Books

Article archive for category "Books"

Friday 03 July 2009

• Book Review: California Screamin’: Murder at Monterey Pop

Thursday 02 July 2009

• Book Review: Darkness Calls
• Book Review: Must Love Hellhounds
• Book Review: Spanish Style
• Book Review: Predators and Child Molesters
• Book Review: House of Suns
• Book Review: Hunting Ground
• Book Review: The Little Book
• Book Review: Blood of Ambrose

Tuesday 30 June 2009

• New from Issui Ogawa
• ‘The Lost Sister’

Monday 29 June 2009

• Gloria Vanderbilt’s ‘Obsession’
• All You Need Is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka

Sunday 28 June 2009

• Manga series has sold millions
• WSJ’s list of best selling books

Saturday 27 June 2009

• Book on Charlie Chaplin ‘overdone’ one critic notes
• PW’s list of best sellers

Friday 26 June 2009

• Drummer of Aerosmith tell-all
• All on Woodstock and the Revolution
• New off the Penguin Press

Thursday 25 June 2009

• New children’s book from Sandra Day O'Connor (and Tom Pohrt)
• 20 years since John Grisham’s ‘A Time To Kill’

Wednesday 24 June 2009

• Books by Martin Luther King Jr. will be republished
• New from Janet Evanovich
• Burn This Book

Tuesday 23 June 2009

• Murder, Corruption, and L.A.'s Scandalous Coming of Age
• Holden Caulfield = whiny loser?

Monday 22 June 2009

• The history of erotic encounters
• Queen Victoria’s marriage

Sunday 21 June 2009

• USA Today’s list of best sellers
• ‘The Enemy at the Gate’
• An accidental guide for fatherhood

Saturday 20 June 2009

• PW’s list of best sellers
• New book: characters obsessed with serial killers

Friday 19 June 2009

• ‘Rebirth of a Nation’
• Don't Swallow Your Gum!: Myths, Half-Truths, and Outright Lies About Your Body and Health
• New from Penguin Press
• Book Review: Anne's Ghost
• Book Review: Shaped Beadwork
• Book Review: The Sunlight Solution
• Book Review: The Bone Factory
• Book Review: Silksinger
• Book Review: Skin Deep
• Book Review: Burning Skies

Thursday 18 June 2009

• New crime novel: ‘Below Zero’
• Dick Van Dyke memoir is in the works

Wednesday 17 June 2009

• Rowling denies plagiarism accusations
• Chilling book on Bataan Death March

Tuesday 16 June 2009

• Obama's half-brother George signs book deal
• New from Laurell K. Hamilton
• Gabriel García Márquez: A Life by Gerald Martin

Monday 15 June 2009

• Book Review: Rose Petals on Muddy Footprints by Peter Beales
• Book Review: Dragon Orb: Shadow by Mark Robson
• THE ROUGH GUIDE TO FOOD: HOW TO MAKE THE RIGHT FOOD CHOICES
• Book Review: The Watcher by Brian Freemantle
• Book Review: Dido by Adele Geras
• Book Review: The TV Time Travellers by Pete Johnson
• Actual diaries will display in Anne Frank Museum
• New book on witches and trials

Sunday 14 June 2009

• Book Review: The Bible of Clay by Julia Navarro
• Book Review: The Kiss of Death by Marcus Sedgwick
• Book Review: River of the Dead by Barbara Nadel
• Book Review: The Red Velvet Turnshoe by Cassandra Clark
• Book Review: Secret Lament by Roz Southey
• Book Review: There were Three of Us in the Relationship: The Secret Letters of Marie Antoinette (vol I) by Margaret Anne MacLeod
• A-Rod book gets the big yawn from fans
• PW’s list of best sellers

Saturday 13 June 2009

• Book Review: Building Norfolk by Matthew Rice
• Book Review: Lancaster The Biography: The last Witnesses By Squadron Leader Tony Iveson and Brian Milton
• Book Review: The Poison Garden by Sarah Singleton
• Book Review: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Vintage) by Stieg Larsson
• Book Review: The Silver Bear: A Novel by Derek Haas
• Book Review: The Bright Idea Handbook ('Which?' Essential Guides) by Michael Gardner
• Examining the minds of the dead
• USA Today’s list of best sellers

Friday 12 June 2009

• Dirty Secrets, Dirty War: The Exile of Robert J. Cox
• Win an advance copy of Mike Dash’s The First Family: Terror, Extortion, Revenge, Murder, and the Birth of the American Mafia!
• New graphic novels released from Geronimo Stilton

Thursday 11 June 2009

• Sealing Their Fate: The Twenty-two Days That Decided World War II
• New from Penguin Press

Wednesday 10 June 2009

• ‘Things Undone’ by Shane White
• Relentless: a new novel by Dean Koontz
• The rock biz

Tuesday 09 June 2009

• ‘Closing Time: A Memoir’ by Joe Queenan
• ‘Agent of Chaos’
• First Lady bio available in paperback

Monday 08 June 2009

• Feeling Seasick?
• New Arthur Miller bio
• Doug Stanton’s ‘Horse Soldiers’

Sunday 07 June 2009

• The Story of a Master Counterfeiter
• PW’s list of best sellers

Saturday 06 June 2009

• USA Today’s list of best sellers
• Critics raving about Connelly’s latest

Friday 05 June 2009

• Book Review: Strain
• Book Review: Illumination
• Book Review: The Enchantment Emporium
• Book Review: Phantasm
• Book Review: Carpe Corpus
• New from Andes writer Piers Paul Read
• New from Penguin Press
• GOTHIC CHIC Norway’s Nemi at MoCCA Fest

Thursday 04 June 2009

• Historical thriller: ‘The Last Dickens’
• The making of a President

Wednesday 03 June 2009

• New from Carlos Ruiz Zafon
• ‘Miracle Ball’
• All on Attila

Tuesday 02 June 2009

• ‘Ripley’ is ‘First Lady of Sci-Fi’
• All on cooking shows
• From an insect physiologist

Monday 01 June 2009

• ‘The Secret Speech’
• The Met’s Moneyed past
• The cyclist and his city
• Jess’s Book Pick for June: Mr. Bridge by Evan S. Connell

Sunday 31 May 2009

• WSJ’s list of best sellers
• New from former FL governor and senator Bob Graham

Saturday 30 May 2009

• USA Today’s list of bestsellers
• Killer Summer (Walt Fleming) by Ridley Pearson

Friday 29 May 2009

• The Little Stranger is ‘haunting’
• New title from P.J. O'Rourke is very long
• New book from Barbra Streisand

Thursday 28 May 2009

• The Strain: Book One of The Strain Trilogy
• New from Penguin Press

Wednesday 27 May 2009

• ‘The Last Trials of Clarence Darrow’
• Ellis Island and its history

Tuesday 26 May 2009

• Latest Lee Child novel ‘action-packed’
• New from George Pelecanos
• Book Review: Sandman Slim
• Book Review: Sir John Soane's Museum London
• Book Review: Skin Trade
• Book Review: Undead and Unwelcome
• Book Review: Jewelry with a Hook
• Book Review: Darkborn

Monday 25 May 2009

• Probing the depths of war
• The American Future

Sunday 24 May 2009

• A Pedestrian Memoir
• USA Today’s list of best sellers
• Trout fishing and a children’s book

Saturday 23 May 2009

• PW list of best sellers
• All on ‘The Noticer’

Friday 22 May 2009

• Carpe Corpus (Morganville Vampires, Book 6)
• New from Penguin Press

Thursday 21 May 2009

• New historical non-fiction
• New spy novel: ‘The Increment’
• Larry King’s “Remarkable Journey”
• Book Review: The Prophet from Ephesus (The Roman Mysteries) by Caroline Lawrence
• Book Review: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Vintage) by Stieg Larsson
• Book Review: When Perennials Bloom: An Almanac for Planning and Planting by Tomasz Anisko

Wednesday 20 May 2009

• Busing & Baseball in Boston
• Land of Umpires
• Too much machismo in these manly tales
• Book Review: The Gardens of the Vatican by Kildare Dobbs (Author), Linda Kooluris Dobbs (Photographer)
• Book Review: Uncommon Fruits for Every Garden by Lee Reich and Vicki Herzfeld Arlein
• Book Review: Go Wild! By Jo Schofield and Fiona Danke
• Book Review: The Thirteen Treasures by Michelle Harrison
• Book Review: Blood Safari by Deon Meyer

Tuesday 19 May 2009

• Mom and daughter
• Uruguayan author Mario Benedetti dies at 88
• The Next Generation of Presidential Candidates

Monday 18 May 2009

• Starbucks is featuring…
• ‘Blink’ will star Al Pacino
• New from Jon Land

Sunday 17 May 2009

• Publishers Weekly’s list of best sellers
• Priest champions good sex

Saturday 16 May 2009

• USA Today’s best sellers
• Why run with shoes?
• Sarah Palin’s book deal

Friday 15 May 2009

• Hunger for knowledge: Sir Richard Francis Burton
• Vampire book from Charlaine Harris

Thursday 14 May 2009

• Novel satirizes writing a novel
• New young adult book deals with anorexia
• “American Icon: The Fall of Roger Clemens and the Rise of Steroids in America's Pastime”

Wednesday 13 May 2009

• New from Kevin J. Anderson
• Food history: We were what we ate
• Book Review: Flood
• Book Review: The Scarecrow

Tuesday 12 May 2009

• New summer reading titles
• ‘The Devil's Tickets' and life in the '20s
• Book Review: Blackbringer
• Book Review: City of Thieves
• Book Review: Cave Paintings and the Human Spirit
• Book Review: Lover Avenged
• Book Review: Wit's End
• Book Review: Granny Squares Now
• Book Review: Passion Brands
• Book Review: The Blue Tattoo
• Book Review: Terminator Salvation From the Ashes
• Book Review: Dayhunter

Monday 11 May 2009

• The Iranian Revolution
• Denis Johnson’s ‘Nobody Move’

Sunday 10 May 2009

• New mother memoir
• PW’s list of best sellers

Saturday 09 May 2009

• USA Today’s list of best sellers
• Disappearing face of New York
• Food & Wine 2009 Cocktail Guide

Friday 08 May 2009

• 'The Burning Skies' by David J. Williams
• New novel by Joanna Smith Rakoff
• Some new Penguin releases

Thursday 07 May 2009

• UK CRIMEFEST May 14 - 17th
• Why I Became an Islamic Fundamentalist
• Chapter Excerpt: Afterword: And What About America?
• Paul Newman’s life explored in new bio
• New from Elmore Leonard

Wednesday 06 May 2009

• Friends with a fanatic
• The New GE Way
• Part thug, part beatnik

Tuesday 05 May 2009

• Theft of the Mona Lisa
• Roosevelt and Jews?

Monday 04 May 2009

• New from Christopher Buckley
• First edition of Darwin book sold
• How to be a bad mother

Sunday 03 May 2009

• PW’s list of best sellers
• Harlan Ellison: Dreams with Sharp Teeth
• Book Review: Santa Olivia
• Book Review: Spirit Horses
• Book Review: Natural Garden Style
• Book Review: Strange Angels
• Book Review: Doc Wilde and the Frogs of Doom
• Book Review: Magic in the Blood
• Book Review: Dead If I Do
• Book Review: Stitched Jewels
• Book Review: WWW: Wake

Saturday 02 May 2009

• USA Today’s list of bestsellers
• Book about viruses captures public attention

Friday 01 May 2009

• New Franklin Pierce bio available in paperback
• Sir John Soane¹s Museum, London
• Jess’s Book Pick for May: The Philosopher and the Wolf: Lessons in Love, Death, and Happiness by Mark Rowlands.

Thursday 30 April 2009

• The Dark Planet (Atherton, Book 3) by Patrick Carman
• A ‘Masterpiece’ from Jane Hamilton

Wednesday 29 April 2009

• 100 Houses: Modern Designs for Contemporary Living
• ‘The Stationmaster’
• New from Alexander McCall Smith

Tuesday 28 April 2009

• Journey into a family secret
• New book criticizes Chief Exec at William Morris Agency

Monday 27 April 2009

• “Bad Girls Go Everywhere: The Life of Helen Gurley Brown”
• New story collection ‘touching but not overly sentimental’
• “The Best of Simon and Kirby”

Sunday 26 April 2009

• Closing Time: A Memoir by Joe Queenan
• PW’s list of bestsellers

Saturday 25 April 2009

• Book reexamines slavery in U.S.
• USA Today’s list of bestsellers

Friday 24 April 2009

• In the Courts of the Sun
• New titles from Penguin Press

Thursday 23 April 2009

• ‘Che's Afterlife: The Legacy of an Image’
• Things to do with an old red shoe
• ‘Empire of the Sun’ novelist dies
• Book Review: American Quilts in the Modern Age
• Book Review: Turn Coat
• Book Review: European Design Since 1985
• Book Review: Magic Strikes
• Book Review: Masters Beadweaving
• Book Review: Afraid
• Book Review: White Witch, Black Curse

Wednesday 22 April 2009

• Forthcoming book from Prince Charles
• The digital Tolkien

Tuesday 21 April 2009

• Book Review: Twister: Code Red by Chris Ryan
• Book Review: The Wild Man by Mark Barratt
• Book Review: Maze of Cadiz: A Peter Cotton Book by Aly Monroe
• Book Review: Home Before Dark by Charles Maclean
• Book Review: The Secret Ministry of Frost by Nick Lane
• “Tall Man: The Death of Doomadgee”
• The political God

Monday 20 April 2009

• Book Review: The She-Apostle: The Extraordinary Life and Death of Luisa de Carvajal by Glyn Redworth
• Book Review: The Death Pictures by Simon Hall
• Book Review: If It Bleeds by Duncan Campbell
• Book Review: The Kiss Murder by Mehmet Murat Somer
• Book Review: Old City Hall by Robert Rotenberg
• “Dispatches From The War Room”
• A new look at Thoreau
• “The Soul of Medicine”

Sunday 19 April 2009

• Chosen by Jerry Ibbotson - Book Review
• ‘A Drifting Life’ by Yoshihiro Tatsumi and Adrian Tomine
• Coming of age in Latin America

Saturday 18 April 2009

• Book on the First Dog
• New from comedian Carol Leifer

Friday 17 April 2009

• 145 year old missing library book returned
• New from Penguin Press
• New from Paulo Coelho

Thursday 16 April 2009

• Rooftops of Tehran
• The Making of the American Constitution
• Power Rules: How Common Sense Can Rescue American Foreign Policy
• Book Review: The Trouble With Demons
• Book Review: Contemporary Loom Beading
• Book Review: Burning Alive
• Book Review: Crouching Vampire, Hidden Fang

Wednesday 15 April 2009

• Notes of a Christian Exile
• New book on David Beckham
• Gay and lesbian books removed from Amazon

Tuesday 14 April 2009

• Spanish author of 4,000 books dies
• Tired of the Beats?
• Celebrity memoir galore

Monday 13 April 2009

• New book sounds depressing
• Africa’s female President authors book
• Viksburg 1863
• Superman uncovered

Sunday 12 April 2009

• New from Randy Wayne White

Saturday 11 April 2009

• New stories from Mr. Vonnegut
• McCain’s daughter has six-figure book deal

Friday 10 April 2009

• ‘A Lion Called Christian’
• ‘A Reliable Wife’ is suspenseful and erotic, reviewer notes
• 'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies'
• Writing contest: submit a screenplay and win some bucks

Thursday 09 April 2009

• Gerald Kolpan’s latest: Etta
• 39 Years of Short-Term Memory Loss: The Early Days of SNL from Someone Who Was There
• The Pluto Files

Wednesday 08 April 2009

• New novel from John Wray
• Two Michael Crichton novels are planned for release
• New sequel to famous thriller

Tuesday 07 April 2009

• ‘The Sound of Freedom’
• For extreme chocolate lovers

Monday 06 April 2009

• New memoir: ‘Triangular Road’
• Historical mystery meets murder in new novel
• Getting inside the mind of musicals
• Book Review: How to Cook a Tapir
• Book Review: Angel's Advocate
• Book Review: Dancing on the Head of a Pin
• Book Review: Breathers
• Book Review: Some Girls Bite

Sunday 05 April 2009

• USA Today’s list of bestsellers
• New from Harlan Coben

Saturday 04 April 2009

• Southern Literary Journal Relaunches with New Editors, Publisher
• PW's list of bestsellers
• Theatrical legends of their day
• New on Henry VIII

Friday 03 April 2009

• Mother-daughter issues tackled in new book
• New from Merrell Publishers
• Producing the Panama Canal

Thursday 02 April 2009

• My Booky Wook: A Memoir of Sex, Drugs, and Stand-Up
• New from Robert Masello

Wednesday 01 April 2009

• ‘Terminal Freeze’
• New memoir from Michael J. Fox
• Jess’s Book Pick for April: Mrs. Bridge by Evan S. Connell

Tuesday 31 March 2009

• New from Cadillac Man: explores homelessness
• European Design Since 1985: Shaping the New Century
• Young adult mystery by John Green

Monday 30 March 2009

• Genghis: Bones of the Hills
• Alyssa Milano and Baseball?
• New historical life: by Alison Weir

Sunday 29 March 2009

• The best of both: Thames: A Biography
• Laura Lippman novel based on real case, article notes
• USA Today’s list of best selling books

Saturday 28 March 2009

• PW’s list of bestsellers
• Terminator Salvation: From the Ashes: The Official Prequel Novelization
• Typist Joyce Carol Oates has new book
• New Al Gore book in the works

Friday 27 March 2009

• Joker One: A Marine Platoon's Story of Courage, Leadership, and Brotherhood
• New from Mary Gaitskill
• Bio of Donald Barthelme

Thursday 26 March 2009

• Decision making book is lacking, reviewer notes
• Another novel by Jim Lehrer
• “Growing Up Again: Life, Loves, and Oh Yeah, Diabetes”

Wednesday 25 March 2009

• New from Jayne Anne Phillips
• Books about Columbine Massacre for 10-year anniversary
• The Hays Code Revisited

