In nowadays electronic books become more popular, and it doesn’t the fiction
06 Oct 2010 23:43:17
That the electronic book reader has turned the book industry on its head is well known. Younger readers are no longer content to thumb through a printed book. The 21st century iPad generation wants interaction and variety.
But talk of the "ebook" that has dominated the Frankfurt Book Fair in recent years has given way in 2010 to excited chatter about the so-called "enhanced ebook", a mixture of the traditional book, audio, video and game.
"In five years, books will be more often crossmedia pro... Read Full Story
New book: "The Best American Noir of the Century" from James Ellroy and Otto Penzler
06 Oct 2010 01:18:30
In an introduction to "The Best American Noir of the Century," edited with James Ellroy, Penzler writes that works of noir "are existential, pessimistic tales about people, including (or especially) protagonists who are seriously flawed and morally questionable. The tone is generally bleak and nihilistic, with characters whose greed, lust, jealousy, and alienation lead them into a downward spiral as their plans and schemes inevitably go awry."
And, boy, do those ill-advised schemes and losers' ... Read Full Story
Tragedy at French culture: popular writer Bernard Clavel dies
06 Oct 2010 01:14:55
The award-winning popular French novelist Bernard Clavel, an autodidact who began his working life as a baker, died Tuesday aged 87, his publisher said.
He published his first novel "Night Worker" in 1956 and went on to write more 40 more, including "The Fruits of Winter" which in 1968 won France's coveted Goncourt prize.
Several of his works, which focused on humble characters and used simple language, were adapted for the cinema and television.
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Try to write your own book at your house, and don’t live it, like Bill Bryson
06 Oct 2010 01:12:52
"At Home: A Short History of Private Life" takes readers on a journey through every room of the Victorian parsonage in England where the author lives. Each chapter is named after a room or a part of the grounds ("The Drawing Room," "The Garden," "The Bedroom," etc.) and used as a jumping-off point for Bryson to explore the origins of everything from electricity to ice to crop fertilizers.
You can't open a page and read a few sentences without learning something. How many pounds of pears did the... Read Full Story
Book of the dead or about dead from John Lloyd and John Mitchinson?
04 Oct 2010 23:13:42
Authors John Lloyd and John Mitchinson had two criteria for including subjects in their latest book: They had to be interesting — and dead. And the result is a book that is fascinating, funny and informative.
Who knew that Catherine the Great wasn't a sex addict and died after a stroke suffered in the lavatory? Or that Genghis Khan was a title, not the name of the man who "transformed a haphazard patchwork of squabbling goatherds into an empire of unparalleled strength"?
How many know that it ... Read Full Story
Another autobiography from Koren Zailckas called `Fury'
04 Oct 2010 23:10:03
This book is talking about how the author began binge drinking when she was just 14, with a sequel titled, "Fury." Zailckas is now sober, but she still has internal demons to contend with, which is what drives her story.
Zailckas has just been dumped by her boyfriend (she refers to him as "the Lark"). She'd gone to England to live with him and is now on her way back to the United States. She moves in with her parents in Massachusetts and finds herself in a downward spiral of depression. Zailck... Read Full Story
Cowboys in Idaho government
04 Oct 2010 03:40:42
Even their equestrian prowess has come up during the campaign: In a recent debate, Democrat Keith Allred poked fun at Republican Gov. C.L. Otter's propensity to get thrown off his horse while roping cattle.
The cowboy theme has injected an Old West feel into a governor's race that has been more competitive than originally expected. Otter enjoys widespread popularity in the heavily Republican state and leads in the polls, but Allred has gone toe-to-toe with the incumbent in fundraising.
The can... Read Full Story
Pentagon is doing something unusual
04 Oct 2010 03:38:29
Destroying books isn't an everyday occurrence. In fact, the Pentagon says it has never destroyed copies of a book before. But in this case, the Pentagon contends that Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer's work includes classified informationthat shouldn't have been published and therefore it was the only option.
On Sept. 24, four days after the burning, publisher St. Martin's Press printed 50,000 copies of the book with supposedly classified information now blacked out. Even with redactions, the second ru... Read Full Story
Truth about America’s history
04 Oct 2010 03:36:37
Both were raised in the West by stern fathers in fundamentalist religions — Nixon, a Quaker; Anderson, a Mormon. Both found their life's work in the East and reached the top in Washington. And both believed the ends justified the means.
That Nixon could be a petty, vulgar politician who felt unbound by the law is already well documented. But Anderson, too, could be ethically crooked — he traded favorable treatment for money and favors, for example, and paid off a source who stole classified doc... Read Full Story
New bestseller from Janet Evanovich
03 Oct 2010 03:30:40
Lizzy is unaware of her power. She's recruited by a mysterious hunk named Diesel to help locate a mystical stone that represents gluttony, one of the Seven Deadly Sins.
Before Diesel and Lizzy can secure the stone, they must find the four charms that lead to it. The charms were divided among four siblings under a veil of secrecy after the death of their creepy uncle.
Diesel, a charming and brazen character first introduced in a previous Evanovich novel, works for a group whose purpose is to po... Read Full Story
From Jay R. Tunney about friendship
03 Oct 2010 03:29:36
Between bouts, the former "poor boy from the docks" and high-school dropout spends his time plowing through libraries of classic literature, memorizes Hamlet — all of it — and does a guest lecture at Yale. He also acts in a film, "The Fighting Marine," and writes articles and books of his own.
Given that unusual premise, it's easier to understand how the boxer, James Joseph "Gene" Tunney, also forged an enduring personal friendship with George Bernard Shaw, the Irish playwright and literary gia... Read Full Story
If you want to know about Jessica Mitford read new book from Leslie Brody
03 Oct 2010 03:27:32
A pair of young mavericks — British aristocrats who saw themselves as committed communists — eloped to Spain in the midst of its civil war of 1936-1939.
Jessica Mitford, the 20-year-old daughter of Lord and Lady Redesdale, had considered assassinating Adolf Hitler. Two of her sisters were friends of the German dictator. At 15 she thought of pretending they had converted her. Then she would get them to introduce her to Hitler — hiding a pistol in her handbag.
When she was in her 70s, Mitford sa... Read Full Story
