Entertainment Weekly magazine is one of my guilty pleasures. In fact, I had a subscription to it in the early 1990's right after it began publication. And I was surprised to see that last week's issue marked its 1000th issue! I still read EW on a fairly regular basis but now it's visits to the […]
“What is a cult book? We tried and failed to arrive at a definition: books often found in the pockets of murderers; books that you take very seriously when you are 17; books whose readers can be identified to all with the formula “<Author Name> whacko”; books our children just won’t get…”50 best cult books […]
I was very happy to hear that my FIMS classmate, John Miedema, will be having a book coming out later this year. I'm also proud to say I may have played some small role in making this happen. John has said (I think in a comment on this blog or perhaps in an e-mail to […]
Read at Work is a site from the New Zealand Book Council that allows you to read classic books, poetry, samples from selected New Zealand authors and more, online and formatted to look like either the Windows XP interface and Powerpoint presentations. Very fun and cool (though I do not, of course, advocate performing non-work […]
Whenever one of those “100 Books You Must Read” lists come out, I'm always a bit ashamed that, even as a former English major, I find that I've barely read any of them.But now, finally, a list where I have read, well, about the same proportion as any other “Top 100 Books” list. 100 Must-Read […]
Seems counter-intuitive but apparently a Slice of the German Wikipedia is to Be Captured on Paper. (via Sandra M.)
I'm sure you've heard that JK Rowling is suing an encylopedic fan site dedicated to her novels for daring to publish a 10 000 print run book based on the site's original-but-based-on-the-novels content. The following is one of the tamer passages from Scott Card's article: Rowling's hypocrisy is so thick I can hardly breathe: Prior […]
Book beer pairings sees authors suggesting brews that are best enjoyed with their work. What brews go with your favourite books – a very important question for the ages.In semi-related news, the next “Books to Beers and Stacks to Snacks” social gathering will happen following the final day of the SLA conference, Saturday May 3 […]
The Globe and Mail recently had an article on the benefits of reading and good literacy to your health (PDF). This is probably not a huge surprise but lines like “While we obsess about our weight, blood pressure and cholesterol levels, the single best predictor of good health and longevity is probably literacy.” are pretty […]
LibraryThing is already a wicked cool service but it's getting better all the time. One of their latest features is LibraryThing Local which is “a new [LibraryThing] sub-site devoted to finding, mapping and describing the world's bookstore, library, book fair and festival—as well as all the readings, signings, lectures and other events they host.” Here […]
