Correspondents' Choice: Book Links for June

This will probably be my last post until the tenth of July. I've not been reading e-mail very faithfully this month; here are the most irresistible book links I did make the time to find and follow:

Amazon is evolving to keep up with changes in international publishing policies. U.S. readers can now order this farm-woman-and-her-cat story from Amazon.co.uk, but the site won't give me a short link to recommend it. Oh well...once in a while this web site does share a book link just for fun, not for profit.



Here's one recommended with reservations...On the one hand, I'm not into Cthulhu at all (although after some Very Bad Days I've thought the real city of Kingsport belonged there). On the other hand: Gaiman.

(Oh, let's explain that inside joke for the European readers. Cthulhu is a fictional "mythos"/universe/series created by the late H.P. Lovecraft and maintained alive by fans. Lovecraft named a fictional town Kingsport, apparently in the belief that that wasn't the name of a real town. It is.)



If it's recommended by Oprah Winfrey, does it need any additional recommendations? All this web site is saying is: we're interested. Prison reform and life after release is not a main theme at this web site. It is a main theme for some writers whose books we've publicized, and for a neighbor we see at church in Gate City. It's primarily something men, and (to this country's shame) especially Black men, need to be leading. So, over to that neighbor. None of us has been there. But we do empathize.



As Tweeps know, I don't even click on every book whose author tweets "Buy my book," or even "Other people like my book" or "Here's a sample of the kind of pretty picture / funny joke / fun fact / etc. you'll find in my book." This one is special, because it's (1) about North American wildflowers, (2) in French, (3) by someone who's demonstrated on Twitter that he's taken some gorgeous wildflower photos. If you want to learn the French names for things you may have been calling "weeds" even in English, let's create an international demand for this Canadian book.

Due to incomplete international coordination between amazon.com and amazon.ca, I don't even get a commission, but click here.

Once again, let's find out whether this book link gives due credit to Heather's, Samantha's, and Serena's e-friend Mudpie. (Serena doesn't yet know what e-friends are. Samantha could hardly have told her, since Samantha is not "serene" enough to cuddle up beside the computer, as Serena does. Serena is only a kitten. Going into her sixth week on this planet, Serena didn't even realize that the news that she'd learned how to make a puddle all by herself, without anyone massaging her back end, would be a source of anything but joy to anybody. She accomplished this feat just before completing the fifth week of her life. She typed a bit, though, before being banished from the office room until she learns to control her new skill...but only on the arrow keys, not the letter keys.)

Amazon will link pictures directly to my account, they claim. I have to use a caption to insert a link to Mudpie's Human's account.

First in the order these links were actually received: Vanishing Grace is available in paperback.



A new China novel, local readers! (There is more to Asian literature in English than China...maybe it's all so overwhelmingly exotic to some local lurkers that China feels almost familiar?) Although I'm not finding Paper.li a suitable vehicle for the Link Logs, sometimes it does link to books I'd like to read...There's a sequel. I'd like to begin with volume one.