BOOKS & eREADING MONDAY: Top 100 Breaking News, Headlines & Stories Worthy to Read/Watch & Share
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Mr. Gentry’s books ranged from the Manson murders to J. Edgar Hoover to the madams of San Francisco.
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Sunday, July 20 marked the 30th anniversary of "The NeverEnding Story," the beloved '80s fantasy film that continues to captivate viewers to this day. Were you a fan? Think you still are? Or are you NOTHING? (Eh? EH?) Okay, let's do this...
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Ernest Hemingway was born on this day in 1899 -- if he were alive, it'd be his 115th birthday. To celebrate, we've wrangled up 15 photos that best illustrate his adventuresome spirit. The events of his life sound like the stuff of novels...
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Assiduous bibliophiles know their T.S. Eliots and F. Scott Fitzgeralds -- the authors who shaped our modern conception of the 1920s. But which books were readers buying en masse? A close look at the bestseller lists from the era reveals ...
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Sales of ebooks in the UK have continued to grow in the early part of 2014, even as ebook sales growth has tapered in the U.S. Ebook sales are up 10.5% in the UK through the first four months of …
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On Tuesday's episode of "The View," Marvel revealed a bombshell: Its new "Thor" series will star not a male god of Thunder, but a female one . Not a Thor sidekick. Not a simply a gender-swapped Thor-ess or Lady Thor. Just "Thor," a woman...
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Jean-Paul Sartre was born in 1905. His father, a navy captain, died when he was a baby – and he grew up extremely close to his mother until she remarried, much to his regret, when he was twelve. Sartre spent most of his life in Paris, wh...
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Comparing Amazon's new ebook subscription service to its competitors, selling ebooks through Facebook, the latest Author Earnings report, Google Play gets bigger, Apple's settlement and more.
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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — The first trailer for the "Fifty Shades of Grey" movie will be released this week and the original Christian Grey, Charlie Hunnam, says he can't wait for the finished product. Speaking Sunday at a Fox event a...
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Many of the top e-Paper companies have developed flexible display screens that are relevant in smart watches and e-readers. The big problem is many of the internal components are not flexible, which results in bulky and cumbersome produc...
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Our next #FutureChat, coming Friday (25th July) will be on the topic of subscriptions, same time as usual: 4 p.m. London time, 11 a.m. New York time, 8 a.m. Los Angeles, 5 p.m. Berlin, 3 p.m. GMT. We'd be glad to have you join us. To eas...
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If you’re a self-published novelist, your line of books is your small business. Like any small business, you need a marketing strategy. There are lots of marketing activities that you can engage in to promote your book, but before you st...
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Amazon’s new Kindle Unlimited e-book subscription service, which launched in the US last...
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Consumer e-book sales rose 10% in the first quarter of 2014, according to the Publishers...
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The founder of Arcadia Books, Gary Pulsifer, has been dismissed from his position as publisher of...
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Authors United, the group of writers who signed a letter calling on Amazon to resolve its dispute...
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The Folio Society, the UK publisher of up-market limited editions, is moving into retail, innovating in print, and continuing to seek out the best writers have to offer.
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James Joyce's novel is an act of pure linguistic pyrotechnics, so when faced with the task of illustrating it John Vernon Lord was understandably 'bewildered.'
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Robert Stein, an editor at magazines such as McCall’s and Redbook, died last week at age 90. In its obituary, the Times points out that McCall’s (known as a “women’s magazine”) evolved rapidly under Stein’s innovative leadership: “He in-...
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Somerset Maugham's semi-autobiographical novel shows the author's savage honesty and gift for storytelling at their best Continue reading...
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The acerbic left-wing magazine has made all of its 25 back issues available online for the first time.
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The acerbic left-wing magazine has made all of its 25 back issues available online for the first time.
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In the era before cheap air travel, those in the English-speaking world who wanted to taste authentic French village life read Gabriel Chevallier’s gently satirical novels, published between the mid-1930s and the early 1960s. &ldqu...
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July 21, 2014: Today’s NOOK Daily Find offer is FAMOUS BABY – hilariously explores mother love, identity, and the hazards of parental over-sharing in the social media age – for just $1.99. Overview “”Famous Baby is inv...
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Verdict: 5 Stars This is a book entirely about love: love between spouses, love between siblings, love for nature and the land. When the author’s wife lost her brother to suicide, he had no way of bringing her out of her pain other...
