Forum: Book News

I thought this article would be appropriate for the forum. I think it's interesting that the British poet laureate actually has real things to do. I usually think of poet laureates as just named positions that don't actually have responsibilities to actually write poetry. But I guess the...

Here is a short article about the works shortlisted for this year's Man Booker Prize. I'm not much of a fan of Coetzee or Byatt, though I haven't read either of these new books. I haven't heard of most of these other books, but I'm now quite curious about Wolf Hall, set during the reign of...

Thinking about buying a best seller lately, but not wanting to pay the too-high price hardcover books are going for these days? Tired of the binding on your books becoming more and more flimsy each year? Tired of the pages getting thinner, or the hard cover getting softer? Tired of the quality of...

I am completely inspired by this story to read more. This woman doesn't seem to need to work, so her days are free. But then I thought, if I cut out all the time I wasted online and all the silly video games I play, I would be able to get a lot of non-work reading done. I couldn't read a book a...

Okay, so The New York Times is really good at having totally ridiculous articles, and this is probably one of them. But it's also kind of fun. It talks about what people riding on the subway in New York are reading, and there was also a poll on the website to ask what people are reading (probably...

is this the future of reading? There is a very long article in the New York Times about changing reading curricula in schools. I thought some on here would find it interesting. Rather than copy the whole thing in here (it's really long). Here is just a teaser, and you can visit the whole...

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From The TimesMay 26, 2008 Hans Christian Andersen’s visit was no fairytale for Dickens Gad?s Hill, which Andersen visited, is shown in Dickens? Dream, by R. W. Buss Dalya Alberge, Arts Correspondent There is nothing worse than a guest who outstays his welcome, and that was how Charles...

Fantasy author: I have Alzheimer's LONDON, England (CNN) -- Fantasy author Terry Pratchett has admitted that he has been diagnosed with a rare form of Alzheimer's disease -- but says he plans to continue writing his multi-million selling Discworld books. art.terry.pratchett.gi.jpg Terry...

THE WINNER STANDS ALONE is a masterpiece: it talks about values lost and never found again. It looks like a thriller, but it is not - the characters are trapped and manipulated by the people Coelho calls "The Superclass". Once more Coelho made it. And I also believe Coelho is one of the few writers...

US Appeals Court Says Miami Schools Can Ban Book About Cuba February 8, 2009 MIAMI -- An appeals court has ruled that Miami school officials did not violate the constitution when they removed a children's book about Cuba from...

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Amazon has bought JK Rowling's new handwritten/illustrated book The Tales of Beetle the Bard for $3.98268 million USD or £1,950,000. The link has lots of photos of the book and reviews of the tales (some have spoilers, though it seems that the big spoilers are really only after you click on the...

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