In the run-up to publishing our book Start Here, we at Riot Central started paying extra attention when our favorite writers and publications decided to go the digital-only route with new work. Here are five ebooks/digital shorts we’re particularly fond of. Don’t Eat Cat by Jess Walter (Byliner) If you’ve only just discovered Jess Walter with [...]
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This installment of Riot Recommendation is sponsored by Book Riot’s own Start Here: Read Your Way Into 25 Amazing Authors. Here’s the book, in a nutshell: There are so many fantastic authors and great books out there that sometimes it’s hard to know where to begin. Start Here solves that problem; it tells you how to read your way [...]
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We here at the good ship Book Riot are looking for a few new contributors. Sound cool? Here’s how to know if this might be a good fit: If you like to write about books almost as much as you love books, then we’re looking for you. If you can be funny, smart, passionate, and [...]
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Sure, you could go to Hallmark and grab any old random V-day card on this (yeah yeah, manufactured and commercialized, blah blah blah) holiday of love. But what about finding something truly charming for your Library Lovah? Like, for a start, how about this Flirty Library Card by papertrail over at etsy.com? The inside says, [...]
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On New Year’s Day, I found myself in Idaho, instead of at my desk in Houston, TX. I was there due to the kindness of someone who wanted to do a good deed to start the year, and I chose Idaho as my destination because my father, who had lived there for the last 20 [...]
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Just a few of the tasty new books available today. Hope you’ll find something you like. Contents May Have Shifted by Pam Houston (W.W. Norton) Okay, this column is supposed to be all about brand new books, but they’re my rules and I’ll break ‘em if I want to. Pam Houston’s memoir-ish novel-in-vignettes was one of my favorite books [...]
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Falling down the Etsy rabbit hole is one of my internet-ish weaknesses, and upon one of these bottomless falls I came across this Dead Writers Perfume, which is made with “black tea, vetiver, clove, musk, vanilla, heliotrope, and tobacco.” The combination reminds me of an old, worn book and maybe a dude with a dusty [...]
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Instead of ignoring reader comments, Goodman logged into Reddit and answered every single comment with a personal message–creating a massive 61-comment thread for the sponsored post. If you can stand to respond to every Reddit comment, you deserve that 43 bucks you earned in Amazon sales of your 99-cent ebook. ____________________________ The best argument [...]
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So Canada Reads is a BOOK RIOT EVENT this year, y’alls — I laid out all the goodies in this post, and this is the second week of our seven-week mini-spectacular. We’re onto TWO SOLITUDES by Hugh MacLennan (1945) now, deep into the heart of classic CanCon. Today you’ll read this intro post, I’ll be Tweeting [...]
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Filming is just about to wrap on the movie adaptation of Mark Helprin’s much-loved 1983 novel, Winter’s Tale. And this one has some real star power behind it — Russell Crowe, Colin Farrell, Will Smith, and Jennifer Connelly all have roles in the movie (release date yet to be announced). But will it be any [...]
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This installment of Riot Recommendation is sponsored by Heading Out to Wonderful by Robert Goolrick. It is the summer of 1948 when a handsome, charismatic stranger, Charlie Beale, recently back from the war in Europe, shows up in the town of Brownsburg, a sleepy village nestled in the Valley of Virginia. All he has with him are two [...]
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Welcome to Our Water Cooler, a collection of our favorite tweets of the previous week from authors/publishing folk/bloggers/general bookish types (and maybe your mom). Like your water cooler, the folks around ours talk about a little bit of this, that and the other thing: Movies they’ve seen recently… Daily life on the job… Current news [...]
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Happy 200th anniversary to Pride and Prejudice! Fans of Jane Austen, pray tell, what do you garner she would think of all of the attention paid to her these days? Not only does Austen seem to get more and more popular as time goes by, Austen paraphernalia seems to become more in demand. For the [...]
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We here at Book Riot are huge Tournament of Books fans, so this year we’re going to discuss each of the finalists in the weeks before the Tournament gets underway, in alphabetical order. You can find the schedule of our discussions here. Read along with us! Today, Cassandra Neace and Kit Steinkellner discuss The Fault [...]
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So I’m at the Barnes & Noble in Pikesville, Maryland, in the NW suburbs of Baltimore. Lurking. Taking the pulse of the suburban big box bookstore community. The Information kiosk was unmanned. I waited around for awhile, the pressing thing I had to know about Christiane Northrup’s The Wisdom of Menopause becoming less pressing the [...]
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Now this is the kind of roadside attraction I would stop for. About 100 miles northeast of Toronto, The World’s Smallest Bookstore sits on a quiet stretch of County Road 503. The bookstore itself is about 10ft by 10ft, and its shelves are full of mainstream literary titles and classic authors. The kicker is that [...]
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Martin’s contribution to the book, The Princess and the Queen, is a novella set in the Song and Ice and Fire world that “will reveal the origins of the Targaryen Civil War, otherwise known as ‘The Dance of the Dragons.’ A war that split a then fledgling Westeros in two, pitting Targaryen against Targaryen and dragon [...]
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Here are the most-read stories from the last week in Critical Linking… You seem to think that nothing fun can have value; that only grimdark portentousness and dystopia mean anything. You wallow in human suffering and despair, and frankly—it makes me tired. Does speculative fiction need to lighten up? ____________________________ Some of the two-foot high, [...]
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