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We Have a Photo Winner! Congratulations to the winner of our Fall Photo Contest!  Readers Lane follower Diane snapped this adorable pic on her web cam.  She loves the crisp, cool weather that comes with fall in the north country, but knows that the best way to enjoy it is in front of the fireplace with a good book and a warm puppy.  Diane wins our four-book Cozy Mystery Bundle, generously provided by super-publicist Maryglenn McCombs, giving her four new series to try as the season turns from crisp to downright cold. Thanks to everyone who entered our photo contest [...]

daBinsi / Flickr / CC 3.0 Send Us a Picture! It’s time for pumpkin lattes, crunchy leaves, good books, and pictures of your cozy library or you reading - or just something bookwormish! Whether it’s a picture of your personal library, a friend’s towering book collection, a cozy evening spent reading,  an actual library, or something really artistic related to reading, you can enter your photo for a chance to win a feature post on Readers Lane (including your photo, a bio, and links to your blog, website, photographer’s Facebook, etc.) and a bundle of four cozy mystery [...]

Gone Girl Reviews The opening-weekend reviews are in! What's everyone saying about the Gone Girl movie? Our sister site Movie Rewind has the Book vs. Movie rundown. NPR says David Fincher's direction "delivers jolts designed to make audiences squeal, while also letting you identify with characters one moment, and wish you hadn't the next."' RogerEbert.com says this "overheated," "plot-obsessed picture" is a "sick film, and often brilliant." Entertainment Weekly praises the cast's "gallows humor" and "calculating oiliness," and gives it an A. Rottentomatoes.com gives it a pretty-darn-good 87%. EW reports that Gone Girl pulled in $38 million for its opening [...]