Reading Copy Book Blog

Phone books may be slowly going the way of the Dodo but many people still find them useful and several more make millions selling advertisements in them. The Slate article I just linked you to also mentions the novelty factor of looking up your favourite authors or celebrities in an old volume (Bram Stoker on [...]

I always find them a bit of a let down, perhaps it’s just because I’m sad about finishing the book, but here are the 100 best final lines from novels in handy PDF form! Thanks to the Blog of a Bookslut

What would it be like to be married to someone like Hunter S. Thompson? An interview with his wife Anita Thompson in which she talks about the final years of his life.

I finished reading The Outcast by Sadie Jones last night. I’m not a huge reader of fiction but this one is pretty good, especially considering that this is a debut novel. The book – about a lonely child affected by the drowning of his mother in 1950s’ Surrey – reminds me somewhat of Ian McEwan [...]

Other stuff…. JK Rowling used to be depressed – the Beeb. An excerpt from Philip Pullman’s Once Upon a Time in the North – The Guardian. A review of Ed Smith’s What Sport Tells Us About Life – The Observer.

How’s this for an idea, a cookbook based entirely on foods mentioned in the bible . It’s called The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Good Food from the Good Book. Perhaps cooking this cookbook will have some positive repercussions in the way people look at you because The Daily Mail reports that Gordon Ramsay fans are [...]

A book restorer, Karen Tolley, in Oregon is profiled.

The Old Bill read? These ones in the Seattle Times do.

Back again after the long weekend. The LA Times has a long article and interview with Bret Easton Ellis, who is now 44. To some, he’s a kind of Duran Duran of the literary world: fashionable once, but now a footnote. Or at best something that comes back for periodic rediscovery but remains a relic, [...]

Fantastic video preview of an upcoming pop up book.