Sep 09 2013
Oyster, a book subscription service that launched a few days ago, provides an all-you-can-read experience for a monthly fee of $9.95 a month. Currently Oyster offers 100,000 titles including books from from HarperCollins, Workman, Melville House, and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Oyster is concentrating on making a seamless app for smartphones and is currently in invitation only mode. Those interested can visit Oyster to add themselves to the invitation wait-list.
The Funeral Cryer by Wenyan Lu
Debut novelist Wenyan Lu brings us this witty yet profound story about one woman's midlife reawakening in contemporary rural China.
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