Reading Copy Book Blog

NPR’s Fresh Air just featured Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno’s collection of poems, Slamming Open the Door, which was published earlier this year. The book concerns her life after the murder of her daughter, Leidy, who was killed in her apartment six years ago. She had been strangled to death.

The new trailer for Stieg Larsson’s second book in the Millennium Series, ‘The Girl Who Played with Fire’.

The one of the most interesting aspects of this job is that I learn something about books every day. Today, I am learning about a book called Thirtyfour Parking Lots in Los Angeles by Ed Ruscha and Art Alanis. AbeBooks sold a first edition copy signed by Ruscha for $1,200 earlier this week. A book [...]

HOORAY! The trailer for Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox is up! This has so much going for it. Wes Anderson directs some of the best movies out there – Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The Darjeeling Limited, Bottle Rocket – all really excellent movies. AND, written by Roald Dahl, author [...]

Library lovers are clamouring to get ice cream giant Ben & Jerry’s to add some library and book-themed flavours to their repertoire.

For those of us who remember reading about the unfortunate British teenager Adrian Mole – his love of Pandora, his desperation for sex, his awkwardness on rollerskates, his terrible attempts at fashion, and his old friend Bert, rejoice! The newest Adrian Mole book by Sue Townsend – called The Lost Diaries of Adrian Mole 1999-2001 [...]

With the Booker long list not even a week old, speculation is already rampant. When picking your favourites there are a few ways you can go about it. The first would be the traditional approach – reading the whole long-list and choosing what you think is the best book. This would a great method in [...]

Prolific 91-year-old reader borrows a staggering 25,000 books.

Su Blackwell is an artist who makes amazing paper models from old books.

Reviewers of The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal are saying that it’s a fictionalized account of the founding of FaceBook and not a non-fiction work.