A 10-week classroom webcast , hosted by Oprah Winfrey and Eckhart Tolle, begins tonight, March 3, at 9 p.m. ET (8 CT). They’ll be teaching Tolle’s book, A New Earth: Awakening Your Life’s Purpose. Sign up to participate here.
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.
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“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 [...]
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at The New York Times‘ Sunday Book Review Reading Room. First up: War and Peace. (via RA Online)
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 [...]
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 [...]