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The MBE 2008 season has wrapped up. We had an amazing response from 505 bloggers spanning the world from 11 different countries. The response from publishers & authors was phenomenal too with 72 getting involved offering 465 titles and 1185 individual books to be claimed. Thank you all for participating!
Unfortunately, with this massive unplanned growth (this all started with me offering 38 books on my personal blog) came some chaos, disappointment and angst.
Many bloggers never received the books they claimed, and many books which shipped out by publishers never got reviewed.
Internally, we encountered a bottle neck in getting all the reviews onto the site. While Anne, Dead Robot & I have worked hard to get everything online, we still have a backlog of almost 100 to get onto the site.
This little-project-that-could has had a number of bottle necks, technical issues and shipping troubles causing lost books, missing reviews and leaving a lot of people disappointed and pissed off this year. And for that I’m very sorry!
So, Mini Book Expo is on Hiatus.
It is on hiatus until we can work through,
some of the kinks that have caused:
- people to wait for months to get a book that never came.
- publishers to ship books that never get commented on beyond the release post on Mini Book Expo
- backlogs in getting reviews onto the site
- and a team of well intentioned volunteers to be run ragged.
While we are on hiatus:
we won’t be accepting any new publishers, authors or new titles- we won’t be taking any more book claims
However, we will be working on
- getting the backlog of reviews live on the site.
- finding a way to make the site more consistent, usable, predictable and effective for you.
We’d love to hear your thoughts on how to improve things, (click here), as we go through the process of figuring out how and if we can continue to run Mini Book Expo so it works for everyone involved. (Share your feedback & ideas and comment on other people’s ideas on our User Voice Forums)
We have gotten a lot of great books into the hands of a lot of great people.
Thank you for being involved. Thank you for following through. Thank you for caring enough to read this entire post and thank you for all you support, feedback and patience.
So Many Ways To Sleep Badly is a memoir (Autobio? Loveletter? Suicide note?) to the sub-gay scene in San Francisco during the time of Desert Storm. When I say “sub-gay” I’m lumping in several non-Will And Grace style homo categories, such as subversive queer punks that protest the homogeneity of Gay Pride Parades, stinky closeted Craigslist trolls, gender flipping transsexuals and sex trade workers with fibromyalgia.
Olson provides vivid descriptions of the lake and life on the ships. The storms, the calming water, the galley, the loading and unloading of freight. Life going from port to port, working hard, getting drunk, falling in lust, getting high. She discovers the upstairs/downstairs nature of ship life, meets great friends, and enemies.
Axis Mundi Sum was in short, a disappointment.
The threads of the the seemingly disparate stories of Will & Annie Bird come together ever so subtly...
The Impostor is the story of Adam Napier, a lost soul who was recently fired and forced to leave his house. He takes residence in a country house that his brother purchased years earlier but has since been vacant. He seeks to reconnect with his inner poet, and spends much of his time alone in the quiet community in a rural part of South Africa. After a chance encounter with a childhood acquaintance named Canning, Adam’s quiet existence begins to take on new meaning. It does not take long however, for Adam’s involvement with Canning and his wife Baby, to become complicated and dangerous. 
I decided to stretch my book review wings a little and try my hand at reviewing a childrens' book, and I'm glad I received the opportunity. So, here goes:
At first, this book was hard to follow – it has so many people and places, many with unfamiliar names to me, that I was not sure how I was going to keep up. The style was also a little hard to follow –but I kept with it, and am glad that I did. 
Following up on his book Growing up Digital from well over a decade ago, Tapscott returns to study the new generation, dubbed the Net Generation by the author. Based upon a multi-million dollar four year private research study, Tapscott provides an in-depth look into the routines, habits and challenges of this young generation.
Ever since I was a kid, I have always found novels about the Civil War to be extremely interesting -- I guess I'd choose that time period as my favorite one in the United States' history. SWEETSMOKE definitely goes up there are one of the best books about the Civil War that I've read in recent memory. 
Katia Grubisic’s debut poetry collection is at once both whimsical and realistic. While one piece will read straight out of a daydream, the next seems to be merely retelling the day’s events — although, admittedly, with a lot more style and grace than a news report.
Debra Purdy Kong has written a modern day whodunit about a computer geek turned sleuth, who must encounter several ordeals in order to solve a crime.
Volcanologist, Dr. Erica Daniels, misses a unique opportunity to be a participant in an upcoming mission to the moon to establish the first moon base. As a consolation she is given an assignment in Antarctica. Deep inside a hotspot scientists have been disappearing. Paired up with a fully armed Navy Seal team Erica and the new team are sent to find the missing scientists and find out just what is really under all that ice.
This is a quick book by famous cartoonist Scott Adams, of Dilbert fame. This book, by Penguin Group, is a great, quick, read. 
The best little "porn" book ever :)
All I can say for this book is that....it was horrible. Absolutely
horrible. In fact, I couldn't even finish it. It was that bad. First of
all, the plot started way too slow. I was practically dozing by the
second half of the first chapter. Also, there's way too many details
about ships and stuff that are completely pointless, at least to me. I
don't care what each little detail on a ship is called. And, personally
for me, I find reading about wars, especially war at sea, completely
boring.
Proof Of The Illuminati was originally written in 1802. This non-fiction tale of the Illuminati is exciting to read with many well-known people involved. After each chapter ended I was left wondering what would happen next. It is written well and makes you wonder if what you are reading and watching and your beliefs weren't influenced by the Illuminati. This book will make you look at this world in another perspective.
I’m embarrassed to admit that I misunderstood the blurb about this book on Mini Book Expo, so I was very surprised to realize this book contains no words past the three-page introduction, other than the names of the 26 plants illustrated.
This is a moving and touching memoir of three generations of Jewish women originally from Budapest, Hungary. The main focus of the book is on the ties between mothers and daughters and how they survive, grow and change during times of trauma and stress. Erica, the narrator of the book (the author) tells most of her story from the viewpoint of herself as a young child during the Nazi Invasion of Hungary. She writes of events that shape and form relationships and experiences of her grandmother, mother and sisters. 
My daughter has not put this book down since she got it. For Christmas she got some new art supplies and headed right off to draw some more dragons.
Obtained through Mini Book Expo I picked this book because it was set in Toronto. I am a real home-grown girl.
I recommend this book to lovers of design and computers, and to general geekdom. 
In a vein not unlike Daniel Quinn's Ishmael series, Steve Heussner has created a modern fable that teaches us new morals for an ever-evolving corporate world. Falling from the same tree as the "green revolution," Heussner's take on corporate social responsibility through improving health and well-being within the workforce matures perfectly with the current state of health care in the United States, and the election of Barack Obama as a a clear statement by the population of America that change is needed. Although presented in a simple manner, Fit to Succeed could be the model that corporate America looks to for guidance.
Andy Kronk is from a lower-class family with little chance of ever leading a privileged lifestyle until he is discovered by an elite private school for his hockey abilities. There he is quickly befriended by Colin Aspinall, who is a member of one of the wealthiest families in Canada. Andy is thrown into the lavish yet complicated life of the Aspinalls when he is taken under their wing and spends his summers living with them. 
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