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In the two days since Amazon officially announced their ebook subscription service, everyone and their cousin has posted an editorial on the question of whether KU is good or bad for authors. Being neither an author nor a publishers, I s...
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Unlike the books in Jacqueline Winspear’s popular Maisie Dobbs series, “ The Care and Management of Lies ” is not a mystery — although its scenes of World War I trench warfare certainly leave a reader in suspense. As much a story of the ...
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In “Lucky Us,” the novelist Amy Bloom describes the improvised passage through the 1940s by two half sisters, their father and loves.
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The International Alliance of Independent Publishers will be holding their International Assembly in Cape Town this year from September 17-21.
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'If you are looking for a book to find out a bit more about the war and the people who had to live through it, then I strongly recommend this one' Continue reading...
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There are a lot of opinions about where you should go to college. A lot of those opinions are probably wrong -- at least the ones based on myths about what makes a good school to get a degree from. We wanted to explain a few things a lot...
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Some of our favourite panels from the fantastic Phoenix comic featuring Corpse Talk chatting to Gandhi and Amelia Earhart and the adventures of Tamsin and the Deep. Plus there's a really tricky puzzle, and you can learn to draw awesome d...
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The Phoenix is a phenomenon: a beautiful, enjoyably silly story magazine for girls and boys its advert-free and its the longest-lasting new launch in the market in decades. Could the delights of Corpse Talk and Tamsin and the Deep usher ...
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Here’s a set of 3 bargain books and 2 free books for you to download and enjoy! Please “LIKE” and share your literary discoveries with a friend or two. Book Of The Day: Death Of A Princess by T.C. Barnes has a 5 star rating and is on sal...
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Here are another 3 bargain books and 2 free books for you to check out. Remember to “LIKE” and share ENT with friends and family. Book Of The Day: Death Of A Princess by T.C. Barnes has a 5 star rating and is on sale for only 99 cents &#...
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Choose from this selection of 4 bargain books and 2 free books for your reading enjoyment. Make sure to “LIKE” and let fellow book lovers in on your favorite site for Kindle books. Book Of The Day: Death Of A Princess by T.C. Barnes has ...
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'At some parts in the novel I found myself giggling at the mental picture Shirvington has painted' Continue reading...
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Enjoy your Sunday with your e-reader and these 4 bargain books and 2 free books. Please “LIKE” and share these books with friends and friends of friends. Book Of The Day: Death Of A Princess by T.C. Barnes has a 5 star rating and is on s...
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The Chinese gadget maker Hisense thrilled gadget buyers last year when it released the Sero 7 Pro, a $149 Android tablet that set the standard for the budget tablet market last year. I for one was expecting Hisense to repeat that trick i...
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Reader James Cole on a tale of two cities which rewards the sort of leisurely rereading that only a holiday can offer Continue reading...
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In what is perhaps the single most telling example of why the traditional publishing fails to address the needs of authors, The Guardian posted an interview with Phillip Jones, editor of the Bookseller, and Nicola Solomon, general secret...
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Helen Brown is moved by a memoir of a father's grief - and a tribute to a life cut short
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A doubting Thomas kidnaps and interrogates significant people in his life in Dave Eggers's ambitious, dialogue-only novel Continue reading...
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Anastasia Taylor-Lind eschews reportage for quietly effective portraiture on the front line of the anti-government protests Continue reading...
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FROM whips and electro-torture to BDSM, Eyes Wide Shut parties and slave markets, author Robin Reinach reveals the 10 most shocking things she experienced on the New York kink scene while researching her new novel Broken Open
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'Their stories start to entwine through a cassette player which carries the story brilliantly to the end' Continue reading...
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The elasticity of digital publishing can give new life to the shorter form, as DJ Taylor discovered I wasn't sure what to make of From the Heart , DJ Taylor's digital novella about a corporate insolvency practitioner going through an ear...
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The Earl of Rochester's highly candid poetry was mirrored by his anarchic life Continue reading...
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Cressida Connolly enjoys a glimpse into the eccentric life of Huguette Clark, one of America's richest women
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Innovative leadership and your culture Introduction. What is innovation and why it is important to your business? Innovation and technology. Company culture. What is your company’s culture and does it lend itself to an innovative and hig...
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Feminist author Laurie Penny has been subjected to “a stream of vile sexist and anti-Semitic abuse” as part of a campaign against her book Unspeakable Things, she says.
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Feminist author Laurie Penny has been subjected to “a stream of vile sexist and anti-Semitic abuse” as part of a campaign against her book Unspeakable Things , she says.
