American comic book writer and Marvel editor Danny Fingeroth has selected his “Top 10 graphic novels” (those he enjoyed most), which include books by Kyle Baker, Bryan Talbot, Peter Kuper, Will Eisner, Art Spiegelman, Marjane Satrapi, and others. Agree?
Filed under: readers advisory, best of, graphic novels on August 1st, 2008 | No Comments »
The Economist’s Daily Chart this week, titled “No sex please, we’re American,” is the 10 most challenged books in the U.S. during 2007. “For the second year running And Tango Makes Three, a children’s book, has topped the American Library Association’s list. … The tale of two male penguins adopting an orphaned egg provoked more […]
Filed under: readers advisory, children's books, banned and challenged books on July 24th, 2008 | No Comments »
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!
Filed under: readers advisory, the reading public, popular reading on June 30th, 2008 | No Comments »
“Man Writes Dog: Death and Rebirth in the Canine Memoirs” by Terry Caesar in The Common Review explores the changing roles of dogs from “man’s (or woman’s) best friend” to “humankind’s saviors,” based on the ” evidence of the current proliferation of best-selling nonfiction memoirs about dogs.” The focus is on Jon Katz’s memoir of […]
Filed under: readers advisory, animals, memoirs on June 16th, 2008 | No Comments »
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 »
Reminder: More content added daily to the recommended lists of summer books!
Filed under: readers advisory, seasonal previews on June 11th, 2008 | No Comments »
Seattle librarian David Wright at Shelf Talk provides a très petit glossary of French terms that relate to French fiction (e.g, L’esprit de l’escalier, Épater le bourgeois, ennui, noir) as well as a select list of French novels in English translation. Fun!
Filed under: readers advisory, international fiction, french literature, french fiction, in translation on June 5th, 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 »
The Guardian books blog examines what’s so appealing about vampire fiction, beginning with a short history of the theme and comparing older and seminal fictional works about the blood-drinkers with modern vampire lit, which tends to humanise and glamourise the vampire. As always, the comments offer more titles and food for thought ….
Filed under: readers advisory, horror, fiction, romance, paranormal, vampires, gothic on May 26th, 2008 | No Comments »
is now here.
Filed under: readers advisory on May 22nd, 2008 | No Comments »