What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
Monday August 18, 2008
When Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore) traded the physically demanding job of running his jazz club for the sedentary routine of a professional novelist, he learned he was going ... Read More
Free e-book Reader for iPhone and iPod Touch
Thursday August 14, 2008
Speaking of the Amazon Kindle, e-book readers, and how nothing will ever really replace the experience of holding an actual book in my hands, I just now downloaded and installed ... Read More
Barack Obama Is Your New Bicycle
Wednesday August 13, 2008
Wordless Wednesdays presents NEW political humor titles:
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Review of The Fourth Watcher by Timothy Hallinan
Wednesday August 13, 2008
The Fourth Watcher is the second novel featuring travel writer, Poke Rafferty. Set in Bangkok, it follows A Nail Through the Heart (2007), which came after a series of six ... Read More
Michael Chabon Wins Hugo Awards Best Novel Category
Monday August 11, 2008
I seem to have read a lot of Michael Chabon recently - just not the right ones. I hate it when that happens.
The Yiddish Policemen's Union, Michael Chabon's "murder-mystery ... Read More
Review of The Broken Window by Jeffery Deaver
Monday August 11, 2008
Fastidious author Jeffery Deaver has his ace forensic specialist and consultant for the NYPD, Lincoln Rhymes, come up against a mastermind killer who has unlimited access to the world's most ... Read More
101 Bibliophile Resources!
Sunday August 10, 2008
The Online Education Database has a great list of resources for bibliophiles. Lots to peruse there, even if they didn't put LibraryThing in the Social Media section or include ... Read More
Rome 1960: The Olympics that Changed the World
Friday August 8, 2008
In Rome 1960: The Olympics that Changed the World, Pulitzer-Prize winning author David Maraniss takes us to the beginning of the Olympic Games as we know them today. Maraniss looks ... Read More
Breaking Dawn Author Taking Questions Now
Tuesday August 5, 2008
Breaking Dawn, the final novel in Stephenie Meyer's best-selling Twilight saga was released this past weekend in the U.S. (and yesterday in the U.K.) to a Harry Potter-like reception, and ... Read More
Review of Out Backward by Ross Raisin
Tuesday August 5, 2008
Out Backward is a riveting debut from English author, Ross Raisin. Expelled from the school in town after having been accused of attempted rape, Sam Marsdyke keeps to his parents' ... Read More
Russian Nobel Laureate Dies at 89
Monday August 4, 2008
Russian novelist and historian, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, died of cardiac arrest today at the age of 89.
Solzhenitsyn was the author of the novel One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich ... Read More