Reading Copy Book Blog

The New York Times has got its hands on a copy of At The Center of the Storm by ex-CIA director George Tenet – it’s not released until Monday. The book apparently reveals how George Bush took America to war with Iraq without any “serious debate” as to whether Saddam Hussein was a serious threat [...]

This article on Daphne du Maurier is 10 days old but worth reading. A bookshop owner from the Cornish town of Fowey has found one of the author’s missing stories from 70 years ago. Next month it’s 100 years since the author’s birth.

While doing my morning stroll though the blogsphere I found this from a few days ago.  It’s a walking tour of independent bookshops in New York, if you don’t happen to be living in or going to New York anytime soon.  Thanks to Amy at Textual Tangents for spotting this

This summer it will be 10 years since the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, and the Wall Street Journal tells us there are 180 books in print about her. Another 14 are coming soon. How much more can be written and who’s going to read it?

The LA Times previews this weekend’s LA Times Festival of Books – AbeBooks has a booth at the event (# 654) and you can meet Thomas, Jordan and Kyra who will be representing the company. Come by and say hello. I attended the event two years ago and really enjoyed it.

I am not really much of a fan of book reviews but this one caught my eye from the Daily Telegraph over a week ago. Don’t Cry For Me Aberystwyth by Malcolm Pryce interested me because of where this book is set. Some novelists set their books in urban, threatening New York, some people select [...]

The Yale Daily News reports on a special department within the university’s Sterling Library that is dedicated to restoring old books and periodicals from its vast archives. The article explains how the quality and make-up of the paper that constitutes a book influences its chances of survival.

The New York Times has an article on so-called ’mommy books’ – apparently, there are plenty of these much-hyped books but they’re not selling.

After watching Heroes last night, I am struck by some similarities in the story line as Alan Moore’s Watchmen. Anyone else notice this? (PS. If you are a fan of the show, I highly recommend Watchmen. It’s not a typical superhero type story – although it revolves around superheroes – it presents a darker, more [...]

A man in Arkansas was horrified when he went into his local library with his teenage sons, aged 14 and 16, and found a book on lesbianism. The man is now demanding $20,000 from the city authorities as compensation for the damage done. “My sons were greatly disturbed by viewing this material and this matter [...]