January 18, 2012 – 3:36 pm
Shop Indie Bookstores Fans of Downton Abbey, the UK-produced drama about the Crawley family and their servants that PBS imported for Masterpiece Classic, will be happy to know that NY publishers have taken notice. In addition to the companion book, The World of Downton Abbey by Jessica Fellowes, dozens of 20th century novels about the British aristocracy are being rushed [...]
January 4, 2012 – 4:58 pm
Happy 2012 readers! Even tho’ I can’t predict what new titles will become this year’s hot reads, I did run across a few note worthy trends that book insiders are betting on and buzzing about. Contemporary dilemma-type titles, sequels of classic tales, YA/adult crossover titles and short story collections are just a few of the fiction trends [...]
October 31, 2011 – 5:03 pm
Shop Indie Bookstores There has been a lot of TV hoopla surrounding the ‘exclusive’ interviews with Ruth Madoff and her youngest son Andrew as part off the promotion for a new book Truth and Consequences: Life Inside the Madoff Family by Laurie Sandell. Bernie Madoff, of course, is the financier convicted of running a 50 billion dollar [...]
September 8, 2011 – 5:52 pm
Shop Indie Bookstores My son and daughter have been out of college for several years now, but I still love to see what schools are asking their incoming freshman to read. I found this list on the College Confidential Forum. Rebecca Skloot’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks looks to be the favorite pick this year. Do [...]
shouting present participle of shout (Verb) 1. (of a person) Utter a loud call or cry, typically as an expression of a strong emotion. It’s not often you get to use the words librarian and shout in the same sentence, which is exactly why we all should be paying attention to the Shout ‘n’ Share [...]
Well everyone who is anyone in book world is probably in New York this week attending Book Expo America (BEA), the book industry’s premier trade show. It used to be de rigueur to attend in order to get the inside scoop on upcoming titles, but now that a number of the author events and business panels can be [...]
Just six more weeks until William and Kate tie the knot. For those Anglophiles out there (and you know who you are) that can’t bear the wait, here are some literary suggestions to help you while away the hours. READ: Shop Indie Bookstores The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown Who can resist a quirky family [...]
January 17, 2011 – 4:39 pm
The dreamy photographs of Finish mom/blogger Adele Enersen have been floating around the internet charming everyone who clicks and views. News of a book to be published in 2012, Daydream illustrated “When my baby dreams”, therefore comes as no surprise to the many followers of Mila’s Daydreams, a maternity leave hobby. And to think, it [...]
October 25, 2010 – 6:17 pm
George Stephanopoulos only had to declare that he loved Eighteen Acres and that author Nicolle Wallace, former White House Communications Director for Bill Clinton, got all the little details right and I was ready to rush out and buy this one. Eighteen Acres (what insiders call the White House complex) revolves around three women in [...]
October 8, 2010 – 5:32 pm
The fall book season is well under way and the following newsy book items caught my eye. What books are the librarians loving this season? Emma Donoghue‘s The Room, Susan Henderson’s Up From The Blue and Tom Franklin‘s Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter. Already on the NY Times bestseller list coupled with a stellar audio version, [...]
