
|
| 9-27-03 |
Fixed
some bugs and updated all of the bookshelves with new, forthcoming
and paperback books. |
| 9-24-03 |
Added
reviews and excerpts for: She
is Me by Catherine Schine, Kill
Clause by Gregg Hurwitz, The
Last Good Day by Peter Blauner, Monsoon
Diary by Shoba Narayan
Added
reviews for: I
Was Howard Hughes by Steven Carter, The
Contortionist's Handbook by Craig Clevenger, Trading
Up by Candace Bushnell
Newsletter
and Forum are still not working. Raffles are fine.
|
| 9-21-03 |
Have
been making small changes to the Web site in the past couple
of weeks to make all the news information more current. But
have also been dealing with a lot of down time with the new
server I chose to move MostlyFiction.com to. So as of 9-21-03
the site will be going through another propogation cycle because
we are moving yet again. My apologies if site, raffles and
forum are a bit flaky over the next two days. I will send
an e-mail when all has settled down. |
| 9-8-03 |
September
raffles are up! |
| 9-7-03 |
Added
reviews and excerpts for: Four
to Midnight by Scott Flander , Diary
by Chuck Palahuniuk, Every
Secret Thing by Laura Lippmann, Isabel's
Daughter by Judith Hendricks, The
Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem, Orchard
by Larry Watson, Stella
Descending by Linn Ullmann, and Postcards
from Berlin by Margaret Leroy
Added
reviews for: Black
Sheep by R.J. Kaiser , The
Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri, and Brick
Lane by Monica Ali
|
| 9-1-03 |
Added
a new Community
FORUM to MostlyFiction.com. Corrected all raffles to run
on new server -- believe this will be error free now. Also
starting to transition to new newsletter list. Site 100% moved
to new host by Sunday evening -- so September 1 begins anew.
Certainly seems faster to me. Now preparing new raffles to
begin by end of week. |
| 8-30-03 |
Added
reviews for: The
Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor
and Secret
Father by James Carroll
Moving
to a new Host Server this weekend. Fingers crossed this
goes smoothly! Raffles for September will be postponed until
move is complete.
|
| 8-25-03 |
Added
some new books to forthcoming bookshelves. |
| 8-24-03 |
Added:
Crabwalk by
Gunter Grass, Sacrifice
by Clyde Phillips. Also, moved Joseph Kanon and Arnold Lustig
from Around the World to Facing History. Reaarranged Facing
History. |
| 8-23-03 |
Added
review of Screwball
by David Ferrell |
| 8-22-03 |
Land
of the Blind by Jess Walter, San
Remo Drive by Leslie Epstein, The
Bielsky Brothers
by Peter Duffy, The Serpent's
Kiss by Mark Sullivan
|
| 8-16-03 |
Added
information on 2003 Man Booker
Award and over past two weeks have updated book information
whenever have a spare moment. |
| 8-6-03 |
Added
a 5th raffle for What's Wrong
with Dorfman? by John Blumenthal. |
| 7-8-03 |
Ice
Hunt by James Rollins, Still
Life With Crows by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child,
Daughter of the
Game by Tracy Grant, Beneath
the Silent Moon by Tracy Grant, The
Perpetual Ending by Kristen den Hartog, Cyanide
Wells by Marcia Muller, Fatal
Flaw by William Lashner, Luck
of the Draw by Carolina Garcia-Aguilera, Judgment
Calls by Alifair Burke, Bangkok
8 by John Burdett, Drop
City by T.C. Boyle, The
Point of Return by Siddhartha Deb, The
Bug by Ellen Ullman
|
| 7-1-03 |
Started
July raffles. |
| 6-29-03 |
Added
new review & excerpt for: Blessed
Are the Cheesemakers by Sarah-Kate Lynch; The
Genius of the Sea by Naeem Murr; Redemption
by Nancy Geary. Added a new review for: The
Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini |
| 6-22-03 |
Updated
new books sections for each bookshelf. |
| 6-18-03 |
Added
new review & excerpt for: Fluke:
Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings by Christopher
Moore, Meanwhile
Back at the Ranch by Kinky Friedman, Days
of the Dead by Barbara Hambly, Sinister
Pig by Tony Hillerman, Dead
Ringer by Lisa Scottoline, The
Lamplighter by Anthony O'Neill, The
White Road by John Connolly, Hunger
by Elise Blackwell
Added
new reviews for: Shadow
Without a Name by Ignacio Padilla, White
Mughals by William Dalrymple, The
Clarinet Polka by Keith Maillard, A
Mouthful of Air by Amy Koppelman
|
| 6-8-03 |
Have
been working on update the news pages throughout the site
with new books, forthcoming books and new in pb. |
| 6-3-03 |
Added
a review of: Autumn
Glory by Louis Masur to complete the three books on baseball.
