Book Reviews & The Written Word
Without the Written Word, books wouldn't even exist.
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The other night I pulled my 800 page copy of Middlemarch out of my denim hobo bag and set it down on the table where those I was hanging out with promptly marveled at its heft. I told my friends that I had recently decided to read Middlemarch once a year and was in the [...]
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You might remember that I received Ms Batuman’s book as a Christmas gift, a gift that I had hoped would spur me to actually read a Russian novels. It was up to her: could she convince me to actually read past the opening 18 pages of Anna Karenina, figure out which Alexi is which, and [...]
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Last week I introduced my newest project, Show Me Your Shelves in which you send me pictures of your books and I examine them, provide any book reviews, and comment in an otherwise willy-nilly manner. Please welcome: Liza L. from Taylors, SC From Liza: I don’t have actual bookshelves so my hardcover books sit on [...]
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This week in book news and book reviews: _ _ _ _ A new hotel in Paris that is literary-themed, with prose on the walls and full works on the shelves. _ _ _ _ Hanging book mobiles and sculptures made from the pages of books. _ _ _ _ The Maven of Macabre, Edward [...]
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“The key is still good books. Without them we don’t have an industry.” Kuo-Yu Liang, Diamond Book Distributors It’s time to face it: comic books have changed. 50 years ago nobody would have ever dreamed that a comic book, even with the haughtily applied title of “graphic novel,” would someday be counted amongst those great [...]
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