Posted on September 22, 2006 by Sarah White

I saw this morning that there are now more televisions per household than there are people, on average, with something like 2.7 televisions per household on average compared to only 2.5 people per household. Obviously there are lots of families that are way bigger than 2.5 people, and there are lots of single people who [...]

Posted on September 21, 2006 by Y.G.

Every fantasy reader probably knows by now that Christopher Tolkien was responsible for the posthumous completion of The Silmarillion, but how many did know that in the past 30 years, he has also been working on an edited version of The Children of Hurin, an unfinished tale abandoned by J.R.R. Tolkien in 1918? Extracts from [...]

Posted on September 18, 2006 by Marsha James

In Blogging Naked, Britain holds their first masturbate-a-thon and in China they put an end to funeral stripteases
 

 
And in Bookadoodle Nancy Callahan continues her Getting Published series, while Starbucks sells childrens books and publishers contine to make billions
Next up in Boomer 2.0 scientists try to map our neanderthal genes

The unemployed get credit cards in Credit [...]

Posted on September 18, 2006 by Marsha James

The Sobol Award is a new literary prize but only writers who are both unpublished and who do not have an agent can try to get it. The winner will recieve $100,000 and for second and third place, they will recieve $25,000 and $10,000 while 7 others will recieve $1,000 each.
Participants must enter through the [...]

Posted on September 14, 2006 by Meg

If anyone was wanting to buy my a present, it could be Sex In Videogames, by Brenda Brathwaite. This book, which came out last month and for some reason, isn’t available in my local Chinese bookstore, discusses game-related sex, including game ratings, censorship and changes in the industry. I think this will be a fascinating read (if [...]

Posted on September 06, 2006 by Marsha James

Paul Burrell’s “The Way We Were” will be another gossip filled novel that speaks about Princess Diana and her not so private life. You may remember Burrell, Diana’s ex-butler who wrote “A Royal Duty” in 2003, his first novel about Diana.
The book was billed as a must read, and “shattering”. Readers were also urged to [...]