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We posted a short note about Philip José Farmer’s death a few days ago but here is a more elequent synopsis of his many accomplishments from yesterday’s New York Times. I had never read one of Farmer’s books but he sounded like quite the character and I think I’m going to have to add something [...]

Reading you say? Boosts vocabulary? …. who woulda thunked it!

Looks like I’m a one in 30. Check out this article in The Scotsman about the low number of fathers who read to children at bedtime. Last night, I handled the three-year-old and read 50 Below Zero by Robert Munsch and some Charlie and Lola book, might have been about teeth falling out.

Dashiell Hammett’s character Sam Spade is revived by author Joe Gores in his prequel to The Maltese Falcon, Spade & Archer.

One of my favourite movies as a kid, The Neverending Story, is apparently going to be remade by Warner Bros. To that I say: BUT IT AIN’T BROKE. Atreyyyuuuuuuu! Also, I don’t know why I never knew this: The Neverending Story was a book first! The book of the Neverending Story was originally a German [...]

Not only did Agatha Christie have a home in Devon, 15 of her novels included settings there.

How many of the BBC’s list of 100 books have you read? Apparently, the average is six.

We’re talking about book covers of course. I saw this post on The Millions, where they open the debate about which country publishes nicer book covers. I tend to agree that British covers are, generally speaking, more aesthetically pleasing. But what do you think, UK editions are on the left, US editions on the right.

A review of Greg Mortenson’s Three Cups of Tea. To sum up, I don’t think Three Cups of Tea was all that great a book. From reading it, I can’t even say whether Greg Mortenson is all that great a man, in some ways. But it is absolutely clear that he is a man doing great things, when great things are urgently needed.

Journalist, and author of A World of Trouble: America in the Middle East, Patrick Tyler shared his Top 10 ‘Eccentric’ Middle East Books with The Guardian.