Tuesday 24 March 2009

• New thriller from Barry Eisler
• Dog On It!
• Hunted (House of Night, Book 5)

Monday 23 March 2009

• Sylvia Plath’s son—Nicholas Hughes, has committed suicide
• New from Clive Cussler
• ‘Finding Grace’ by Donna VanLiere
• Celebs speak about movie that changed their life

Sunday 22 March 2009

• ‘Nothing But a Smile’: a novel by Steve Amick
• Former President Bush will write book

Saturday 21 March 2009

• PW’s list of best selling books
• USA Today’s list of best sellers
• All on The Cuba Wars

Friday 20 March 2009

• ‘Stealing MySpace’
• Vera and the Ambassador: Escape and Return
• New from Penguin Press

Thursday 19 March 2009

• The Gardner Heist: The True Story of the World's Largest Unsolved Art Theft
• Terminator and Philosophy?
• Watchmensch…new graphic novel release

Wednesday 18 March 2009

• Millard Kaufman dies
• David Bach says: ‘Fight For Your Money’
• Poison lead Bret Michaels pens tell all book

Tuesday 17 March 2009

• Lords of Corruption
• The fate of the Irish Pub
• Ending world poverty
• New book portrays Nazi as a sicko and some are upset

Monday 16 March 2009

• Jerry Stahl’s ‘Pain Killers’
• New self help book from Steve Harvey
• New bio on John Cheever

Sunday 15 March 2009

• Why Kids Kill: Inside the Minds of School Shooters
• PW’s list of best selling books

Saturday 14 March 2009

• USA Today’s list of best sellers
• Ted Kennedy will release memoir
• Book Review: Blue Diablo
• Book Review: Crimson
• Book Review: Death of a Witch
• Book Review: Beaded Chain Mail Jewelry
• Book Review: Deathwish
• Book Review: The Killing Tree

Friday 13 March 2009

• Book Review: Furnace: Lockdown by Alexander Gordon Smith
• Book Review: The Genesis Secret by Tom Knox
• New book deals with the Gilded Age
• New from Amy Dickinson
• Ultimate Hendrix

Thursday 12 March 2009

• More Than Just Race
• New book analyzes woman writers
• The Twilight Zone enters yet another dimension with new graphic novel series

Wednesday 11 March 2009

• “China Witness: Voices from a Silent Generation”
• More bad news on the newspaper front
• “The Missing” is missing something…like plot

Tuesday 10 March 2009

• New on Bonnie and Clyde
• ‘One Step Ahead of Hitler’

Monday 09 March 2009

• Primeval: Extinction Event (Bk. 1)
• Saving the earth
• Taking Government Out of the “Marriage” Business: (Another) Reconciliation on Gay Marriage

Sunday 08 March 2009

• New spy story labeled “fantastic”
• Publishers Weekly’s list of best sellers

Saturday 07 March 2009

• British lie about books they’ve read
• USA Today list of best sellers

Friday 06 March 2009

• Life with the Rolling Stones
• An older novel, revisited
• SUPERMEN! The First Wave of Comic Book Heroes 1936-41

Thursday 05 March 2009

• New from Elie Wiesel
• New from Alexander Waugh

Wednesday 04 March 2009

• ‘Watchmen’ faithful to the book
• New from Robert B. Parker

Tuesday 03 March 2009

• The worry over reading devices
• Rod Blagojevich signs six-figure book deal

Monday 02 March 2009

• ‘Gone With The Wind’ revisited
• More tough times for bookstores

Sunday 01 March 2009

• ‘Out of Captivity: Surviving 1,967 Days in the Colombian Jungle’
• All about FDR’s labor secretary
• Jess’s Book Pick for March: McTeague by Frank Norris

Saturday 28 February 2009

• USA Today’s list of best sellers
• WSJ’s list of best selling books
• A prequel to ‘Maltese Falcon’

Friday 27 February 2009

• Arabic novelist dies
• Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor

Thursday 26 February 2009

• The end of Wall Street
• Rice signs book deal
• Lost in the Amazon

Wednesday 25 February 2009

• Memoir by a chimp?
• Christopher Nolan dies

Tuesday 24 February 2009

• ‘The Last Kahn of Mongolia’
• Book about shallow people on the beach

Monday 23 February 2009

• ‘Nine Lives’ in New Orleans
• All on the Barbie biz

Sunday 22 February 2009

• ‘Icky’ novel about ‘Eve’
• WSJ’s list of best sellers

Saturday 21 February 2009

• USA Today’s list of best sellers
• Right side won war, according to First Lady
• Fans await new Jeff Buckley bio

Friday 20 February 2009

• Book Review: Inhuman Remains (Primavera Blackstone Mystery series) by Quintin Jardine
• Book Review: City of Spirits (Printers Devil Trilogy) by Paul Bajoria
• New memoir about growing up in Africa
• ‘And Justice for All’
• Book Review: The Cosmic Connection
• Book Review: Kidnapped
• Book Review: Rupture
• Book Review: The Seraph of Sorrow
• Book Review: Believe Me
• Book Review: How not to be a Domestic Goddess
• Book Review: How to Live
• Book Review: Lord of Misrule

Thursday 19 February 2009

• Book Review: The Crafter's Design Library Fairies by Sharon Bennett
• Book Review: Ironside: A Modern Faery's Tale by Holly Black
• Book Review: Vampire Knight, by Matsuri Hino
• Book Review: The Puppet Master (Charlie Small) by Charlie Small
• Writer gets stabbed for online rants
• All on Booker T.

Wednesday 18 February 2009

• Book Review: The Polytunnel Handbook by Andy McKee and Mark Gatter
• Book Review: Spies of Sobeck (Amerotke 7) by Paul Doherty
• Book Review: The Society of S: A Novel by Susan Hubbard
• Book Review: The Frist Stone by Elliot Hall
• ‘Bankers Who Broke the World’
• Alfred Knopf Jr. dies

Tuesday 17 February 2009

• Book Review: The Man with the Lead Stomach (Nicolas Le Floch 2) by Jean-Francois Parot
• Book Review: Stonehenge (Wonders of the World) by Rosemary Hill
• Book Review: Wise Words and Country Ways for Cooks by Ruth Binney
• Book Review: The Blood Pit (Wesley Peterson Crime Series) by Kate Ellis
• ‘America and the World After Bush’
• Hemingway letters ‘shed new light’

Monday 16 February 2009

• All on General David Petraeus
• All about the world’s largest art theft
• A-Rod book will be out sooner than planned

Sunday 15 February 2009

• PW’s list of best selling titles
• ‘Wired for War’

Saturday 14 February 2009

• WSJ’s list of best sellers
• Dan Brown novel will soon arrive

Friday 13 February 2009

• New collection of Sherlock Holmes
• All on the Gilded Age
• Book Review: One Hundred Summers: A Kiowa Calendar Record
• Book Review: Unfallen Dead
• Book Review: The Girl She Used to Be
• Book Review: The Intentional Spinner
• Book Review: The Spare Wife

Thursday 12 February 2009

• Dear Mr. Buffett
• All on the Yankee Years
• The battle for Fox Hill

Wednesday 11 February 2009

• American Rust: A Novel by Philipp Meyer - Book Review
• ‘Sucker Punch’ is not so great
• Little Pink House: A True Story of Defiance and Courage

Tuesday 10 February 2009

• Literature hails President Lincoln
• Patrick Swayze memoir will hit shelves this fall

Monday 09 February 2009

• T.C Boyle novel ‘falls short’
• Doubledown Media closes down
• Obama campaign manager will write book

Sunday 08 February 2009

• WSJ’s list of best sellers
• Nuclear Jellyfish: A Novel by Tim Dorsey

Saturday 07 February 2009

• Joe Scarborough has book due out in May
• Elizabeth Edwards at work on a book

Friday 06 February 2009

• ‘The Numbers Game’
• Texas oil and its fortunes

Thursday 05 February 2009

• Evil Ways by Justin Gustainis - Book Review
• Stephen King says Stephenie Meyer ‘can’t write worth a darn’
• Lady that replaced Ann Landers has book
• Hemingway moves to big screen

Wednesday 04 February 2009

• Guinness World Records 2009: Gamer's Edition
• A tale of steroids
• Honeymoon in Tehran: Two Years of Love and Danger in Iran
• Book Review: Kill For Me
• Book Review: Crime Spells
• Book Review: Death's Daughter
• Book Review: Darwin's Angel

Tuesday 03 February 2009

• ‘Book of Dead Philosophers’
• A Passion for Nature: bio of John Muir
• Lewis Carroll in Numberland: His Fantastical Mathematical Logical Life

Monday 02 February 2009

• Grisham novel upsets university
• New from John Quinones

Sunday 01 February 2009

• New from Joan Rivers
• Publishers Weekly’s list of top sellers
• Jess’s Book Pick for February: Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser

Saturday 31 January 2009

• Michelle Obama’s brother working on book
• USA Today’s list of best sellers

Friday 30 January 2009

• Memoir of Alaska
• Texas oil fortunes

Thursday 29 January 2009

• 1969: The Year Everything Changed
• New from Patterson

Wednesday 28 January 2009

• A Sleuth of Poe Books by Jason Sanford
• Gaiman wins Newbery
• John Updike dies

Tuesday 27 January 2009

• The classical age of science
• Inside Stalin’s archives

Monday 26 January 2009

• ‘King’s Dream’
• Book about pretentious annoying people
• Book Review: Bone Crossed

Sunday 25 January 2009

• Book Review: Regenesis
• Book Review: Nella Last's Peace
• Book Review: A Drop of Red
• Book Review: Things I've Learned From Women Who've Dumped Me
• ‘Revolutionary Road’ revives Yates

Saturday 24 January 2009

• Book Review: More From Our Own Correspondent
• Book Review: In Shade and Shadow
• Book Review: Kitty and the Dead Man's Hand
• Book Review: The Isle of Dogs
• Book Review: When Good Thinking Goes Bad
• Book Review: Piercing the Veil
• ‘Nothing to Fear’: on FDR
• Obama speeches being used to teach English
• Publishers Weekly’s list of bestsellers

Friday 23 January 2009

• New book focuses on emotion of animals
• ‘Presidential Command’
• W.D. Snodgrass dies

Thursday 22 January 2009

• Sarah Palin’s book deal
• Voluntary Madness: My Year Lost and Found in the Loony Bin
• Gwen Ifill’s latest

Wednesday 21 January 2009

• ‘Jack London in Paradise’
• Condoleezza Rice’s book deal

Tuesday 20 January 2009

• Runner: new from Thomas Perry
• New from Jimmy Carter

Monday 19 January 2009

• New Poe Anthology
• ‘Mrs. Lincoln: A Life”

Sunday 18 January 2009

• WSJ’s list of best selling titles
• Lobbying in Congress

Saturday 17 January 2009

• USA Today’s list of bestsellers
• Presidents in times of crisis
• John Mortimer dies

Friday 16 January 2009

• Borders Books gets new executive to lead
• Elsewhere, USA
• Presidency, Post Bush

Thursday 15 January 2009

• All on a wimpy kid
• A Journal for Jordan: A Story of Love and Honor

Wednesday 14 January 2009

• ‘Somewhere Towards the End’
• ‘Snark’ by David Denby
• New Stephen King bio released

Tuesday 13 January 2009

• ‘American Masterworks’
• The errs of major record labels
• Book Review: The Dangerous Days of Daniel X by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge
• Book Review: The Silver Donkey by Sonya Hartnett
• Book Review: Outriders: Expedition to Pine Hollow by Ed Decter
• Book Review: Inkdeath by Cornelia Funke
• Book Review: Samurai Kids: Owl Ninja by Sandy Fussell
• Book Review: White Crane: Samurai Kids by Sandy Fussell
• Book Review: INVENTIONS FROM THE DRAWINGS OF LEONARDO DA VINCI

Monday 12 January 2009

• ‘People of the Book’ new in paperback
• The Rules of the Game: A novel by Leonard Jr Downie
• Book Review: Angel's Blood
• Book Review: The Jennifer Morgue
• Book Review: Peacekeeper
• Book Review: Hawg
• Book Review: Border Moonlight
• Book Review: People Are Idiots and I Can Prove It!
• Book Review: Ralphina, the Roly-Poly
• Book Review: The Power of the Middle Ground
• Book Review: London's Dead: A Guided Tour of the Graveyards of London by Ed Glinert
• Book Review: Jinx (Lady Grace Mysteries) by Grace Lady Cavendish
• Book Review: Winter Song by Jean-Claude Mourlevat
• Book Review: Keys (Lady Grace Mysteries) by Grace Lady Cavendish
• Book Review: The People's War by Felicity Goodall

Sunday 11 January 2009

• Book Review: Bone By Bone by Carol O'Connell
• Peek into the Super Bowl
• WSJ’s list of bestsellers

Saturday 10 January 2009

• Publishers Weekly’s list of bestsellers

Friday 09 January 2009

• Legacy of Secrecy: The Long Shadow of the JFK Assassination
• ‘Lark and Termite’
• Susan Sontag’s notebooks in disarray

Thursday 08 January 2009

• The Somme: The Darkest Hour on the Western Front
• Hitler's Private Library: The Books That Shaped His Life

Wednesday 07 January 2009

• Tech thriller delivers thrills
• Things I've Been Silent About: Memories
• Fahrenheit 451: The Future Is Now

Tuesday 06 January 2009

• Hemingway archives open to scholars
• Laura Bush’s memoir will go to Scribner

Monday 05 January 2009

• J.D. Salinger turns 90
• Stories Done: Writings on the 1960s and Its Discontents
• New from David Lozell Martin

Sunday 04 January 2009

• ‘Miles From Nowhere’

Saturday 03 January 2009

• Book Review: Giants
• Book Review: Beat the Reaper
• Book Review: Contagious
• Book Review: Just Another Judgement Day
• Book Review: Mean Streets
• Book Review: Creating Space for Happiness
• Book Review: Cloth Dolls for Textile Artists
• ‘How To Live’
• American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon

Friday 02 January 2009

• ‘The Urban Hermit’
• Robert Plant and Terry Pratchett bestowed with honors

Thursday 01 January 2009

• Jess’s Book Pick for January: One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey by Richard Proenneke

Wednesday 31 December 2008

• WSJ list of best selling books
• ‘Bone By Bone’

Tuesday 30 December 2008

• Hillary Waugh, mystery writer dies
• USA Today’s list of best sellers
• Interesting article on book publishing

Monday 29 December 2008

• Holocaust memoir cancelled after author concedes fabrications
• ‘Fidel’s Last Days’
• On Architecture

Sunday 28 December 2008

• Revisiting Sesame Street

Saturday 27 December 2008

• Book Review: Stormy Weather
• Book Review: Deadly Decisions
• Book Review: Black Cathedral
• Book Review: Knitted Jackets
• Book Review: Jake's Wake
• Book Review: Choosing To Be
• Book Review: Color Style
• The Complete Lyrics of Oscar Hammerstein II
• Harold Pinter, playwright dies

Friday 26 December 2008

• ‘The King’s Messenger’
• For all wine snobs

Wednesday 24 December 2008

• Photography of Jessica Lange

Tuesday 23 December 2008

• ‘Frontier Medicine’
• The Joy of Sex

Monday 22 December 2008

• New novel on Russian Revolution
• New from Doris Kearns Goodwin

Sunday 21 December 2008

• Book Review: Skim by Mariko Tamaki (Author), Jillian Tamaki (Illustrator)
• Publishers Weekly’s list of bestsellers
• Bio on James Madison from a VP wife
• Book Review: Future Bioethics
• Book Review: Stormy Weather
• Book Review: The Death and Life of Gabriel Phillips
• Book Review: Knitted Lace of Estonia
• Book Review: Knit to Be Square

Saturday 20 December 2008

• WSJ list of bestselling books
• The Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century World Architecture

Friday 19 December 2008

• Book Review: Mugen Spiral by Mizuho Kusanagi
• Book Review: Flower Hunters by John Gribbin and Mary Gribbin
• Annie Leibovitz at Work
• Panic: a book for the times

Thursday 18 December 2008

• Book Review: The Green Room: Readers Digest
• Book Review: Pet Shop of Horrors: Tokyo Volume 1 (Pet Shop of Horrors Tokyo) (v. 1) by Matsuri Akino
• Book Review: Hack//legend of the Twilight 2 by Tatsuya Hamazaki (Creator), Rei Idumi (Illustrator)
• Book Review: Mosaic Magic by Angie Batt
• Book Review: Kaimira: The Sky Village: Book One by Monk Ashland (Author), Nigel Ashland (Author)
• “Victor Fleming: An American Movie Master”
• New from Stewart O'Nan

Wednesday 17 December 2008

• Book Review: Girls are Best by Sandi Toksvig
• Book Review: Helen M Stevens Embroiderer's Countryside (Helen Stevens' Masterclass Embroidery) by Helen M Stevens
• Book Review: 1941 by Oliver Stanley
• Book Review: Street Runners by Matt Wyman
• Book Review: Timerunners by Justin Richards
• The Front pages of the NYT compiled in one place
• NYC destruction
• Propaganda or Poetry? by Judith Fitzgerald

Tuesday 16 December 2008

• Book Review: Bravo Jubilee by Charlie Owen
• Book Review: Aztec: The Goldsmith's Daughter by Tanya Landman
• Book Review: Wolfhunt by Armand Cabasson
• Book Review: Dragon Orb: Firestorm: No. 1 by Mark Robson
• Book Review: Trickery Treat (Charmed) by Diana G. Gallagher
• Graham Greene: A Life in Letters
• ‘Mona Lisa in Camelot’

Monday 15 December 2008

• New from Carrie Fisher: ‘Wishful Drinking’
• Readers await bio on Michelle Obama

Sunday 14 December 2008

• Book Review: The Stormcaller
• Book Review: Knit Two
• Book Review: This One Is Mine
• Book Review: Too Far Gone
• Book Review: Hitman
• Indian writer arrested for violence in book
• WSJ’s list of bestselling books

Saturday 13 December 2008

• Bat-Manga!: The Secret History of Batman in Japan
• USA Today’s list of bestselling books

Friday 12 December 2008

• Why bookclubs pretty much suck
• New bio on Brando

Thursday 11 December 2008

• ‘Jewel of Medina’ book a ‘dud’
• New in travel writing from William Least Heat-Moon

Wednesday 10 December 2008

• The Lost Throne - Book Review
• Rogue Leaders: The Story of LucasArts
• Book on Saddam oversteps bounds
• 2 publishers have mobile phone plans

Tuesday 09 December 2008

• Elvis from A to Z
• Just who was Casanova?

