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Amazon + Shelfari 2008-09-02 19:25:01 It’s official. Shelfari has been acquired by Amazon
. So far, there seems to be no big changes that will be hurdled at Shelfari users immediately. It’s likely that this acquisition will make for some big usability changes within Shelfari. I’m also going to predict that eventually all of us with both Amazon.com and Shelfari accounts [...]
A Wild Haruki Chase: Reading Murakami Around the World 2008-08-25 21:35:28 On BoingBoing today I saw a blurb about this incredible book:
It’s a collection of essays along with Murakami covers from all over the globe. It’s definitely worth a look, but I know this one’s going on my wishlist. I have a book-cover fetish anyway, so A Wild Haruki Chase: Reading
Murakami Around the World
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Ooh Bookmarks Galore! 2008-08-22 02:05:48 I am a huge fan of bookmarks. I’d love to start a collection eventually. While looking around Etsy today, I came across some seriously rad bookmarks. Yeah, I had to pull out the r-word for these. These lovlies just may have to go on my birthday wishlist.
One of my favorites was this owl bookmark by [...] Read more:Bookmarks
What if You Can’t Read? 2008-08-20 15:26:03 Literacy is something I feel very strongly needs more attention across the globe. Knowledge is indeed power.
One of the best ways to gain that powerful knowledge is by reading, so what if you can’t read?
Well, Canada’s federal government is taking powerful step in the right direction.
According to UNESCO literacy rates in the US and Canada [...]
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2008-08-19 14:24:51 Up until recently I had never picked up a non-fiction book that wasn’t some form of required reading. The one book that got me on a temporary non-fiction roll was A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah. I had seen an interview with Ishmael Beah on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart and was moved [...] Read more:Memoirs
I’m in love with IndieBound 2008-08-18 12:52:42 Now and then I come across a website that I just fall in love with. I have to share this one. IndieBound is a website dedicated to creating a community of independent booksellers. Launched just this spring, IndieBound is a step beyond the ABA’s Book Sense program. It continues the goals of Book Sense and [...]
Lucky - Alice Sebold 2008-08-16 13:01:40 In the early 1980s Alice Sebold attended Syracuse University. While a freshman at SU, she was brutally attacked and raped at night, by a stranger. That attack is where the memoir Lucky begins. Her description of the rape is a detailed, play by play that she worked to etch in her memory. The [...]
Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold 2008-08-16 12:59:06 I found it interesting, after reading an interview with Alice Sebold in the back of Lucky, that she wrote the begining of The LovelyBones
before starting Lucky. She said she didn’t want the narrator, Suzie Salmon’s story to be infused with her own, so she put it down. She wrote Lucky. Then she went [...]
Listen to War and Peace 2008-08-13 18:31:34 War and Peace
is now available as an audio book. Narrated (for an unbelievably lengthy 48 compact discs) by Jason Neville, rings up about $210 from Amazon. The CDs can be ordered in sets Volume 1 and Volume 2, but still expect a crate of CDs to arrive at your doorstep. The sets are accompanied [...] Read more:Listen
Book Towns?! 2008-08-09 21:04:18 Whenever I go out of town to visit someone, the first thing I look around for are small bookstores and second-hand bookshops. While I’m not a collector of antique books, I still absolutely love bookstores. Particularly small, mom-and-pop, dusty smelling bookstores. The fluorescent lit, department-store-smelling, prominent Oprah’s Book Club table, type of book-emporiums be dammed. [...] Read more:Towns
I Will Never Buy This Book 2008-09-25 10:22:30 First time author, Dante Moore, is making the publicity rounds for his book Re-education of the Female. Let me give you a little taste of this book:
From the Amazon editorial review, “A mature and open-minded intellect will really understand and appreciate this representation of the male point of view. This book is the perfect starting [...]
They Like Us, They Really Like Us 2008-10-07 22:09:09 Remember the Book Blog Carnival I posted about a few days ago? Well it seems the folks at Blog Carnival really like our Book Blog Carnival. Our carnival will be feature on their homepage ALL day Sunday October 12th. It will be in their featured blog carnivals section to “highlight and acknowledge [...]
Read For The Record! 2008-10-02 14:21:43 If you have ever met a child that’s been read to and a child who hasn’t, then you have seen the immense impact of childhood reading. I was read to as a child and learned to love books very early. I was an avid reader from the moment I could read on my own. In [...] Read more:Record
Book Review Blog Carnival 2008-09-29 19:45:37 YAY…everyone loves a carnival, right? The smell of popcorn butter, cotton candy, and that weird odor near the tilt-a-whirl…The fun games with their amazing prizes (like dead fish), and of course Carnies!!
Unfortunately, this is not that kind of carnival. Although, I might be able to work a carnie into a book review blog post somehow. [...] Read more:Blog Carnival
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Buy A Friend A Book Week 2008-09-29 19:19:33 The first week of October is upon us, so is Buy a Friend A Book Week. The only goal of BAFAB is to suprise your friends, for no reason whatsoever, with the best gift a person can give — a book. BAFAB is celebrated the first weeks of January, April, July, and October annually. Although, [...]
Favorite Independent Bookstore 2008-10-21 14:55:12 19 west bridge street
oswego, ny 13126
315 342 0077
info@riversendbookstore.com
The River’s End Bookstore
is my favorite bookstore. Now that I’m living on the other side of the country, I really am missing it. When I stumbled onto IndieBound, I found it in their listings and left a review. You can read my post about IndieBound here and [...] Read more:Favorite
Wilfred Owen 2008-10-20 13:09:54 I want to share one of my favorite poets with all of you. I am not big on reading poetry, really, so there are a few select poets I’m crazy about. Wilfred Owen is one of those poets. He was an English soldier who served during World War I. During that era, most British soldiers [...]
Progressive Book Club 2008-10-18 11:13:15 I stumbled on the Progressive
Book Club website a couple of weeks ago. I decided to share it here. Though I generally don’t get into politics in this blog (and I won’t really in this post except for the obvious), I really think this website deserves some attention. PBC offers cheap book purchases with [...]
Give + Take 2008-11-18 13:49:36 Some of you may have already heard of Concord Free Press. From their website, you can take part in a new experiment. Think: Pay it Forward. The company is distributing 1,500 free copies of Stona Fitch’s novel, Give + Take. You don’t pay shipping or anything. The novel is totally free. Concord simply [...]
Changes afoot 2008-11-18 13:32:54 I haven’t been posting as much as I would like to. I realize that has probably made this blog a bit too boring for some of my readers. I’m sorry. I’m going to be making some big changes around here very soon. I want to make this blog an exciting and informative place. I want [...] Read more:afoot
Lemonade Award 2008-12-22 14:59:06 Book Review Blog Carnival received the LemonadeAward
from Kindelicious last week. Clark, the Carnival Director, passed it on to all of us.
I have a confession to make. Since I haven’t published an actual book review in a bit, I haven’t been participating in the carnival. I feel a little naughty accepting the award and [...]
Update on Give+Take and Concord Free Press 2008-12-18 15:45:23 I just received an email from Concord
. They have officially run out of copies of Give+Take. They will be introducing a new book early next year. In the meantime, they’re still looking for readers to chart their donations and pass the book on. I plan to have finished reading this book by January and then [...] Read more:Press
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