Posted 4 hours ago @ Confessions of a Bibliophile
Book #73 was Metro Girl, the first book in Janet Evanovich’s Alexandra Barnaby series. The back of the book reads:
Alexandra (Barney) Barnaby roars onto the Miami Beach scene in hot pursuit of her missing baby brother, "Wild" Bill. Leave it to the maverick of the family to get Barney involved with high-speed car chases, a search for sunken treasure, and Sam Hooker, a NASCAR d...Posted 4 hours ago @ KR Blog
First off, I love Patti Smith. What’s not to love?
The woman has amazing hair. She’s in with the coolest people on planet Earth—Bruce Springsteen, Robert Mapplethorpe, the French Minister of Culture.
She was raised in New Jersey.
Seriously.
And how could you not fall MORE in love with her after watching this video?
Demure with that TKO voice. The whole crowd, silent, until beckoned to sing:
Because the night belongs to lovers
Because the night belongs to lust
Because the nig...Posted 5 hours ago @ lit*chick
A Novel Bookstore by Laurence Cosse, Translated by Alison Anderson (who also did The Elegance of the Hedgehog.)
Description:
Ivan, a one-time world traveler, and Francesca, a ravishing Italian heiress, are the owners of a bookstore that is anything but ordinary. Rebelling against the business of bestsellers and in search of an ideal place where their literary dreams can come true, Ivan a...Posted 5 hours ago @ Bookfetish.org
Theo Fleury has had one hell of a life. Ignored by his Mother. A drunk for a father. Abused by...Posted 5 hours ago @ Smart Bitches, Trashy Books
Don’t forget: you have until later tonight to enter to win a $2000.00 US gift certificate to Tempurpedic from Avon Books. US entries only, and alls you have to do is share a wedding night story. Full details at the entry.
Wow, just typing this makes me want a nap.
Posted 5 hours ago @ Beattie's Book Blog
A Novel Bookstore by Laurence Cossé: Fight Evil, Read a Book Nina Sankovitch - Huffington PostReads and reviews hundreds of booksPosted: September 1, 2010 
A Novel Bookstore by Laurence Cossé is a very original take on an enduring theme: the passion that readers have for books. What is the dream of book lovers everywhere? To visit the perfect book store, one tha...Posted 5 hours ago @ Beattie's Book Blog
At the Center of the Storm, but Still a MysteryBy Michiko KakutaniPublished: New York Times, September 1, 2010A JOURNEY - My Political Life By Tony Blair Illustrated. 700 pages. Alfred A. Knopf. US$35. “A man without a shadow”; a “pleasant man with a pleasant family living in a pleasant North London house”; a bright, telegenic, yet elusive politician with a “smooth facade.” This is how a newspaper article in The Guardian famously described Tony Blair long before he became prime ...Posted 5 hours ago @ Beattie's Book Blog
Book lifts lid on Carla Bruni's loversA controversial new book examining the "secret life and lovers" of Carla Bruni-Sarkozy is to be published in France this month. Peter Allen in Paris, The Telegraph, Published: 01 Sep 2010
Carla Bruni and Eric Clapton together in 1989 Carla Bruni-Sarkozy has had affairs with a string of high-profile men including the Engli...Posted 5 hours ago @ Beattie's Book Blog
Larsson remains top e-book and audiobook at libraries02.09.10 - Victoria Gallagher - The Bookseller
Stieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo has held onto the top spot of the adult fiction e-book and audiobook charts in libraries for the third month running.According to library distributor Overdrive, Larsson's The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest and The Gir...Posted 6 hours ago @ Beattie's Book Blog
Of Two Minds About Books -Print or Pixels?By Matt Richtel and Claire MillerPublished New York Times: September 1, 2010
Photo -Yana Paskova for The New York Times Alexandra Ringe, right, an editor, and her husband, Jim Hanas, a fiction ...
Saturday Morning with Kim Hill: 4 September 2010Radio New Zealand National8:15 Richard J. Aldrich: spies and surveillance8:45 Sal Khan: YouTube tutor9:05 Barbara Trapido: Sex, Stravinsky and South Africa9:45 Kate's Klassic: The Woman in White10:05 Playing Favourites with Charley Gray 11:10 Gavin Pretor-Pinney: wave watching11:35 Judith Binney: Tuhoe revisitedProducer: Mark CubeyWellington eng...
Tuesday, September 7th 8:00 PMJames Ellroy and his new novel The Hilliker Curse (Knopf)Largo at the Coronet366 N. La Cienega Blvd.Los Angeles, CA 90048Tickets: $40 with book included / $25 without book
One of the more popular North Shore Heritage Festival events is on the calendar again this year. This beautifully restored historic home, where Frank Sargeson resided and wrote from 1940s until his death in 1982, will be open to the public thanks to the Sargeson Trust. Restored by the Sargeson Trust, with the assistance of Hayden and Rollett, the house is a sig...
Scholastic announced that Suzanne Collins' Mockingjay has sold 450,000 copies counting both hardcover and eBook sales since its August 24th release. That's an average of 45,000 books sold per day. The final installment of the Hunger Games trilogy has topped both the New York Times and USA Today...I really love Joanne Harris's work. I've read three of her books now, one of them multiple times. I count Chocolat as one of my favorite all time reads and for a while was rereading it nearly every year, and Gentlemen and Players was simply brilliant in my opinion. I know her style doesn't appeal to everyone, and she can be seen as uneven in her execution by those ...
With the new Amazon Kindle 3 now available for New Zealand customers to purchase from the Amazon website, there is...
The August 29, 2010, edition of the Chicago Sun-Times profiled the University of Illinois Press reissue of What’s That Pig Outdoors? A Memoir of Deafness by Henry Kisor.
“Henry’s Norman Rockwell upbringing (in Evanston, where he still lives most of the year) and ‘mainstream’ achievements make a great case to the contrary. He was a youth swimming champ and summer camp...