This is probably one of the stranger internet rabbit holes I’ve fallen into, and to be honest, I’m not entirely sure how it happened. One minute I was reading a tweet about a holiday romance novel and thinking, “Oh, is that a thing?” Next thing I knew, it was two hours later, and I had seen [...]
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With this in mind, for a ninth year, some of our favorite writers, thinkers, and readers will look back, reflect, and share. Their charge was to name, from all the books they read this year, the one(s) that meant the most to them, regardless of publication date. Grouped together, these ruminations, cheers, squibs, and [...]
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On Friday over at BookRiot.tv, we posted the following trailer for a book called K is for Knifeball: An Alphabet of Terrible Advice. In my further exploration of YouTube, I came across this trailer, produced by a friend of the authors, Avery Monsen and Jory John. So we have two very different takes on the [...]
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“If a book doesn’t grab me in the first 50 (100? 150?) pages, I quit. I don’t have the time to not be entertained IMMEDIATELY!” It’s amazing how often you hear some variation of that from a certain type of reader — let’s call them the serial “did not finisher” (DNFer). (Also, it makes me [...]
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In Read This Then That, we pair new books with classics that have similar themes, structures, and stories. Jane Gardam had been a prolific novelist for decades before the 2004 UK release of Old Filth, whose title character captivated Paul Gray of the New York Times Book Review as someone who “belongs in the Dickensian [...]
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If you find yourself in Tokyo anytime soon (or if you’re already there–you are lucky and please be my friend) be sure to stop by the Alice in Magic World restaurant, created by Fantastic Design Works Co. Each room has a theme from the Alice in Wonderland book, including a “heart” room for large parties. [...]
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A personal romantic history through the lens of (what else?) bookish moments. # I am fourteen. My first boyfriend and I have been “going out” long enough for our parents to have gotten sick of driving us to and from the movie theater–I can still hear my mom declaring, “By the time I get home [...]
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Ohhh, you guys. You guys. I’m properly excited to talk about today’s film and the books that go with it. We’ve got everything this week. In fact, I’m so excited that I’ve got nothing to preamble about here and we’re gonna get right to it. The Film: THE DEVIL’S BACKBONE: Quite a lot of people [...]
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Term is ending. Holidays are coming. Big projects are winding down. Shopping is winding up. Shit is bananas, yo. You like books. Judging by your presence on the internet, you like cats. Here are some pictures of books and cats. Add an electric blanket and a pot of tea and your weekend is sorted. You’re [...]
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It’s like a murder mystery for word dorks. A new book by a prominent linguist and lexicographer alleges that one of the most respected chief editors of the Oxford English Dictionary—“the bible of the English language”—secretly deleted thousands of words. Just offed them without so much as a formal review or tacky online poll. A [...]
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Marco is not just a publishing-interested engineer, he’s a subcompact publishing magnate. He lives happily outside of anything resembling the incumbent big-P infrastructure. And from this removed stance he produces podcasts, a magazine, a reading application, and curated reading lists … all using simple tools wrapped in minimal containers. Marco Arment’s The Magazine is just [...]
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As you are no doubt aware, thanks to endless reminders from tyrannical jewelry store marketers, ’tis the season to get engaged. Here, for your ooh-ing, aww-ing, and passive-aggressive hint-dropping, are 3 bookstore marriage proposals. Every kiss might begin with Kay, but betrothal begins with books, dammit. This guy goes all Mission Impossible-style, hiding cameras and [...]
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The most popular posts from the week that was: There She Blows: A 2013 Hark! A Vagrant Literary Calendar by graphic novelist Kate Beaton, which features “Kate’s indelibly funny and modern take on the Bronte sisters including ‘Dude Watching with the Bronte,’ ‘The Rochester Wedding Party’, and a hilarious riff on Jane Eyre.” -from 2013 Calendars [...]
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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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I read a lot less since I had children. Or maybe since I grew up and found myself with a job and other obligations, or maybe since the advent of all the many, many distractions and must-reads available on my desktop, laptop and iPad. Isn’t it funny how we read more than we ever have, [...]
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Novellas, works of between 20,000 and 40,000 words, are awesome and wildly underrated. Ian McEwan recently called the novella ”… the perfect form of prose fiction. It is the beautiful daughter of a rambling, bloated ill-shaven giant.” Stephen King refers to the form as “an ill-defined and disreputable literary banana republic.” while Robert Silverberg goes as [...]
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Today, Publishers Weekly announced E.L. James as their Person of the Year. PW explains: Because the success of the series continues to reverberate throughout the industry in a number of ways–among other things, the money it’s brought in helped boost print sales in bookstores and turned erotic fiction into a hot category–we have selected James [...]
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I’m having one of those weeks where airport time is the only real, substantial reading time I’ve had. But there was a lot of that, so it’s cool. Really, I’m not bitter about holiday insanity. Not at all. Here’s what I’ve been up to. Inbox (Books Acquired) Hobbitus Ille: The Hobbit Translated Into Latin by Mark Walker [...]
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I’ve kept a copy of Edie: American Girl for twenty years purely on the basis of its impeccable, delectable inscription. (OK, maybe George Plimpton also had something to do with it.) Soon after I moved to New York, a dear friend sent the biography to me with these words looping giddily up front: “This is [...]
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Rebecca Joines Schinsky
December 2, 2012
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Our Favorite Comments: November 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 month that was. “Zaphod Beeblebrox, just cause he’s on par with all the current candidates and couldn’t do any worse.” by Hasty on Top 10 Literary Characters We’d Vote For _________________________ “I feel [...]
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