I enjoy reading the capsule book reviews in the Arts&Books section of The First Post, an online magazine from the UK, because the books reviewed — adult fiction and non-fiction — are often ones I haven’t heard much about anywhere else. This [...]
Becky Spratford, co-author of Horror Readers’ Advisory: The Librarian’s Guide to Vampires, Killer Tomatoes, and Haunted Houses (2004), has a new blog called ‘RA for All.’ She defines RA as “a patron oriented, nonjudgmental public library service that strives to help fiction and nonfiction readers find books to read for enjoyment” [...]
Sarah at Reader’s Advisory Online Blog is launching a new feature, called Subgenre Spotlight. The first article is on a subgenre of (non-fiction) History called ‘New Perspectives.’ Here’s her description of that subgenre: These books offer “offering facts and evidence garnered through extensive research, but their authors often interpret those [...]