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~post by Steve(n) With the full moon this month coinciding with Valentine's Day this month, we of the Nightmare Factory Book Club were put in mind not of the transformative power of love but rather the necessary heartbreak and bestial desires of the werewolf. Every month, our lycanthropic brethren must divest themselves of their humanity, abandoning … Continue reading Nightmare Factory Book Club Howls At the Moon
~post by Ellen This past January, over 10,000 librarians, publishers, and book-industry people met for the American Library Association’s Midwinter Meeting in Philadelphia. If you want to read about the conference in more detail, you can do so here, but I’m going to tell you about my ALA Midwinter 2014. I’m not sure how many … Continue reading My Trip to the ALA Midwinter Meeting
Publishers Weekly reports that J. K. Rowling has announced she'll pen a second mystery under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. This follow-up to The Cuckoo's Calling will be titled The Silkworm and is due for publication here in the U.S. June 24, according to the book's publisher, Little Brown. Did you read The Cuckoo's Calling? Will you pick up The … Continue reading Rowling to Write New Galbraith Mystery
Happy Valentines Day: "11 Reasons Books Are Better Valentines Than People" House of Cards: Sourcebooks to publish the book that inspired Netflix Original House of Cards. No release date given, but they plan to fast-track both books written by Michael Dobbs.House of Cards: To Play the King and The Final Cut are both based on Dobb's experiences … Continue reading This Week in the World of Books
The Martian by Andy Weir Reviewed by Raul This book should serve as a manual for survival on Mars and for any future missions to the Red Planet; it should be required reading for all crew members, administrators and staff of NASA. Weir creates not only a gripping man v. Mars survival story, but he includes … Continue reading THE MARTIAN: Required Reading for Space Travelers
~post by Katie G. I chose George Clooney's star-driven rendition of The Monuments Men as the start of my venture into a twice monthly column that will add another voice to the venerable debate: Can a movie ever live up to the book? The book The Monuments Men by Robert M. Edsel is a great romp … Continue reading Cover to Reel: THE MONUMENTS MEN
~RAUL The Martian by Andy Weir "This book should serve as a manual for survival on Mars for any future missions to the Red Planet. It should be required reading for all crew members, administrators and staff of NASA. Weir creates not only a gripping man v. Mars survival story, but he includes all the … Continue reading What We’re Reading This Week
Quesadillas by Juan Pablo Villalobos Reviewed by Ben Translation is a tricky business, especially in the realm of literature and poetry. Not only is there a responsibility to accurately represent the original work, but good translations somehow manage to capture the nuances and style of the original language for the readers to whom it is foreign. … Continue reading QUESADILLAS: An Absurdist Tragi-Comedy Whirlwind
~Post by Claire Cameron, Author of The Bear: A Novel Getting lost in the wilderness is a scary idea: just you, the vast wilderness and…what if your cell phone doesn’t work? Even in our connected world, this still happens. To be human is to get lost. An environmental psychologist, Colin Ellard, in his book You … Continue reading How To Be Found: Guest Post by Claire Cameron
~post by Bosco About ten years ago, my Mom met and fell in love with a straight up nerd whom she later married. My mom is an academic. She has a doctorate. She chaired the department where she taught English at a small state University. I grew up in a kind of dorky intellectual environment. … Continue reading Reading with Pops: A Feast for Dragons, A Dance with Crows
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