Our weekly round-up of the best bookish lists floating around the internet. At So Bad So Good, The 10 Worst Book Covers in the History of Literature At Flavorwire, 10 Important Lessons from Children’s Books At Publishers Weekly, Gatsby Dies: A Big List of Literary Spoilers At Lytherus, Lev Grossman Lists 20 Things Characters Should [...]
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Newspapers, journalists, novelists, Italian sea captains, let’s all get in that lifeboat together and row our way to whatever new world will have us. Travel agents can jump aboard as well. ____________________________ Last year as French publishers watched in horror as e-books ate away at the printed book market in the United States, they successfully [...]
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All right, you better finish whatever it is you are reading because on Tuesday, we’re kicking off the first Riot Read, Book Riot’s take on the book club/read-along with The Great Gatsby. Here’s what we’re cooking: –> A bunch of stuff about The Great Gatsby and F. Scott Fitzgerald on Book Riot itself, including Gatsby-themed [...]
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This installment of Name That Author! is sponsored by Arise by Tara Hudson and HarperTeen. Increasingly worried that dark spirits will carry out their threats and hurt the people she cares for most, Amelia is ready to try anything to protect them. And for his own very different reasons, Joshua has come to this cemetery at [...]
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Reading challenges–love ‘em, or leave ‘em? Do you like the idea of having a goal to guide your reading and fellow challenge takers with whom to celebrate (or commiserate, depending), or do you want to read what you want, when you want, with no framework? And what’s on your mind today?
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Even with your nose stuck in a book on the beach, it’s been hard to ignore all the political noise this summer. Whether it’s stuff happening internationally, or the campaigns going on here at home, sometimes the miasma of political conversation can seem almost stifling. But never forget, where there’s a bunch of people who [...]
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I am not much of a drinker. I don’t really care for wine, and I hate the taste of beer. When I do drink, I stick to hard cider and clear liquor. I spend a lot of time with beer drinkers, though, and that means that I drink a lot of coke while they achieve [...]
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I’m sure this isn’t exactly unique, but one of my favorite book-nerdish things to do whenever I travel is to seek out the local independent bookstore and make a visit. For instance, during BEA at the beginning of June, I made a pilgrimage to Strand for the first time. Total. Awe. (I bought a copy of [...]
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Last weekend, I ran out of space on my bookshelves. For the last several months, I knew this day was coming. Each time a package of books would arrive on my doorstep, I would open it with glee only to feel trepidation as I struggled to find a space on my increasingly cramped shelves. I [...]
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Now, Raycraft says that if she doesn’t receive enough help to sort through the remaining 30 tons of books by July 6, she is going to call the fire department and hold a book burning of her own, complete with band and pig roast. I didn’t know that there was official book burning fanfare. ____________________________ [...]
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Today’s installment of Name That Author! is sponsored by Dead Reckoning by Mercedes Lackey and Rosemary Edghill. The sun rises in the east . . . but the dead rise in the West Jett is a girl disguised as a boy, living as a gambler in the old West as she searches for her long-lost brother. Honoria [...]
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Let’s get meta for a minute and use the open thread to talk about the open thread. Specifically: do you prefer the open thread to be open-ended, or do you like a prompt? What’s on your mind today?
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Let’s say you have a seven-year-old boy, like I do, who by day is full of bravado and is in to vampires, mummies, werewolves, and the like. By night he’s scared silly by his imagination. By day: “Let’s go the museum and look at mummies! C’mon, Mom!” By night: “Mom! The toilet paper is scary! [...]
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In between meetings at Book Expo a few weeks ago, Rioter in Chief Jeff accompanied me to the autographing area/author cattle pens so I could meet (and by meet, I mean blabber incoherently at) Naomi Wolf and pick up a copy of her forthcoming book Vagina: A New Biography. When I emerged victorious, Vagina in [...]
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Recommended reading flask: I have never wanted a flask as much as I want this one from Electric Literature. “One size fits alcohol.” Book plates: These aren’t your everyday book plates; they’re actually book shaped plates. Paper passion: Not only is this perfume designed especially for bibliophiles, but it also comes packaged inside of an actual book. I’m dying to smell this one. [...]
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Editors’ Note: We thought long and hard about how to provide a kind of review coverage that would not be too much (no one wants to read endless book reviews anymore) but would also contribute to arts coverage in a meaningful way. Our solution is “Front-to-Backlist,” a new feature in which Executive Editor Bethanne Patrick [...]
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There is a gray area that exists for me with the iPad. I love using it to read, to browse the web, to share content, to occasionally create content. But there is a moment when I have to put the iPad down and grab my laptop. I travel with both. I keep both nearby when [...]
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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=7]
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I’ve been reading Salman Rushdie’s The Ground Beneath Her Feet for the past 732,812 days. Or at least it feels that way. This book is never-ending and I’m afraid I will be reading it until the day I die. Granted, I’m a slow reader. At least that’s what the online test told me, 270 words [...]
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