|
| 6-2-03 |
Finished
taking down May raffles and putting up June raffles. |
| 6-1-01 |
Added
new review & excerpts for:
Gentlemen of Space
by Ira Sher and The
Dogs of Babel by Carolyn Parkhurst. Also added an excerpt
for The Rules of Silence
by David Lindsey and started up the June raffles - though
still need to take down the May raffles through the site. |
| 5-28-03 |
Added
new review & excerpts for: Oryx
and Crake by Margaret Atwood, Good
Faith by Jane Smiley, Monkey
Hunting by Cristina Garcia, Brownsville
by Oscar Casares, The
Bone Vault by Linda Fairstein, The
Song Reader by Lisa Tucker
Added
reviews only for: Sleep
Toward Heaven by Amanda Eyre Ward,
The
Rules of Silence by David Lindsey, Prince
of Lost Places by Kathy Hepinstall,
Gramercy
Park by Paula Cohen,
Babel and
Silver Meadow
by Barry Maitland, Teammates
by David Halberstam, When
Boston Won the World Series by Bob Ryan
|
| 5-19-03 |
Over
the last three days have added many new books to the book
news area for each bookshelf, some more than others. |
| 5-15-03 |
Following
new reviews & excerpts posted: Amanda
Bright@Home by Danielle Crittenden; ; Master
of Rain by Tom Bradby; The
Coffee Trader by David Liss; The
Samurai's Daughter by Sujata Massey; Wages
of Sin by Penelope Williamson; Flash
House by Aimee Liu; The
Watermelon King by Daniel Wallace
And
reviews were posted for: Star
of the Sea by Joseph O'Connor; The
Salaryman's Wife by Sujata Massey
|
| 5-4-03 |
Spent
a long day updating the site with information on new books
recently released, new in paperback and future releases. |
| 5-3-03 |
May
Raffles< posted with Bonus survey. |
| 4-30-03 |
Added
reviews and excerpts for: The
Light of Day by Graham Swift, Land
of the Living by Nicci French and All
He Ever Wanted by Anita Shreve |
| 4-20-03 |
Added
a review and interview for: Intern
by Bonnie Hearn Hill
Added
reviews and excerpts for: Under
the Skin by James Carlos Blake, Water
Lily by Susanna Jones, The
Skrayling Tree by Michael Moorcock, A
Few Short Notes on Tropical Butterflies by John Murray,
Shutter Island
by Dennis Lehane. Fat
Ollie's Book by Ed McBain. Second
Glance by Jodi Picoult, Sea
Hunter by Paul Garrison
Added
reviews only for: Six
Kinds of Sky by Luis Alberto Urrea, Dreaming
Water by Gail Tsukiyama, Lost
in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde, Dark
Star Safari by Paul Theroux
|
| 4-17-03 |
Update
the book news pages a bit. With reduced time to work on the
site, I am only putting in the title and author names, no
book description. |
| 4-2-03 |
Created
a running list of our Top Picks for 2003> Also added in
some new paperbacks throughout the site. Also added more forthcoming
books. |
| 4-1-03 |
Started
April Raffles Another Six great books
by these authors: Jonathan Safran Foer, Michael Walsh, John
R. Maxim, Michael Connelly, T. Jefferson Parker, Jeffery Deaver |
| 3-31-03 |
Added
reviews and excerpts for: And
All the Saints by Michael Walsh, The
Book of Salt by Monique Truong, Everything
is Illuminated by Jonathan Foer
Safran, Shroud
by John Banville, Bannerman's
Ghosts by John R. Maxim, Beginner's
Luck by Laura Pedersen, Lost
Light by Michael Connelly, The
Vanished Man by Jeffery Deaver, Ties
That Bind by Phillip Margolin, Clara
by Janice Galloway, Solomon
Time by Will Randall, Cold
Pursuit by T. Jefferson Parker, Murder
in the Hearse Degree by Tim Cockey
Added
reviews only for: Wild
Thorn by William Hoffman, Leaving
by Richard Dry, Hades'
Daughter by Sara Douglass
Added
excerpt only for: Monkey
Hunting by Cristina Garcia
|
| 3-23-03 |
Created
a new bookshelf called "Facing
History" to feature fiction based on real people
and/or events. Also changed author pages so that there is
a longer right hand column, which should be more friendly
to browser other than IE and will enable me to more quickly
do site updates (since I won't have to worry about wrecking
page formats when adding new authors to the author list).