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Spiritual awakening, esoteric traditions and raising of energy and consciousness in the body have been topics that have always fascinated me. The first pick for this month from wordsmithwannabe captures a moment of the energy vortices wi...
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“Weird Al” Yankovic’s new album “Mandatory Fun” includes this gem for us wordy types. Pure “Weird Al” and hysterical. Enjoy!
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Today on Amazon’s Gold Box, get 28% off on Jetson 41-Inch Electric Bikes. “Zero carbon, zero emissions. The Jetson electric bike is an affordable, stylish, and safe way to zip around, with speeds up to 20 mph and a 40-mile ra...
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The Kindle Deals of the Day for those in the UK: Beware of Pity (£0.99 UK; $9.99 US) by Stefan Zweig [Pushkin Press] In 1913 a young second lieutenant discovers the terrible danger of pity. He had no idea the girl was lame when he asked ...
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Fifteen seconds and counting. astronauts report they feel good. T-minus nine seconds. Ignition sequence starts. I wasn’t even born when President Kennedy announced his grand dream for NASA to land men on the moon and return them sa...
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Magic Bites by Ilona Andrews. $ 1.99 From the Jacket Copy: Mercenary Kate Daniels cleans up urban problems of a paranormal kind. But her latest prey, a pack of undead warriors, presents her greatest challenge. Just Human by Kerry Heaven....
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Poetry News: At one of the first quarterfinal rounds of the 17th annual Brave New Voices International Youth Poetry Slam Festival, in Philadelphia for the first time this year, it was easy to see why brave was in the title.Link!
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Lux lives in Atlanta, where he holds the Bourne Chair in Poetry and is director of the McEver Visiting Writers Program at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He has been awarded three NEA ...Link!
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Hopeless Book Buying For those who know the annoyance of habitual buying of books that one is never going to read. Kat Kennedy totally knows that feel and shares a list of some of the books she has bought, knowing at the time of purchase...
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I have a lot of fun making people up and if it’s fun, then it must be easy. Kimberly G. Giarratano – 20 July 2014 The Back Flap Parted by death. Tethered by love. Lainey Bloom’s high school senior … Continue reading &...
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JK Rowling says that she will write a crime series that will run even longer than her Harry Potter books.
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If you're looking for a cracking summer read, NPR's Madhulika Sikka says you absolutely must pick up Michael Koryta's thrill-a-minute new novel about a teenager on the run in the Montana woods.
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Is there a more literary city than London? Home of Dickens and Shakespeare; Harry, Ron, and Hermione; and of course Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock Holmes? There is so much to see in literary London; here are just a few highlights. R...
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Book Riot News is our community site for sharing and finding interesting book-related content from all over the web. Here are the top stories from the week that was: 22 Most Beautiful Bookshops in the World Public Li...
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Or, rather, you can feel free to discuss them with her: I'm going to start posting what books I read on a weekly basis. If some of you want to read the same book & discuss, feel free. — Frances … Continued You just fi...
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I don’t know if you’re a fan of filmmaker and animator Hayao Miyazaki. There are reasons you might not be. For example you might hate happiness and art or you might be from another world and find the films hard … Contin...
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Singapore on Friday stopped its national library from destroying two children’s books with gay themes following an outcry over literary censorship in the tightly regulated city-state. Information Minister Yaacob Ibrahim ordered the...
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Italian professor Joseph Luzzi's new memoir digs into the divisions in Italian society: north and south, poor and rich, and the question of his own complicated identity as an Italian American.
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There were a lot of comments about security in last week’s post, so I thought this week I would talk about computer security issues. I’ll hit just a few subjects, since this is a big and complicated one. And, of... more
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Welcome to First Page Sunday. Individual authors anonymously send a first page read and critiqued by the Dear Author community of authors, readers and industry others. Anyone is welcome to comment. You may comment anonymously. You can su...
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The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Kimba @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer. ~this meme was inspired in part by ~ In My Mailbox~ It’s a chance to share News. A post to recap the past week, showcase books and things we have received and...
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Dirty Magic ($1.99 Kindle), the first novel in Jaye Wells’s new Prospero’s War series [Hachette]. If you resisted when I featured it as a new release, now is the time to buy. Book Description MAGIC IS A DRUG. CAREFUL HOW YOU ...
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Poetry News: They've been practicing for months, writing poetry from their own lives about things like family, abuse, mental illness, and love.Link!
