Overbooked: a resource for readers

Providing timely information about fiction (all genres) and readable nonfiction

 

Overbooked

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web site for ravenous & omnivorous readers. Overbooked provides information about fiction and readable nonfiction.

Overbooked originals include annotated lists of nonfiction, fiction and mystery books which received starred reviews, themed booklists, featured titles lists and hot lists of hard cover US fiction releases and notable books. Established 1994. This site contains large files.

 

Featured

Featured Title January

cover The Messenger
Author: Burke, Jan
$ 25 ISBN: 9780743273879 Date: 2009
star PW
In Burke's first supernatural thriller, a salvage diver becomes enslaved to a creature who calls to him from the wreckage of a 19th-century ship and orders him to hunt down Tyler Hawthorne, a solitary man who has heard the last thoughts of the dying for more than two centuries.
Updated 10.31.08

Featured Authors

Jan Burke

Steve Rinella

 

Take Five

Five of my father's favorite books.

The Sotweed Factor by John Barth
Barth's most distinguished masterpiece, this modern classic is a hilarious tribute to all the most insidious human vices with a hero who is "one of the most diverting . . . to roam the world since Candide".(Time).

A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
From the time of the ancient Greeks through the present time, this historical overview of cosmology is told by one of the most famous and fascinating scientists today.

Catch 22 by Joseph Heller

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
A boy who turns into a TV set and a girl who eats a whale are only two of the characters in a collection of humorous poetry illustrated with the author's own drawings.


Featured Publisher: Picnic UKPicnic logo

A new independent house called 'Picnic' because we believe we are offering reading treats to suit all. We are immensely proud of our inaugural 2008 - 2009 list offering fiction, non-fiction and children's titles.

 

www.picnic-publishing.co.uk

 

Hotlists and Notable Books

2008: Fiction | Zoho DB | Crime Fiction | Zoho DB

2009: Fiction |Zoho DB | Crime Fiction | Zoho DB

Excel Files (printable, sortable, whateverable):
Crime Fiction 2008 | Fiction 2008 | Crime Fiction 2009 | Fiction 2009

About Overbooked


Who...

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Ann Chambers Theis (AKA Ann/ACT)

Comments, suggestions, corrections: Ann Chambers Theis (AKA Ann/ACT): overbooked1@verizon.net or ann@overbooked.com Sisy image

I'm on a 3 week cruise, so Internet connection are iffy...

I really appreciate all the e-mail I receive from avid readers and writers and regret that I am not able to respond to all correspondents.

What...

 

Overbooked is a volunteer project undertaken by Ann Chambers Theis:
Collection Management Administrator, Chesterfield County (VA) Public Library. 9501 Lori Rd. or P.O. Box 297, Chesterfield, VA, 23832. Phone: 804.748.1760.

Overbooked is not an official Chesterfield County Public Library service. Overbooked.org is a nonprofit web site hosted by CVCO - Central Virginia's Community Online. Overbooked.com is a website in experimental mode. Overbooked does not endorse any commercial providers (or their products and services) linked to from this web site.

Overbooked FAQ

Where...

Overbooked resides in Libraryland. Physically, Overbooked is based in the metro Richmond, Virginia area.

 

Why...

  • Because I cannot live without books.
  • It is fun.
  • I'm fortunate to have a job I love and access to lots of information about books. I'm grateful to have the opportunity to share this information with other book lovers.
  • It is a way to channel my obsessive tendencies to organize stuff.

 

 

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arrow Featured Titles - Selected monthly for omnivourous readers

arrow Overbooked 1.5 - Interactive Activities & Experiments.

Louis Shores Award

Ann Chambers Theis, Collection Management Administrator, Chesterfield County Public Library, Chesterfield, Virginia, is the recipient of the 2008 Louis Shores—Greenwood Publishing Group Award for overbooked.org. more...

Book Buzz

 

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Gone 2008

Some of the notable authors we lost in 2008 more

 

Asinof, Eliot
Asprin, Robert
Britton, Andrew
Buckley, William F.
Callander, Don
Carlin, George
Clarke, Arthur C.
Crichton, Michael
Crumley, James
Disch, Thomas M.
Flinn, Elaine
Foley, Red
Freeman, Dave
Garrett, George
Hall, Oakley
Hassler, Jon
Hillerman, Tony
Hoch, Edward
Lee Cheong-joon
Lyons, Arthur
Marlowe, Stephen
McDonald, Gregory
O'Faolain, Nula
Phelan, Nancy
Rathbone, Julian
Russert, Tim
Schutz, Benjamin
Seaman, Barbara
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr
Taylor, W.T.
Terkel, Studs
Torrington, Jeff
Truman, Margaret
Tudor, Tasha
van de Wetering, Janwillem
Vega, Ed
Wallace, David Foster
Westlake, Donald
Wharton, William
Whitney, Phyllis
Yglesias, Helen

Recent Stars

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Serena by Ron Rash

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The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell

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The World Is What It Is by Patrick French

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The Spanish Game by Charles Cumming

 

Some of the Best of 2008

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Book (re)Marks

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2008 has been a hard year for me professionally and personally.

 

Professionally: work has been challenging as my library department contends with a wide range of projects, staff shortages, budget issues - well, you get the picture. I'm grateful to work with a brilliant bunch of folks who are creative and hard working. One of the bright spots for the CCPL Collection Management team is that we've added library cat Nyx our mix.

Personally, my father Jay L. Chambers, was contending with dementia for the past several years. While he lost much of his memory, he never lost his kindness, consideration for others, his intelligence or his sense of humor. He was still able to enjoy music, though he had lost much of his ability to play flute or keyboards. Our family was able to spend time together this year, including a three week Transatlantic cruise from November 21 to Dec 13th. My father suffered a massive heart attack on Dec 16 and died on Dec 17th. His wife, my sister Carol and I were present when he died.

I look forward to 2009 and all the challenges and pleasures to come...

"Give us love, strength, courage and understanding to serve to the best of our ability". (one of my father's favorite blessings)

Nyx

 

I'm playing around at Shelfari, LibraryThing, and Good Reads. I've set up links to my pages on these sites. And, yes, I have a hard time keeping up-to-date on these sites...

LibraryThing

GoodReads

Shelfari

I've set up "shelves" from these sites on Overbooked - here

Overbooked is spacing out: Myspace: Overbooked and facing out: Facebook profile.