I know I do more things, but at the moment I can't remember.
It's been a nerve wracking six days to make these changes.
Fingers crossed I've done them right. |
| 3-16-03 |
Added
reviews and excerpts for: Heart
Seizure by Bill Fitzhugh, Jennifer
Government by Max Barry, The
Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown, The
Disrete Charm of Charlie Monk by David Ambrose, Pattern
Recognition by William Gibson, Office
of Innocence by Thomas Keneally, The
Last Detective by Robert Crais, Engaged
to Die by Carol Hart, Henderson's
Spear by Ronald Wright, Fingersmith
by Sarah Waters (03-16-03), Mystic
River by Dennis Lehane and The
Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa
Added
reviews only for: Samurai
William by Giles Milton, The
Voyage of Destiny by Robert Nye, The
Eye of Cybele by Daniel Chavarria,
She's Not There by Mary-Ann Tirone Smith
|
| 03-04-03 |
Added
an excerpt for: Soul
Circus by George Pelecanos and started
new set of raffles. |
| 03-03-03 |
Added
reviews and excerpts for: Fanny
and Sue by Karen Stolz, The
Master Butchers Singing Club by Louise Erdrich, The
Commissariat of Enlightenment by Ken Kalfus, Jester
by James Patterson
Added
reviews for: Soul
Circus by George Pelecanos, Nick's
Trip by George Pelecanos, Duke
of Uranium by John Barnes, A
Princess of the Aerie by John Barnes, Michelangelo
& the Pope's Ceiling by Ross King
Added
an excerpt for: At
Swim, Two Boys by Jamie O'Neill
|
| 2-22-03 |
Added
a review for: Mrs.
