We asked our contributors to share the best book they read this month. We’ve got fiction and nonfiction, books for kids and books for adults, and some genre for fun. Some are old, some are new, and some aren’t even out yet. Enjoy, and please tell us about the highlight of your reading month in [...]
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Snitch bracelet: I need this bracelet in my life from Etsy. “Reading is a party for your brain” tee: If that’s the case, let’s party! Bookworm cookies: These cookies featured on The Sweet Adventures of Sugarbelle are almost too perfect to eat! Letter scarf: This laser-cut scarf may not keep you warm but it definitely [...]
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[Note: Feeling goofy. All of my comments are movie quotes today. No prize if you guess them, just the glory]. ____________________________ “I’ll go onto several forums, from the well-known forums, and post there, under my own name and under various other names and various other characters. You build this whole network of characters who talk [...]
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Tuesday is New Book Day. We celebrate each week by highlighting titles we’re excited to see arrive in paperback. [galleryview id=17]
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It’s a bit of a ritual for me to watch Dead Poets Society before the start of the new semester, as inspiration, as warning, and as sentimental indulgence. This is my second live-blog of Dead Poets, but I enjoyed the hell out of the first one, so I am doing it again. Time-stamps are meant to help [...]
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I’ve been thankful, in the past week, for things that can be applied topically, bug spray in particular: It’s High Mosquito Season here in the Mid-Atlantic (and many other regions). Who wants to be troubled by pesky flying insects when you’re comfily esconced on a chaise in your backyard, in the middle of a great [...]
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As Book Riot’s Chief Executive Gingers, Liberty and I have conducted 20 rounds of bantery bookish conversation about everything from authors we love to characters we would date to that time we imagined a bed & breakfast with rooms designed around our favorite books and series. We’ve talked about how reading is for lovers, revealed the books that make [...]
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“They” say that having children changes you in ways that nothing else can. I think we can safely say that this is a silly, impossible-to-prove statement (have YOU experienced Everything Else In The World, therefore qualifying you to say such a thing?). I have, however, been a reader before and after babies, and the two [...]
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I’m not sure if David Streitfeld’s New York Times article, “The Best Book Reviews Money Can Buy,” is a bombshell revelation, but it caught me by surprise. Authors paying for reviews, reviewers writing about books they haven’t read, juicy dirt on some big-name self-published authors—basically a big old mess that says a lot about the [...]
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Former Cuban president Fidel Castro is working on a new book with Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez. The American edition will surely be titled “Boy Are These Guys Pains in Our Asses.” ____________________________ Got a big book collection and don’t really want to take the time to catalog the entire thing? If you snap a photo [...]
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There’s more advice out there on how to become a good writer than there are writers themselves. Is that a good way to start a post, or is dealing in fantastical hyperbole lazier than only wearing Velcro shoes? Should you write at the same time each day? Should you lose sleep over microscopic grammar problems? The website [...]
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This installment of Riot Recommendation is sponsored by The Colonel’s Mistake by Dan Mayland. Mark Sava, former CIA station chief of Azerbaijan, lives a quiet life as a professor at Western University in the city of Baku. But his peace is shattered by both the assassination of a high-level American during an international oil conference and the [...]
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With a certain erotic trilogy dominating best-seller lists these days, I’ve become nostalgic for the days when Dan Brown and Stieg Larsson were the literary punching bags of choice. Now that a few years have passed, I think we’re ready to decide which of these global thriller phenonmenons is better: Dan Brown’s Langdon Trilogy or [...]
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In Their 15 Minutiae, writers take a break from talking about books and writing to discuss other things on their minds. LH: What movies captivated you when you were a kid? ES: When I was two years old, I named our new kitty Rainbow, because ‘Somewhere Over the Rainbow’ was my favorite song. Never mind that I [...]
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Today, corporate-minded university presidents spout platitudes about “outcome metric” and “game-changing” technologies, while faculty members struggle to piece together a living with multiple part-time jobs, and students search for marketable skills that, they hope, will help them pay off their education debt. Running colleges like corporations might not be the best idea, as the product [...]
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If you’re a word-lover, or you write a regular word-related post for a magnificent book-related blog, or you’re just a geek, all like me, then you might find yourself subscribing to numerous language, grammar, usage, and new-word news alerts. And if so, you will have noticed that for more than two weeks now, the international [...]
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Here are the most popular stories from the last week in Critical Linking… “She declared herself her favorite living author and Written on the Body the best book of the year. She upstaged other authors at readings. She showed up on the doorstep of a critic who gave her a bad review, leather-clad and [...]
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Rebecca Joines Schinsky
August 27, 2012
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Our Favorite Comments: August 20-26, 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. “…moppy kid’s book rabbit = more therapeutic than a whiskey and coke.” by Nikki Steele on Growing Up With the Grumpies _________________________ “Wearing jackets with heavily padded shoulders [...]
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