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 ‘We cannot survive’: New York’s Strand bookstore appeals for help (The Guardian). Waterstones and Barnes & Noble CEO warns holiday sales are essential for… Read more »
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern Narrator: Jim Dale on September 13, 2011 Genres: Fantasy, Historical Fantasy Format: Audiobook Purchase: Amazon | Book Depository | Barnes & Noble | Audible Add to Goodreads The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was… November 5, 2020 Lark_Bookwyrm Book Reviews 7 ★★★★★
Lingo by Gaston Dorren Published by Audible Studios on Dec. 1, 2015 (Audible); Nov. 1, 2014 (hardcover) Genres: Nonfiction Format: Audiobook Source: my personal collection Purchase: Amazon | Book Depository | Barnes & Noble | Audible Add to Goodreads Welcome to Europe as you’ve never known it before, seen through… July 20, 2020 Lark_Bookwyrm Book Reviews 4 ★★★★
It’s been a while since the last News & Notes, so I have more than usual for you today! Bookish News Translation Pays Off for Amazon, whose Amazon Crossing imprint has become “the most prolific publisher of translated literature in the U.S.” (Publishers Weekly) Sandler, Krasznahorkai, Sze, Broom, Choi Win… Read more »
The Last Moriarty by Charles Veley Narrator: Edward Petherbridge Series: Sherlock Holmes & Lucy James #1 Published by self-published on April 1, 2016 Genres: Historical Mystery Format: Audiobook Source: my personal collection Purchase: Amazon | Book Depository | Barnes & Noble | Audible Add to Goodreads Also by this author:… November 21, 2019 Lark_Bookwyrm Book Reviews 3 ★★★★
Bookish News In New Filing, Audible Lawyers Insist ‘Captions’ Copyright Case Should Be Tossed (Publishers Weekly) $625,000 [MacArthur] ‘genius grants’ go to Ocean Vuong and six other writers (The Guardian) The others are Emily Wilson, Linda Barry, Jeffrey Miller, Saidiya Hartman, Kelly Lytle Hernandez, and Valeria Luiselli. Worth Reading/Viewing Why… 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 Libraries and Archivists Are Scanning and Uploading Books That Are Secretly in the Public Domain (Vice.com) Tennessee School Bans Harry Potter Books Because the… 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 News from the Book & Publishing World British and Irish Writers Condemn No-Deal Brexit, “warning of the impact of a no-deal Brexit on publishing and… Read more »
The Shadowy Horses by Susanna Kearsley Published by Audible Studios, Sourcebooks Landmark on Nov. 22, 2016 (Audible edition; book first published 1997) Genres: Fiction Pages: 421 Format: Audiobook Source: purchased Purchase: Amazon | Book Depository | Barnes & Noble | Audible Add to Goodreads Also by this author: Named of… July 26, 2018 Lark_Bookwyrm Book Reviews 2 ★★★★★
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 2017 Nebula Award winners were announced in May. Peter S. Beagle was honored as a Grand Master. N.K. Jemison’s The Stone Sky won Best Novel; Best… Read more »
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