Monday 08 December 2008

• Jess’s Book Pick for December: Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
• On a Dickens Classic
• 'Have You Seen . . . ?': A Personal Introduction to 1,000 Films

Sunday 07 December 2008

• The Northern Clemency by Philip Hensher
• Bestselling Books Top 10

Saturday 06 December 2008

• Publishers Weekly’s list of bestselling books
• Former President Carter authors new book

Friday 05 December 2008

• Scarpetta (Kay Scarpetta) by Patricia Cornwell
• ‘Legend of a Suicide’

Thursday 04 December 2008

• The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
• J.K. Rowling has another book and this one’s for charity

Wednesday 03 December 2008

• Some Christmas reads (and watches) for hard times
• Rare fragment of Gospel goes on sale

Tuesday 02 December 2008

• Billy the Kid—fictionalized
• Why horses thrived
• The Great Inflation

Monday 01 December 2008

• New from by Amitav Ghosh
• Lessons in Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam

Sunday 30 November 2008

• Book Reveiw: The Vampire of Ropraz
• Book Review: Brass Verdict
• Book Review: The Reach
• Book Review: New Tricks
• Book Review: Dangerous Women
• Book Review: Operation Blue Light
• Book Review: Unusual Suspects
• Book Review: The Witch's Trinity
• Book Review: Our Longest Days
• Book Review: Japan Through the Looking Glass
• Book Reviews: Dawnkeepers
• John Updike has Bad Sex
• Wall Street Journal’s list of best selling books

Saturday 29 November 2008

• William Gibson dies at 94
• Publishers Weekly’s best selling books

Friday 28 November 2008

• ‘From Colony to Superpower’ engaging and thorough
• 'Mrs. Astor Regrets'

Thursday 27 November 2008

• Laura Bush has been speaking with publishers
• New book Curtis Roosevelt, grandkid to famous parents

Wednesday 26 November 2008

• ‘The Man Who Invented Show business’
• Get ready to enter the world of Spyology!
• Stalin’s Children

Tuesday 25 November 2008

• Heroes from doom
• The beauty of insects
• Friendly Fire: A Duet

Monday 24 November 2008

• Book Review: The Mental Floss History of the World: An Irreverent Romp through Civilization's Best Bits by Erik Sass, Will Pearson, and Steve Wiegand
• Annette Gordon-Reed wins National Book Award
• Barnes & Noble reports a loss of $18.4 million

Sunday 23 November 2008

• Best-Sellers Books Top 10
• New from David Hackett Fischer

Saturday 22 November 2008

• Publishers Weekly bestsellers
• Peter Matthiessen wins National Book Award in fiction

Friday 21 November 2008

• ‘Death With Interruptions’
• Autophobia

Thursday 20 November 2008

• Book Review: Never Land: Cave of the Dark Wind by Dave Barry (Author), Ridley Pearson (Author)
• Book Review: The Time Traveller's Journal by Hermes Prospero (Author), Greg Becker (Illustrator)
• Book Review: Wives of the Kings of England: From the Normans to the Stuarts by Mark Hichens
• The biography of V.S. Naipaul
• Mark Chagall’s biography

Wednesday 19 November 2008

• Book Review: Solar Gardening by by Leandre Poisson and Gretchen Vogel Poisson
• Book Review: The Rook Trilogy by by Paul Stewart (Author), Chris Riddell (Illustrator)
• Book Review: Soul Murder by Andrew Nugent
• Book Review: Castlecliff by Elizabeth Pulford
• Book Review: Hidden Children of the Holocaust by Suzanne Vromen
• Book Review: The Gannet Has Landed by Peter Kerr
• New from P.J. James
• ‘Why We Suck’

Tuesday 18 November 2008

• Christopher Plummer dishes it out in new book
• Clive Cussler’s adventure is no great prose

Monday 17 November 2008

• ‘The Champagne Empire’
• The Forest of Hands and Teeth - Book Review
• The Charlie Huston Free Book Countdown continues with Six Bad Things
• New from Wally Lamb
• Book Review: Eon: Dragoneye Reborn
• Book Review: Magic to the Bone
• Book Review: Is It Just Me or Is Everything Shit?
• Book Review: Wild Horses
• Book Review: Insatiable Desire
• Book Review: Gasoline
• Book Review: Kosher by Design Lightens Up
• Book Review: Eating for Energy
• Book Review: Fast Ships, Black Sails

Sunday 16 November 2008

• New stories from Stephen King
• New book on The Beatles

Saturday 15 November 2008

• A Beatnik novel collaborated
• 'The Northern Clemency' tops Amazon list for 2008

Friday 14 November 2008

• Book Review: The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart
• Book Review: Michaelmas Tribute by Cora Harrison
• Book Review: Riding Icarus by Lily Hyde
• Book Review: Brisingr by Christopher Paolini
• A complex ‘whodunit’
• Thames: The Biography
• The history of Civil Rights in the North

Thursday 13 November 2008

• Music and the Delta Blues
• Winston Churchill at War

Wednesday 12 November 2008

• 2666…
• Ted Turner spills the beans in new memoir

Tuesday 11 November 2008

• ‘The B List’
• Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer
• Despite poor economy, booksellers counting on sales
• The Fire by Katherine Neville - Review

Monday 10 November 2008

• Publishers Weekly bestsellers
• Old lady lit found in ‘Olive Kitteridge’

Sunday 09 November 2008

• Schulz and Peanuts new to paperback
• The Black Tower by Louis Bayard

Saturday 08 November 2008

• Publishers prepare for Bush memoirs
• Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Life by Paul Mariani

Friday 07 November 2008

• Obama books spark a surge in sales
• Lulu in Marrakech by Diane Johnson
• Ugh, more letters

Thursday 06 November 2008

• Book Review: Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon—and the Journey of a Generation by Sheila Weller
• Writer Michael Crichton dies
• Bishop and Lowell's 'love' letters
• ‘Save the World on Your Own Time’
• Book Review: Burn Out
• Book Review: Mass Historia
• Book Review: The Gifted Gabaldon Sisters
• Book Review: The Catch
• Book Review: Life After Genius
• Book Review: The Adventures of Songha
• Book Review: Wrap, Stitch, Fold & Rivet

Wednesday 05 November 2008

• Book Review: Paul of Dune
• Book Review: Heirloom Embroidery
• The Coming Centrist Obama Presidency
• New from Leopoldo Gout
• America in the Age of Jackson

Tuesday 04 November 2008

• Midnight's Daughter by Karen Chance - Book Review
• New novel examines Indian photographer’s life
• ‘New Lives’ is a new novel

Monday 03 November 2008

• Nurses speak out
• ‘The Culture of War’
• The re release of ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’

Sunday 02 November 2008

• WSJ’s list of best selling books
• Unholy Business indeed

Saturday 01 November 2008

• Jess’s Book Pick for November: Big Fish by Daniel Wallace
• Publishers Weekly’s bestsellers
• New Dungeons & Dragons memoir

Friday 31 October 2008

• Studs Terkel dies at 96
• George Being George
• ‘Eggs’ book ‘goes over easy’

Thursday 30 October 2008

• ‘Wacky Packages’ includes wacky parody
• ‘Once Were Cops’ told brilliantly reviewer notes

Wednesday 29 October 2008

• Book Review: Going Under
• Book Review: Death: A Life
• Book Review: Testimony
• Book Review: Bet You Didn't Know
• Book Review: Wrapped in Crochet
• Book Review: A Pretty Face
• Book Review: The Flame and the Shadow
• Book Review: Defending Angels
• New from Dennis Lehane
• Robert B. Parker novel ‘formulaic’
• Tony Hillerman dies

Tuesday 28 October 2008

• Featured Book Review: Fast Ships, Black Sails
• New from Irvine Welsh
• ‘The Man Who Owns the News’

Monday 27 October 2008

• Spellbound by Beauty: Alfred Hitchcock and His Leading Ladies
• Eminem now has a memoir

Sunday 26 October 2008

• Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China
• Bram Stoker, Leslie S. Klinger, and Neil Gaiman

Saturday 25 October 2008

• John Lennon: The Life

Friday 24 October 2008

• If not now…soon?
• All on Fred Astaire
• Remembering the forgotten newsman

Thursday 23 October 2008

• Witches become widows in new Updike
• Life before Marley expressed in new memoir

Wednesday 22 October 2008

• Virginia Woolf and her irrelevant struggles
• Leading lit agent dies from a brain tumor
• ‘Burn Out’ might just be that

Tuesday 21 October 2008

• ‘Army of the Republic’ and U.S. corruption
• The Alcoholic

Monday 20 October 2008

• Charlie Huston returns to book shelves, and M&C is getting fans ready
• New from Bill O’Reilly
• Julia Glass ‘sees you everywhere’

Sunday 19 October 2008

• Book Review: Murder by the Sea by Lesley Cookman
• Book Review: Blade: Playing Dead by Tim Bowler
• Book Review: The Chatelet Apprentice by Jean-Francois Parot
• More on Titanic’s secrets
• Wall Street Journal’s list of best selling books

Saturday 18 October 2008

• Book Review: The Toymaker by Jeremy De Quidt
• Book Review: The Mark of Edain by by Pauline Chandler
• Book Review: Make! by Cath Kidston
• Aravind Adiga wins Man Booker Prize
• Publishers Weekly best sellers

Friday 17 October 2008

• New from Michael Connelly
• All on the National Security Agency
• A 20-year sequel arrives

Thursday 16 October 2008

• Book Review: George Tooker
• Book Review: The Chosen Sin
• Book Review: Wolfsbane and Mistletoe
• Book Review: The Smart One and The Pretty One
• Book Review: Mixed Media Self Portraits
• Book Review: I Was Dora Suarez
• Book Review: Crewel Embroidery
• Book Review: Greeting Cards Galore
• Book Review: Recipe Scrapbook
• Book Review: The Quilting Arts Book
• Book Review: The Book of Lies
• Book Review: Simple Knits for Little Cherubs
• Book Review: Key to Redemption
• Book Review: The Iron Hunt: Hunter's Kiss, Book One
• Tony Curtis is ‘The American Prince’
• A Guide to the Birds of East Africa
• Emily Post: Manners Still Matter

Wednesday 15 October 2008

• In-depth interview with Richard Thompson Ford
• The Marcia Brady book
• 24-hour news shows hurting the industry

Tuesday 14 October 2008

• Deaf Sentence is being heard
• ‘Descartes’ Bones’

Monday 13 October 2008

• Teller wins German Book Prize
• New from Mickey Spillane…?
• New memoir addresses grief, loss
• 'The Ayatollah Begs to Differ — The Paradox of Modern Iran'

Sunday 12 October 2008

• Feature: The Alfred Hitchcock Story (and analysis)
• Turkey - literature full of controversy shines at Book Fair
• Turkish publishing trade suffers as literary star rises
• USA Today’s list of best selling books
• Massachusetts has chosen book for the state

Saturday 11 October 2008

• Playboy and Hugh Hefner
• Publishers Weekly’s best sellers

Friday 10 October 2008

• ‘Lake Rescue’ encourages weight loss with fat character
• ‘A Most Wanted Man’
• Re-release of a childhood classic
• Book Review: Once Were Cops
• Book Review: The Last Undercover
• Book Review: Holidays on Ice
• Book Review: Chocolate-A Healthy Passion
• Book Review: Arsnic Soup for Lovers
• Book Review: Weaving Without a Loom
• Book Review: Phony!
• Book Review: Schwalm Embroidery
• Book Review: The Lover's Knot

Thursday 09 October 2008

• German critic dismisses Le Clezio as boring
• More on Lincoln’s legacy
• King’s kids could cancel book deal

Wednesday 08 October 2008

• Controversial novel is finally published
• Tina Fey will write humor book
• U.S. author of anti-Obama book being deported from Kenya

Tuesday 07 October 2008

• New Robinson novel boring reviewer notes
• Breakdowns: Portrait of the Artist as a Young%@&*!

Monday 06 October 2008

• Book Review: Vampire Beach Hunted by Alex Duval
• Book Review: Manga School wi Selena Lin Draw Your Own Manga by Lin Selena
• Book Review: Drawing from your Imagination by Ron Tiner
• Book Review: The Vampire of Ropraz by Jacques Chessex and Donald Wilson
• Book Review: Ice Cream Con by Jimmy Docherty
• Inside the Supreme Court
• Short stories are ‘quirky’ in 'The Development'
• Terrorism tackled in new novel

Sunday 05 October 2008

• Book Review: A Not So Perfect Crime by Teresa Solana and Peter Bush
• Book Review: Bruno, Chief of Police by Martin Walker
• Book Review: The Murder Stone by Louise Penny
• Book Review: The Night Villa by Carol Goodman
• USA Today’s list of bestsellers
• Publishers Weekly’s best sellers

Saturday 04 October 2008

• Book Review: Firefight by K. Wild
• Book Review: Wright 3 by by Blue Balliett
• Book Review: Tattoo by MANUEL VAZQUEZ MONTALBAN
• Book Review: Evil Valley by Simon Hall
• A handwritten Bible?
• New from Neil Gaiman

Friday 03 October 2008

• Happy Families: not really
• “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo”
• The Sacred Book of the Werewolf
• Book Review: Exit Music
• Book Review: Plush-O-Rama
• Book Review: The Last Argument of Kings
• Book Review: The Blessed
• Book Review: When Will There Be Good News
• Book Review: Wild Boy
• Book Review: Gale Force

Thursday 02 October 2008

• Tears of the Desert: A Memoir of Survival in Darfur
• New book from Leonard Nimoy’s son
• Howard Blum’s ‘American Lightning’ dips into crime

Wednesday 01 October 2008

• Bush women read at book festival
• The Forever War getting good reviews
• Jess’s Book Pick for October: Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery

Tuesday 30 September 2008

• Book Review: Sci-Phi: Philosophy from Socrates to Schwarzenegger by Mark Rowlands
• New graphic novel: ‘American Widow’
• The long fight for Cuba
• New Prince memoir shows off a different side

Monday 29 September 2008

• Bob Schieffer’s America
• Hemingway’s Kit Kat’s: the verdict is in
• Chuck Klosterman and his “Downtown Owl”

Sunday 28 September 2008

• The latest trend: books about the economic disaster

Saturday 27 September 2008

• Publishers Weekly’s list of best sellers
• Wall street Journal list of best sellers
• Former astronaut Buzz Aldrin has memoir in the works

Friday 26 September 2008

• The Limits of Power ‘illogical’
• Going Hungry: essays on anorexia
• Publishers are milking Jackie Kennedy

Thursday 25 September 2008

• The history of Glamour
• Hitler’s Empire: How the Nazi’s Ruled Europe

Wednesday 24 September 2008

• The Snowball: all on Warren Buffett
• New Robert Wagner auto-bio reveals unfaithfulness
• Brisingr is topping the sales

Tuesday 23 September 2008

• Curious George and bad boy culture
• Historical Boston: 1919

Monday 22 September 2008

• Book about Dick Cheney’s time in office
• Cops and ghosts meet up in Alive in Necropolis

Sunday 21 September 2008

• Alec Baldwin shares his ‘pain’
• All on Dewey the cat

Saturday 20 September 2008

• Wall Street Journal best sellers
• Will Terrorists Go Nuclear?

Friday 19 September 2008

• Edgar Sawtelle guy can now roll around in dollar bills
• Book Review: Blood Memories
• Book Review: Found You
• Book Review: The Scourge of God
• Book Review: Small Crimes
• Book Review: Imaginary Friends
• Getting Into the Guinness Guy
• The House at Sugar Beach
• The Elizabethan-age ménage à trios

Thursday 18 September 2008

• The Heretic's Daughter
• Number 1 ranked Williams will pen memoir
• Roth revives old themes in 29th novel

Wednesday 17 September 2008

• Philip Roth dislikes movies made from his books
• ‘How England Plundered Holland’s Glory’
• The guy who wrote the Fletch books died

Tuesday 16 September 2008

• The Forever War
• Feeling hot, flat and crowded?

Monday 15 September 2008

• Music industry insider writes memoir
• The quest for oil

Sunday 14 September 2008

• New Jack Higgins novel ‘two-dimensional’
• Wall Street Journal list of best selling books
• Book Review: White Nights
• Book Review: Isolation
• Book Review: The Bell at Sealey Head
• Book Review: Feather Man
• Book Review: Supreme Courtship
• Book Review: Death's Half Acre
• Book Review: Last Call

Saturday 13 September 2008

• Thinking of buying a zoo?
• Publishers Weekly best selling books

Friday 12 September 2008

• Business writer Michael Hammer dies
• The Army of the Republic: heavy-handed?

Thursday 11 September 2008

• A magazine with electronic ink?
• After the Fire
• More book trivia: oddest book title

Wednesday 10 September 2008

• Robert Giroux dies
• J.K Rowling wins her copyright claim

Tuesday 09 September 2008

• New slim Toni Morrison novel hits shelves…and has clichés
• Pulitzer winning novel new in paperback
• Guy who wrote ‘Horse Whisperer’ ate some bad ‘shrooms

Monday 08 September 2008

• ‘The Little Book’
• Sarah Palin is upon us once more

Sunday 07 September 2008

• Infamous Mohammad novel finds new publisher
• The Reagan Years: do we really want to go there?

