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 Barnes & Noble fires CEO less than a year into his tenure. (Fortune) Bookstore Sales Up 6.1% in First Half of 2016 (Publishers Weekly) Amazon’s… Read more »
With holiday gift-giving approaching, I thought this might be a good time to revisit some children’s classics. What does it take for a book to become a classic? First, it needs to stand the test of time: to be read and enjoyed decades or even centuries after it was written. To be… Read more »
Each Thursday, inspired by ‘The Tough Guide to Fantasyland’ we have in hand, we shall tour the mystical countryside looking for adventure and fun (and tropes) from all over fantasy. (Hosted by Nathan at Fantasy Review Barn) Beloved Mounts Fantasy is full of “mounts” of various sorts – and full… Read more »
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is Top Ten Books from My Childhood or Teens That I Would Love to Revisit. I have always been a re-reader. Even as a child, I read so fast and so much that… Read more »
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is Top Ten Places Books Have Made Me Want to Visit. I’m going to limit this to places I haven’t been yet, which means that some real places – England and Wales generally,… Read more »
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is Top Ten Characters That Would Have Sat at My Lunch Table. I wasn’t terribly popular in elementary and middle school; I was bookish and introverted and not very athletic. I spent… Read more »
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is Top Ten Best/Worst Series Enders. One challenge of this week’s topic is that a lot of the series I read don’t exactly end, especially the mysteries. They may stop, either because… Read more »
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is Top Ten Best Sequels Ever. I read a lot of series, which gives me a huge pool to draw from. So to narrow things down a bit, I used these criteria:… Read more »
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is Top Ten Books I Wish Could Have Had Sequels. When I started putting this post together, I was surprised by how many books I’ve read that do have sequels. I seem… Read more »
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is free choice. I decided to share my Top Ten Favorite SF/Fantasy Worlds. The wizarding world of J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series. OK, I could do without Voldemort and the Death Eaters,… Read more »
