Picador's New Book Club on Twitter

[Nate the great]

Picador is a Macmillan imprint that specializes in literary trade paperbacks. Today they are announcing a new book club:

Today we are proud to announce the inaugural session of our new book club on Twitter. The Book Club grew out of Picador’s observations of a growing literary community on Twitter, as bloggers, readers and publishers have come together over the past few months on this new social networking platform. We are excited to be a part of this quickly growing venture and to engage with our fellow online booklovers!

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Our first selection (hashtag #pic1) is paperback original THE HOUSEKEEPER AND THE PROFESSOR by Yoko Ogawa, translated by Stephen Snyder and now an INDIE NEXT PICK (February 2009.)

We will give away 20 copies of the book to Twitter users at 2:00 PM ET Tuesday, March 24th and on Friday April 10th, editor David Rogers will moderate discussion on the book and take Twitterers’s questions.

The following Book Club pick (hashtag pic#2) will be Augusten Burroughs’s A WOLF AT THE TABLE (giveaway Tuesday, March 31st) and Augusten himself will join Picador to host the discussion on Friday, April 17th. For a complete list of upcoming book club picks and more information on how to participate, check out www.picadorbookclub.com.

[daffy4u]

2:00 pm in what time zone?

Edit: Found it.

We'll be giving away copies of the book at 2pm ET on March 24th. We will discuss this title on April 10, 2009.

[Sparrow]

Is that their official logo?

[Nate the great]

Originally Posted by Sparrow

Is that their official logo?

No. I found it online. The figure in the picture is a picador.

[Jellby]

Originally Posted by Nate the great

No. I found it online. The figure in the picture is a picador.

Hum... no, that's a "banderillero". A "picador" rides a horse. This is a picador:

[Nate the great]

Originally Posted by Jellby

Hum... no, that's a "banderillero". A "picador" rides a horse. This is a picador:

Thank you for telling me. I replaced it.

[Daithi]

Ok, out of curiosity, I want to see what Nate originally posted.

[rlrho]

I can't find where these books are available to read on my Kindle. Am I missing something?

[Nate the great]

Originally Posted by Daithi

Ok, out of curiosity, I want to see what Nate originally posted.

Here:

[daffy4u]

Originally Posted by Daithi

Ok, out of curiosity, I want to see what Nate originally posted.

It was a bigger scary silhouette of a bull about to bite the big one.

Edit: Late to the party.

[Nate the great]

Originally Posted by rlrho

I can't find where these books are available to read on my Kindle. Am I missing something?

The 2nd, 3rd, and 5th books can be found in the Kindle store.

I also sent an email and asked what formats they will give away.

[S.Canton]

That's awfully generous of them to do that. On a another note, it's interesting to see so many people and corporations utilizing Twitter; it seems that even Facebook is trying to become more Twitter like.

[Daithi]

I liked Nate's picture.

I read Death in the Afternoon by Hemingway and had wondered what the padded horses looked like. I'm sure the picadors were more impressive when they didn't pad the horses, but I'm also sure the horses prefer not getting gored.

[Gomoto]

let´s start a mobilread book club,

hold on it is already in existence:

mobileread book club - future books

[Jellby]

Originally Posted by Daithi

I read Death in the Afternoon by Hemingway and had wondered what the padded horses looked like. I'm sure the picadors were more impressive when they didn't pad the horses, but I'm also sure the horses prefer not getting gored.

Like this and this?

If you are interested in bullfighting scenes, take a look at La Tauromaquia.