I saw The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug with my family on Thursday night. First impressions: I really enjoyed it. Parts of it had me laughing, while parts had me on the edge of (or nearly jumping out of) my seat. And I couldn’t watch the spiders at all, other… Read more »
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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: Vote for your favorite books in the 2013 Goodreads Choice Awards Indie Bookstores not… Read more »
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey opens at midnight tonight in theaters across the U.S. … and we’ve got tickets! I can hardly wait! Our daughter has knit herself “hobbit feet” — slippers that look like hobbit feet, complete with “hair” — for the opening, and is putting together a costume. … Read more »
If you’ve been following the official Hobbit blog, you already know that the producers have decided to make the movie in three parts, rather than two. Peter Jackson announced the change in plan on July 30. After the initial shrieks of protest from several members of our household (mainly my… Read more »
These articles were worth reading; they came to my attention in the last week or so:“E-books settlement talks advancing — sources” by Diane Bartz, Reuters “The Missing 20th Century: How Copyright Protection Makes Books Vanish” by Rebecca J. Rosen, The Atlantic “The Rise of e-reading” at PewInternet — a long… Read more »
