In one of the most polarizing (series of) books I know, books which you either despise or passionately defend against all blasphemers, there is a character known as… Thomas Covenant.…Continue readingMust he be likeable?
After a bit of nudging from Maria Popova at Brain Pickings, neuroscientist Sam Harris selects: 12 Books Every Intelligent Person Should Read “From Bertrand Russell to the Buddha, or why…Continue readingEven women?
Photo from JetBlue As part of its Soar With Reading program, Laura Willard reports at Upwothy, JetBlue is placing book vending machines in communities it calls book deserts. The machines…Continue readingFree books!
At OMGfacts, Dominic Trombino offers us 21 Photos of the Places Where One Country Ends and Another Begins National borders can change very drastically awfully quickly, and when you see…Continue readingWhere countries meet
At The Literacy Site, Will S. examined: What Science Is Saying About Fiction Readers Among other things, he noted that the authors of one study said that what you choose…Continue readingThe only rule
Malala Yousafzai Nobel prize winner Malala Yousafzai notes that Just eight days of military spending could educate the world To bring attention to that, she has launched the #BooksNotBullets hashtag…Continue reading#BooksNotBullets
It’s been said on the Internet that the BBC believes that most people will have read only six of the 100 books below. Extraordinary, but you have to believe it…Continue readingOnly six?
Buzzfeed Books asked subscribers of their newsletter to tell them about a book that they couldn’t put down. One reader talked about taking her choice to work and pretending to…Continue readingUnputable downable
Few benefits of the e-reader are as attractive as the privacy it affords, Calum Marsh writes at The Guardian, so after the launch of the Kindle, erotic romance really took…Continue readingSexy ereaders
What is it that makes certain stories last? That’s a question that Neil Gaiman explores in a lecture two and a half years in the making, part of the Long…Continue readingStories are alive