Monthly Archives: September 2008

More comfortable using a bookrack to read

Every people, who read a lot, know that when we pass a lot of time handing a book while reading, the arm is getting tired or we need to find a better position to keep going on so why not use a bookrack, it is very comfortable since you dont need to use your hand…

Rosset, Kingston receives honorary book awards

Barney Rosset, the publisher and First Amendment defender whose battles on behalf of Henry Miller’s “Tropic of Cancer” and other explicit works helped overturn U.S. censorship laws, has won an honorary National Book Award for “Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community.” Maxine Hong Kingston, the Chinese-American author best known for “The Woman Warrior,” a…

He’s Just Not That Into You

So there’s a new book out called He’s Just Not That Into You by Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo, and it’s a dating advice book. I read The Rules when it came out, notice I said “read”, not “committed to memory”, “bought” or even “left the bookstore with”. Let me defend The Rules as a…

Adventure author

Clive Cussler is one of the best author writing adventure book. If you like ocean, tresor, plot read one of his book, he has the ability to mix all those ingredients and to create an unique book on which when you will start to read you want to finish it the same day non stop.

Resolutions

  “I have resolved to be more positive.” I told Eric, “From now on, I will only say good things. For example: A few of the books we sold at the lit conference today were interesting and attractive.” “How’s that positive?” Eric asks. “Because what I actually think is that some of the books were…

History? Or…

  Maybe these books were written by “professors” or published by a “university”. I would have included a second shot so you can see which “historians” made this category, but the salesgirl told me I wasn’t allowed to take pictures since the store had paid to have the sign designed. True story. Via Simpson’s Paradox …

Romance Novel Titles

A romance-novel giggle from sloanesomething Top Ten Titles on eHarlequin.com today: Top 10 Bestsellers: 1. Purchased: His Perfect Wife2. Greek Tycoon, Waitress Wife3. His Majesty’s Mistress4. The Sheikh’s Defiant Bride5. Marriage, Manhattan Style6. One Night with His Virgin Mistress7. Secretary Mistress, Convenient Wife8. The Italian Count’s Baby9. Dante’s Contract Marriage10. Spanish Doctor, Pregnant Nurse ……