Reading Copy Book Blog

The world’s best travel writer, Jan Morris, has a new book but we have to wait until she “kicks the bucket” to see it. Her words not mine. When I came to Canada, I picked up City to City by Jan Morris – a book that looks at many of this country’s major cities.

Michael Dirda, the esteemed book critic at the Washington Post, conducts regular online chats with this readers. He often gets questions about where to find out-of-print books and he usually recommends AbeBooks.com. We’re always grateful for his support. But this week he wrote….. “Once I could have sold my books to any number of local [...]

Writers’ houses.

We can now put a face to Anne Frank’s “one true love.” A photograph of the boy with the “beautiful brown eyes” is to go on display in Amsterdam says Reuters.

If you have a million dollars then you are simply middle class in America according to a new book. Discuss. The mere fact that this book even got published says a lot about America.

Book Ninja points to rockstar poet, Mary Oliver.

A few months ago we asked AbeBooks visitors to vote on the world’s weirdest travel books

Not only is the coffee giant selling books, making bestsellers out of Ishmael Beah and Mitch Albom’s titles, but they are taking over your bookstore too. Starbucks now has its own mini-genre, Starbooks

I was delighted to see that my favourite novel, Not Wanted on the Voyage by Timothy Findley, was one of the five Canada Reads books this year. Canada Reads is a lively and highly-followed discussion (at least here in Canada) where five celebs (O.K….Canada’s version of a celebrity) defend their choice on CBC radio. Each [...]

I love small houses with clever space design. This staircase / bookcase is quite lovely.