Per Book Standard today, “Oprah Winfrey has chosen Love In The Time of Cholera, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, as the next choice for her book club. … Love In The Time of Cholera, which is published by Vintage, a Random House imprint, was originally published in the U.S. in 1988 and is about a love […]
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The Guardian is touring Spain via its fiction, drama, and poetry, and soliciting recommendations for the best authors and titles. I posted something about it on my other blog, here.
Filed under: readers advisory, booklists, fiction, travel, best of on September 25th, 2007 | No Comments »
I feel like I’m pushing the season but since I just received my LL Bean catalog in the mail today, with a big balsam wreath plastered on both front and back covers, talking about Halloween doesn’t seem so unseemly …
Fiction Addiction offers title and author for 15 Halloween Reads. I’ve got links to lots of […]
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Good idea! The Bensenville Community Public Library (IL) is using its blog to post new booklists each week (author and title only), as well as entries for ‘author of the week,’ ‘book of the week,’ and some discussion of books.
Recent booklist topics: urban fantasy; apocalyptic stories; fiction about knitting, quilting and embroidery; mysteries that […]
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If Jane’s your girl, check out Bette-Lee Fox’s article in Library Journal this week. She suggests three re-writes (two of Pride & Prejudice, one of Emma), a sequel and series of sequels to P&P, two epistolary collections connected with P&P, two novels about Jane Austen herself, a mystery series featuring Jane the detective, five […]
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“‘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 […]
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The latest Subgenre Spotlight at Reader’s Advisor is Time Travel Romance (or, If You Like Diana Gabaldon): “These titles are defined as romances which ‘feature protagonists who are transported from one time period to another. The exchange is usually between the present and some time in the past,’” though not invariably. Sarah suggests 5 […]
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Sixty-one American critics and writers (NYT Books) and fifty British writers (Observer) tell us which 85 fiction titles (and a few memoirs) are brilliant and underrated. The American titles are recent, the British are all over the place chronologically.
Andrew O’Hagan’s pick is By the Lake by John McGahern, which I have wanted to read and […]
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