Lamenting the Bestsellers

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 […]

Filed under: readers advisory, booklists, self-help, bestsellers, bookselling, popular reading, celebrities, reality media on August 20th, 2008 | No Comments »

New Oprah Book Pick

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 »