Book Reviews & The Written Word
Without the Written Word, books wouldn't even exist.
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The Bone People was selected as the book in my vacation carry-on for a couple of reasons:
The great cover. Sometimes a book can be evaluated by its design, and Penguin Classics is having a heyday with their Penguin Ink series to celebrate their 75th Anniversary. You got me Penguin. You always do.
All those awards. Little [...]
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There are times, unavoidably, that I pick up a book that is terrible. You’ve read about a couple of those books here (do I need to remind you of the staggering mess wrought by the burning flames of failure that is John Irving’s latest?).
Then there are the books that are just so utterly awful [...]
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Ian Lurie is good for three things.
First, he knows 83% of everything to know about the internet. (If you’re thinking that 83% of everything to know is sort of high, but not high enough to write a book about internet safety, you should know that there is no one in existence that knows more than [...]
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For the readers out there who need to express their adoration of the written word beyond having floor-to-ceiling bookshelves, there is no better place to look than Etsy. Bedazzle your home (and yourself) with hand-crafted bookish accessories and never again be doubted of your literary love.
Some of the favorites here at the Written Word are [...]
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