Where We Belong by Emily Giffin "Another surefire hit." —Entertainment Weekly. Click here to find out what your friends are saying: http://www.goodreads.com/track/daily_click?tid=giffinB-newsletter08-2012&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.goodreads.com%2Fbook%2Fshow%2F12987977-where-we-belong&target=_blank&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2012-08
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS
Martin Amis
The British satirist sharpens his pen in a new absurdist novel, Lionel Asbo: State of England, about a hardened thug who wins an obscene amount of money in the lottery. http://www.goodreads.com/interviews/show/800.Martin_Amis? utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2012-08&utm_content=amis
Sherrilyn Kenyon
A long-dead warrior returns to prevent the destruction foretold by a 2012 prophecy in Time Untime, the latest paranormal romance in the best-selling Dark-Hunter series.
http://www.goodreads.com/interviews/show/799.Sherrilyn_Kenyon? utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2012-08&utm_content=kenyon
Jonathan Tropper
To the chagrin of his family, an aging drummer from a one-hit-wonder band refuses life-saving surgery in Tropper's latest novel, One Last Thing Before I Go.
http://www.goodreads.com/interviews/show/798.Jonathan_Tropper? utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2012-08&utm_content=tropper
GOODREADS LIVE
Philippa Gregory
The Tudor expert answers your questions on August 29 in a live chat about her new novel, The Kingmaker's Daughter, set during England's bloody Wars of the Roses.
http://www.goodreads.com/event/show/568574-live-video-chat-with-philippa-gregory? utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2012-08&utm_content=gregory
Amor Towles
Join the historical novelist for a live chat on August 28 about Rules of Civility, his tale of a secretary who finds glamour and love in the swanky nightclubs of Jazz Age New York.
http://www.goodreads.com/event/show/573902-live-video-chat-with-amor-towles? utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2012-08&utm_content=towles
GOOD MINDS SUGGEST
In honor of the London 2012 Olympic Games, we asked three author-Olympians to share books that strike gold.
Shawn Johnson's Favorite Motivational Books
The gold-medal gymnast and author of the memoir Winning Balance offers her top five inspirational books for peak performance.
http://www.goodreads.com/interviews/show/803.Shawn_Johnson? utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2012-08&utm_content=johnson
Tim Morehouse's Favorite Books About Fencing
Foil, saber, or épée? Choose your weapon and read these recs from the Olympic silver medalist and author of American Fencer.
http://www.goodreads.com/interviews/show/802.Tim_Morehouse? utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2012-08&utm_content=morehouse
Jim Abbott's Favorite Sports Books
The Major League pitching phenom and gold medalist lines up his top five athletic reads in honor of his autobiography, Imperfect.
http://www.goodreads.com/interviews/show/801.Jim_Abbott? utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2012-08&utm_content=abbott
DEBUT AUTHOR SNAPSHOT
Vaddey Ratner
When the Khmer Rouge took control of her homeland in 1975, Ratner was only a child. She fictionalizes her story of survival in her debut novel, In the Shadow of the Banyan.
http://www.goodreads.com/interviews/show/804.Vaddey_Ratner? utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2012-08&utm_content=ratner
MOVERS & SHAKERS
http://www.goodreads.com/featured_lists/68-august-2012-movers-shakers? utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2012-08&utm_content=movers3
Dare Me
by Megan Abbott (Goodreads Author)
The ruthless world of competitive cheerleading collides with a murder investigation in this twisted work of literary noir. The war between a magnetic new cheer coach and a despotic squad captain quickly turns menacing.
Giving Up the Ghost
by Eric Nuzum (Goodreads Author)
NPR exec Nuzum was committed to a psych ward as a teen, believing he was haunted by the ghost of a little girl. This memoir recounts his turbulent coming-of-age and adult quest to visit the most haunted sites in America.
The Light Between Oceans
by M.L. Stedman
Lighthouse keeper Tom and his wife discover a dead man and a crying baby washed ashore on their island off the coast of Australia. Against her husband's wishes, Isabel nurses the child as her own.
Winter Journal
by Paul Auster
In this offbeat memoir Auster writes the history of his own body—the scrapes of childhood, the pleasures of intimacy, the physical manifestations of grief, and the deterioration of age—encompassing more than 60 years of a visceral life.
The Orchardist
by Amanda Coplin
Two runaway sisters—both pregnant—take refuge at a lonely man's isolated fruit orchard in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains, bringing both unexpected kinship and tragedy to his doorstep in this literary historical novel.
Throne of Glass
by Sarah J. Maas (Goodreads Author)
In this epic young adult fantasy, 18-year-old Celaena is serving a hard labor sentence when the prince of the land grants her a chance at freedom. Along with a host of deadly warriors, she competes to find the next royal assassin.
DO GOOD WITH GOODREADS
Worldreader
Donate e-readers and e-books to students across sub-Saharan Africa and help spread the digital reading revolution to classrooms in Ghana, Kenya, and Uganda!
