News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Book News The Hugo Awards finalists for 2016 have been announced. The Sad and Rabid Puppies managed to influence some of the categories pretty heavily, but… Read more »
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Book News World Read Aloud Day is Feb. 24 (LitWorld) Unseen JRR Tolkien poems found in school magazine from 1936 (The Guardian; also New York Times) 2015 sees opening of… Read more »
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Book News 400 Years After His Death, Shakespeare’s First Folio Goes Out on Tour (NPR) ‘Mein Kampf’ Enters Public Domain; Arguably, Anne Frank’s Diary May, Too… Read more »
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is a Halloween freebie topic. Halloween Reading That Won’t Give You Nightmares I don’t like horror, and I don’t like being frightened, but I do enjoy a nice atmospheric book now and then. Here… Read more »
This Rough Magic by Mary Stewart Published by McNally & Loftin on June 28, 1964 Genres: Romantic suspense Format: Hardcover Source: my personal collection Add to Goodreads Also by this author: Airs Above the Ground, The Gabriel Hounds, Nine Coaches Waiting When Lucy Waring’s sister Phyllida suggests that she join… Read more »
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is Top Ten Things I Love/Hate About Romance in Books. I love meeting authors, or at least getting a chance to hear them talk about their books. And I’ve been really lucky in… Read more »
In celebration of William Shakespeare’s birthday, here are a few performances of his sonnets, plus Hamlet’s soliloquy. Enjoy! Michael York reads Sonnet 18 Alan Rickman reads Sonnet 130 David Tennant reads Sonnets 2, 7, 9, 17, 18, 11, 14, and 154 David Tennant – Hamlet’s Soliloquy… Read more »
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Bookish News Harper Lee tells persistent journalist to “Go away!” (Huffington Post) Children’s and YA Authors protest against the gendering of books. GalleyCat has a fairly… Read more »
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Book News Shakespeare Folio Discovered in France (New York Times) A previously unknown First Folio has been found in a French public library. A Harry Potter… Read more »
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, giveaways on this and other blogs, and other cool stuff. Books & Ebooks in the News: Castulul Bran, Brasov, Romania. (Photo by Florin73m; used under CC-SA 3.0 license) Dracula’s castle… Read more »
