The New York Review of Books: Books@Google

The New York Review of Books: Books@Google
A plethora of Google books are, or have been, published...

Richard Ford review

Independent Online Edition > Reviews
Any reviewer talking about Richard Ford and Richard Yates has got my attention...

Book blues

This cassette tape image generator I found over on Boing Boing today is cool! Generate any hit band and album name you want...

A Moment With ... Jack Prelutsky, America's first children's poet laureate

A Moment With ... Jack Prelutsky, America's first children's poet laureate
Prelutsky is THE pre-eminent wacky children's poet, now that Shel Silverstein has passed on. His book, A Pizza the Size of the Sun, is one of my favorite children's book.

Murakami wins the world's richest short story prize

Guardian Unlimited Books | News | Murakami wins the world's richest short story prize

Poet Adrienne Rich gets book award

USATODAY.com - Poet Adrienne Rich gets book award

Richard Dawkins on the God Delusion

Boing Boing: Richard Dawkins on the God Delusion
Ditto the Boing Boing reviewer -- I can't wait to read this book!

Here's another review in Saturday's Guardian Unlimited...

Young Writers shortlisted for Dylan Thomas Prize

Independent Online Edition > News
The Under-30 crowd has a new prize -- the Dylan Thomas Prize, set-up to encourage cultural life in an international context. The winner will be announced on October 27th...

Graphic Novel Review: True Story, Swear To God by Tom Beland

Blogcritics.org: Graphic Novel Review: True Story, Swear To God by Tom Beland

Love of Reading

Love of Reading
Cool! Love of Reading is hosting an Online Book Fair, October 3-5, 2006, with hourly raffles and giveaways galore!

Audio book club

The October audio book club selection. By Andy Bowers - Slate Magazine
Neat! A podcasting book club for those on the go...

David Crystal: books on language

Guardian Unlimited Books | Top 10s | David Crystal: books on language
Linguist David Crystal offers his Top Ten list of books on the English language...

Unfinished Tolkien work to be published

USATODAY.com - Unfinished Tolkien work to be published
For all you Frodo fans out there -- J.R.R. Tolkien's son, Christopher, is about to complete a book begun by his father in 1918...

Seeing by Jose Saramago: Reviews

Seeing by Jose Saramago: Reviews
For those who read and loved Saramago's Blindness comes the sequel, set fours year later after national elections go fatalistically wrong -- all the ballots are blank!
Intriguing, I know...

Blogcritics.org: Manga Review: Beautiful People by Mitsukazu Mihara

Blogcritics.org: Manga Review: Beautiful People by Mitsukazu Mihara
I liked the blurb, "...manga for those who think differently from the rest of the world...".

NPR : How Sept. 11 Invaded Her Novel

NPR : How Sept. 11 Invaded Her Novel
Claire Messud's novel, The Emperor's Children, is getting good press everywhere. She's on NPR, she's in the Powell's Books Review-a-Day, she's in the Guardian Unlimited Books section -- she's everywhere!

John Updike short stories get Rea Award

USATODAY.com - John Updike short stories get Rea Award

Metacritic review site

Special Topics In Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl: Reviews
This post isn't so much about this new book, Special Topics in Calamity Physics, but about the website, Metacritic.com, which lists reviews of books, films, dvds, music, games, books, etc. Its pretty neat and easy to use. Gives a score out of a 100 for the book and lists the publications and a quick peek at the overall mood of the book review, whether positive or negative. Cool site...

Sure signs of a budding artist: anxiety, anguish, and self-doubt

Sure signs of a budding artist: anxiety, anguish, and self-doubt - The Boston Globe
Jonathan Franzen wrote the bestselling novel, The Corrections, but is probably best known for dissing Oprah Winfrey and her Book Club when he refused to go on her show to talk about the book. What an ingrate -- but, still -- a heck of a writer!

The Man Booker Prize 2006 :: the 2006 Prize Shortlist

The Man Booker Prize 2006 :: the 2005 Prize Shortlist
The Man Booker shortlist was announced today -- Sarah Waters' new book is on the list -- yippee! If you have never read any of Waters' fiction, run, NOT WALK, to your nearest library and pick up a copy of Fingersmith, her Dickensian novel about a street thief and a rich aristocrat in England. Wonderful writer...

A sweetener to help you give up Sugar

Telegraph | Entertainment | A sweetener to help you give up Sugar

sweet!

Hodgman's book ad is a Plimpton homage

Boing Boing: Hodgman's book ad is a Plimpton homage
I love John Hodgman! This Daily Show regular and Apple's PC impersonator is a hoot -- Areas of Expertise should be a fun read if it is half as good as Hodgman in those Mac ads...

Cool reads for cooler nights

Cool reads for cooler nights - The Boston Globe
Recommendations for your upcoming fall reading. I intend to burrow myself away one of these beautiful fall Saturdays with some of these books...

You Really Should Not Read Bill Bryson in Public Places

Blogcritics.org: You Really Should Not Read Bill Bryson in Public Places
An intriguing recommendation for reading Bill Bryson...

What art has helped you make sense of 9/11? - Slate Magazine

What art has helped you make sense of 9/11? - Slate Magazine
Artists, novelists and thinkers were asked what book or piece of literature has helped them make sense of the world after 9/11...

Little Children - Todd Field - Movies - New York Times

Little Children - Todd Field - Movies - New York Times

Based on Tom Perrotta's satirical 2004 novel, Little Children...

Alan Moore's Alice/Wendy/Dorothy graphic novel

Boing Boing: Alan Moore's pornographic Alice/Wendy/Dorothy graphic novel


Why is it that if graphic novels treat sex they are considered "pornographic"? Or maybe its because the novel is about 3 famous "girls" of fiction?

Boing Boing: Top 25 stories ignored by media in past year

Boing Boing: Top 25 stories ignored by media in past year

Project Censored compiles this list and publishes into a fantastic book at the end of the year. Chock full of more stories ignored by the media, websites, references, links to alternative press and media sources, this is a must read for indy thinkers...

My workplace...

Here is my workplace:
Although I don't get to work with books every day, I am surrounded by them! Although I wish I had more time for reading, I'm glad I have a job that is challenging and busy -- no time to read on this job, I'm afraid.
Not the idea of librarian most people picture. I teach classes and work with the computer all day -- I DON'T check out books or stamp cards!

The Last King of Scotland

Giles Fodden wrote a book back in 1998 called The Last King of Scotland about a young Scottish doctor who fantastically becomes the personal physician of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin and thus, part of his inner circle, witness to the many barbarities and atrocities of this evil man. A movie starring Forrest Whitaker and Nicholas Garrigan is set to release on September 27th. It looks amazing...

Snuggle up with a not-so-popular mystery

USA Today has recommendations for mystery novels not on the bestseller charts. I was pleased to see two Janet Evanovich novels on the list.

Naguib Mahfouz dies at 94

Egyptian writer Naguib Mafouz died at age 94 on August 30th. Mafouz won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1988, being the first Arab writer to do so.