The effect of reading
"[W]hat with little sleep and much reading his brains got so dry that he lost his wits." —Don Quixote, chapter...
Archive for Books
Maurice Sendak is so gay
Happened across a passing reference this morning to Sendak having come out last year (at age 80); looked it up...
15 books in 15 minutes
I'm not really clear on what the "15 books in 15 minutes" meme is supposed to be about. The instructions...
Amelia and Eleanor go for a ride, if you know what I mean
In a gift shop on Saturday, we came across a kids' book called Amelia and Eleanor Go for a Ride....
The Dragons of Ordinary Farm
Tad & Deb's YA novel The Dragons of Ordinary Farm is now out from HarperCollins: Tyler and Lucinda have to...
Borders scores points
I called my two local independent new-book bookstores, but neither of them had the book I was looking for in...
Norse Code!
Greg van Eekhout's first novel, Norse Code, launches one week from today. Just in time for WisCon! And the first two...
American Gods
A while back, HarperCollins set up Browse Inside access to American Gods: you can read the first hundred-plus pages for...
Amazon: Possibly not evil?
The Internets have been full of panic and outrage today over Amazon allegedly instituting a new policy that any book...
How do you recognize a One True Pairing?
In conventional romance novels, you can always tell who the female main character is supposed to (and going to) end...
Spiral Hunt
In the Potlatch dealers' room, I was pleased to find Spiral Hunt, SH author Margaret Ronald's first novel, just published...
Review: Inkheart (book)
I saw a preview for the forthcoming Inkheart movie a few months back, and it looked like fun--and it appeared...