In the past seven days, I’ve seen two film versions of The Great Gatsby: first I went to see Baz Luhrmann’s cinematic spectacular!—I feel like every Luhrmann film title should be prefaced with circus ring leader-esque embellishment—in the theaters (this is a big deal, guys, the last time I went to a movie theater it [...]
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Like what you see in Reading Pathways? Back our book START HERE, Vol. 2 on Kickstarter to read your way into 25 amazing authors. Helene Hanff could be known as a one hit wonder of the literary world, that is unless you know better. Most people know her book (that was turned into a play, and then a movie [...]
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There’s a select group of book titles types that have been getting on my nerves so much I had to use all my restraint to keep from writing this post in all caps. Below, a list of title algorithms I’m just the most over and BONUS PLUS explanations why. 1.) The (Fill in the Blank)’s [...]
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When I started thinking about this piece, I thought about it as just a list of my (many!) seemingly arbitrary rules for reading. Once I got started, though, I discovered that those rules actually tell you so much about me that they double as personality traits. In fact, they say so much about me that [...]
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You guys, I did a bad thing. Well, not really a bad thing so much as a Thing That Other Readers Will Not Like. Ok, not so much a Thing Other Readers Will Not Like so much as a Thing People Who Fetishize Physical Books Will Not Like: I purged. And I purged hard. I [...]
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Created by Didier Muller for this year’s International Design Biennial in France, The Library Exchange is an installation intended to foster intra-community book donations and borrowing. People are encouraged to browse the hanging containers and take a book that interests them–and leave one for others. It seems simple enough that a local library could put [...]
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Girls, not boys, in all three countries received more time from parents on three activities: reading, storytelling, and teaching letters and numbers. Maybe boys aren’t as interested, and so the interest isn’t reinforced? Too squirrelly to keep still? Huh. ____________________________ Ebook besteller lists will now appear only online, not in print. The reasoning behind [...]
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Tuesday is New Book Day. We celebrate each week by highlighting titles we’re excited to see arrive in paperback. We’ll be taking a little break next week, so we’ve included a few titles from next week’s paperback releases, too. May 21 Cold Killing by Luke Delaney (William Morrow) The debut novel in a terrifying London-based thriller [...]
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This round of the Riot Recommendation is sponsored by Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo. Surrounded by enemies, the once-great nation of Ravka has been torn in two by the Shadow Fold, a swath of near impenetrable darkness crawling with monsters. Now its fate may rest on the shoulders of one lonely refugee. Alina Starkov has never [...]
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Have you ever read a book that got everything right? A book that so fully reflects your own thoughts and feelings that you almost feel cheated, like the author stole the words from your subconscious and slapped them down on paper just to screw with you? Please welcome to the show: Nick Hornby’s Fever Pitch, everyone! See, I’m… [...]
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Electric lighting has been an enormous boon to readers. Before its advent, reading after dark meant squinting in the flickering light thrown off by a candle or lantern. Not only was this obnoxious as all hell, it both used up often limited resources and risked damage to home (fire!) and body (overuse-induced pseudomyopia!). Together, electricity [...]
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LH: It’s already the middle of freaking May! *insert something witty about the passage of time here* Now, if you’re like me, and I’m pretty sure you are, sugar britches, I think a book you read during summer months = a summer read. It could be because summer is like any other season for me. [...]
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We’re in the homestretch of our Kickstarter campaign to publish START HERE, Vol. 2, a book dedicated to guiding you into reading authors you’ve been wanting to try but haven’t, because you didn’t know where to start. At this posting, we’re more than $15K toward our $20K goal, with more than 865 backers!. We have until midnight [...]
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Baz Luhrmann is the man who brought aquarium cute-meets and methamphetamines (not to mention a plus sign!!) to Romeo and Juliet and floating bobbly words and Jay-Z to The Great Gatsby. Oh, what dazzling wonders and unspeakable horrors will he wreak on classic literature next? More importantly, what magic and havoc do we WANT him to [...]
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The only type of paid review that Amazon supports is an editorial review. An editorial review is a more formal evaluation of a book usually written by an editor or expert within a genre, but can also be written by family and friends. If you have received an editorial review of your book that you’d [...]
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It’s the time of year for academic send-offs, graduation gifts, and general future-gazing. Understandably, college and universities like to send their graduates out on a high note, so the tenor of commencement speeches is hopeful and inspiring. Thing is, post-graduation life is considerably more complicated than “be the change you want to see in the [...]
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This round of the Riot Recommendation is sponsored by The Year of the Gadfly by Jennifer Miller. Storied, fiercely competitive Mariana Academy was founded with a serious honor code; its reputation has been unsullied for decades. Now a long-dormant secret society, Prisom’s Party, threatens its placid halls with vigilante justice, exposing students and teachers alike for [...]
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The Engagements by J. Courtney Sullivan (Knopf, on sale date June 11, 2013) This book is an iteration of the technique where a book follows a number of different stories that turn out to be linked. In this novel, the common thread is a particular antique diamond ring. The stories connected by the ring are [...]
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Earlier this month, Derek wrote about The Smallest Book in the World (and Other Really Little Books). Everyone loves the charm of miniature books, but a few collectors have taken this love above and beyond to create some of the most unique and valuable libraries in the world. That’s right, I’m talking about doll house [...]
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Reinterpreting myths, fairy tales, and folk tales is way more than a cottage industry—a castle industry?—in publishing these days. From literary fiction (The Tiger’s Wife) to YA (Robin McKinley’s books, Runemarks) to graphic novels (the Fable series, The Sigh) to humor (Gods Behaving Badly), authors are picking up and reimagining bits and pieces from millennia [...]
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