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While searching for novels I happened to notice a trend in the new books section. Book after book was about religion. Similar stories or documentary type novels all seemed to be out at the same time with more to be released. I wondered if this was just a coincidence or if many people are now…
Monthly Archives: April 2006
Bibliochaise
This is one of the coolest things I’ve seen in a while: It’s called the bibliochaise, and it can shelve up to five linear meters of books, impressively. It’s designed for people who like to be “immersed in deep reading,” according to Italian manufacturer Nobody & Co.. The only probelm I see is the comfort…
Five Book Reviews From BookPage
I was looking at some books to purchase and decided to go and look up some reviews for them before I decided to buy them or not. Thought I’d share these reviews from BookPage. The Madonna of Leningrad Debra Dean Review A Most Uncommon Degree of Popularity Kathleen Gilles Review We Are All Welcome Here…
Find Cheap College Books Used and New
College is a huge expense than most parents know they have to start saving for as soon as that baby is born. As the years go by college is getting even more expensive and that doesn’t even include the price of the textbooks. Some college textbooks can cost hundreds of dollars and you only need…
Don’t Look At The Word Count
A few years ago I was writing a novel and was frustrated because I had an eye on the word count. It was for an ebook publisher and I needed to have a novel size at 60,000 words and I was literally keeping count after every sentence I typed. So it was pretty slow going. Another…
Thoughts I Left Behind by William Roetzheim
I have always had a problem with poetry. The problem being that most of the early poems rhymed, and we all had to study them in school. So when we wrote poetry we rhymed it as well. Today if you wrote a rhyming poem, people would think you were an uneducated dullard. I gave…
Getting Help With Illustration
A large majority of books needs to be illustrated, be it just the front cover, children’s books or cook books. Even if your doing self-publishing, if you can’t draw a stick figure then you need to find someone who can illustrate your novel. Here are a few places that you can begin at. Illustration Web…
Poetry Revisited
I have recently been given a book of poetry by the editor to read. I have not been much for poetry these last years and have not involved myself in reading or writing it. However this book has impressed me and it’s a book I can see myself cherishing for a long time. …
My Favorite Book
First book is the old cover, 2nd is the new cover. My favorite book is actually a children’s book called “I Want To Go Home” by Gordon Korman. I first read it in my early teens and loved it ever since. Somewhere in the next five or ten years I no longer had the…
The Cell By Stephen King Book Review
The Cell is an intriguing novel by Stephen King that warps the image of an electronical device used by millions every second of everyday. The cellphone. One day out of no where a powerful pulse was sent through cell phones and anyone who was using one at the time and even those who happens to…