Saturday 06 September 2008

• ‘The World in Six Songs’: the musical brain
• Publishers Weekly’s list of best selling books
• New memoir from Juliana Hatfield

Friday 05 September 2008

• Stephenie Meyer puts latest book on hold
• Writer for teenagers dies at 100
• Kids will go exploring in “The 39 Clues”

Thursday 04 September 2008

• Book Review: The Front Porch Prophet
• Book Review: Moontown
• Book Review: Break of Dawn
• Book Review: Sweetheart
• Book Review: Legacy
• Book Review: Undiscovered Country
• Book Review: Enchantment Place
• Book Review: The Woman's Heart
• Book Review: The Shadow Pavilion
• Book Review: Surface Design for Ceramics
• Book Review: Native American Leather & Bead Crafting
• Unraveling a life in Iraq
• ‘Pharmakon’ to be taken with caution, reviewer notes

Wednesday 03 September 2008

• The 'American Wife' is Laura Bush.
• Superheroes and their short stories
• The Last Pope

Tuesday 02 September 2008

• Sex in Crisis?
• Featured Book Revew: The Lost Highway by David Adams Richards
• ‘The Way of the World’
• Tim and Tom: An American Comedy in Black and White

Monday 01 September 2008

• The Turnaround: new from George Pelecanos
• Turkish author releases new Turkish book
• Jess’s Book Pick for September: Sci-Phi: Philosophy from Socrates to Schwarzenegger by Mark Rowlands

Sunday 31 August 2008

• Author who faked memoir wants her money
• New clichéd thriller: Everything Under the Sky

Saturday 30 August 2008

• Publishers Weekly best selling books
• Female doctor writes of life in Saudi Arabia

Friday 29 August 2008

• For the thrill of it: murder
• Joe Biden book is a “hit”
• New graphic novel: Marshal Law: Origins

Thursday 28 August 2008

• Publisher defends the pulling of novel
• A slew of celebrity memoirs

Wednesday 27 August 2008

• Bacardi and the Long Fight for Cuba
• New from Christopher Buckley
• Sean Connery autobiography released

Tuesday 26 August 2008

• Anathem: new novel by Neal Stephenson
• Stores angered by an Obama book’s early sell
• Pigeons are the best

Monday 25 August 2008

• Jesus for President?
• All about reading lace
• All about T. Boone Pickens’ first million

Sunday 24 August 2008

• Michael Phelps book in the works

Saturday 23 August 2008

• Barnes & Noble profits falling
• Publishers Weekly Bestsellers
• The World in Six Songs ‘lacking’ one reviewer notes

Friday 22 August 2008

• The Rise and Fall of the American Bestseller
• Why conservatives are wrecking it all
• Black & White and Dead All Over

Thursday 21 August 2008

• New book: The Anglo Files
• Some ‘notable’ books this fall

Wednesday 20 August 2008

• New Michael Moore book
• New Woodward book announced
• In-depth interview with philosopher Mark Rowlands
• Book Review: Marsbound
• Book Review: Ary Stillman from Impressionism to Abstract Expressionism
• Book Review: Beyond the Basics: Gourd Art
• Book Review: Stalking the Vampire
• Book Review: Doomwyte
• Book Review: The Last Unicorn Special Anniversary Edition

Tuesday 19 August 2008

• Titan Books releases Torchwood series
• An assessment on the American Dream

Monday 18 August 2008

• Washington and the Politics of Change in the 1960s
• Two writers with nothing in common are soul mates?
• Barnes & Noble will not bid for Borders

Sunday 17 August 2008

• All about Nelson Mandela
• Rushdie won’t shut up
• New novel by two authors is supposed literary hit

Saturday 16 August 2008

• Le Corbusier Le Grand is alive with illustrations
• My life with a mass murderer
• Publishers Weekly best sellers

Friday 15 August 2008

• Chaos: what awaits the next President
• New from Haruki Murakami

Thursday 14 August 2008

• All about 'Intercourse'
• New Paul Auster novel: ‘Man in the Dark’

Wednesday 13 August 2008

• ‘The Power of Place’
• New Obama book by Obama himself
• Boys of Steel: all about Superman

Tuesday 12 August 2008

• All about reptile smugglers
• Posthumous Keats

Monday 11 August 2008

• Cheech & Chong—they’re still around
• Steven Tyler working on memoir
• An Owl’s love story
• Book Review: Vicious Circle
• Book Review: Dog Eats Dog
• Book Review: The Sacred Book of the Werewolf
• Book Review: Vampyres of Hollywood
• Book Review: Blue Ribbon Quilts

Sunday 10 August 2008

• A reporter’s crack addict story
• Dispatches from a Mercenary: ‘a chatty British page turner’

Saturday 09 August 2008

• Publishers Weekly best sellers
• ‘The House at Sugar Beach’ is new Starbucks pick
• Playwright Simon Gray has died

Friday 08 August 2008

• All about dictators—they ruled with Iron Fists
• New from Nobel winner Doris Lessing

Thursday 07 August 2008

• All about polygamy
• Rushdie claims: “Nobody locked me in a f****** cupboard”

Wednesday 06 August 2008

• A novel of World War II
• Book about reading the dictionary
• The widespread use of torture
• ‘Breaking Dawn’ is breaking sales

Tuesday 05 August 2008

• Egyptian artifacts…and then some
• Memoirs of a Literary Forger

Monday 04 August 2008

• The healthcare system underway?
• New book about a woman and stalking
• Nobel winner Solzhenitsyn dies

Sunday 03 August 2008

• A waiter says it all
• Moscow Rules: new book brings praise
• Book Review: Underground
• Book Review: Creative Beading Vol. 3
• Book Review: Seeing Redd
• Book Review: The Dimension Next Door
• Book Review: A Summer Affair
• Book Review: Moon Pies and Movie Stars
• Book Review: Glitter Artistry

Saturday 02 August 2008

• ‘Good People’ said to be ‘tightly written yarn’
• New from Mary Jane Clark

Friday 01 August 2008

• The Bible Salesman
• Can’t escape J.K. Rowling
• A year in books: recap

Thursday 31 July 2008

• New book about being trapped in a car
• Men and love stories?
• New book rips Lincoln

Wednesday 30 July 2008

• Another book celebrates selfishness
• New novel ‘a despicable example’

Tuesday 29 July 2008

• ‘The Turnaround’
• The literacy debate

Monday 28 July 2008

• Brideshead Revisited: film can't compete with original
• ‘Reports from a Divided Nation’
• ‘Batman The Killing Joke’

Sunday 27 July 2008

• Questions for singer Janis Ian
• All about a drug addicted porn star: where can I buy it?

Saturday 26 July 2008

• ‘ When the Guillotine Fell’ said to be ‘grisly’
• Publishers Weekly Best Sellers

Friday 25 July 2008

• Featured Book Review: Kluge: The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind by Gary Marcus
• Obamamania! The English Language Barackafied
• All about the Kama Sutra

Thursday 24 July 2008

• ‘In the Hamptons’rich with personalities
• Rome 1960: The Olympics That Changed the World

Wednesday 23 July 2008

• Read about Estelle Getty and The Golden Girls in new book
• Uncanny X Men celebrates 500th issue
• Heavy metal and Islam

Tuesday 22 July 2008

• A New Zealand history
• The undoing of a great detective
• A history and philosophy of (dull) jokes
• Book Review: Try Darkness
• Book Review: Heavier Than Air
• Book Review: Old Devil Moon
• Book Review: 500 Plates & Chargers
• Book Review: Cry Wolf
• Book Review: Saturn's Children
• Book Review: Dragon Wytch
• Book Review: Let's Talk Turkey

Monday 21 July 2008

• John Donlan & The Dames by Judith Fitzgerald
• Detective writer Janwillem van de Wetering dies
• The 267,854th novel from Joyce Carol Oates

Sunday 20 July 2008

• Breach of Peace: Portraits of the 1961 Mississippi Freedom Riders
• Publishers Weekly Best Sellers

Saturday 19 July 2008

• Time: 85 Years of Great Writing
• 40-year old controversial novel will be available in 2009

Friday 18 July 2008

• New fantasy novel: ‘The Shadow Speaker’
• The Eaves of Heaven: A Life in Three Wars
• The Snake Charmer

Thursday 17 July 2008

• All about Jean-Luc Godard
• Stephen L. Carter’s ‘Palace Council’

Wednesday 16 July 2008

• More on the vegetable plagiarist
• Man arrested for stealing 400-year old Shakespeare book

Tuesday 15 July 2008

• Book Review: Havana Gold
• Book Review: Fall With Honor
• Book Review: 500 Pendants & Lockets
• Book Review: Lord of Bones
• Book Review: My Name is Will
• Book Review: Living Long and Loving It
• Book Review: Pretty Monsters
• Book Review: I'm With Stupid
• New Elvis Cole novel has trite title
• Newly found papers might hold insights to Kafka
• New thriller by Ridley Pearson

Monday 14 July 2008

• Featured Book Review: The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
• Rhinos and shoes: it’s in the book
• New book discusses ‘The World’s Coolest Hotel Rooms’
• Ark of the Liberties: America and the World

Sunday 13 July 2008

• New book on Doris Day
• Some words from Larry McMurtry

Saturday 12 July 2008

• Good words for the new Captain America
• “Best of Booker” went to Salman Rushdie

Friday 11 July 2008

• In depth interview with poet, actor and co-founder of Rattapallax Press, George Dickerson
• Who wants to join The Film Club?
• A Gentleman’s Guide to Graceful Living

Thursday 10 July 2008

• Poppy Adams’ The Sister
• The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder
• America’s car loving culture

Wednesday 09 July 2008

• Italy from different eyes
• Telex From Cuba

Tuesday 08 July 2008

• Beijing…a city transformed
• Double dating with dad
• Dana and Christopher Reeve: their life and story

Monday 07 July 2008

• America America
• The dysfunctional James family
• The Wild Places

Sunday 06 July 2008

• Dip within President Lincoln’s marriage
• A tale of real estate and remorse

Saturday 05 July 2008

• Wall Street Journal best sellers
• Publishers Weekly best sellers

Thursday 03 July 2008

• Claim of Privilege
• Presidential serial killer?
• The origin of conservatism

Wednesday 02 July 2008

• Mysteries in urban wildlife
• The river is ‘deep’ in ‘Time is a River’

Tuesday 01 July 2008

• More from ‘Marley and Me’ author
• ‘Fear and Loathing’ on the documentary screen
• Jess’s Book Club Pick for July: The Naked Ape by Desmond Morris
• Book Review: Rabbit Moon
• Book Review: Boy A
• Book Review: I Shall Not Want
• Book Review: 50 Reasons People Give for Believing in a God
• Book Review: Deja Demon

Monday 30 June 2008

• Russia between art and politics
• The Hebrew Republic
• Two Years with the Peace Corps in Uzbekistan

Sunday 29 June 2008

• The disgruntled worker
• Book about a kid who kills his family with a bat

Saturday 28 June 2008

• Lists of best selling books
• The history of hamburgers

Friday 27 June 2008

• Prozac and the underdogs
• New book on Presidential travel

Thursday 26 June 2008

• Cortes’ defeat of Aztecs
• ‘Hit and Run’ a page turner reviewer notes

Wednesday 25 June 2008

• Justice amid a massacre
• Featured Book Review: The Hounds of Ash and Other Tales of Fool Wolf by Greg Keyes
• All about ‘The Pixar Touch’
• New info about the Cuban Missile Crisis

Tuesday 24 June 2008

• Sebastian Barry’s latest novel: ‘The Secret Scripture’
• Illustrator Tasha Tudor dies
• New book uncovers slums of Nigeria
• Book Review: The Monster of Florence
• Book Review: When You Are Engulfed in Flames
• Book Review: Rebel Giants
• Book Review: Undead and Unworthy
• Book Review: Basic Crochet Stitches
• Book Review: The First 30 Days
• Book Review: Future Americas

Monday 23 June 2008

• Book Review: The Tiniest Tiger
• The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
• Mario Puzo’s son in an uproar over royalties
• Scenes from Mexico City

Sunday 22 June 2008

• ‘Empire of Lies’ is ‘tedious’ reviewer notes
• Chick Lit author decides to depress

Saturday 21 June 2008

• Bush thinking about penning his memoir
• New book club that will involve Bush Bashing, among other things

Friday 20 June 2008

• New book examines ‘No Wave’
• New book asks, why the bottled water?
• Questions for Gore Vidal

Thursday 19 June 2008

• ‘America Between the Wars’
• Amazon: the bully of the publishing industry?
• Ghandi and Churchill help frame India’s history

Wednesday 18 June 2008

• Greed and cultural rights
• New from Richard Preston: Panic Level 4
• Very old books will sell in NYC

Tuesday 17 June 2008

• New book from very old, dead, dull poet
• History of post war Britain
• Matlin actress working on memoir
• Book Review: Twilight Fall
• Book Review: Kushiel's Mercy
• Book Review: Crochet Stitch Motifs
• Book Review: Valor's Trial
• Book Review: The Caveman's Pregnancy Companion
• Book Review: Caveman's Guide to Baby's First Year
• Book Review: The Prefect
• Book Review: Shining Moments

Monday 16 June 2008

• Sean Connery writing autobiography
• Madonna’s brother writing memoir
• John McCain’s daughter writing children’s book

Sunday 15 June 2008

• New novel from Denis Leary’s wife
• The Monster of Florence

Saturday 14 June 2008

• Featured Book Review: Inside Out Girl by Tish Cohen
• USA Today lists hot political books
• New from “House of Sand and Fog” author

Friday 13 June 2008

• “I’ll be Sober in the Morning”
• Just how does randomness rule our lives?

Thursday 12 June 2008

• New David Guterson novel is slow
• Sex and hygiene are keeping people talking in Germany
• Lebanese-born author wins IMPAC Dublin Literary award
• A Voyage Round John Mortimer: A Biography of the Creator of Rumpole of the Bailey

Wednesday 11 June 2008

• “Starbucks Nation” not so much
• FDR and Presidential gossip

Tuesday 10 June 2008

• JK Rowling's Potter prequel fetches 25,000 pounds at auction
• All about lobbyists
• Richard Engel’s book receives mediocre review
• Harry Potter prequel will be auctioned
• V. S. Naipaul reflects on writing
• Book Review: Dangerous Days of Daniel X
• Book Review: Made in the U.S.A.
• Book Review: Zaida Ben-Yusuf
• Book Review: Deamons Are Forever
• Book Review: Top Secret
• Book Review: NASA: The Complete Illustrated History

Monday 09 June 2008

• A wave of Obama Books
• Wartime book arouses controversy
• Harper Collins sues mob daughter

Sunday 08 June 2008

• J.K. Rowling stresses the importance of imagination
• New Rushdie novel “an annoying exercise in self-indulgence”

Saturday 07 June 2008

• Budding British teenage author the 'new JK Rowling'?
• British Prime Minister makes cameo in comic
• Borders will cut 275 positions

Friday 06 June 2008

• ‘Master of the Delta’
• Publishers paranoid about electronic devices
• American Airlines book seems to say it all

Thursday 05 June 2008

• Book review of latest James Bond novel
• If you enjoyed Ken Follett, you might enjoy this

Wednesday 04 June 2008

• Dickens desk and chair exceed auctioneers' greatest expectations
• British author wins prize for novel on migrant's life
• Book about a famous horse
• ‘Gift of Rain’ revisits wartime cliché
• Care to revisit camp?
• Book Review: Lover Enshrined
• Book Review: Lamplighter
• Book Review: Jane Goodall: A Biography
• Book Review: Spectre
• Book Review: Distracted
• Book Review: Out of the Wild
• Book Review: German Design for Modern Living

Tuesday 03 June 2008

• New on the comic front
• Sex and the City (sort of)
• Bob Dylan as painter

Monday 02 June 2008

• New memoir details a child’s struggle through Bosnian war
• Willie Nelson: An Epic Life
• For the love of windsurfing
• Paulo Coelho's bio brings controversy

Sunday 01 June 2008

• New from David Sedaris
• World Wars and British blunders
• Jess’s Book Club Pick for June: I Am Legend by Richard Matheson

Saturday 31 May 2008

• Memoir from Harry Bernstein
• Notes on a Life: from Eleanor Coppola

Friday 30 May 2008

• The Spies of Warsaw
• The auctioning of a Harry Potter prequel
• New in-depth interview with ‘Big Fish’ author Daniel Wallace

Thursday 29 May 2008

• New book from the Prada Lady
• Dancer memoir: Carlos Acosta
• New book bashes Bush

Wednesday 28 May 2008

• Sonya Hartnett accepts Astrid Lindgren literature award
• In photos: 'New James Bond novel launch'
• ‘The Road’ will now be a film
• Obsession over an immigrant
• New book about cannibals

Tuesday 27 May 2008

• Two Buckley Books
• The Enchantress of Florence: Salman Rushdie’s newest
• Points Elsewhere by Judith Fitzgerald
• Final Theory: On Einstein, science and stuff like that

Monday 26 May 2008

• Governess: The Lives and Times of the Real Jane Eyres
• New book uncovers prisoner abuse
• Featured Book Review: Mad, Bad and Sad: Women and the Mind Doctors by Lisa Appignanesi

Sunday 25 May 2008

• Book Review: Blood Noir
• Book Review: The World is Your Litter Box
• Book Review: Child 44
• Book Review: Double Stitch: Designs for the Crochet Fashionista
• Book Review: Key to Conspiracy
• Journey through organized crime
• The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker

Saturday 24 May 2008

• Publishers Weekly’s bestsellers
• New book says obvious: war is hell

Friday 23 May 2008

• A new James Bond novel
• All about the new old age
• Featured Book Review: A Painted Field by Robin Robertson
• Without J.K. Rowling, booksellers are feeling the pain

Thursday 22 May 2008

• Baseball and those who would have played for nothing
• New serial killer book “gripping” but far fetched
• Submarine battle books

Wednesday 21 May 2008

• Now a “fruity” book
• Book that Senator John McCain likes
• Remembering Ian Fleming in London

