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American Covers13 comments

savidgereads wrote 3 days ago: Yesterday I came home, or should I say I came back to my homes as the move still hasn’t finish … more →

Tags: Book Thoughts, Elizabeth Strout, Margaret Atwood, nancy mitford, Peter Carey

40 Events To Celebrate 40 Years of Bookselling

titcombsbookshop wrote 1 week ago: Andrew Clements Jeannette Walls Richard Russo Wally Lamb Titcomb’s Bookshop is celebrating it … more →

Tags: Andrew Clements, Author visits, book tour, Books, Cape Cod, independent bookstores, jeannette walls, Titcomb's Bookshop, Wally Lamb

Aging Lotharios?4 comments

annieem wrote 1 week ago: I know I’m not the only one: I read several novels at a time. One is usually in the kitchen; t … more →

Tags: Books, Literature, Contemporary Fiction, cristina nehring, David Lodge, Jim Harrison, Jim Lynch, Mid-life crisis, Philip Roth

More of Cody's summer reading lists from 1998-20011 comment

andyrossagency wrote 2 weeks ago: This is another selection from the Cody’s Recommended Summer Reading lists. Mostly from 1998 - … more →

Tags: Book Recommendations, ARTHUR ROSEN, Barbara Kingsolver, Book List, Cody's, David Denby, Gates of Fire, giardina, Great Books

Book Chat9 comments

sjbraun wrote 3 weeks ago: Time again to talk books! Let’s begin with something weighty … Surprised by Hope by N. T … more →

Tags: Books, My favorite things, Surprised By Hope, N. T. Wright, Bridge of Sighs

Three Books: Academic Fiction5 comments

annieem wrote 1 month ago: The Chronicle of Higher Ed’s Ms. Mentor has asked readers to recommend new academic novel titl … more →

Tags: Academic Life, Books, Literature, Academic novel, npr, three books, A S Byatt, Mary McCarthy, campus novel

You're a Poltroon

gbem1 wrote 1 month ago: “ACK” by Joy Williams in Honored Guest (Vintage, 2005) Review: THREE STARS When you reme … more →

Tags: Literature, Book Reviews, Fiction, Kurt Vonnegut, Short Stories, David Foster Wallace, Reviews, Salman Rushdie, A. M. Holmes

the odd shapes of life9 comments

cynthia wrote 1 month ago: “Obituaries, I believe, are really less about death than the odd shapes life takes, the patter … more →

Tags: Art, Henri Matisse, Shapes, writing, Matisse on Art, The Bridge Of Sighs

Books

dweebcentric wrote 1 month ago: I don’t discuss books much, though with an hour commute each way on the train during the work … more →

Tags: Books, Bridge of Sighs, alex cox, X Films: Confessions of a Radical Filmmaker, the answer is never, jocko wayland, Empire Falls, Nobody's Fool

Two Questions: Beach Reading2 comments

vintagebooks wrote 1 month ago: What makes for a good summer read? Need the book be disposable, something picked up in one airport a … more →

Tags: News, Stieg Larsson, John Updike, Summer Reading

UCLA's Southland conference this weekend

Jake Seliger wrote 1 month ago: Expect posting to be light in the immediate future: tomorrow I’m leaving for the Southland con … more →

Tags: Personal, Straight Man, UCLA, Southland, Institutions, academic novels, Campus Novels

Five Questions with Mindy Friddle, author of Secret Keepers3 comments

jillianclemmons wrote 1 month ago: Written with the warmth of Lee Smith and the magical touch of Alice Hoffman, Secret Keepers is a beg … more →

Tags: Author Interviews, readers, Allan Garganus, Amy and Isabel, Ann Tyler, Barbara Kingsolver, Breadloaf Writers Conference, Carson McCullers, Charles Portis

Book Expo 2009

titcombsbookshop wrote 1 month ago: Book Expo America is the biggest book event in the country.  It happens every spring and this year i … more →

Tags: Books, titcomb, BookStores, jeff kinney, BEA 2009, book expo, Indie, jeanette walls

summer reading3 comments

cynthia wrote 1 month ago: June 1st, although not officially summer, is in my mind, which makes it time for summer reading! My … more →

Tags: Rachel Cusk, Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Harper Lee, Reading Lists, Pat Conroy, The Earth Hums in B Flat

Nobody's Fool

growingchocolate wrote 1 month ago: book by Richard Russo annotation by Diane Sherlock It was disconcerting to read a novel that came ve … more →

Tags: Annotation, Diane Sherlock, Nobody's Fool

Where do underpants come from?

The Longest Chapter wrote 1 month ago: I’m not sure I need to know the answer to that question, but in case I change my mind, Overloo … more →

Tags: New Books, Other Books, Summer books, Thomas Pynchon, Bob Greene, Ian McKenzie, Jean Thompson

Favorite Books to Recommend

bookgoddess wrote 2 months ago: Recommending books is my business, or at least part of my business, and it can be a wonderful thing. … more →

Tags: Audiobooks, Books, Fiction, Literature, readers, Reading, Reading Lists, a spot of bother, alan bennett

Monday Musings

mkowalewski wrote 2 months ago: Today’s Monday Musings question comes direct from MizB, who has a wonderful blog! Here it is: … more →

Tags: Reading, Books, Book Reviews, Monday Musings, Persepolis, Jane Green, Mr. Maybe, Marjane Satrapi, The Gargoyle

Read-a-Thon ~ Final Tally7 comments

thekoolaidmom wrote 2 months ago: I’m writing this final RaT post on the fly, waiting for our ride to church. When I get back, … more →

Tags: read-a-thon, writing, Reading, Blogging, The Magician's Nephew, C. S. Lewis, Neil Zawacki, How to Be a Villian, marked


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