Reading Copy Book Blog

We look at many, many, many books in a day as part of the AbeBooks marketing team. They go as far back as ancient times, long before the printing press, and I see books from centuries ago every day. So it should come as no surprise that very often I end up reminded of the [...]

Participate in World Book Night – register, be given free books, and go forth in your community and give them away. Viva La Book!

As someone who has often wistfully dreamed of opening my own bookstore (with a lovely soft couch-and-cushion section with story hour for kids, free coffee for grown-ups, and a leave-a-book-take-a-book section for swaps..), I enoyed reading this blog post called “25 Things I Learned From Opening a Bookstore”. It further confirmed my suspicion that not [...]

The joy and beauty of being a book, stop-motion style.

Letter from Charles Bukowski, outlining his terms to give a poetry reading.

Our latest feature is a tribute to Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), one of the greatest names in literature. Can anyone really go through life without reading one of his books? Even if you reject his writing, how can you not be fascinated by his life? A hunter, a drinker, a womaniser, an adventurer, a war hero, [...]

Bil Keane, writer and illustrator of the long-running comic strip The Family Circus, died November 8th at age 89.

Ernest Hemingway still seems larger than life more than 50 years after his death. Although his life is filled with legend and myth, there are some basic facts that cannot be disputed. Ernest Miller Hemingway was born in 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois. After a few months as a journalist on the Kansas city Star, [...]

If you believe that life should have a soundtrack, Love is a Mix Tape is the book for you.

The Guardian skims through a letter written by Joseph Heller of Catch-22 fame to be auctioned off, and concludes that the author actually enjoyed his military service during World War II and found it full of ‘glamour’ unlike his anti-hero Yossarian. How did I feel about the war when I was in it?” Heller wrote [...]