Kimble by Jennifer Haigh, The
King of Torts by John Grisham, Guardian
by Joe Haldeman, Wintering:
A Novel of Slyvia Plath by Kate Moses, The
Boy on the Bus by Deborah Schupack, Spook
by Bill Pronzini, Dirt
Music by Tim Winton
|
| 2-10-03 |
Changed
home page to accomodate twelve reviews
rather than eight. Makes more sense since we now have at least
10 active reviewers. Added reviews for Any
Human Heart by William Boyd; The
Slynx by Tatyana Tolstaya; Tishomingo
Blues by Elmore Leonard; Swan
by France Mayes; Leaving
Atlanta by Tayari Jones; Sapphire's
Grave by Hilda Gurley-Highgate;
The
Wolf Pit by Marly Youmans;
Enemy
Women by Paulette Jiles; Death
of a Village by M.C. Beaton; Plundering
Paradise by Michael D'Orso; Tapestries
by Kien Nguyen; Troubles
by J. G. Farrell; Ghost
Image by Joshua Gilder. Added an
excerpt only for Miss Corpus
by Clay McLeod Chapman |
| 2-8-03 |
Added
in some books to the forthcoming sections, added an excerpt
for Pattern Recognition
by William Gibson, did some general maintenance stuff on site |
| 2-4-03 |
Added
an excerpt for Resurrection
Men by Ian Rankin. |
| 2-3-03 |
Added
Murder in the Hearse Degree by Tim Cockey to the February
raffle. Changed end date of raffle to March 3 due to vacation
plans. Added a review of Resurrection
Men by Ian Rankin and started the raffle for this book. |
| 2-2-03 |
Changed
the site so that there are no more e-mail addresses and instead
there is one page with contact information. This should reduce
the amount of junk mail each of the reviewers receives from
when the site gets spidered. Naturally this took all day since
every single page had the "E-mail" us icon on the
menu bar. Also double checked formatting and got rid of the
use of text on the bottom scroll bar. O.K. late at night I
discovered one hold over, but that will be corrected at another
time. Also renamed a couple bookshelves. |
| 2-1-03 |
February
raffles started. Spellproofed all bookshelf pages. Added
an excerpt of The
Frozen Water Trade by Gavin Weightman and Murder
in the Hearse Degree by Tim Cockey. Added a review of
Blue Latitudes by Tony
Horwitz |
| 1-31-03 |
Added
excerpts for Fat Ollie's Book
by Ed McBain, The Miracles
of Santo Fico by D.L. Smith and Saraglio
by Janet Wallach. |
| 1-29-03 |
Added
the following reviews: Step
to the Graveyard Easy by Bill Pronzini, Wonder
When You'll Miss Me by Amada Davis, Close
to Home Peter Robinson, The
Blind Man of Seville by Robert Wilson, Martin
Sloane by Michael Redhill, Ruled
Britannia by Harry Turtledove, Seraglio
by Janet Wallach, The
Miracles of Santo Fico by D. L. Smith |
| 1-20-03 |
Added
the following reviews: Lost
Garden by Helen Humpreys, The
Disapparation of James by Anne Ursu, The
Fall by Simon Mawer, Utopia
by Lincoln Child, Small
Town by Lawrence Block, Thicker
Than Water by P.J. Parrish, Nowhere
Man by Aleksandar Hemon (plus excerpt), Atonement
by Ian McEwan (plus excerpt). Also added an excerpt for The
King of Torts
by John Grisham. Worked on index page, rearranged authors
on Around the World. |
| 1-16-03 |
Added
article on NBCC 2002 Finalists |
| 01-12-03 |
Added
a review of J is for Judgment
by Sue Grafton. I will be adding in successful "audition"
reviews as I accept new reviewers. Say hi to Kam Aures. |
| 01-09-03 |
Added
the following reviews with excerpts: I
Don't Know How She Does It by Allison Pearson; Middlesex
by Jeffrey Eugenides; The
Justification of Johann Gutenberg by Blake Morrison;
Parts Unknown
by Kevin Brennan; Stealing
the Elf-King's Roses by Diane Duane; Marriage:
A Duet by Anne Taylor Fleming
Added
the following reviews without excerpts: Cheese
by Willem Elsschot and Dancer
by Colum McCann
|
| 01-03-03 |
Finally,
theraffles are up! Count them. To
kick off the new year, we are giving 7 different books away
--- three copies of each AND one is even autographed. |
| 01-02-03 |
Added
a review of The Resurrectionists
by Michael Collins Also added these excerpts: Utopia
by Lincoln Child, The Fall
by Simon Mawer, Thicker
than Water by P.J. Parrish and The
Disapparation of James by Anne Ursu. So, now I'm almost
ready to post new raffles... Can you guess what books we are
giving away? |
| 01-01-03 |
Happy
New Year! The updates today are similar to taking down the
Christmas Tree and holiday decorations. As pretty as they
all once seemed, they do get a bit tired by now. So look for
my new animated logos, which point to raffles (which aren't
ready) and 2002 TOP PICKS (although I want to include twice
as many as listed on this page). I also went through and updated
the latest releases sections with books just published in
January. Oh, yeah, did the annual update copyright notices
too. |
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