Reading Copy Book Blog

See ten of the best heroes from children’s fiction according to The Guardian.

We have just put together a list of 25 Australian cookbooks. The authors include a famous cricketer, a group of Aussie Rules players, a convict, a group of beauty queens, the Red Cross, the former premier of South Australia and a variety of TV chefs. I’m always drawn to 1970s cookbooks and this list has [...]

The Guardian blog has a post today about people helping each other remember the titles and authors of books when we only have the foggiest recollections of certain details. Somebody should tell them about Booksleuth, where the booklover community adds (and often solves!) new book mysteries every day.

The winners of the Bram Stoker Awards were announced over the weekend at the annual banquet dinner, which this year was held in England on the pier in Brighton. Best Novel: Audrey’s Door by Sarah Langan Best First Novel: Damnable by Hank Schwaeble Best Long Fiction: The Lucid Dreaming by Lisa Morton Best Non-Fiction: Writers [...]

Fans of Stephenie Meyer will be thrilled to hear that she’s bringing out a novella in June. The new instalment is called The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner: An Eclipse Novella …and yes, it’s about a vampire.

Michael Chabon was interviewed in Saturday’s Guardian. It’s long and fairly interesting. When we meet, Chabon is in London to look in on the filming of John Carter of Mars, a live-action Disney adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs’s Martian stories, for which he was hired to do script-polishing work. Wearing a brightly coloured shirt, Chelsea [...]

The Catholic Sentinel isn’t on my usual reading list but this is a fascinating article about the monks at the Trappists of Our Lady of Guadalupe Abbey in Oregon and their bookbinding business. A steady base of about 30 colleges, especially Portland State University, has been the mainstay of the monks’ book work. It’s the [...]

Walmart has canceled a series of appearances by Duane ‘Dog’ Chapman to promote his latest book because of ‘security issues.’ Strange – surely Duane and (the people of) Walmart are a match made in heaven?

My seven-year-old daughter reached, what I would call, a state of reading independence over the weekend. She’s been on the brink of being able to read chapter books for some time. She had made significant in-roads into Alice in Wonderland (too odd), Anne of Green Gables (too many words she didn’t understand), The Magician’s Nephew [...]

Douglas Coupland credits AbeBooks as one of his sources for his new book, Marshall McLuhan, according to the Toronto Star. I feel McLuhan, who coined the term global village, would have liked AbeBooks.