Tuesday 20 May 2008

• Life at the edge of history
• Carl Hiaasen golfing memoir 'old-manish'
• The untold story of why America is so culturally and politically divided

Monday 19 May 2008

• New novel focuses on old form of storytelling
• Baseball and beyond
• Featured Book Review: The Naked Ape by Desmond Morris

Sunday 18 May 2008

• The Age of Reagan. Must we revisit it?
• Wallace Stegner and the American West
• Book Review: The Host
• Book Review: The Shadow Isle
• Book Review: Big Eye Art
• Book Review: Sail
• Book Review: Chloe Anne: Force of Nature
• Book Review: A Hollywood Ending
• Book Review: Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict

Saturday 17 May 2008

• New Thomas Perry novel: Fidelity
• New novel meditates on the American Dream
• In memory of Oakley Hall

Friday 16 May 2008

• The Liar's Review of James Frey's Bright Shiny Morning by Jason Sanford
• The Chris Farley Show
• New book by Loren D. Estleman
• Featured Book Review: Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse, edited by John Joseph Adams

Thursday 15 May 2008

• James Frey’s fiction sucks reviewer states
• New John Sandford novel ‘predictable’
• New survival book from the Bear

Wednesday 14 May 2008

• New children’s imprint: Walden Pond Press
• Another yawner from James Frey
• New book: The Boat

Tuesday 13 May 2008

• New book from Bob Dylan’s old girlfriend
• The most expensive bottle of wine
• Carly Simon found “Girls Like Us” painful

Monday 12 May 2008

• Leonard Cohen: Beautiful Loser, Beautiful Comeback by Judith Fitzgerald
• Book about war ironically called ‘Peace’
• The Fall of Bob Frost
• Featured Book Review: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
• Book Review: The Water Garden
• Book Review: The Indiana Jones Handbook
• Book Review: Inspired to Knit
• Book Review: Armed & Magical

Sunday 11 May 2008

• Memoir by daughter about famous father
• Nixonland

Saturday 10 May 2008

• 1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War
• New novel set during Cultural Revolution

Friday 09 May 2008

• Interview with Jimmy Buffett
• Another contrived book about dysfunction
• Man loves China and a whole lot more

Thursday 08 May 2008

• New book will depress you
• Boris Yeltsin’s life
• Author/gang member gets 6 years in jail

Wednesday 07 May 2008

• Stephenie Meyer’s The Host
• The Post-American World
• Prince is working on book
• Featured Book Review: Taken by Daphne Marlatt

Tuesday 06 May 2008

• Serve the People!
• Hot shot guy from Random House will step down
• New Barbara Walters memoir with “secrets”

Monday 05 May 2008

• Book Review: Willie Nelson: An Epic Life
• Book Review: Everyday Cat Excuses
• Book Review: Blood Bank
• Book Review: The Whole Truth
• Book Review: The Mother Factor
• A History of Russian Culture from Tolstoy to Solzhenitsyn
• The book of ballet
• A new look at the case of Mumia Abu-Jamal
• Featured Book Review: Everyman Library by Irene Nemirovsky

Sunday 04 May 2008

• Girl doesn’t have shadow
• All about Presidents and their speech writers

Saturday 03 May 2008

• How trade shaped the world
• The CIA: successes and failures

Friday 02 May 2008

• William Warner dies
• With his fifth memoir critics are tiring of Augusten Burroughs
• Darryl Strawberry is writing memoir

Thursday 01 May 2008

• Book Review: The Seventh Tower by Garth Nix
• All about Spitzer and his hooker
• All about Shakespeare’s wife
• Louise Erdrich’s latest novel
• Jess’s Book Club Pick for May: Dubliners by James Joyce

Wednesday 30 April 2008

• Book Review: The Templar, The Queen and Her Lover: A Knights Templar Mystery by Michael Jecks
• Book Review: The Adversary by Michael Walters
• Tony Horwitz is back
• Featured Book Review: Dubliners by James Joyce
• Novel says women can’t have it all

Tuesday 29 April 2008

• Book Review: Panda by Heather Angel
• Book Review: The Chicago Way by Michael Harvey
• Clinton in Exile: a life after the White House
• Nabokov’s son plans to defy father’s wish
• New book from deceased author

Monday 28 April 2008

• The man who pushed America to war?
• Featured Book Review: The Selected Gwendolyn MacEwen (edited by Meaghan Strimas)
• Peter Matthiessen’s Shadow Country
• Book Review: Frida Kahlo: The Still Lifes
• Book Review: A Kiss Before the Apocalypse
• Book Review: A Little Stranger
• Book Review: Charles Fort: The Man Who Invented the Supernatural
• Book Review: The Gatherer
• Book Review: God: The Failed Hypothesis

Sunday 27 April 2008

• New book uncovers life of psychiatrist
• New book about nutty women

Saturday 26 April 2008

• Book tells Civil War through letters
• New novel: Trauma

Friday 25 April 2008

• Iceland set for Frankfurt Book Fair spotlight in 2011
• Jimmy Carter’s mother is remarkable new bio notes
• Short Story: Maps of the Bible by Jason Sanford
• Mailer’s mistress sells his sex papers to Harvard
• Featured Book Review: Tin Lizard Tales: Reflections From A Train by Schuyler T. Wallace
• Huckabee writing book on losing the race

Thursday 24 April 2008

• Late Nights on Air
• Standing up for things when no one else will
• Miley Cyrus planning memoir

Wednesday 23 April 2008

• When married to a famous novelist, write a book yourself
• Children’s book from Laura and Jenna Bush
• Dr. Seuss pleas: save the trees!
• Featured Book Review: Purdytion (Rooms for Rent in the Outer Planets) by Al Purdy

Tuesday 22 April 2008

• Book Review: We Will Be Heard
• Book Review: Nebula Awards Showcase 2008
• Book Review: The Voice
• Book Review: Fat-It's Not What You Think
• Book Review: The Triumph of Deborah
• Book Review: Lady and the Vamp
• Wikipedia to be converted to a book in Germany
• New book: Reckless finance and spending
• Children’s book will be published by Dutch critic of Islam
• The Harry Potter trial: still anyone’s game

Monday 21 April 2008

• Rushdie must choose his works wisely, article notes
• Wild Nights!: Stories About the Last Days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James, and Hemingway
• The Doctor of Country Music: Driven By a Dream: By Judith Fitzgerald
• The 20th Century is becoming history

Sunday 20 April 2008

• Alexander McCall Smith: book and interview
• New children’s book about plastic surgery
• New Richard Stark novel: Dirty Money

Saturday 19 April 2008

• New novel by Colin Harrison: The Finder
• New book: Joni, Carly, & Carole

Friday 18 April 2008

• The Forgery of Venus
• New book: history of the Panama Canal
• Potter trial comes to an end

Thursday 17 April 2008

• The search for Arab Israeli peace
• Interview with author about new ‘crime’ novel
• Potter fan a crybaby in court

Wednesday 16 April 2008

• New collection by William Styron
• Counting down the days till Rumsfeld memoir
• Encyclopedia is theft, Rowling claims
• Featured Book Review: Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut

Tuesday 15 April 2008

• Hemingway clone lives in the Bronx
• Philip Roth turns 75 and is celebrated
• Rowling feels her creativity has been ‘crushed’

Monday 14 April 2008

• Book Review: Before They Are Hanged
• Book Review: Dragons Wild
• Book Review: Dirty Money
• Book Review-The Raven
• Dying to know about Allen Ginsberg in India?
• Harry Potter goes to court
• God Bless You, Mr. Vonnegut by Judith Fitzgerald

Sunday 13 April 2008

• Right of the Dial has too many clichés reviewer notes
• Terror and Consent gets praise

Saturday 12 April 2008

• Slavery by another name
• Norman Mailer memorial

Friday 11 April 2008

• Baseball books make for good roundup
• New collection of stories by Cynthia Ozick
• Featured Book Review: Lorca: A Dream of Life by Leslie Stainton
• New in-depth with Brad Steiger

Thursday 10 April 2008

• New Martin Amis ‘pretentious’ and ‘formalistic’
• The Kurds and their shaping of Iraq
• From fake memoirs to fake authors

Wednesday 09 April 2008

• Ariel Sharon’s son writing memoir
• Keep all your personalities happy
• History made funny

Tuesday 08 April 2008

• ‘Bonk’ author ‘fluffy, facile and formulaic’
• The tie between physical labor and ethical values
• New travel memoir: the Dalai Lama

Monday 07 April 2008

• Black Postcards: A Rock & Roll Romance
• What some are saying about Bhutto’s last book
• Basketball and the early days
• Featured Book Review: Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth
• Book Review: Infected
• Book Review: A World Too Near
• Book Review: The Alchemist's Code
• Book Review: Jewelry Studio: Wire Wrapping
• Book Review: The Secret Bride
• Book Review: Hollywood Crows
• Book Review: Bead Romantique

Sunday 06 April 2008

• New book: Arnie and Jack
• Parenting Inc. are we making our kids spoiled brats?
• Kathleen Turner and Nick Cage settle libel dispute

Saturday 05 April 2008

• Crime reporter turned mystery writer
• New book: Generation X

Friday 04 April 2008

• Martin Luther King Jr.'s Death and How It Changed America
• Bush's Law: The Remaking of American Justice
• New Lahiri Collection followed by predictable praise
• Featured Book Review: The Bay of Love and Sorrows by David Adams Richards

Thursday 03 April 2008

• Spanish writer dies at 81
• Head Case: Stories of brain injury

Wednesday 02 April 2008

• The Runner: A slim book that doesn’t run very long
• Jerry Falwell: His Life and Legacy
• New book: The Bin Ladens
• Stephen King and family will give reading on April 4

Tuesday 01 April 2008

• Iraq: no end in sight
• Jess’s Book Club Pick For April: US Guys: The True and Twisted Mind of the American Man by Charlie LeDuff
• Featured Book Review Of Charlie LeDuff’s US Guys: The True And Twisted Mind Of The American Man
• Helen Mirren shares life in new book

Monday 31 March 2008

• New short story collection from Tobias Wolff
• Two Julie Andrews books
• The battle for Japan
• Featured Book Review: Mr. Potter: A Novel by Jamaica Kincaid

Sunday 30 March 2008

• Book Review: Fried! Fast Food, Slow Deaths
• Book Review: Magic Burns
• Book Review: Fifteen Minutes of Shame
• Book Review: Shibori Knitted Felt
• Book Review: Start Spinning
• Book Review: The Gift of Years: Growing Older Gracefully
• Book Review: Misspelled
• Book Review: The Blue Star
• Book Review: Rolling Thunder
• Jane Fonda’s new book: a sequel and 70
• Oddest book title of the year awarded
• ‘The Sum of Our Days’

Saturday 29 March 2008

• New Kurt Vonnegut: Armageddon in Retrospect
• A governor with a book deal

Friday 28 March 2008

• Hugh Jackman joins Virgin for new comic creation
• The man and his thesaurus
• Featured Book Review: Christopher Marlowe: A Renaissance Life by Constance Brown Kuriyama
• WPA and The Great Depression

Thursday 27 March 2008

• Revenge of the Living Dummy: the new Harry Potter?
• The Ghost War plot driven and quick moving

Wednesday 26 March 2008

• Book Review: Dancing with Demons by Peter Tremayne
• Book Review: Genie Us by Steve Cole and Linda Chapman
• Sam Beckett will be saluted
• The End of the Jews
• Political jokes should be taken seriously writer writes

Tuesday 25 March 2008

• Book Review: The Summoning by E.E. Richardson
• Book Review: Bansi O'Hara and the Bloodline Prophecy by John Dougherty
• Throes of Democracy
• In defense of religious equality

Monday 24 March 2008

• Book Review: The Bromeliad by Terry Pratchett
• Book Review: A Small Part of History by Peggy Elliott
• Worlds at War: The 2,500-Year Struggle Between East and West
• Featured Book Review: Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle
• The arrogance of population planners?
• Russian secrets and scandal uncovered in new novel

Saturday 22 March 2008

• Book Review: Clean Cut By Lynda La Plante
• The Great Warming and climate change
• New short story collection: Knockemstiff

Friday 21 March 2008

• Book Review: Soldier of Fortune By Edward Marston
• Book Review: The Art Thief by Noah Charney
• Turning Tables…a novel of waitressing
• From the life of an animal surgeon
• Featured Book Review: Fidel Castro: A Spoken Autobiography

Thursday 20 March 2008

• Book Review: Dark Horse by John Francome
• Book Review: Special Operations: Dogfight by Craig Simpson
• Belgian author Hugo Claus has died
• Borders Group Inc. might be sold
• Featured Book Review: Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon

Wednesday 19 March 2008

• Book Review: The Templar by Paul Doherty
• Book Review: Innocent Blood by Elizabeth Corley
• Magda Cordell McHale has died
• Windy City: A Novel of Politics
• Arthur C. Clarke has died
• Happy birthday to the peace symbol

Tuesday 18 March 2008

• Book Review: Joe Rat by Mark Barratt
• Book Review: The Stranger from Home by Frederic Lindsay
• Book Review: Affair of the Mutilated Mink, The (Missing Mysteries) by James Anderson
• Richard Price’s ‘Lush Life’
• Book Review: Girls in Trucks
• Book Review: The Best Sports Writing of Pat Jordan
• Book Review: The Martian General's Daughter
• Book Review: The Hidden City
• Are pharmaceutical companies just a bunch of scammers?
• Book Review: Forgetting
• Book Review: Tangled Webs

Monday 17 March 2008

• Intelligent Talk Radio interview discusses phony memoirs
• Senator shares cancer battle in book
• The impact of stand-up comedy
• Featured Book Review: Hank Williams: Snapshots from the Lost Highway

Sunday 16 March 2008

• Some erotic doggerel for the masses
• Why We’re Liberals
• New novel: Dreamers of the Day

Saturday 15 March 2008

• A nice novelist donates money
• Last Harry Potter will be split into 2 films

Friday 14 March 2008

• Business for the ‘Superclass’
• Another Tom Perrotta novel to become a film
• Featured Book Review: Of Time and the River by Thomas Wolfe

Thursday 13 March 2008

• New business book: Death to All Sacred Cows
• In celebration of Stegner

Wednesday 12 March 2008

• In depth interview with Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Charlie LeDuff
• Yet another vapid celebrity ‘tell all’: Tori Spelling
• Featured Book Review: Museum of Bone and Water by Nicole Brossard
• More on Hemingway’s letters

Tuesday 11 March 2008

• A long line of literary frauds and hoaxes
• A must read: Jacob Riis
• New thriller from Linda Fairstein

Monday 10 March 2008

• Book Review: Good Neighbors, Bad Times
• Book Review: Grimspace
• Book Review: Goblin War
• Book Review: A Million is Not Enough
• The Outlaw Demon Wails
• For the love of birds
• Featured Book Review: Still Here by Linda Grant

Sunday 09 March 2008

• The Sexual Paradox: women vs. men
• The Everyman: Irène Némirovsky

Saturday 08 March 2008

• Gusher of Lies: The Dangerous Delusions of Energy Independence
• Junot Díaz wins National Book Critics Award

Friday 07 March 2008

• Jeffrey Archer: in stores and interviewed
• Chick lit novel ‘clichéd’

Thursday 06 March 2008

• WWII the beginning, the end or just no clue?
• The Second World, global order and all that good stuff
• Countdown Interview with Jim C. Hines
• Featured Book Review of Goblin War by Jim C. Hines

Wednesday 05 March 2008

• More on the literary fraud front
• A brief history of soccer
• Latest Picoult novel more ‘contrived than inspired’ reviewer notes

Tuesday 04 March 2008

• Another memoir is all lies
• Tired of the Oprah Cult?
• Incognegro: a black man who can pass for white

Monday 03 March 2008

• Book Review: Cult Watches
• Book Review: The Fortune Cookie Chronicles
• Book Review: The Girl Who Stopped Swimming
• Book Review: Funny Boys
• Book Review: Stitch Graffiti: Unexpected Cross-Stitch
• Book Review: Lost Time
• Book Review: Deep Inside
• Featured Book Review: If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho Translated by Anne Carson
• Army cartooning Bill Mauldin: A Life Up Front
• Holocaust author admits her book is false
• Featured Book Review: Desperate Passage by Ethan Rarick

Sunday 02 March 2008

• Depressed looking and thin, Olsen twins write about fashion.
• The Fortune Cookie Chronicles
• New book by rapper Eminem

Saturday 01 March 2008

• Author admits to distorting facts in her Holocaust memoir
• J.K. Rowling would feel ‘exploited’
• Jess’s Book Club Pick for March: Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

Friday 29 February 2008

• From Oscar to Naked Pics, here’s another from Diablo Cody
• New book offers: elections aren’t fair
• NYT offers tribute to William F. Buckley

Thursday 28 February 2008

• The great comic book scare
• Beautiful Children available online…for free!
• Reporter-Murder tale: the latest scoop
• Featured Book Review: Making a Stone of the Heart by Cynthia Flood

Wednesday 27 February 2008

• ‘The City of the Sun’ radiates
• Anne before Green Gables

Tuesday 26 February 2008

• Monster…a book of movie clichés
• Jonathan Maslow dies
• Weird book titles anyone?
• Featured Book Review of Pump Six and Other Stories by Paolo Bacigalupi

Monday 25 February 2008

• Book Review: This May Help You Understand the World
• Book Review: Madhouse
• Book Review: Step-By-Step Jewelry Workshop
• Book Review: The Killer's Wife
• Book Review: Theft
• Book Review: Simply Modern Jewelry
• Book Review: A Magic of Twilight
• Nazi literature and other light reading
• Featured Book Review: The Reserve by Russell Banks
• New Richard Wright novel

Sunday 24 February 2008

• Author Robin Moore dies
• Author Stephen Marlowe dies

Saturday 23 February 2008

• 'The Lyncher in me'
• New Kinsella book a ‘page turner’