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NEW FEATURE
Android App Improvements
We continue to make upgrades to our Android app for smart phones, Nook, Kindle Fire, and more. Now you can read and write messages, view and approve friend requests, and get notified of all new activity. (Hey, iPhone lovers, we have an app for you, too!) Try out the ever-evolving Android app, and tell us what you think!
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SPONSORED BOOK
Diary of a Submissive Win a copy & be one of the first to read the real-life Fifty Shades of Grey—you will not be able to put it down. http://www.goodreads.com/track/daily_click?tid=andwhenshe-newsletter08-2012&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.goodreads.com%2Fbook%2Fshow%2F13623815-and-when-she-was-good&target=_blank&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2012-08
GOODREADS POETRY CONTEST
Want your words to reach 7 million people? Goodreads and the ¡POETRY! group have partnered to host an ongoing poetry contest. Join the ¡POETRY! group to vote each month to pick a winner from among the finalists. You can also submit a poem (http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/233._POETRY_? utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2012-08&utm_content=poetry) for consideration. Here is our August winner!
Dictionary Illustrations
by S. Jane Sloat (Goodreads Author)
Searching for a word I set off browsing the dictionary illustrations, pages flush with fish
and obscure instruments and myriad breeds of duck, which, colorless, end up looking much the same.
These artists don't dawdle amongst the obvious; they illuminate the oriel window; they trace
the lobate foot of the grebe. The reindeer appears tame and boxy on paper, gigantic antlers bearing up
under the weight of reincarnation. On page 1291, drawings disambiguate the difference between play
and paly-bendy, two patterns of heraldry: think roadblock versus barbershop, TV off-air image versus LSD.
They don't do verbs in dictionary pictures, so for zip here's an inch-wide depiction of two men intent on fencing.
In one two-page arrangement, the seahorse floats peacefully beyond the reach of the scythe. Pen-and-ink
sketches break the columns up like little windows opening from one side of the brain
to the other. Tiptoe through, and pay attention to the shapes of leaves, which can be hard to describe.
http://www.goodreads.com/story/show/310868-dictionary-illustrations? utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2012-08&utm_content=poetry
Read more poetry: http://www.goodreads.com/story/genre/19.Poetry? utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2012-08&utm_content=poetry
With love, Jessica, Elizabeth, and the Goodreads Team
PS: We are hiring Software Engineers, Front-End Developers, and a Senior Data Analyst. Check out our jobs and send your résumé to jobs@goodreads.com.
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS
Martin Amis
The British satirist sharpens his pen in a new absurdist novel, Lionel Asbo: State of England, about a hardened thug who wins an obscene amount of money in the lottery. http://www.goodreads.com/interviews/show/800.Martin_Amis? utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2012-08&utm_content=amis
Sherrilyn Kenyon
A long-dead warrior returns to prevent the destruction foretold by a 2012 prophecy in Time Untime, the latest paranormal romance in the best-selling Dark-Hunter series.
http://www.goodreads.com/interviews/show/799.Sherrilyn_Kenyon? utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2012-08&utm_content=kenyon
Jonathan Tropper
To the chagrin of his family, an aging drummer from a one-hit-wonder band refuses life-saving surgery in Tropper's latest novel, One Last Thing Before I Go.
http://www.goodreads.com/interviews/show/798.Jonathan_Tropper? utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2012-08&utm_content=tropper
GOODREADS LIVE
Philippa Gregory
The Tudor expert answers your questions on August 29 in a live chat about her new novel, The Kingmaker's Daughter, set during England's bloody Wars of the Roses.
http://www.goodreads.com/event/show/568574-live-video-chat-with-philippa-gregory? utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2012-08&utm_content=gregory
Amor Towles
Join the historical novelist for a live chat on August 28 about Rules of Civility, his tale of a secretary who finds glamour and love in the swanky nightclubs of Jazz Age New York.
http://www.goodreads.com/event/show/573902-live-video-chat-with-amor-towles? utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2012-08&utm_content=towles
GOOD MINDS SUGGEST
In honor of the London 2012 Olympic Games, we asked three author-Olympians to share books that strike gold.
Shawn Johnson's Favorite Motivational Books
The gold-medal gymnast and author of the memoir Winning Balance offers her top five inspirational books for peak performance.
http://www.goodreads.com/interviews/show/803.Shawn_Johnson? utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2012-08&utm_content=johnson
Tim Morehouse's Favorite Books About Fencing
Foil, saber, or épée? Choose your weapon and read these recs from the Olympic silver medalist and author of American Fencer.
http://www.goodreads.com/interviews/show/802.Tim_Morehouse? utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2012-08&utm_content=morehouse
Jim Abbott's Favorite Sports Books
The Major League pitching phenom and gold medalist lines up his top five athletic reads in honor of his autobiography, Imperfect.
http://www.goodreads.com/interviews/show/801.Jim_Abbott? utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2012-08&utm_content=abbott
DEBUT AUTHOR SNAPSHOT
Vaddey Ratner
When the Khmer Rouge took control of her homeland in 1975, Ratner was only a child. She fictionalizes her story of survival in her debut novel, In the Shadow of the Banyan.
http://www.goodreads.com/interviews/show/804.Vaddey_Ratner? utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2012-08&utm_content=ratner
MOVERS & SHAKERS
http://www.goodreads.com/featured_lists/68-august-2012-movers-shakers? utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2012-08&utm_content=movers3
Dare Me
by Megan Abbott (Goodreads Author)
The ruthless world of competitive cheerleading collides with a murder investigation in this twisted work of literary noir. The war between a magnetic new cheer coach and a despotic squad captain quickly turns menacing.
