Novelist John Updike died yesterday at age 76 of lung cancer. Hillel Italie of the AP describes him as a “Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, prolific man of letters and erudite chronicler of sex, divorce and other adventures in the postwar prime of the American empire,” best known for his four ‘Rabbit’ novels.
Also in the Boston Globe [...]
The Fiction-L discussion list came up with these social networking sites that are useful for readers advisory — which means for finding books that might interest you, and for sharing books and the enjoyment of reading them with others.
Social LIbraries
aNobii (from Latin for ‘bookworm’): List books, share thoughts, meet People. Links to Amazon details and [...]
Tom Shone, in Intelligent Life’s Summer 2008 issue, laments bestsellers lists in the UK and the U.S. The NYT bestsellers list looks pretty erudite compared with the UK’s top sellers, which consist mostly of books by celebrities and reality-show has-beens, until we realise that the NYT shunted off the self-help and advice books to another [...]
At least two sources are from time to time posting lists of what people are reading on public transportation, in Seattle at Shelf Talk and all over the place (wherever the “peripatetic spies” are on the job) at Reader’s Advisor Online. I love this idea!