Kansas Bookseller in the news!

So the guy from our own Rainy Day Books was on Morning Edition! Here is the story--it is full of great looking book recommends. Everything these 3 booksellers recommended sounded GREAT! But especially the ones that our Kansas guy talked about. Not that I'm biased.

Email from BJ

since it has been a year or more since i have posted on the book blog, i now don't know how to do it. i have a great book I'd like to post called Three Cups of Tea.

http://www.amazon.com/Three-Cups-Tea-Mission-Promote/dp/0143038257/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1211590121&sr=8-1

the book is a nonfiction account of a guy named Greg Mortenson went from being a mountain climber to creating a non-profit organization dedicated to building secular schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

i'd love it if you could throw this up there for me!

love,
bj

A Mystery of Errors

For all you mystery lovers, try Simon Hawke's A Mystery of Errors. It is very funny and one of the main characters is Will Shakespeare! There were many references that I caught, and I am sure many more that I didn't. Here is a little of the author's own explanation from the afterword:

"It may be thought the height of arrogance to use William Shakespeare as a fictional character in a novel, and I imagine there will probably be those who will curl their lips with disdain at the idea, but at the same time, I have a strong suspicion that Shakespeare would have approved, or at the very least, been rather amused by the whole thing. After all, it is precisely the sort of thing he did himself."

Skippyjon Jones in the Doghouse

Maci went to the bookstore with Leah, Stella, and Madeline this weekend. Leah read the new Skippyjon Jones to Stella and Maci. These books are a hoot. We brought "Skippyjon Jones in the Doghouse" home with us. Maci thinks is it great. She picked right up on the clapping to the songs (just after seeing Stella do it once).