Giving Up the Ghost
by Eric Nuzum (Goodreads Author)
NPR exec Nuzum was committed to a psych ward as a teen, believing he was haunted by the ghost of a little girl. This memoir recounts his turbulent coming-of-age and adult quest to visit the most haunted sites in America.
The Light Between Oceans
by M.L. Stedman
Lighthouse keeper Tom and his wife discover a dead man and a crying baby washed ashore on their island off the coast of Australia. Against her husband's wishes, Isabel nurses the child as her own.
Winter Journal
by Paul Auster
In this offbeat memoir Auster writes the history of his own body—the scrapes of childhood, the pleasures of intimacy, the physical manifestations of grief, and the deterioration of age—encompassing more than 60 years of a visceral life.
The Orchardist
by Amanda Coplin
Two runaway sisters—both pregnant—take refuge at a lonely man's isolated fruit orchard in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains, bringing both unexpected kinship and tragedy to his doorstep in this literary historical novel.
Throne of Glass
by Sarah J. Maas (Goodreads Author)
In this epic young adult fantasy, 18-year-old Celaena is serving a hard labor sentence when the prince of the land grants her a chance at freedom. Along with a host of deadly warriors, she competes to find the next royal assassin.
DO GOOD WITH GOODREADS
Worldreader
Donate e-readers and e-books to students across sub-Saharan Africa and help spread the digital reading revolution to classrooms in Ghana, Kenya, and Uganda!
http://www.goodreads.com/book_news_posts/75-worldreader? utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2012-08&utm_content=dogood
NEW FEATURE
Android App Improvements
We continue to make upgrades to our Android app for smart phones, Nook, Kindle Fire, and more. Now you can read and write messages, view and approve friend requests, and get notified of all new activity. (Hey, iPhone lovers, we have an app for you, too!) Try out the ever-evolving Android app, and tell us what you think!
Get Android app http://localhost:3000/track/daily_click? tid=android-newsletter08-2012&url=https%3A%2F%2Fmarket.android.com%2Fdetails%3Fid%3Dcom.goodreads&target=_blank&utm_medium=email&utm_source=test_newsletter&utm_campaign=2012-08
SPONSORED BOOK
Diary of a Submissive Win a copy & be one of the first to read the real-life Fifty Shades of Grey—you will not be able to put it down. http://www.goodreads.com/track/daily_click?tid=andwhenshe-newsletter08-2012&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.goodreads.com%2Fbook%2Fshow%2F13623815-and-when-she-was-good&target=_blank&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2012-08
GOODREADS POETRY CONTEST
Want your words to reach 7 million people? Goodreads and the ¡POETRY! group have partnered to host an ongoing poetry contest. Join the ¡POETRY! group to vote each month to pick a winner from among the finalists. You can also submit a poem (http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/233._POETRY_? utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2012-08&utm_content=poetry) for consideration. Here is our August winner!
Dictionary Illustrations
by S. Jane Sloat (Goodreads Author)
Searching for a word I set off browsing the dictionary illustrations, pages flush with fish
and obscure instruments and myriad breeds of duck, which, colorless, end up looking much the same.
These artists don't dawdle amongst the obvious; they illuminate the oriel window; they trace
the lobate foot of the grebe. The reindeer appears tame and boxy on paper, gigantic antlers bearing up
under the weight of reincarnation. On page 1291, drawings disambiguate the difference between play
and paly-bendy, two patterns of heraldry: think roadblock versus barbershop, TV off-air image versus LSD.
They don't do verbs in dictionary pictures, so for zip here's an inch-wide depiction of two men intent on fencing.
In one two-page arrangement, the seahorse floats peacefully beyond the reach of the scythe. Pen-and-ink
sketches break the columns up like little windows opening from one side of the brain
to the other. Tiptoe through, and pay attention to the shapes of leaves, which can be hard to describe.
http://www.goodreads.com/story/show/310868-dictionary-illustrations? utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2012-08&utm_content=poetry
Read more poetry: http://www.goodreads.com/story/genre/19.Poetry? utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2012-08&utm_content=poetry
With love, Jessica, Elizabeth, and the Goodreads Team
PS: We are hiring Software Engineers, Front-End Developers, and a Senior Data Analyst. Check out our jobs and send your résumé to jobs@goodreads.com.
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