Reading Copy Book Blog

Shelf Awareness interviews R.L. Stine – author of the Goosebumps series. On your nightstand now: The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry, The Girl of His Dreams by Donna Leon, Liberty by Garrison Keillor, Walking Shadow by Robert B. Parker. Favorite book when you were a child: Pinocchio. The original was very violent and alarming. Your [...]

Dylan Thomas was killed not by his drinking but by the mistakes of his physician, according to a Welsh newspaper. I don’t think it really matters.

Top 10 ghost stories from The Guardian.

The Guardian has a Halloween quiz. It’s all about witches.

John McCain and Barack Obama have named their favorite books in a TV interview – McCain said Ernest Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls and Obama said the Bible and Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon. In a few days one of them is going to have plenty of time for reading. Wouldn’t it have been [...]

A cyclist in Cambridge rampaged though a charity bookshop and tried to hit one of the booksellers after being asked to move his bike which he had lent against the shop’s window. The man, aged in his 20s, pulled over three bookcases which were bolted to a wall, narrowly missing a customer. When a staff [...]

I’m thrilled to reveal author and all-round ‘Book Guy’ Nicholas Basbanes is coming to Victoria – AbeBooks.com’s hometown – on October 31 to deliver two free lectures. Nicholas is a huge supporter of AbeBooks and appears each week on NPR’s The Book Guys show where he discusses his passion – books. Nicholas is famous for [...]

Just in time for Halloween, you can mark your book with (fake) blood, ink or milk

At last, from the archives at the Heldfond Book Gallery in San Anselmo, California, two great writers go head to head. Hemingway calls Eliot a nancy boy because he writes poems about cats. He does have a point. Hemingway is always going to win although Eliot gets in a nice shotgun/mouth jibe. Poets are hopeless [...]

Haunted libraries – there’s a ghost called Lola in a Connecticut library! Bridgeport Public Library. Some library staff members say they have encountered a ghost in the 6th or 7th floor stacks near the historical materials in this 1927 building. The entity, which they have nicknamed Lola, is said to be friendly and helps find [...]