Friday 22 February 2008

• Featured Book Review: Touch to Affliction by Nathalie Stephens and Red Ledger by Mary Dalton
• Beautiful Children don’t have beautiful lives
• The Gardens of Water ‘overwrought’
• A boost for Obama

Thursday 21 February 2008

• Featured Book Review: What I Was by Meg Rosoff
• Lincoln and Douglas: The Debates
• French author Robbe-Grillet dies

Wednesday 20 February 2008

• Rock On: An Office Power Ballad
• New book from Jimmy Breslin
• Featured Book Review: Worrying the Nation by Jonathan Kertzer
• New novel ‘hollow’ and ‘pathetic’

Tuesday 19 February 2008

• Martha Stewart and Emeril Lagasse are uniting forces
• Hats & Eyeglasses…a memoir of gambling
• Marvel…a Red Hulk, a great idea or just out of ideas?
• Book Review: New Orleans 1867
• Book Review: The Woman Who is Always Tan and Has a Flat Stomach
• Book Review: Dead to Me
• Book Review: Simpsonology
• Book Review: Mystery Date

Monday 18 February 2008

• An interesting person or a person of interest?
• Featured Book Review: Paws & Effect by Sharon Sakson
• Crimes on Mt. Everest
• New, in-depth interview with Desmond Morris

Sunday 17 February 2008

• Saving the world’s most beautiful bird
• Mystery writer Phyllis Whitney dies

Saturday 16 February 2008

• If you have money, read this (or not)
• 1960s anti-war activism discussed in new book

Friday 15 February 2008

• New book confirms Americans are stupid
• Featured Book Review: Doing the Heart Good by Neil Bissoondath
• New book from Krakauer: Pat Tillman

Thursday 14 February 2008

• Book Review: Ladykiller by Lawrence Light & Meredith Anthony
• Book Review: The Officer's Prey by Armand Cabasson & Michael Glencross
• Richard Ford leaves Knopf
• New book on the Teapot Dome
• ‘Setting the Desert on Fire’

Wednesday 13 February 2008

• Book Review: Amazing and Extraordinary Railway Facts by Julian Holland
• Book Review: Dragon Horse by Peter Ward
• Bhutto book hits the shelves
• Lincoln Prizes announced
• Featured Book Review: The Ottawa City Project, Poems From the Blue Horizon, and we live at the end of the 20th century by rob mclennan

Tuesday 12 February 2008

• Book Review: The Art of Beowulf by Mark Cotta Vaz & Steve Starkey
• Book Review: Shadow Forest by Matt Haig
• Hemingway wrote 2 plays
• The birth of ‘The New Hollywood’

Monday 11 February 2008

• Book Review: New York Echoes
• Book Review: Unquiet Dreams
• Book Review: Embrace the Night
• Book Review: 49 Sensational Skirts
• Book Review: The Inventors by Alexander Gordon Smith & Jamie Webb
• Book Review: Intrigue (Lady Grace Mysteries)
• New novel on failed ‘60s radical
• Surrender not an option
• Featured Book Review: Snow by Orhan Pamuk
• New book deals with AIDS epidemic in Africa

Sunday 10 February 2008

• Book Review: The Hunting Season by Dean Vincent Carter
• Book Review: The Good Thief's Guide to Amsterdam by Chris Ewan
• Book Review: The Spoke by Friedrich Glauser
• Where have all the soldiers gone?
• Patricia Cornwell donates 1 million dollars

Saturday 09 February 2008

• Book Review: Sebastian Drake Prince of Pirates by Philip Caveney
• Book Review: The Gardener's Wise Words and Country Ways by Ruth Binney
• McCain as well as other running candidates will sell more books, publishers think
• Ever wonder what Shakespeare was like as a tenant?

Friday 08 February 2008

• Book Review: The Crochet Bible by Sue Whiting
• Book Review: Manga Pro Superstar Workshop by Colleen Doran
• New Jesse Stone book gains kudos
• Richard Dawkins new in paperback
• Featured Book Review: Gambler's Fallacy by Judith Cowan

Thursday 07 February 2008

• Book Review: Tim, Defender of the Earth! by Sam Enthoven
• New book about the death penalty ‘disturbing’
• New book talks about racism

Wednesday 06 February 2008

• Book Review: Burial Ground by John Richards
• Book Review: Astrostars: The Sun Snatchers by Steve Cole
• Leaders: our new spoken word nominees?
• Black Americans we will not forget
• Featured Book Review: The Tree of Meaning by Robert Bringhurst and The Filled Pen by P. K. Page
• Billions of Entrepreneurs

Tuesday 05 February 2008

• Book Review: Potted History by Catherine Horwood
• Let’s enter in the Commission Report
• NYT featuring political cartoons poking fun at George Bush
• Documentary remembers forgotten novelist

Monday 04 February 2008

• Book Review: The Cruise Connection (Bob Burns Series) by Peter Kerr
• Book Review: Ranger's Apprentice: The Icebound Land by John Flanagan
• Book Review: Murder in Midwinter by Lesley Cookman
• Book Review: Getting Even: Revenge Stories
• Book Review: Darkling
• Book Review: The First Stone
• Book Review: Blood Moon
• Book Review: Send Yourself Roses
• New book on New Orleans a ‘wonderful read’ according to critic
• Featured Book Review: Savage Beauty by Nancy Milford
• New book and evidence uncovers glimpses of the Donner Party

Sunday 03 February 2008

• New book not about Brokeback Mountain
• New book on Jefferson and his final years

Saturday 02 February 2008

• The Greatest Gift: A nun is murdered
• New book about the Bush Tragedy

Friday 01 February 2008

• New novel on Japan’s Empress
• Featured Book Review: God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut
• Doris Lessing notes there isn’t anywhere else to go after Nobel
• Jess’s Book Club Pick For February: Betty Smith by Valerie Raleigh Yow

Thursday 31 January 2008

• New Cornwell book: Sword Song
• Winfrey picks yet another self-help book
• Short Story: Little Pixie by Seamus Kearney

Wednesday 30 January 2008

• Jack Welch and GE
• Alas, even the Last Man must have a Last End
• New book focuses on great film kisses

Tuesday 29 January 2008

• New Grisham novel deals with rigged election, 'stick figure' characters
• Featured Book Review: Letters of Ted Hughes Edited and Selected by Christopher Reid
• Toni Morrison is pro Obama

Monday 28 January 2008

• New travel guides are pretty but not much more
• O.J. dispute finally settled
• Pat Barker’s new novel
• 'PROLOGUE,' Adagios Quartet by Judith Fitzgerald
• Book Review: Skeletons in the Closet: Stories from the County Morgue
• Book Review: Small Favor
• Book Review: Something Magic This Way Comes
• Book Review: Stephen Hawking: A Biography

Sunday 27 January 2008

• New bio on Pound the Poet
• Famous killer’s diary is published by college

Saturday 26 January 2008

• New book on the logic of life
• Don Imus stirs up more controversy

Friday 25 January 2008

• New book ‘The Republic of Suffering’
• Featured Book Review: A Whistling Woman by A. S. Byatt
• What’s new from Russell Banks?
• Fidel Castro’s autobiography

Thursday 24 January 2008

• Prolific mystery writer dies
• Mathematician proves God does not exist
• New Memoir on wartime Berlin

Wednesday 23 January 2008

• Robert Frost’s words are up for dispute
• Add to Henry VIII’s love life: New book on Jane Boleyn

Tuesday 22 January 2008

• Interview with Valerie Raleigh Yow author of 'Betty Smith'
• Featured Book Review: Betty Smith: Life of the Author of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Valerie Raleigh Yow
• New Stephen King novel: Duma Key
• Project President: a dirty business

Monday 21 January 2008

• How the CIA Played America
• Man searches for happiest place on earth
• Book Review: The Geography of Bliss
• Book Review: Death of a Gentle Lady
• Book Review: Knight's Lady
• Book Review: Relics of Eden
• Book Review: Why Smart Companies Do Dumb Things
• Book Review: Starship: Mercenary
• Book Review: Ranger's Apprentice Book Four: The Battle for Skandia
• Book Review: The History of Lucy's Love Life in Ten and a Half Chapters

Sunday 20 January 2008

• New book attempts to expose the dirty side of coal
• A new bio on an old poet

Saturday 19 January 2008

• New book criticizes Internet culture
• Tom Cruise biographer accused of telling ‘vicious lies’ to heighten sales

Friday 18 January 2008

• The 30 Ways of looking at Hillary
• ‘Redbreast’ is ‘vivid’ according to review
• Featured Book Review: Being Shelley: The Poet's Search for Himself by Ann Wroe

Thursday 17 January 2008

• New bio on Washington Irving
• Roger Moore will write memoir
• George Michael will write autobiography

Wednesday 16 January 2008

• Featured Book Review: The Mascot: Unraveling the Mystery of My Jewish Father’s Nazi Boyhood by Mark Kurzem
• The Anatomy of Deception a ‘thrill’
• When Doctors become Patients
• Disney plans the release of Indian language storybooks

Tuesday 15 January 2008

• Cormac McCarthy papers go to Texas State
• John Newbery Winner announced
• New book about lusting for houses

Monday 14 January 2008

• Book Review: Serial Killers and Sadistic Murderers
• Book Review: Simple Ways: Towards the Sacred
• Bookj Review: The Crazy School
• Book Review: Beginner's Greek
• Book Review: Breath and Bone
• Book Review: An Ice Cold Grave
• New children’s books celebrate the love of animals
• A Biography of the First Amendment

Sunday 13 January 2008

• New book on the rise of Neoconservatives
• Holly’s widow fighting the publication of Buddy Holly book

Saturday 12 January 2008

• Dipping Their Toes in the Genre Pool: The U.S. Literary Establishment's Need-Hate Relationship with Speculative Fiction
• Julia Roberts and Knitting
• New bio on Tom Cruise

Friday 11 January 2008

• Tina Brown will write book on Clintons
• USA Today’s roundup of historical fiction
• ‘The Senator’s Wife’ a new Sue Miller story

Thursday 10 January 2008

• Spiderman fans in an uproar over Spidey and MJ marriage
• Daniel Schorr summarizes 20 years of politics in new book
• New book offers analysis of rap music

Wednesday 09 January 2008

• Featured Book Rview: Marooned: The Next Generation of Desert Island Discs by Phil Freeman
• Star Wars: Darth Bane
• So what if Mrs. Roosevelt had run for President?

Tuesday 08 January 2008

• Author is suing Jerry Seinfeld’s wife for plagiarism, defamation
• People of the Book by Brooks
• More info on Bhutto’s book

Monday 07 January 2008

• Radical Islam’s threat: The Suicide of Reason
• Featured Book Review: Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
• Islam and the making of Europe
• Book Review: The Unnatural Inquirer
• Book Review: Iron Kissed
• Book Review: Stalked
• Book Review: Sway

Sunday 06 January 2008

• New book about Jew-Hatred
• From governor to ‘Venture Ventura’

Saturday 05 January 2008

• A book that begs to defy Dixie
• New Parrot memoir will hit the shelves

Friday 04 January 2008

• Author of Flashman Novels dies at 82
• Featured Book Review: Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks
• Kate and Leo reunite in film based on Yates novel

Thursday 03 January 2008

• Tom Wolfe splits from Farrar, Straus & Giroux
• New book on James Baldwin’s Harlem life
• New bio on Alfred Kazin

Wednesday 02 January 2008

• Penguin reissues Classic ‘Arabian Sands’ and ‘The Marsh Arabs’
• Someone vandalized Robert Frost

Tuesday 01 January 2008

• New book that defends food
• Jess’s Book Club Pick for January: Ward No. 6 and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov

Monday 31 December 2007

• Featured Book Review Of Anton Chekhov’s Ward No. 6 And Other Stories
• New book: the man behind Sherlock Holmes

Sunday 30 December 2007

• Book Review: Blue Heaven
• Book Review: The Bookaholic's Guide to Book Blogs
• Book Review: Revolutionary Spirits
• Book Review: Robert E. Lee
• Book Review: Witch Ember
• The history of the Kitchen and all other good things
• Fantastic Four goes to Spanish in new issue

Saturday 29 December 2007

• NYT reviewers list their favorites for 2007
• HarperCollins in a hurry to put out Bhutto book

Friday 28 December 2007

• Featured Book Review: Taro & Tomi: My Feline Son and Daughter by Shizue Tomoda
• New bio on Condoleezza Rice
• Harry Potter Book of the Year?
• New novel from Nobel winner Coetzee

Thursday 27 December 2007

• Book Review: Pressured Parents, Stressed Out Kids
• Book Review: No More Angels
• Book Review: School for Scumbags
• Book Review: Dead Over Heels
• Book Review: The Future We Wish We Had
• True story behind Gray’s Anatomy
• Memoir addresses child life in Bombay and other stuff

Wednesday 26 December 2007

• How certain stuff got its name
• Samedi the Deafness: a new Ball novel

Monday 24 December 2007

• 89 year old historian Burns has new plans
• French ‘hermit’ writer dies

Sunday 23 December 2007

• Henry James: The Mature Master
• Karl Rove will make mucho bucks for memoir

Saturday 22 December 2007

• Broncos kicker has new book
• Studs Terkel has new memoir

Friday 21 December 2007

• Featured Book Review of Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook
• Critics agree about ‘Three Cups of Tea’
• No book will be from Britney Spears’ mom

Thursday 20 December 2007

• The Internet’s influence on the 2008 Presidential Campaign
• Travel journalists lie according to new book

Wednesday 19 December 2007

• Alice Walker papers will go to Emory University
• New novel deals with Capote and Harper Lee

Tuesday 18 December 2007

• New book addresses sex with robots
• Fantasy writer Pratchett has Alzheimer's

Monday 17 December 2007

• Wife of ‘Brave New World’ author dies
• America Squanders...says new book
• Beethoven was 1/16th black?

Sunday 16 December 2007

• Frank McCourt’s new children’s book
• What really goes on in Guantánamo Bay

Saturday 15 December 2007

• 2 books about Latin the NYT notes
• From ‘Skinny Bitch’ to ‘In the Kitch’

Friday 14 December 2007

• Book Review: Rain Gardens by Nigel Dunnett and Andy Clayden
• Featured Book Review: A Walk for Sunshine by Jeff Alt
• J.K. Rowling fairy tale sells for what?
• New book about animal encounters in the wild

Thursday 13 December 2007

• Book Review: Dispensation of Death by Michael Jecks
• Book Review: A Christmas Secret by Anne Perry
• On Raymond Chandler and his woman
• Lets talk about Tokyo, one writer says

Wednesday 12 December 2007

• Book Review: Trouble with Wenlocks (Stanley Wells Mystery) by Joel Stewart
• Book Review: No Tears for the Lost by Adrian Magson
• Read the letters of John and Abigail Adams
• True stories about the standup comics in paperback
• George and Martha Washington

Tuesday 11 December 2007

• Featured Book Review: Juniper Fuse by Clayton Eshleman
• Canadian novelist Jane Rule dies
• New novel from Edgar Award winning mystery writer

Monday 10 December 2007

• Book Review: Die for Me by Karen Rose
• Book Review: Architectural Voices: Listening to Old Buildings by David Littlefield and Saskia Lewis
• Book Review: History: The Definitive Visual Guide
• The earth and all its green
• New book on survival of the richest
• Book Review: Twisted Justice
• Book Review: The Metatemporal Detective

Sunday 09 December 2007

• Book Review: Along Lost Lines by Paul Atterbury
• Book Review: George, the Dragon and the Princess by Chris Wormell
• Another writer, another life
• ‘The Boys from Dolores’: Fidel Castro’s classmates

Saturday 08 December 2007

• Book Review: The Twig Trilogy by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell
• Book Review: Fantasy Artist's Pocket Reference: Incredible Characters by Finlay Cowan
• Lawyers will defend publishing house being sued by J.K. Rowling
• New book on celebrity Bar and Bat Mitzvahs
• Book Review: Christmas Around the World

Friday 07 December 2007

• Book Review: Bad Medicine by Christopher Wanjek
• Book Review: Swansea Terminal by Robert Lewis
• Books you can drink to…or for
• The war within the Civil War
• Featured Book Review: In the Shadow of Man by Jane Goodall

Thursday 06 December 2007

• Book Review: No Sleep for the Dead by Adrian Magson
• Book Review: Parsleys, Fennels, and Queen Anne's Lace by Barbara Perry Lawton
• Readers should check out ‘I am Legend’
• Elizabeth Hardwick has died
• New Starbucks Book Club pick

Wednesday 05 December 2007

• Book Review: The Sonnet Lover by Carol Goodman
• Book Review: The Inferior by Peadar O. Guilin
• The 1970s…a time of bad clothes and hair
• Lessing’s publisher will deliver Nobel speech
• Christmas letters from…Hell?
• Book Review: Midnight Reign
• Book Review: When Ghosts Speak
• Book Review: Great Peacemakers
• Book Review: Signed, Mata Hari

Tuesday 04 December 2007

• Book Review: A Christmas Beginning by Anne Perry
• Book Review: The Pere-Lachaise Mystery by Claude Izner
• Will another Wallace Stegner book hit the shelves?
• Books that would make good gifts...Steven Pinker is one
• Interview with Ian McEwan

Monday 03 December 2007

• A single page written by Napoleon Bonaparte sells at auction
• Featured Book Review: (another) Whole Grain Collected Poems by James Emanuel
• New interview with film critic Philip Lopate

Sunday 02 December 2007

• Spain’s literary prize goes to Argentine poet
• The essays of Truman Capote

Saturday 01 December 2007

• Boy goes from Jew to Nazi in new book
• Jess's Book Club Pick for December: The Force and the Reckoning by James Emanuel

Friday 30 November 2007

• NYT picks best books of 2007
• ‘Crawfish Mountain’ called part satire and part mystery
• Online interview with Dean Koontz
• Featured Book Review: On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan

Thursday 29 November 2007

• Test shows U.S. 4th graders lower on literacy than desired
• 2 new volumes—both on the Constitution
• Doris Lessing too ill to attend Nobel ceremony
• New novel about love of the Irish

