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Efficiently? It's not a word I would have thought to use.
I mostly read book reviews in the New York Times. Personally, I have no interest in best sellers, nor usually in recommendations from strangers. I'd like to find a good book website, though.
By the way, I hope you'd consider complaining to B&N.
I'm an NPR listener and love their author interviews. I'll often order or look for a book after hearing an interview. I'm pretty sure their website lists all recent interviews.
I browse as inefficiently as possible . I have ordered books I've heard about online, but nothing beats going into a bookstore and rambling around picking up whatever catches my eye. It's my treat to myself to head up ALONE to the city, with no purpose at all except to browse in a bookstore. I don't like other people around when I do it because they have no patience with me and I feel like I have to hurry up and pick out a book.
I browse as inefficiently as possible . I have ordered books I've heard about online, but nothing beats going into a bookstore and rambling around picking up whatever catches my eye. It's my treat to myself to head up ALONE to the city, with no purpose at all except to browse in a bookstore. I don't like other people around when I do it because they have no patience with me and I feel like I have to hurry up and pick out a book.
Books 'call' me - "pick me! Pick me!"
I like going into thrift stores with extensive selections of books and just taking my time and picking one's that call to me too. I have also bought books that have great covers and more than half the time it was a great read.
Hey, Mattie: Washington Post's Book World, NY Times Book Review section on Sunday. And I'm part of an underground: A friend is the entertainment editor for a major newspaper so he clues DH and I in. Plus my brother writes reviews (professionally) on books about the music biz so I steal the books publishers send him, lol.
I find a lot of good suggestions at Amazon's Listmania search. The lists are put together by regular people, listing stuff they like. Listmania is difficult to find sometimes, so here is a link to the search: Amazon.com: Listmania!
You can put in something like: must read fiction, or, books about serial killers, or, scary books, and it will return lists.
I get a lot of ideas here. And I read a lot of reviews at Goodreads. Other than that, I browse, especially at the library & thrift shop.
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. I have ordered books I've heard about online, but nothing beats going into a bookstore and rambling around picking up whatever catches my eye. It's my treat to myself to head up ALONE to the city, with no purpose at all except to browse in a bookstore. I don't like other people around when I do it because they have no patience with me and I feel like I have to hurry up and pick out a book.
- "pick me! Pick me!"
