Whether you re-read the same book or article to remind you of concepts, or read content on time management and organization as a constant reminder to work on these things, reading is valuable because it keeps important concepts top of mind. And if you are lucky, it will also keep you from using worn business [...]
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They say we’re all just one phone call from our knees. In my case, it was just one concrete step: Last Wednesday, I was running out to do some errands, and I tripped on my front steps. Before I had even reached the ground, I knew something was very wrong. My left ankle was in [...]
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If you haven’t heard, we’re in the middle of a Kickstarter campaign to publish a book called START HERE: Read Your Way Into 25 Amazing Authors. Inspired by the success of our Reading Pathways series and our observation that every reader has at least one author–and in some cases, many authors–they haven’t read because they [...]
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I used to live in Cambridge in the early ’90s before ebooks, before the iPhone, when I was in my 30s, during the swing dance revival. I used to frequent bookstores. The Harvard Coop, The Harvard Bookstore, the Grolier Poetry Bookshop which, gentle people, if you can believe it, was and still is, all poetry. [...]
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If you’ve been on the wedding circuit this summer, you’ve likely gotten sprinkled with classic literature along with the confetti and buttercream. A Shakespeare sonnet, a dash of Donne, maybe some Jane Austen or Browning? But ever since Rebecca described the literary quotes used in her wedding, we’ve been thinking about contemporary authors who write [...]
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In 15 years, nobody at a barbecue has ever asked me to expound on the weaknesses of a mid-list novel they’ve never heard of. So true. You can really only expound on the weaknesses of Freedom, 50 Shades, or The Help at all the best barbecues. ____________________________ Current plans for the library expansion include what Allen [...]
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How do I feel about emoticons? :-/ I think that means “a tad ambivalent”—that’s what I intend, anyway. I’m not very good at using emoticons, and probably wouldn’t recognize the majority of those that the kids are texting around these days. I admit that I find some emoticons helpful and even necessary as shorthand in [...]
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The most popular stories from the last week in Critical Linking… ____________________________ So I’m pulling ALL my work from the iBookstore today. I apologize to iBookstore fans. I tried. Hard. This is one thing I think readers won’t stand; digital distributors of books blocking titles because of content that is not only legal, but completely unobjectionable except [...]
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We’re ten days into our Kickstarter campaign for START HERE, a book designed to help you dive into authors you’ve been wanting to read but haven’t because you didn’t know where to start. It’s rocking right along, and we know that the best way to keep it going and make the book a reality is to get the [...]
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Here are the most popular book trailers from the last week on BookRiot.tv. Click the cover to watch!
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Our most popular posts from the week that was… The two most popular book cataloguing/social networking sites seem to be Goodreads and LibraryThing.So which one should you use? What are the benefits/drawbacks of each? I’ve got accounts on both sites and have done some major digging into their terms of service (TOS) and various functionalities to give you [...]
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As readers grow older, their tastes often become more rarified, more refined, more recherché. Alliteration, however, is not rarified, refined, or that French word. ____________________________ I make no moral claims for motherhood — which can bring out the worst in a person, in the form of vicarious rivalry, bitchiness, envy and even mental illness — [...]
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Publication Date: July 24, 2012 Genre: Mystery/Literary Publisher: Viking Publisher’s Synopsis: Mick “Scorcher” Kennedy, the brash cop from Tana French’s bestselling Faithful Place, plays by the book and plays hard. That’s what’s made him the Murder squad’s top detective—and that’s what puts the biggest case of the year into his hands. On one of the half-built, [...]
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After watching (and re-watching) (and re-re-watching) BBC’s Sherlock, the mini-series that might as well be called “The Platonic Ideal of Television,” the bar for Sherlock Holmes adaptations is set pretty high. Like somewhere between the earth’s stratosphere and outer space high. So of course American television network CBS was like “What up? Public domain property [...]
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Welcome back to the Reading Road Trip here on Book Riot. We’re traveling the country through literature and making sure you have an ample amount of titles to read no matter where your next adventure takes you. Be sure to check out the entire road trip here. The rolling hills and plains of the heartland are [...]
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Recently Goodreads, the popular social cataloging website, has found itself in the middle of a dust-up between some of the site’s users and some authors. An anonymous group recently started a website to highlight what they call “author bullying” on Goodreads, which basically amounts to readers leaving unkind reviews that sometimes also comment on authors [...]
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I started this two-parter with a list of nonfiction books about the life and times of The Great Gatsby’s author, F. Scott Fitzgerald. In this post, I’m going to stretch the time period a little bit and offer some nonfiction about some of the themes that resonated most with me from the book.
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Our weekly round-up of the best bookish lists floating around the internet. at Flavorwire, 10 Graphic Novels That Would Make Awesome TV Shows at TODAY Books, 6 Books to Ignite Your Olympic Spirit at The New York Times Book Review, Colson Whitehead’s Rules for Writing at Electric Literature, Top 7 Literary Scandals at io9, 10 Recent [...]
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August 6, 2012
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Our Favorite Comments: July 29 – August 4, 2012
We love our readers, and we love what they have to say just as much. Here are some of our favorite comments from the week that was. “You should run Hollywood, you really should. Or at least bookriot. whoever is running bookriot right now should step down in awestruckitude.” by Aregee on The CLOUD ATLAS Trailer [...]
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