Tag Archive | book
Finally, A New Book From Don Massenzio
Originally posted on Author Don Massenzio:
2017 was a tough year. My blog grew by leaps and bounds and I finished two books, but didn’t get either one edited or published. Most years I’ve published 2-3 books, but in 2017, I published none. But, enough of that doom and gloom. My latest book, Blood Match, is now…
What to Do with Goodreads
Originally posted on Kristen Twardowski:
Goodreads is the largest book review website on the internet. As of April 2017, it had 55 million members who wrote 50 million reviews and added 1.5 billion books. According to Quantcast, a website ranking and data collection site, around 400,000 unique visitors access the Goodreads each day from all around…
New Tolkien: The Man Who Made Middle Earth
Originally posted on Kristen Twardowski:
The world is soon going to learn a little more about the man who wrote The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit. The Bodleian Library of Oxford University is publishing a biography of Tolkien called Tolkien: The Maker of Middle Earth as well as holding a major exhibit on the man in 2018. The…
A Map of Literature around the World
Originally posted on Kristen Twardowski:
It is easy to get stuck inside our own reading bubbles, so I was excited to find this map of literature around the world. For the zoomable version of the map, click here. The map was created by redditor Backforward24 and use book covers to highlight a single book from…
When Book Covers Get Characters Wrong
Originally posted on Kristen Twardowski:
Book cover design is often grand, but sometimes publishers don’t get it quite right. Take for example the case of Nnedi Okorafor. Nnedi Okorafor is an extraordinary science fiction writer, and she has the Nebula Award to prove it. Before she was quite so lauded, however, she had a strange…
A Book for Why People Do Evil
Originally posted on Kristen Twardowski:
The current wave of antisemitism in the United States, the destroyed cemeteries, the threats, has made me think more about why it is that people do horrible things. This isn’t a new train of thought for me. Sometime between working with libraries and finding a position in the publishing industry,…
Book Thieves Just Did Something Remarkable
Originally posted on Kristen Twardowski:
Three book thieves just completed an incredible heist. As my British readers may already know, some of the most expensive and rare books in the entire world were stolen from a London warehouse this past January. The thieves made off with over 160 books collectively worth around $2.5 million. But…
Friday Quick Quote: Ivan Turgenev’s ‘A Sportsman’s Sketches’
Originally posted on Kristen Twardowski:
“Strange things happen on this earth: you can live a long while with someone and be on the friendliest of terms, and yet you’ll never once talk openly with him, from the depths of your soul; while with someone else you may scarcely have met, at one glance, whether you…
Review: Carrie Hatchett Space Adventurer (Book 2) – Passage to Paradise by J. J. Green
Originally posted on Happymeerkatreviews:
I was kindly sent a free digital copy of this book by the author J. J. Green. Passage to Paradise is the second book in the Carrie Hatchett Space Adventurer series and is just as funny as the first. The first book Mission Improbable can be seen here, but this second…
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