This is Almost Too Easy
I learned about this via the great website BookNinja. Shocking as though it may be, Victoria Beckham, also known as Posh Spice, has never read a single book. Not one. The British papers are reporting that she said in a Spanish interview “I haven’t read a book in my life,” she said. “I haven’t got…
continue readingThe Impacts of Amazon
CNN has an interesting article on the impacts Amazon has had on the industry. Check it out here.
continue readingHere’s a Ray Bradbury Story Just Waiting to be Written
This is a really good cause so I don’t want to joke too much, but dang, this just seems like it could be a creepy plot in a Bradbury story here. Maybe a Twilight Zone episode waiting to happen. There were reports of a charity effort to benefit First Amendment Project, which defends the free…
continue readingTwo Books, Two Performances
The Wall Street Journal has an interesting article about how two similar books by two unknown novelists have shared very different fates. The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova and The Traveler by John Twelve Hawks are examined. To date, The Historian has 915,000 copies after six printings. By comparison, The Traveler has 200,000 copies after three…
continue readingSunday Book Review Round Up
Here’s a round-up of the Sunday book coverage. I’m afraid you’ll need to register for most of these sites, which is one of my big pet peeves in life, but it is usually free. So at least there’s that. Anyway, the critics seemed to be ready to dig into Bret Easton Ellis new novel as…
continue reading