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.
Filed under: readers advisory, media, oprah, non-fiction, bookclub, spirituality, self-help on January 30th, 2008 | No Comments »
“According to the Associated Press, Oprah Winfrey has chosen Ken Follett’s 1989 novel The Pillars of the Earth for her next bookclub pick. Follett’s newest book, World Without End, is a sequel. The Pillars of the Earth is a love story set in 12th-century England. Unlike Follett’s other books, this one is a big historical […]
Filed under: readers advisory, fiction, media, oprah, bookclub on November 14th, 2007 | No Comments »
at The New York Times‘ Sunday Book Review Reading Room. First up: War and Peace. (via RA Online)
Filed under: media, classics, bookclub on October 29th, 2007 | No Comments »
Richard and Judy are launching a children’s bookclub on their channel 4 show, hoping to inspire a love of reading in young children: “School pupils helped producers select eight books for readers aged five and above, to feature on the TV show.”
The books are:
Aliens Love Underpants by Claire Freedman and Ben Cort
Poppy and Max and […]
Filed under: readers advisory, children's books, media, bookclub on October 25th, 2007 | No Comments »