Wednesday 28 November 2007

• Norman Mailer wins bad sex prize
• New novel from Danish author
• ‘The Hearts of Horses’ called ‘cold’
• Book Review: The Poet's Corner
• Book Review: The Watcher
• Book Review: Seduced
• Book Review: Garden of Darkness
• Book Review: Coincidentally
• Book Review: The Jinn From Hyperspace

Tuesday 27 November 2007

• Ted Kennedy will write memoir
• Featured Book review of The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang
• Schlesinger papers go to New York Public Library

Monday 26 November 2007

• Choosing royalties over loyalties should be no surprise with White House aides
• The Letters of Noel Coward
• Featured Interview with Kelly DiNardo

Sunday 25 November 2007

• Book uncovers private life in Stalin’s Russia
• Collected Poems by Charles Bukowski

Saturday 24 November 2007

• Featured Book Review: What Men Will Die For by Raymond Souster (with Les Green)
• New book examines Oklahoma City bombing
• William Trevor’s new collection

Friday 23 November 2007

• Featured Book Review: The story of a sound by Ben Ratliff
• 100 Notable Books for 2007

Thursday 22 November 2007

• Newly found Edith Wharton letter
• Chabon’s latest novel becomes ‘particularly purple’

Wednesday 21 November 2007

• 'The Natural World of Lewis and Clark'
• New book on communication and the future of media
• Music and the mind

Tuesday 20 November 2007

• Win an autographed copy of Season of the Witch
• Book that relied on Wikipedia facts will need fixing
• A study says Americans are reading less
• Featured Book Review: Whole Grain: The Collected Poems of James Emanuel 1958-1989
• Book Review: Art of the Creche
• Book Review: Crossing the Dark
• Book Review: Host
• Book Review: Reserved for the Cat
• Book Review: Daisy Dooley Does Divorce

Monday 19 November 2007

• Featured Book Review of Hitler's Judas: Book II of the Pea Island Gold Trilogy, by Tom Lewis
• Hunter S. Thompson and Johnny Depp
• For the love of politics—yet another book on Bill & Hill

Sunday 18 November 2007

• Conversations with Woody Allen
• Slash has a new book about him
• Lincoln to the White House

Saturday 17 November 2007

• Steve Martin talks about being ‘Born Standing Up’
• Vonnegut ranks first in public eye

Friday 16 November 2007

• Sayers memoir lacks insight
• Featured Book Review: Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore
• Denis Johnson wins National Book Award

Thursday 15 November 2007

• Oprah Winfrey’s latest book pick
• New Novel from Ha Jin that captures his own life
• Ira Levin has died
• Book Review: Stalked by Brian Freeman
• Book Review: Murder at Deviation Junction by Andrew Martin

Wednesday 14 November 2007

• New Madonna bio: ‘Like an Icon’
• ‘On the Road’ on exhibit
• Another book from historian David McCullough
• Book Review: The Lost Barkscrolls (Edge Chronicles) by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell
• Book Review: Pandora's Daughter
• Book Review: Chapman's Car Compendium
• Book Review: Knitting Little Luxuries
• Book Review: Killswitch
• Book Review: Wizards, Inc.

Tuesday 13 November 2007

• Featured Book Review of King Of Bollywood: Shah Rukh Khan and the Seductive World of Indian Cinema
• Jiang Rong wins Asia’s first literary prize
• Borders plans to install T.V. screens
• Book Review: The Puzzle of the Missing Panda by Elizabeth Singer Hunt
• Book Review: Passion Killers by Linda Reagan

Monday 12 November 2007

• NYT looks back on Manly Norman Mailer
• Michael Peterson’s murder conviction
• Book Review: The Ultimate Fantasy: Sourcebook & Cd-rom by Chris Down

Sunday 11 November 2007

• Another writer, another suicide
• The 2nd Civil War?
• Book Review: Written in Bone by Simon Beckett
• Book Review: Snow Blind by P.J. Tracy

Saturday 10 November 2007

• Norman Mailer has died
• Harry Potter: most re-read book in Britain
• NY Yankees manager working on memoir
• Book Review: The Crimson Cavalier by Mary Andrea Clarke
• Book Review: A Dead Man in Tangier by Michael Pearce

Friday 09 November 2007

• ‘Atonement’ makes it to the big screen
• Interview with Shirley MacLaine
• New sci-fi novel a ‘rich in fascinating speculation’

Thursday 08 November 2007

• Caroline Kennedy speaks about her last Christmas
• Books undergoing a banning debate in West Virginia
• New Betty Davis bio: the 'dark' starlet

Wednesday 07 November 2007

• Oprah pulls ‘controversial’ book from website
• The triumphant years of Picasso
• New book about rich losers

Tuesday 06 November 2007

• Featured Review of Mr. Sebastian And The Negro Magician, by Daniel Wallace
• French book on Zelda Fitzgerald wins prize
• New Brokaw book ‘conventional, bland, safe and predictable’
• Book Review: The Walled Garden
• Book Review: Elvis Presley: The Family Album
• Book Review: Dog Days
• Book Review: Double Cross
• Book Review: American Juries

Monday 05 November 2007

• James Frey’s book settlement
• New book from the Crocodile Hunter’s Widow
• The Star Machine: a manufactured Hollywood
• Featured Book Review: Kafka on the Shore

Sunday 04 November 2007

• New book on Teddy Roosevelt’s daughter Alice
• Andy Summers moves his memoir to the movies

Saturday 03 November 2007

• A historical geography from the Revolution to WWI
• Hang out with Ronnie Wood in a bar

Friday 02 November 2007

• New O’Nan book ‘honest’
• Book about scents and their desires
• New ‘Gone With the Wind’ sequel is ‘half-awful’

Thursday 01 November 2007

• Rowling sues over Harry Potter book
• Rowling fairytales up for auction to help orphans like Harry Potter
• French poet wins prize named after novelist
• Alanis Morissette on the big screen once again
• Featured Book Review: Whole Grain: The Collected Poems Of James A. Emanuel
• Jess's Book Club Pick for November: Whole Grain by James A. Emanuel

Wednesday 31 October 2007

• What if the Queen was an avid reader?
• The Onion: Our Dumb World, Atlas of the Planet Earth
• Charles Grodin book has not a lot of insight, reviewer states

Tuesday 30 October 2007

• Featured Book Review: The Black Notebook: Assorted Candies / Bonbon assortis
• New York Times delves into the ‘orientation’ of Dumbledore
• Another sequel to ‘Gone With The Wind’ excites fans
• Book Review: Starbucked
• Book Review: Halting State
• Book Review: Frank Sinatra
• Featured Book Review: Starbucked
• Book Review: Down River
• Book Review: Hot Mama
• Book Review: Hunger Artist

Monday 29 October 2007

• Not Harry Potter, but another way to escape
• New Mickey Spillane novel hits the shelves
• New interview with Paleontologist Jack Horner

Sunday 28 October 2007

• New York Times calls this work ‘ambitious’
• Will the publishers be taking a ‘gamble’ on this one?

Saturday 27 October 2007

• Book about World War…IV and a guy who defends Bush?
• German Harry Potter fans storm the shops as last book goes on sale
• Tony Blair will write memoir, Random House will publish it

Friday 26 October 2007

• 4 decades after the fact, and people are still writing about it
• Not just another book about The Beatles
• English teacher faces possible criminal charges for book selection
• I won't allow a Harry Potter sequel, author JK Rowling says

Thursday 25 October 2007

• Harry Potter first edition fetches magic price at auction
• New Stuart Woods novel: good but flat?
• Austen and Dickens—their latest works

Wednesday 24 October 2007

• Milan Kundera receives literary award
• William Trevor: the master of the short story
• Another celebrity children’s book—Steve Martin

Tuesday 23 October 2007

• Five Sequences from O, Clytaemnestra!
• New bio on Elton John
• More cookbook controversy with Oprah
• Book Review: Street Dogs
• Book Review: From May to December
• Book Review: Reasonable Doubts
• Book Review: Blonde Faith
• Book Review: Once Upon a Dreadful Time
• Book Review: If I Only Knew Then...
• Book Review: Swimming Without a Net

Monday 22 October 2007

• The musical genius of Phil Ramone
• Dumbledore is gay…now what?
• 2 cookbooks reveal ‘uncomfortable’ similarities

Sunday 21 October 2007

• The history of slave ships
• Former gang member sentenced to 126 years

Saturday 20 October 2007

• Rowling admits: Dumbledore is gay
• Young Stalin—the man in his early years

Friday 19 October 2007

• Featured Book Review: The Last Novel
• Dutch writer Jan Wolkers has died
• James Watson cut short on book tour due to racial comments
• 'Little Children’ author has new novel

Thursday 18 October 2007

• The real Raymond Carver?
• Julianne Moore writes about red hair and freckles

Wednesday 17 October 2007

• ‘The Gathering’ wins Man Booker Prize
• Conan the Barbarian ever present in multi-media forms
• Alice Sebold’s new novel gets negative reviews

Tuesday 16 October 2007

• J.K. Rowling on U.S. book tour
• Juan Jose Millas wins Spain's Planeta literature prize
• New Zealand author favorite for literary prize

Monday 15 October 2007

• Book Review: American Ruins
• Book Review: Chat
• Book Review: The Christmas Promise
• Book Review: Cybermancy
• Book Review: Let Me In
• Book Review: Crochet Me
• Schulz daughter says: ‘We never should have allowed him into our homes’
• Preview: Man Booker Prize for Fiction to be awarded in London
• Archives of Playboy and Rolling Stone now available

Sunday 14 October 2007

• Featured Book Review: Fire In The Blood
• New book about Hunter S.Thompson…by his wife
• All about oil: read about it in new book

Saturday 13 October 2007

• Can’t travel? Why not read about it instead?
• Pattie Boyd looks back on life as musicians’ wife

Friday 12 October 2007

• Jimmy Carter's new book: from book to film
• New translation of ‘War and Peace’

Thursday 11 October 2007

• Doris Lessing wins Nobel Prize in literature
• Review of Clarence Thomas’ new autobiography
• New Schulz bio gets positive reviews despite family objection

Wednesday 10 October 2007

• News on the Anna Nicole front: nannies deny acting as sources
• Frankfurt Book Fair opens for business in Germany
• Book Award finalists announced
• Nicholas Sparks writes another sappy novel

Tuesday 09 October 2007

• Frankfurt Book Fair to open - Catalan speakers grab limelight
• Vienna to get its own book fair
• Somali novelist Farah tops Frankfurt's Africa literary list
• Frankfurt book fair arouses political passions in Spain
• Guy lives by the bible literally for a year
• Book Review: Foundling
• Book Review: Hell's Angels Motorcycle Club
• Book Review: A Grave Breach
• Book Review: You've Been Warned
• Book Review: Abraham's Children
• Book Review: Fatal Revenant

Monday 08 October 2007

• Julia Franck wins German Book Prize
• Book industry resists free internet access to text
• Frankfurt Book Fair: the world's biggest deal in publishing
• Countdown Interview with Matthew Cook
• Featured Review of Blood Magic by Matthew Cook
• Ginsberg ‘Howl’ celebrated for not being obscene

Sunday 07 October 2007

• New diet book distinguishes good from bad calories
• Eric Clapton opens up in new autobiography
• From Mao to Potter: publishers vie for China's new market

Saturday 06 October 2007

• Oprah chooses new book club selection
• University acquires book of 18th Century poet
• ‘The Day of Battle’ not light reading, but accessible

Friday 05 October 2007

• Featured Book Review: Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography
• Lawyer of Anna Nicole sues for claims of sex
• Harry Potter books to be auctioned by Braille Press

Thursday 04 October 2007

• Author claims Cheney wants more power
• Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures
• The journals of Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. a tome

Wednesday 03 October 2007

• Literary award goes to ‘Frasier’ writer
• Rosie is accused of ‘letting it all hang out’ in new memoir
• New book from the deceased Philip K. Dick

Tuesday 02 October 2007

• Featured Book Review of Anti-Americanism by Revel
• I entered a literary contest that I won’t win
• If you have foreskin, (or not) this may interest you

Monday 01 October 2007

• Philip Roth and Ghosts?
• Clarence Thomas’ autobiography
• Jenna Bush begins book tour

Sunday 30 September 2007

• Jess's Book Club Pick for October: Embers, by Sándor Márai
• Featured Book Review of Embers, by Sándor Márai
• Africa’s greatest explorer
• 40 years after The Outsiders: author looks back
• Book Review: Selling Out
• Book Review: The Best of Interweave Knits

Saturday 29 September 2007

• Book Review: Nothing to See Here
• Book Review: Malvinas Requiem
• New John Coltrane book ‘brilliant’
• O.J. tops Clinton in book sales

Friday 28 September 2007

• First and only in depth interview with great neglected poet of the 20th Century
• Ted Rall jokes about Ann Coulter’s death
• Nina Schneider, author, dies
• New memoir from Haitian American author

Thursday 27 September 2007

• Book by an egomaniac now available
• Featured Book Review: The Zookeeper's Wife
• Man criticizes educationalists who praise kids reading Harry Potter

Wednesday 26 September 2007

• Another novel by Irène Némirovsky to hit the shelves
• Abolitionist text is found, along with slave memoir
• New book by Norman Mailer about God of all things

Tuesday 25 September 2007

• Crowds in Prague gather for Devil’s Bible
• Popular New York bookstore forced to close shop
• John Grisham, pizza, and football?
• Book Review: Cartographia: Mapping Civilizations
• Book Review: The Haunted Forest Tour
• Book Review: The Sugar Solution
• Book Review: Crochet Jewelry
• Book Review: More Than Eyes Can See
• Book Review: Over Hexed

Monday 24 September 2007

• Hemingway’s home needs a new image
• New book on Gertrude Stein and her lesbian lover

Sunday 23 September 2007

• Book Review: The Alchemyst (Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel)
• Book Review: Slip Knot
• College acquires Hemingway papers
• New book about Amish massacre

Saturday 22 September 2007

• Book Review: Missing
• Book Review: The Everything Pirates Book: A Swashbuckling History of Adventure on the High Seas
• Tony Blair’s wife writing book
• Everything you’ve ever wanted to know about the Supreme Court

Friday 21 September 2007

• Sean Penn on Oprah Show to talk about new film about Chris McCandless
• Rare Mormon Book went up for auction, and sold more than Harry Potter
• Interview with Melrose Star Courtney Thorne-Smith about new novel

Thursday 20 September 2007

• Featured Book Review of Of Paradise and Power by Robert Kagan
• New Ken Burns book is a hit in bookstores
• The Coldest Winter: The final book of David Halberstam
• Icky O.J book gets second printing

Wednesday 19 September 2007

• The New York Times mourns the loss of Robert Jordan
• J.K. Rowling will be in Toronto area

Tuesday 18 September 2007

• Fantasy writer Robert Jordan has died
• New John Sayles screenplay gets picked
• Was God stillborn?
• Book Review: The Hellbound Heart 20th Anniversary Edition
• Book Review: The Servants
• Book Review: Under the Gun in Iraq
• Book Review: Switchcraft
• Book Review: The Twisted Sisters Knit Sweaters: A Knit to Fit Workshop

Monday 17 September 2007

• Featured Book Review of The Conservative Soul by Andrew Sullivan
• New biography about woman that no one knew the real name of
• New book talks about the wrong accusings of the Duke Lacrosse rape case

Sunday 16 September 2007

• Greenspan rips Bush in new memoir
• Sabastian Faulks new novel set in present over past

Saturday 15 September 2007

• Book of Mormon up for bid
• Talking hands and what it all means

Friday 14 September 2007

• Goldman family appeared on Oprah Show
• Featured Book Review: The Knock at the Door by Margaret Ajemian Ahnert
• Garrison Keillor just isn’t funny
• Signed proof of Hemingway’s novel to be auctioned

Thursday 13 September 2007

• ‘Tree of Smoke’ ain’t no joke
• James Frey: the ‘disgraced memoirist’ is to publish novel
• Jenna Bush’s book has gone over well

Wednesday 12 September 2007

• The Terror Presidency? Or just terrible?
• Man could go to jail for crimes he describes in memoir

Tuesday 11 September 2007

• Featured Book Review: School Choice: The Findings
• Joan Didion to receive honorary award
• Cartoon Creator of ‘For Better or Worse’ has stopped her characters’ aging
• The Shock Doctrine: how shock influences decisions

Monday 10 September 2007

• Book Review: Moon in the Mirror
• Book Review: The Humble Little Condom
• Book Review: The Wheel of Darkness
• Book Review: High Season
• Book Review: The Sunrise Lands
• Book Review: The Betrayed
• Going gray gracefully is what this new book is about
• New novel details bad sex scene
• New book details a couple that saved Jews in Warsaw Ghetto

Sunday 09 September 2007

• The author of ‘A Wrinkle in Time’ dies
• Paranoia and terrorism and what it all means
• The brain and all its squiggles

Saturday 08 September 2007

• The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 new in paperback
• New bio this fall on the man behind Charlie Brown

Friday 07 September 2007

• Book Review: Mario Bava: All the Colors of the Dark by Tim Lucas
• Norman Mailer in hospital
• Al Gore has new environmental book in mind
• Honorary degree goes to Vargas Llosa

Thursday 06 September 2007

• Latest Bush book: ‘hardly new’
• Featured Review of Danger Boy: Trail Of Bones
• Film on David Halberstam is in the works
• Want to read about Condoleezza Rice and the Creation of the Bush Legacy?

