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Another book grab! Fast and free! JUJITSU RABBI AND THE GODLESS BLONDE, plus KISS AND TELL and THE MAINE EVENT

February 19, 2013 by Hank Stuever 7 Comments

Time for another Tonsil blog book giveaway. This one is a real jackpot — the first three responders will get a package of three new books written by friends o’ mine. You’re not competing for individual titles; winners will get all three. (You don’t want all three? Look, these aren’t lima beans I’m servin’ here. You’ll get three delicious books — and perhaps the pleasure of re-gifting one or two of them out to a wider, literate world.) See instructions below. To win, you must send an email, not leave a comment to this blog post.

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Anne Rodgers, book promotion, books, Jujitsu Rabbi and the Godless Blonde, Kiss and Tell: Secrets of Sexual Desire from Women 15 to 97, Maureen Whelihan, Memoir, Rebecca Dana, Spike Gillespie, The Maine Event, writing

One-man book club: Bring out your dead

March 4, 2010 by Hank Stuever 2 Comments

It’s one-man book club week here in Tonsil-land, where I say all the things I would say if I was in a book club (and the selections were all up to me). Monday Costume-grim-reaper-clipartand Tuesday I blogged about seven books.

But today is the dark-interlude portion of the one-man book club meeting, where a moment is taken to grieve for the misfires — those books that did not pass the FIFTY-PAGE TEST.

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Ben Yogada, Dave Eggers, Jonathan Tropper, Memoir, Next Stop Reloville, One-Man Book Club, Peter T. Kilborn, This is Where I Leave You, Zeitoun

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