Reading Copy Book Blog

Better than nine dancers dancing, teach your love 12 wacky dances from the 1800s! Note:The Dept. of Wacky Dances is a sub section of the Ministry of Silly Walks. Starr Wood’s Dances You Have Never Seen A group of 12 comic dances circa 1890, each one is described with a full page color illustration of [...]

Our colleagues at BookFinder.com have released their annual list of the most wanted out-of-print books. Once again, it seems that Madonna’s Sex is in great demand. Why doesn’t someone reissue this book?

Our friends at Librarything.com have a high profile admirer.

On the eighth day of Christmas my true love gave to me, eight maids a milking… The advent of automated milking machinery has made the milk maid somewhat redundant over the years.  However thanks to the preservation of literature, it will never be a completely lost art. The Complete Servant Maid; or Young Woman’s Best [...]

I just can’t bring myself to do karaoke but at least I can read. The Independent reports there are millions of Britons with literacy problems when they step up the microphone.

NPR has a fun piece on famous writers and their associated drinks. Have a mojito while you read Hemingway, or a gin rickey while you take in Fitzgerald, or gimlet while poring over Chandler … or read about them all (and perhaps not drink them all) in the recently released Hemingway & Bailey’s Bartending Guide to [...]

A new book says Muhammad Ali was the first rapper, according to this article.

Maida Silverman’s Anna and the Seven Swans This is signed copy of the enchanting Baba Yaga Russian folk-tale of a girl attempting to save her brother from an evil witch who sends seven swans after him. Fowl count – 23… maybe that’s why it is traditional to eat some sort of bird for Christmas dinner?

When I was in grade school we took weekly trips to the school library, as a class, to get our fix of reading material and each week the boys (who are all I can speak for) would always a rush for a specific few titles – a series on classic monsters, a huge tome on [...]

BibliOdyssey is perhaps one of my favourite blogs – book-related or not. It doesn’t feel like a traditional blog, rather the blog focuses on collecting antiquarian book imagery. Most posts are a series of related images and some explanatory text about the series. The posts range from book arts, scientific illustrations, antiquarian maps, country specific [...]