Reading Copy Book Blog

Nora Roberts has listed her upcoming titles for 2010.

Did Charles Dickens invent Christmas?

Loren Singer, the author of the 1970 conspiracy thriller, The Parallax View, has died at the age of 86. I have never read the book but I love the movie version with Warren Beatty.

We’ve got another great selection of odd books including The Teach Your Chicken to Fly Training Manual by Trevor Weekes. Be sure to visit the Weird Book Room to check out all our newly listed titles!

Kevin Michael Connolly was born without legs. His book, “Double Take: a Memoir” is a compilation of photographs taken in various countries – of people staring at him.

One man’s mission to dethrone Dan Brown from the top of the book charts.

I enjoyed this article from Alison Flood at The Guardian about angry authors responding to negative reviews on Amazon. The comments are also excellent – naturally some jester said Alison’s article was “shite” and the Guardian’s moral guardians removed the comment before replacing it and saying sorry for failing to understand some basic use of [...]

I may mock Texas but things are bad in the UK too. Forty five Borders bookshops are closing for good probably about now as I write this post. What a mess and I pity those employees who are going to have a thoroughly miserable jobless Christmas.

The bad news just keeps coming for Texas. First, Laredo is left without a bookshop and now El Paso finishes bottom of a survey revealing America’s most literate cities. Seattle is the winner (it seems to always finish top of these lists) and El Paso was joined at the foot of the table by another [...]

Finding God and morality in Fargo, The Big Lebowski and more: The Dude Abides: The Gospel According to the Coen Brothers.