Talk show host Oprah Winfrey has chosen Eckhart Tolle’s self-help book, A New Earth: Awakening Your Life’s Purpose (2005), as her next read. More at her site, where she explains that she and Tolle are teaching an ‘exclusive online course’ for ten Mondays at 9 ET beginning on March 3.
The big question for many: When will Dan Brown’s next book, following his wildly successful The DaVinci Code (2003), be published? Jeffrey Trachtenberg, writing in the Wall Street Journal today, says it’s a mystery:
“[T]he nation’s biggest retailers can barely restrain themselves. ‘We’re constantly asking,’ says Bob Wietrak, vice president of merchandising at Barnes & Noble [...]
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Two articles on the related topic of libraries and access to knowledge:
From The Independent, Michael Savage asks “The Big Question: Does the decline in book lending spell the end for the public library?” He notes that figures just published show that the British “are taking out fewer books from libraries than we were 10 years [...]
Having done this exact search myself, I offer to you herzogbr.net’s “Reference Question of the Week” for this week, which is to find actual snowfall amounts on two recent dates for one location. If someone asks you this question, or you want to know yourself, and the dates fall within the last month, reading his [...]
George MacDonald Fraser, author of the Flashman adventure series, published from 1969 to 2005, died of cancer today in England. More from the AP, Guardian, and The Independent.