Much of the good ship Book Riot is off at Book Expo America this week, so we’re running some of our best stuff from the first half of 2013. We’ll be back with reports from BEA next week and our usual array of new book-nerdery. ____________________________ I’m a fan of digital reading. I like highlighting [...]
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Much of the good ship Book Riot is off at Book Expo America this week, so we’re running some of our best stuff from the first half of 2013. We’ll be back with reports from BEA next week and our usual array of new book-nerdery. ____________________________ When your bookshelves are packed to the gills and [...]
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Much of the good ship Book Riot is off at Book Expo America this week, so we’re running some of our best stuff from the first half of 2013. We’ll be back with reports from BEA next week and our usual array of new book-nerdery. ____________________________ Rioters Jenn and Preeti are revisiting the Wheel of [...]
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This installment of the Riot Recommendation is sponsored by Smile at Strangers by Susan Schorn. Susan Schorn led an anxious life. For no clear reason, she had become progressively paralyzed by fear. Fed up with feeling powerless, she took up karate. She learned how to say no and how to fight when you have to (even [...]
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Much of the good ship Book Riot is off at Book Expo America this week, so we’re running some of our best stuff from the first half of 2013. We’ll be back with reports from BEA next week and our usual array of new book-nerdery. ____________________________ Earlier, fellow Book Rioter Jeff O’Neal observed that “discoverability” isn’t [...]
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Much of the good ship Book Riot is off at Book Expo America this week, so we’re running some of our best stuff from the first half of 2013. We’ll be back with reports from BEA next week and our usual array of new book-nerdery. ____________________________ … And I’m Canadian, so I know a [...]
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Much of the good ship Book Riot is off at Book Expo America this week, so we’re running some of our best stuff from the first half of 2013. We’ll be back with reports from BEA next week and our usual array of new book-nerdery. ____________________________ Wake up, fuel up, and READ ALL THE BOOKS [...]
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Much of the good ship Book Riot is off at Book Expo America this week, so we’re running some of our best stuff from the first half of 2013. We’ll be back with reports from BEA next week and our usual array of new book-nerdery. ____________________________ Lending a book to a friend always seems like [...]
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Much of the good ship Book Riot is off at Book Expo America this week, so we’re running some of our best stuff from the first half of 2013. We’ll be back with reports from BEA next week and our usual array of new book-nerdery. ____________________________ It’s happened again. You’ve logged on to Twitter, Tumblr, [...]
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Much of the good ship Book Riot is off at Book Expo America this week, so we’re running some of our best stuff from the first half of 2013. We’ll be back with reports from BEA next week and our usual array of new book-nerdery. ____________________________ Now this is the kind of roadside attraction I [...]
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This round of the Riot Recommendation is sponsored by Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo. Surrounded by enemies, the once-great nation of Ravka has been torn in two by the Shadow Fold, a swath of near impenetrable darkness crawling with monsters. Now its fate may rest on the shoulders of one lonely refugee. Alina Starkov has never been good [...]
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Much of the good ship Book Riot is off at Book Expo America this week, so we’re running some of our best stuff from the first half of 2013. We’ll be back with reports from BEA next week and our usual array of new book-nerdery. ____________________________ Falling down the Etsy rabbit hole is one of my [...]
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Much of the good ship Book Riot is off at Book Expo America this week, so we’re running some of our best stuff from the first half of 2013. We’ll be back with reports from BEA next week and our usual array of new book-nerdery. ____________________________ A while ago, I rounded up my favorite library scenes [...]
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Much of the good ship Book Riot is off at Book Expo America this week, so we’re running some of our best stuff from the first half of 2013. We’ll be back with reports from BEA next week and our usual array of new book-nerdery. ____________________________ Young adult literature gets a bad rap because of [...]
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Much of the good ship Book Riot is off at Book Expo America this week, so we’re running some of our best stuff from the first half of 2013. We’ll be back with reports from BEA next week and our usual array of new book-nerdery. ____________________________ When I was about 9 or 10, I had the [...]
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Much of the good ship Book Riot is off at Book Expo America this week, so we’re running some of our best stuff from the first half of 2013. We’ll be back with reports from BEA next week and our usual array of new book-nerdery. ____________________________ Let’s face it, book clubs are fantastic in theory, [...]
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Our full-text RSS feed this week is sponsored by Seduction by M.J. Rose. Click here to subscribe to Book Riot via RSS and to be notified of new posts to stay up-to-date on all the latest. In 1843, novelist Victor Hugo’s beloved nineteen-year-old daughter drowned. Ten years later, Hugo began participating in hundreds of séances [...]
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Here are the most-read stories from the last week in Critical Linking… Amis is one of the finest stylists alive, but I thought “Lionel Asbo” was a bad novel. A really bad novel. In fact, my review of “Lionel Asbo” was a finalist for the Hatchet Job — a prize given for the most negative book review of [...]
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Today is Towel Day, an annual commemoration of the life and work of Douglas Adams. In his best-known work, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Adams explained the supreme utility of the towel in intergalactic travel: “…it has great practical value – you can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold [...]
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I hate to admit it, but I’ve never read Douglas Adams’ classic trilogy in five parts, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. For many, many years I have heard reference to Towel Day, and I finally decided to do a little research. Through the magic of YouTube, I learned that there’s a certain logic to all the nonsense. [...]
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