Wednesday 05 September 2007

• Larry Birkhead and Howard K. Stern plan to sue over Anna book
• Ann Packer’s latest: privileged people who are unhappy
• Harry Potter goes to jail

Tuesday 04 September 2007

• New book about gay teen superhero
• The most popular Potter is of course the last Potter
• Book Reviews: Microtrends
• Book Review: George Bellows
• Book Review: Home: From Concept to Reality
• Book Review: The Belly of the Atlantic
• Book Review: Second Shot
• Book Review: A Place to Call Home

Monday 03 September 2007

• Father Knows Less: how to cope with kids’ questions
• New biography on Dick Cheney

Sunday 02 September 2007

• Spaceflight: the earth and moon and all those places between
• The young still chase after Kerouac

Saturday 01 September 2007

• Another James Frey incident?
• Barnes & Noble retracts decision regarding O.J. book

Friday 31 August 2007

• Featured Book Review: Richard Wright's Native Son
• Jess's Book Club Pick For September
• Memoir on Johnny Cash by first wife
• New book speaks of birth of Modern World

Thursday 30 August 2007

• Penguin book advocates homosexuality, some complain
• Featured Review of The Conservative Mind
• New book says: we are on the brink of disaster
• Johns Hopkins acquires work of H.L. Mencken

Wednesday 29 August 2007

• New book about being female in New York and a cab driver
• Clark Gable ‘sex-obsessed’ in new biography

Tuesday 28 August 2007

• Featured Book Review : Nathalie Mallet’s The Princes of the Golden Cage
• What really happened in City Hall after Katrina?
• Pre-orders for O.J.’s book have already begun
• Book Review: Create Jewelry: Crystals
• Book Review: The Queen of Wolves
• Book Review: Coming Clean
• Book Review: Hard Row
• Book Review: Death in the Pot

Monday 27 August 2007

• Emotion and the nation: who will decide the U.S. Presidential race?
• Luxury ain’t all it is cracked up to be, new book says

Sunday 26 August 2007

• Steven Pinker speaks about ‘The Stuff of Thought’ in new in-depth interview
• Nobel Peace Prize winner is sued
• New book lists the signs of a miserable job

Saturday 25 August 2007

• Writer Grace Paley has died
• Barnes & Noble has made lots of money from Harry Potter

Friday 24 August 2007

• New book on Ike called good but not great
• Think you know everything? Think again
• Football player says in book how he faked an injury to avoid cut

Thursday 23 August 2007

• New book speaks of scandals and ‘The Pope’
• New book by Ray Bradbury
• British mystery writer, Magdalen Nabb is dead

Wednesday 22 August 2007

• Short Story: Water Hearts by Jason Sanford
• Barnes & Noble says it doesn’t want O.J. Book
• More on Kerouac

Tuesday 21 August 2007

• ‘On the Road’ in scroll form
• New novel called ‘ridiculously beautiful’
• Book Review: Panic Attack!
• Book Review: The Fabulous Fibonacci Numbers
• Book Review: The Mirador

Monday 20 August 2007

• Book Review: Eye of the Beholder
• Book Review: Next to Die
• Book Review: Forget About It
• Book Review: Pyres
• Book Review: What is Secular Humanism?
• Down the Nile: enjoyable travel writing.
• Vikki Beckham offers fashion advice in new book
• Read about the ‘Potter Pooper’ from a guy named Aristotle

Sunday 19 August 2007

• What do verbal slip-ups really mean?
• After Harry Potter, is JK Rowling planning to write whodunnits?
• Does Jack Kerouac matter?

Saturday 18 August 2007

• Tony Blair is writing a book
• Courtney Thorne-Smith has novel coming out

Friday 17 August 2007

• The Murders of Sacco and Vanzetti
• The Immortalists: famous figures with Nazi enthusiasm
• Publishers love the iPhone, but not everyone agrees

Thursday 16 August 2007

• Celebrate 50th Edition of ‘On The Road’
• Denise Brown wants to put a stop to O.J. book

Wednesday 15 August 2007

• Featured Review of Tobias Buckell’s Ragamuffin
• Countdown Interview with Tobias Buckell
• New book digresses on children and their play
• Karl Rove might have a book pending

Tuesday 14 August 2007

• O.J. Simpson book to be published
• Book Review: The Accidental Time Machine
• Book Review: Science and Ethics
• Book Review: Life's Pleasures
• Book Review: How Mathematics Happened
• Book Review: Letters to eBay
• Book Review: Down the Nile River
• Book Review: Holy Yoga
• 'Sexists' vs. 'blondes' in Sweden's murder mystery war
• Book explores earth without humans

Monday 13 August 2007

• 1907 can teach much about 2007
• French Teenager will not be sued for posting false Potter Translation

Sunday 12 August 2007

• Amerigo: The Man Who Gave His Name to America
• Stephen King comments on J.K. Rowling

Saturday 11 August 2007

• ‘Spook Country’: new Gibson novel
• Man survives lobotomy and has a book about it

Friday 10 August 2007

• Teenager detained for posting Harry Potter online
• First Lady and daughter Jenna Bush set to write children’s book

Thursday 09 August 2007

• Poem by Art Durkee: Apokatastasis
• New sex book talks about lube jobs
• For all Tolkien fans listen up!

Wednesday 08 August 2007

• New novel gets bad review
• Great interview with fiction writer Pete Hamill
• Novel on Frank Lloyd Wright also discusses women and their rights

Tuesday 07 August 2007

• Authors obsess over Amazon rankings
• Book on Virginia Tech massacre to be published

Monday 06 August 2007

• Book Review: The Sleeping God
• Book Review: The 100 Greatest Leadship Principles of All Time
• Book Review: Putting 'America' on the Map
• Book Review: The Casebook of Forensic Investigation
• Book Review: A Secret Rage
• Book Review: Fear
• Writer’s 6th novel is rich in family drama
• New novel is said to be old school: like Dickens

Sunday 05 August 2007

• George Marshall and Dwight Eisenhower: Partners in military history
• Jane Austen is everywhere

Saturday 04 August 2007

• Featured Book Review: The Maytrees by Annie Dillard
• An Ocean of Air: an interesting concept
• Final Harry Potter book sells 11.5 million

Friday 03 August 2007

• Autumn 1918 and the epidemic that occurred detailed in new novel
• Richard Ford’s latest book available in paperback
• Writer accused of fraud must pay mucho legal fees

Thursday 02 August 2007

• On language and its evolution
• New novel is said to 'run more cute than deep’

Wednesday 01 August 2007

• Featured Book Review of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
• China’s most wanted man
• Great directors are dropping dead
• Jess's Book Club Pick For August

Tuesday 31 July 2007

• Great Writer Ingmar Bergman has died
• New book from author of Shopaholic series
• Robert Ludlum is still publishing after his death

Monday 30 July 2007

• Book Review: The Vanishing
• Book Review: Plague Year
• Book Review: Getting Started Knitting Socks
• Book Review: Return to Me
• Book Review: The Day of Islam
• James Frey publisher accuses Oprah of having 'fiercely bad manners'
• The Invisible Cure that may save lives

Sunday 29 July 2007

• Memoir on a serial campaigner offers No Excuses
• Harry Potter Thoughts: the series in summary
• Novel explores the cruelty in boarding schools
• German historian wants Hitler’s hate book republished in Germany

Saturday 28 July 2007

• What would happen if your grandmother came back young?
• The Great Depression in Texas, what could be better?

Friday 27 July 2007

• First stills from War
• Publishers fight for Keith Richards memoir
• JK Rowling says she's writing again
• Berlin Zoo and its bears
• J.K. Rowling’s next writing plans

Thursday 26 July 2007

• From outbacking to backpacking in these short stories
• Some Harry Potter books are missing pages

Wednesday 25 July 2007

• Featured Book Review Of The Collected Stories Of Amy Hempel
• In England, Harry Potter went on, despite floods
• Featured Book Review: Secrets of the Millionaire Mind by T. Harv Eker
• Fantasy from a historical writer
• New from Mr. Trump: a book?

Tuesday 24 July 2007

• New mystery from Marcia Muller
• Harry Potter book sells about 5,000 copies per minute in the U.S. alone
• Alex Rodriguez signs copies of book for fans

Monday 23 July 2007

• New from the Original Writing: Jason Sanford
• Short Story: One Side, Two Weeks, One Bathroom by Jason Sanford
• Yikes! Too many Papas in one place
• Newspapers compete to get their Potter reviews on time
• Rowling says she needs time away
• Book Review: Frenemies
• Book Review: Philip Morsberger
• Book Review: Poltergeist
• Book Review: Knit Kimono
• Book Review: The Devil You Know
• Book Review: The Immeasurable Mind

Sunday 22 July 2007

• Featured Book Review: Suite Française by Irene Nemirovsky
• Author Rowling says goodbye to Harry Potter
• Man plagiarizes Jane Austen and publishers fail to notice
• Fans angered by Harry Potter’s end, Amazon delivery

Saturday 21 July 2007

• Pottermania climaxes with record-breaking sales
• In Photos: Potter fans delight as 'Deathly Hallows' released
• Book Review of the final Harry Potter book
• Rowling is mad, mad, mad
• Holy Hogwarts! Last Harry Potter book officially released

Friday 20 July 2007

• In Photos: Potter fans around the world
• Harry casts his spell on a book world eager to see his fate (Roundup)
• France in the 21st Century
• Spouses killing spouses… but the public only cares when you are rich
• Wizard-wise Indians book Potters like never before

Thursday 19 July 2007

• Rowling 'staggered' over Potter pirate copies
• Argument over Dorothy Parker Anthology goes to court
• Featured Book Review: Uncommon Arrangements by Katie Roiphe
• Harry Potter release on Sabbath angers some
• The history of popular music
• Harry Potter and the magic of teen reading

Wednesday 18 July 2007

• Copy of last Harry Potter book found on the internet
• Origins and beyond
• Racist book removed from shelves of Borders Books

Tuesday 17 July 2007

• Publisher is stabbed to death outside home
• Irish bookmaker opens bets on Harry Potter
• Penguins are hot
• Will Harry Potter be lauded as a literary classic?

Monday 16 July 2007

• Do you know if you are socially intelligent?
• From teen star to wife of rock star to weight loss: such is the life of Valerie Bertinelli
• Teens are already camping out for Harry Potter
• Book Review: North River
• Book Review: Hooked
• Book Review: Mind Over Body
• Book Review: Mastering Beadwork

Sunday 15 July 2007

• Book Review: The Arsenic Labyrinth by Martin Edwards
• New from the Original Writing section: Art Durkee
• Shadows and silk…and those places between
• 4 Poems by Art Durkee
• Remark made by J.K. Rowling might imply final Harry Potter book's ending

Saturday 14 July 2007

• Book Review: Murder on the Eiffel Tower by Claude Izner
• Book details whorehouse from (not so) long ago
• Jimmy Carter working on mommy memoir
• German illustrator bans US adaptation of child book

Friday 13 July 2007

• Book Review: Ten Second Staircase by Christopher Fowler
• Featured Book Review Of Herman Hesse’s Siddhartha
• New novel from ‘Big Fish’ author Daniel Wallace
• Questions about Jim Morrison’s death still surfacing
• New James Bond novel to hit stores in 2008

Thursday 12 July 2007

• Book Review: No Help for the Dying by Adrian Magson
• Harry Potter might just be a dead end for kids
• Cartoonist Doug Marlette dies suddenly
• Book Review: Protector
• Book Review: Deepwood
• Book Review: Her Way
• Book Review: The Last Days of Democracy

Wednesday 11 July 2007

• Book Review: Reasonable Doubts by Gianrico Carofiglio
• The illusion of free will
• Another book on FDR, what could possibly be new?
• The Water’s Lovely… so why not come in?

Tuesday 10 July 2007

• New Memoir on Bruce Dern thought to be too 'egotistical'
• Body excretions reveal human traits, apparently
• Anything for the 6 toed cat

Monday 09 July 2007

• Featured Book Review: An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
• New novel said to be “for English majors.”
• Philosophy to tug at the brain

Sunday 08 July 2007

• The Last Novel: what will it be called?
• What to do if Harry Potter dies?
• What’s it like not knowing your birthday?

Saturday 07 July 2007

• Bangkok Haunts, Indeed
• Rare bookstore is closing, saddens customers
• New England White speaks of elitists who believe they are above it all

Friday 06 July 2007

• Rowling attends London Harry Potter film premiere
• Novel deals with the vapid and shallow
• Rickles goes from insult to nice guy in new book

Thursday 05 July 2007

• The Pursuit of Glory: a historical book that is fun to read
• Oh no, not more OJ ‘If I Did It’!
• Featured Book Review: The Stuff Of Thought, by Steven Pinker
• The secret history behind slavery detailed in new book

Wednesday 04 July 2007

• New book by Rick Moody ‘a slog’
• Harry Potter sets record online
• Book Review: Art in America: 300 Years of Innovation
• Book Review: Death in the West
• Book Review: Many Bloody Returns
• Book Review: The Blood of Flowers
• Book Review: Ultra-Longevity

Tuesday 03 July 2007

• Book Review: William Haggar Fairground Film Maker by Peter Yorke
• Memoir offers solutions to being fat, forty, and fired
• Fans hold ‘marathon reading’ for Jack Kerouac

Monday 02 July 2007

• Book Review: Murder on the Dance Floor by Susan Kelly
• Diary of Russian journalist published posthumously
• Book addresses poor nations and what to do about them

Sunday 01 July 2007

• Book Review: Murder at the Laurels by Lesley Cookman
• Featured Book Review: Fearless by Tim Lott
• New memoir addresses childhood in Iowa during The Great Depression
• Controversial book gets ripped by Richard Dawkins

Saturday 30 June 2007

• Book Review: A Coin for the Ferryman by Rosemary Rowe
• Man admits he loves dogs and barnyard animals
• Now a worm can steal Harry Potter
• Short Story: Cold Pelts by Jason Sanford

Friday 29 June 2007

• Book Review: Absent Light by Eve Isherwood
• Amos Oz winner of Spanish prize for politics, not quality
• Lost Manuscript of ‘The Good Earth’ found
• Imagine no China: could you do it?

Thursday 28 June 2007

• Book Review: Rattling the Bones by Ann Granger
• New Memoir by Nobel winner Gunter Grass said to be silly and absurd
• Blogs versus Print: is there a prejudice?
• Another Harry Potter goes for big bucks
• Poniatowska wins prize for literature

Wednesday 27 June 2007

• Book Review: Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin
• Book Review: Create Jewelry Pearls
• Book Review: The Bourne Betrayal
• Book Review: Balance: In Search of the Lost Sense
• Book Review: Demons Are Forever
• New Thriller said to be ‘enjoyable summer read’
• Royalty isn’t all it’s cracked up to be

Tuesday 26 June 2007

• Featured Review: Her Way: The Hopes and Ambitions of Hillary Rodham Clinton by Jeff Gerth and and Don van Natta Jr.
• Second novel from Annie Dillard said to be poetic in style
• Future M&C Interview guest speaks of latest novel

Monday 25 June 2007

• New book gives insight into Holocaust
• The ‘Secret’ is said to be hogwash
• New biography on Harriet Tubman

Sunday 24 June 2007

• Another hacker tries to find the Harry Potter answer
• 2 Poems by Whinza Kingslee Ndoro
• Jury finds Laura Albert guilty of fraud

Saturday 23 June 2007

• Novel: The Last Summer (of the World)
• First Edition Harry Potter book sold for $14,300
• Featured Book Review of A Mormon in the White House?

Friday 22 June 2007

• For those lovers of sheep
• 10th novel from the great-great-great-great-great- grandson of poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Stalking: always a taboo thing

Thursday 21 June 2007

• Digressions on the Church and State
• Neil Gaiman based comic: Beowulf
• Stealing the Dragon said to be ‘on edge thriller’

Wednesday 20 June 2007

• 4 Poems by Neil Hester
• Corrupt New York cops, what else could make for a better read?
• Memoir tells rich life in family history
• Book on blood and flowers of all things

Tuesday 19 June 2007

• Featured Book Review of 41 Stories by O. Henry
• New novel considered ‘pop thriller for the Internet Age’
• New book on Israel and the war
• Controversy stems over Salman Rushdie’s Knighthood

Monday 18 June 2007

• Writer accused of fraud, faces court
• Low and High: What *is* Art, Anyhow?
• New illustrated Beowulf books meant for kids
• Book Review: The Haunted Observatory
• Book Review: What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Cholesterol
• Book Review: Dr. Patrick Walsh's Guide to Surviving Prostate Cancer
• Book Review: Bad Faith: The Danger of Religous Extremism

Sunday 17 June 2007

• Stolen pages of Aurangzeb's manuscript recovered
• Harry Potter is read more by adults than kids
• Literary Lions unite to form online writing group
• History of the New York City cabby

Saturday 16 June 2007

• Short Story: Summering (Excerpt from The Winky Tales)
• Prizes, Prizes, Prizes
• New book from film legend Woody Allen

Friday 15 June 2007

• Stephen Hawking writing a children’s book
• J.K. Rowling announces tour
• Yet another boring book to recommend (and an M&C reader request)

Thursday 14 June 2007

• Memoir deals with Communist China
• New graphic novel aimed for girls
• Booker Prize for fiction goes to Achebe

Wednesday 13 June 2007

• Fearing radicals, prisons ban books
• New novel from Susanna Moore set in prison
• Stephen King to appear in Esquire

Tuesday 12 June 2007

• Philosopher dies at 75
• The Day the Earth Caved In: An American Mining Tragedy
• Booksellers are saying they won’t make money off Harry Potter
• 4 Poems by Anthony Zanetti

Monday 11 June 2007

• Gripe from the Editor: chick lit is dull
• The Diana Chronicles
• Book Review: Evocations of Place: The Photography of Edwin Smith
• Book Review: Why Animals Matter
• Book Review: Magic Lost, Trouble Found
• Book Review: Heart of Valor

Sunday 10 June 2007

• Sylvia Plath’s 'The Bell Jar' is being made into a *yawn* film
• New novel from 'The Nanny Diaries' authors a yawnfest
• Poem: Musings On a Lighthouse Near an Eastern Isle
• More Potter, More Witchcraft

Saturday 09 June 2007

• List of best selling books
• From pants to romance
• The 156,789th book from Joyce Carol Oates

Friday 08 June 2007

• New from the Books section of M&C
• Get out your wallets for first edition Harry Potter