The bookish internet has been aflutter since yesterday’s announcement that Amazon has acquired Goodreads. If or how this will change the user experience at Goodreads has yet to be revealed, but fear of Big Data, the Big A, and the future of indie bookstores has plenty readers threatening to cancel their accounts. So we want to [...]
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Work, sex, alcohol. These are the themes of this week’s reading. Don’t judge me, internet, at least I’m consistent! Tell me all about the highlights of your reading week in the comments, won’t ya? Inbox (Books Acquired) To My Assistant: Things I’ll Never Do to You, But Many Other Crazy Bosses Will by Lydia Whitlock (Three Rivers [...]
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Doctor Who is essentially a literary character. It is just a happy galactic coincidence that he got lost on the way to a book and ended up on our tellies. He is more than welcome. When the default position of most TV and movies is, if the going gets tough, get violent, The Doctor has [...]
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So, Amazon is buying Goodreads. There’s so much to say, that it’s hard to get my head around it. Let’s try to break it into four broad questions: Why did Amazon buy Goodreads? This is probably the easiest one to answer (or maybe the next question is). Goodreads built the best online book discovery platform [...]
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On Thursday afternoon, Twitter exploded with reactions to the news that one of (if not THE) most popular social reading sites, Goodreads, was purchased by Amazon. Reactions to this news were fairly consistent, and almost entirely negative.
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at The Fix, The 10 Strangest Drugs in Fiction at LitReactor, The 10 Books That Taught Me Everything I Know About Sex at Smithsonian, Top Ten Most Influential Travel Books at Publishers Weekly, The Bestselling EBooks of 2012 at The Telegraph, 30 Things Every Writer Should Know at Death and Taxes, 18 Obsolete Words, Which Never Should [...]
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I find myself thinking, with every post I make on Facebook or Twitter or Tumblr or the internet at large, “Oh, here’s further evidence for the future religious dictator-oppressors to use against me! But it’s not like I haven’t given them enough already, so what the hell.” Life imitating art? Art imitating life? Art [...]
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April is one of the kindest months for your soul. The weather starts to perk up, you get a little more comfortable wearing flip flops, and the hammock feels so nice. There are some really great new releases headed your way, all across the spectrum. The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer (Riverhead): This book is AMAZE. [...]
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This round of Name Those Authors! is sponsored by Angelopolis by Danielle Trussoni. A New York Times bestseller and global sensation, Angelology unfurled a brilliant tapestry of myth and biblical lore on our present-day world and plunged two star-crossed heroes into an ancient battle against mankind’s greatest enemy: the fatally attractive angel-human hybrids known as the Nephilim. With Angelopolis, the conflict deepens [...]
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Through various venues, I have spent years and years writing book reviews on a regular basis. I enjoy it and it has always come fairly easy to me. So when I received a copy of The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout in the mail, to be reviewed, I dug into it with no concerns whatsoever. [...]
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It’s happened again. You’ve logged on to Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, just minding your own business, when suddenly someone has recommended a book you haven’t read, its TITLE IN ALL CAPS practically demanding you go put it on your “to read” list right now. Later, you learn there’s a library used book sale where you can [...]
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I love reading, and therefore, I spend a disproportionate amount of my free time doing it. I am reader — it’s my “hobby,” it’s what I do. Indeed, I’ve overheard variations of the following conversation snippet between my girlfriend and her mother many, many times: Mother: “How’s Greg? What’s he doing?” GF: “He’s good — [...]
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We asked our contributors to share the best book they read this month. We’ve got fiction, nonfiction, YA, memoir, and more. 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 the comments. 12.21 by Dustin Thomason Sometimes you just [...]
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I don’t know what it is exactly, but there something to getting out of the house for a while to read, work, or write. Coffeeshops have their annoyances (cost, crowds, no books, and noise), as do some public libraries. So what if there were private libraries you could join? Such things do exist, and in [...]
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Halpern’s definition of literary fiction seems like a winning one too: it stands out for its “allegiance to language”. Some people seem really hung up on trying to define literary fiction. This attempt seems as good as any, but it makes you realize how little “there” there is to the idea of literary fiction. [...]
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I have a close friend, whom I adore, except we can’t talk about books: we never agree. Not that agreement is necessary, but disagreement about books among friends has a sumo quality to it. She thinks Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game is seminal. I hate it. I prefer the Alvin Maker series, which she sees [...]
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The Love Song of Jonny Valentine by Teddy Wayne Jonny Valentine is a thinly disguised fictional version of Justin Bieber, and The Love Song of Jonny Valentine is his first-person account of his second national tour (chapters are divided into concert stops). Over the course of the novel we become intimately acquainted with Jonny and [...]
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Something pretty cool might be coming to a town near you, and reading about it got me thinking about author tours. You see, right now Cassandra Clare, Maureen Johnson, and Sarah Rees Brennan are all traveling in a big tour bus, decorated to the nines with images from Clare’s Mortal Instruments books. They’re on a [...]
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