Monthly Archives: March 2008
The other day I received an email from a small American book publisher wondering if I would like a review copy of their latest book so that I could review it on my blog. I write a whole bunch of … Continue reading
Descant (one of my favorite literary magazines!) recently wrote a post about cleaning off the bookshelf. Some titles are impossibly hard to part with, no matter how embarrassing. Yes, I’m talking about my entire Baby-Sitters Club series. Others, not so … Continue reading
Thanks to Descant, I recently discovered an online service called Book Mooch, where people all around the world can trade and share books. All you do is sign up, type in the books you want to give away. Once they … Continue reading
Papercut, the fabulous NY Times book blog, came up with the “seven deadly sins” of book reviews today–popular words in books reviews, used to sound “intelligent” and “literary.” The list includes the gems poignant; compelling; intriguing; eschew; craft (used as … Continue reading
A few weeks ago, the Wall Street Journal wrote an article about how Borders was going to increase the number of titles they shelve face-out, as to further entice buyers to a wider variety of titles. This article resulted in … Continue reading
In defense of (or in solidarity with) his Wired editor, Leander Kahney is giving away his two books, Cult of Mac and Cult of iPod for free as downloads. Bill Pollock of No Starch Press has some interesting things to … Continue reading
A few days ago, Slate posted an interesting article about the history of the phone book. Titled “Why Won’t Phone Books Die?” it chronicled their inception, increasing success and current demise of this information service. Given the various methods people … Continue reading
Thanks to Joe Wikert, I came across Podiobooks, a website that offers serialized audiobooks for free. Users can subscribe to a book or books and download the chapters to listen to as they are released. They let you get your … Continue reading
While I fall somewhere in the middle of the “print is dead” and “print will never die” schools of thought, there is one book medium which completely confuses me and always will–the hardcover book. Not necessarily the hardcover per se, … Continue reading
I wish I could say something more profound about this list. But I can’t. Except that it would have been more fun to read if they counted them down instead of listing them in order. 100 Greatest Last Lines from … Continue reading