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The people of Brazil have something else to cheer about in addition the recent World Cup festivities. Check out the Livraria Cultura bookshop in São Paulo designed by Studio MK-27. The goal was to create a bookshop that doubled as a meet...
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“For kids—and writers of kids’ books—New York City is magic. The sights and streets of NYC have been inspiring literary folk from the time of Herman Melville, but as much as short stories and novels make the City come to life...
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It's often said that love knows no bounds. There will be living proof of this adage in a celebration of international love poetry at a global literary festival in London today.
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21 July 1970
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reviewed by Ming Liu. Ming Liu is a journalist for the Financial Times and the author of the novel Our Man in China.
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HarperCollins will publish 15 new stories by the late crime writer Elmore Leonard. The stories were found after his death and were written early in his career. Read more on readersread.com Permalink | Recent Headlines | Facebook | Our Ne...
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There is a theme in crime literature of women being either the femme fatale or the victim When I first read Raymond Chandler, in six out of seven of his novels the woman presented herself sexually, and it galvanised me into thinking, sur...
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lessed are the latecomers. By a couple of days, I missed the official press unveiling of the restored Mauritshuis, the treasure-crammed "jewel-box" of an art museum in The Hague that houses the Dutch royal picture collection. So, after t...
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Pablo Neruda is a name known around the world, perhaps made even better-known to your average poetry-fearing American through the highly acclaimed foreign language film "Il Postino." Ted Lyon, of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese ...
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Sorry for an unannounced disappearance! I've been in London since Thursday attending The Space Between conference, which was absolutely wonderful (albeit extremely hot - I had to make a lunchtime trip to buy t-shirt, shorts, and flip-flo...
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Today on Amazon’s Gold Box, get 45% off on a Dyson DC41 Multi-Floor Upright Vacuum, while they last. These always seem to sell out. In the Bonus Deal of the Day, get 50% off on the Cuisinart 11-Piece Stainless Steel Cookware Set. T...
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Having a great time, wish you here. Unless you are here, in which case, hey! Glad you’re here! And if you are here, a reminder that I am DJing an 80s dance tonight at 10pm, in the 42 lounge. Be there!
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The Kindle Deals of the Day for those in the UK: Gang Wars of the North – The Inside Story of the Deadly Battle Between Viv Graham and Lee Duffy: Viv Graham and Lee Duffy – Too Hard to Live, Too Young to Die (£0.99 UK; $6.39 ...
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Author Karen Wilson shares her memories of a special relationship with a golden retriever in her new memoir "Dakota Gold" Link!
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Dear Lia Silver: I knew I was going to like this book when the hero tries to guess the heroine’s shifting ability based on her scent which is green, of cut grass and new leaves. “Tree shifter” he asks her.... more
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Modern Love: 10 Contemporary Romances by Rising Stars by Crimson Romance. $ 0.99 From the Jacket Copy: When love calls, it’s rarely easy but always memorable, and definitely worth turning the pages. Recapture the thrill, the delicious an...
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The poetry slam final was held at the Warwick Bridge Theatre and hosted by the former Poet Laureate for Birmingham, Spoz. Teams from.. Link!
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Hello, hello! Ladies and gentlemen, this is it. We are officially in the final countdown to the release of Isla and the Happily Ever After by Stephanie Perkins and I, for one, could not be more excited. These books are the cutest ...
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Tim Parks Raise your hand if you know what the actual sales are for Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle . This mammoth work of autobiography—presently running at three five-hundred-page volumes with three more still to be translated from h...
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As part of our summer Book Your Trip series, Petra Mayer delves into the mysteries of time travel: how do authors make it work? What's the appeal? And should you kill Hitler, if you get the chance?
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It's the book critic's eternal dilemma: how do you fit all that reading into your daily life? Juan Vidal has an unusual solution: he gets his reading done in bars, preferably dark bars at mid-day.
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To preface this thought: A few weeks ago an article on Huffington Post’s book blog popped up titled “Why Books Stink“. While I consider myself to be a fairly news savvy person, I also tend to be about six-to-ten hours &...
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This weekend’s giveaway is sponsored by Homeroom Diaries by James Patterson & Lisa Papademetriou. In James Patterson’s first highly illustrated “diary fiction” story for teens, the mega-bestselling author̵...
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Let’s take a look back at the week that was here at Book Riot: from 10 Famous Poems Recited by Famous Actors by Cassandra Neace ____________________ When the library is made to be seen as a business, rather than the heart … C...
