2011-06-02

Referrals Program: Yearly Top List

In June 2009, I joined the Referrals Program with different online sellers; this allows me to see where the people goes to browse after leaving my LiveJournal. It is still a surprise month after month, people tend to be interested on the most different topics and objects (many more than only books)

Some books were meteors, only 1 month in the list, some others appeared month after month. I decided to post the yearly Top List so that you can better understand the trend, and of course, find out a title that maybe you missed in the past year. Congrats to all the authors, I'd love to post all of them, but it would be really a HUGE list; to allow a better browsing I divided it in Fiction and Non Fiction (i.e. art books and movies).

Yearly Top List - Fiction

1) The Vast Fields of Ordinary by Nick Burd
Post: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/955620.html
Referral Link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0803733402/?tag=elimyrevandra-20

2) Hero by Perry Moore
Post: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/1237456.html
Referral Link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/1423101960/?tag=elimyrevandra-20

3) The Hadrian Enigma: A Forbidden History by George Gardiner
Post: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/1092070.html
Referral Link: The Hadrian Enigma: A Forbidden History

4) Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
Post: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/914213.html
Referral Link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0316776963/?tag=elimyrevandra-20

5) Something Like Summer by Jay Bell
Post: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/1233202.html
Referral Link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/1453875042/?tag=elimyrevandra-20

6) Silver Foxes: Steamy Stories of Older Men by C.B. Potts
Post: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/1045883.html
Referral Link: Silver Foxes

7) Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan
Post: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/514366.html
Referral Link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0375832998/?tag=elimyrevandra-20

8) I Am Not Myself These Days by Josh Kilmer-Purcell
Post: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/1195253.html
Referral Link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0060817321/?tag=elimyrevandra-20

9) Game Boys: Boys in Love (Yaoi Novel) by Rochelle H. Ragnarok
Post: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/1263446.html
Referral Link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/1453881743/?tag=elimyrevandra-20

10) Shadows Return (Nightrunner, Bk. 4) by Lynn Flewelling
Post: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/400652.html
Referral Link: Shadows Return (Nightrunner, Bk. 4)

( fiction, from 11 to 40 )

Yearly Top List - Non-Fiction

1) Dieux du Stade: Gods of the Stadium by Tony Duran
Post: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/1007162.html
Referral Link: Dieux du Stade: Gods of the Stadium

2) Heavenly Bodies by David Vance
Post: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/931013.html
Referral Link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/3867870195/?tag=elimyrevandra-20

3) Private Moments by Howard Roffman
Post: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/978366.html
Referral Link: Private Moments

4) The Boys of Bel Ami by Howard Roffman
Post: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/978366.html
Referral Link: The Boys of Bel Ami

5) Players by Rick Day
Post: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/911945.html
Referral Link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/3867870179/?tag=elimyrevandra-20

6) Black Wade: The Wild Side of Love by Franze & Andaerle
Post: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/1100241.html
Referral Link: Black Wade: The Wild Side of Love

7) Household Idols by Mark Henderson
Post: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/938759.html
Referral Link: Household Idols

8) Naked Boys Singing by Robert Schrock & Troy Christian
Post: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/945068.html
Referral Link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000UYBP7S/?tag=elimyrevandra-20

9) Manly by Dale Lazarov
Post: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/949804.html
Referral Link: Manly

10) Texas Twins: The Story of Morgan & Nash by Howard Roffman
Post: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/978366.html
Referral Link: Texas Twins

( non fiction, from 11 to 40 )

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Referrals Program: Yearly Top List

Maurice Dekobra (May 26/28, 1885 – June 2, 1973)

Maurice Dekobra (1885, May 26 or 28, Paris – 1973, June 2) was a French writer. His real name was Ernest Maurice Tessier. Seen as a subversive writer in the 1920s and 1930s, he became one of the best-known French writers between the First and the Second World Wars. His books have been translated into 77 languages. In spite of this, he has now been declared a "total unknown".

At the age of 19, he started his career as a trilingual journalist - French, English, German. The term 'dekobrisme' was coined from his fiction, which used journalistic features in his novels. He chose to live in the United States from 1939 to 1946. Upon returning to France, he started writing whodunits.

Some of his novels were made into films.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Dekobra

( Vintage Covers )

Event: Benefit Reading of Terrence McNally's SOME MEN

Date: Saturday, June 4th
Time: 19.00 - 22.00
Place: 916 N. FORMOSA AVE.
West Hollywood, CA

Featuring Maxwell Caulfield, Davis Gaines, Robert Gant and Special Guest Juliet Mills...

Join for a one-night-only benefit staged reading of Terrence McNally's play SOME MEN, which chronicles the history of the gay rights movement over a span of 80 years.

With: James Brandon, Steve Callahan, Brionne Davis, Paul Denniston, Cody Henderson, Matthew Montgomery, David Pevsner, Scott Presley, Michael A. Shepperd, and Joshua Wolf Coleman

Directed by Nic Arnzen

Tickets are extremely limited and it is highly recommended you purchase or reserve your spot online at: http://www.corpuschristi-themovie.com/

100% of the proceeds from the evening will benefit the "I AM Love" Campaign and the completion funds for the upcoming documentary "Corpus Christi: Playing with Redemption."

As an extension of the play and film, the "I AM Love" Campaign was formed to help combat bullying and homophobia in a peaceful and loving way. Through screenings of the film and further productions of the play, our company will conduct educational and arts-based workshops in less tolerant communities around the country.

The documentary is now in final post production edits before finally being released on a special tour later this year. But before it's been released or even seen by the general public, there has been a huge outcry from those against the premise of the film. In addition to a 50,000+ member Facebook group page protesting the film, the company has received countless vehement emails, volatile letters and even death threats as people all over the country work to ban the film from it's release.

Some Men and Deuce: Two Plays by Terrence McNally
Paperback: 256 pages
Publisher: Grove Press; Original edition (June 3, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0802144497
ISBN-13: 978-0802144492
Amazon: Some Men and Deuce: Two Plays

The New Yorker has called Terrence McNally “one of our most original and audacious dramatists and one of our funniest.” Now the four-time Tony Award–winning author of such classics as Love! Valor! Compassion! and Master Class returns with two heartrending and humorous plays about friendship, companionship, and love.

In Some Men, Terrence McNally takes us on a multigenerational journey of gay life in America. In interwoven vignettes, McNally uses the same characters at different points in their lives as gay men to address such issues as coming out, marriage, adoption, the military, and the AIDS crisis. In Deuce we meet Leona and Midge—two septuagenarian ladies doubles tennis champions who are reunited to be honored at a U.S. Open. As they watch the next generaion of female atheletes, these former tennis partners become embroiled in a verbal tête-à-tête as lively and nuanced as any match they ever played.