Social Bookbabble

Oct 3, 2012 by donny

Doing a little more in the social media front. I’ve been adding lots of stories I’ve been reading to the Bookbabble Twitter feed, so if you’ve not subscribed to it yet, go to twitter.com/Bookbabbleshow and do it now!

Also, there’s some activity brewing over at the Goodreads Bookbabble group. You can add books to the Bookbabble bookshelf there, and books that we cover on the show will be added to the bookshelf as well, so that if there are any discussions you can spawn it there.

Go ahead and check it out, please let us know any feedback if you have any.

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Episode 80: Fifty Shades of Lars

Sep 16, 2012 by donny

Bookbabble Episode 80: Fifty Shades of Lars
Recorded 5 August 2012
Babblers: Renee, Lars, Donny

Synopsis:

Lars finally returns from outer space after many years. And just in time, too, for Renee and Donny’s take of the smash hit Fifty Shades of Grey. And ‘smash hit’ as in being thoroughly smashed to bits, that is. Also, a quick on on JK Rowling’s new book, and a spot of badminton.

Show Length: 1:00:00

Show Notes:

• Hilarious Fifty Shades of Grey Review
• Slender Man
• Marble Hornets, Tribe Twelve, Everyman hybrid
• Jeff the Killer
• IT, Stephen King
• The Casual Vacancy, JK Rowling
• Dr Who!
• HBO’s Game of Thrones

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Episode 79: The Trashier The Better

Jun 2, 2012 by donny

Bookbabble Episode 79: The Trashier The Better 
Recorded 5 March 2012
Babblers: Renee, Bjorn, Lone, Donny

Synopsis:

Lone returns from hiatus in this episode as we talk about trashy books! The chat centres around an article in TheAwl (see link below). What makes them so fun to read? The best and the worst of them are discussed here (well, ‘discussed’ is used loosely here).

Show Length: 1:00:00

Show Notes:

• Classic Trash | The Awl
• John Ringo
• The clan of the cave bear, Jean M Auel
• John Jakes
• Barbara Cartland
• Anna Grue
• Peyton Place, Grace Metalious (born Marie Grace DeRepentigny)
• Hollywood Babylon, Kenneth Anger
• Full Service, Scotty Bowers
• Danish author who writes great books in her own name, Merete Pryds Helle but writes crime novel under another name: Liv Mørk

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Episode 78: Digital and Bookstores

Feb 15, 2012 by donny

Bookbabble Episode 78: Digital and Bookstores 
Recorded 12 Feb  2012
Babblers: Renee, Bjorn, Donny

Synopsis:

We’re back! After more than a year, Bjorn, Renee and I get back to have a chit-chat about the state of ebooks and how it’s affecting independent bookstores. Also, Renee’s Charles Dickens recommendations, Downton Abbey, BBC’s Sherlock, Rifftrax.com, and the evil comfortable sofa.

Show Length: 1:25

Show Notes:

• Cave of forgotten dreams, Werner Herzog
• The Orbitor Trilogy, Mircea Cartarescu
• Rifftrax.com

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New Home, New Look for the New Year

Feb 10, 2011 by donny

2011 is well and truly underway, and for those of us who celebrate it, hope you had a great Lunar New Year last week. 

We’ve now moved to our new webhost, and to commemorate the change, I’ve changed the look and feel for the site.  Over the coming weeks we’ll hopefully start filling this place up with, you know, actual content.

Let us know how you like it.

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Moving Soon.. oh, and Happy Holidays!

Dec 24, 2010 by donny

It has been a long time.  Sorry for the long, cold, drought of sound and laughter from Bookbabble-land.  We are still around, and have most recently recorded an episode just last Sunday.  Due to work commitments, the post-production work on the podcast has been delayed.

I wanted to make an announcement – we’re going to be moving web hosts pretty soon.  I’m consolidating to a single hosting provider, and take will make managing the site easier for me (background stuff, don’t worry about it).  What you need to know, however, is there should be no impact to you at all – everything else will still work as it always had been (well, too bad the post-production for episodes are still on my lap, and not on the web host’s).

When will this move take place?  Before the year is out.

In any event, I wanted to take this opportunity to wish everyone Happy Holidays!

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-11-07

Nov 7, 2010 by donny

• Winners of the 2010 World Fantasy Awards [Awards] http://j.mp/adcJo8 #
• Top 20 Horror Reads http://j.mp/9nvalS #
• Best Books of 2010: Counting Down Amazon's Top 100 http://j.mp/9eivbS #
• Amazon’s Best Books of 2010: Top 10 Science Fiction/Fantasy http://j.mp/c9GD4g #

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