While the book is selling like hotcakes, 007 fans are not feeling the love. About Devil May Care, the “new Bond” book written by Sebastian Faulks “in the style of” series creator and writer Ian Fleming (who died in 1964), Bond fans are saying:
“Anyone who thinks this style re-creates Fleming, or is evocative of Fleming, […]
Filed under: book reviews, readers advisory, bestsellers, james bond, spy novels on June 11th, 2008 | No Comments »
USA Today posts its lengthy interactive list of summer fiction and non-fiction. You can sort by title, author or release date, and look at all the books at once or only fiction or non-. Excerpts available for some. [22 May]
Politics and Prose Bookstore’s Summer Favorites 2008, with separate lists for hardcover fiction, paperback fiction, pb […]
Filed under: book reviews, readers advisory, booklists, fiction, publishing, seasonal previews, oprah, non-fiction on May 29th, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Fun essay in the NYT’s Papercuts by Bob Harris, listing his choices for the seven worst words frequently used in book reviews. The comments are even funnier.
Filed under: book reviews, language on March 26th, 2008 | No Comments »
Salon surveys the books written by all the 2008 candidates for U.S. President. Apparently all but one candidate (Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif.?) has written and published a book.
Among the titles are A Prayer for America by Dennis Kucinich (”Have you texted Peace 73223? Do you advocate the abolition of all nuclear weapons? Are you […]
Filed under: book reviews, readers advisory, booklists, politics on October 19th, 2007 | No Comments »
“‘It is a spectacular fall,’ says Carole Horne, general manager of the Harvard Book Store in Cambridge, Mass. ‘One of the best that I’ve seen.’” (Oscar Villalon at SFGate agrees.)
Horne is reported in the Christian Science Monitor to have particularly high hopes for the new Philip Roth book, Exit Ghost, and the new Richard Russo, […]
Filed under: book reviews, readers advisory, history, booklists, fiction, publishing, seasonal previews on September 10th, 2007 | 1 Comment »
ShelfAwareness is a tidy little (week-)daily newsletter of very current information about publishers, bookstores, and books. One section that might be especially useful for librarians and booksellers is ‘Media and Movies,’ a daily listing of films adapted from books that are opening during the week, and a list of author (and book) appearances scheduled for […]
Filed under: book reviews, readers advisory, fiction, publishing, media on September 10th, 2007 | No Comments »
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 […]
Filed under: book reviews on August 30th, 2007 | No Comments »