From the monthly archives:
Sick of the word green yet? It does seem to be the catchword of the hour, with sustainable, organic and carbon footprint running not far behind. I’m starting to think we’re on the verge of overload and that soon people will start throwing up their hands and saying, “Forget it! Shut up and give me [...]
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The Man Booker Prize for Fiction has announced its 2008 longlist. Although a few titles (Girl in a Blue Dress, From A to X, Sea of Poppies and The Northern Clemency) aren’t yet available in the U.S., only one (The Clothes on Their Backs) seems currently to be in limbo with no U.S. publication date [...]
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…until Breaking Dawn! OMG! That sound you heard is a million teenage girls hyperventilating at the same time, as the release date for Stephenie Meyer’s book is just three short days away. Remain calm ladies, remain calm. To help, I give you musical entertainment (If you don’t recognize what song the band is playing, you [...]
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We just had an earthquake. 5.8, baby! And you know what, we’re still here. A few books fell off the shelves, but I was the only person who hid under his desk like a five year old girl. So…good times.
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Regular readers of this blog know that I love Julie Klam’s memoir Please Excuse My Daughter. It so perfectly captures what it’s like to be smart and cool and young, and yet somehow unable to find your way. It’s a book that’s consistently funny throughout but never at the expense of real emotion. Everybody should [...]
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Tana French writes literary thrillers in the vein of Mystic River. This is the trailer for her latest book, The Likeness. First of all, this is really nicely photographed. It makes me want to go to Ireland. But there’s a moment when the camera focuses on French, and the film cuts to a couple of [...]
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I wanted to make sure that everyone read the letter that Sarah linked to (via the blog Bookshelves of Doom). It is a response from a librarian named Jamie Larue to the challenge of a book called Uncle Bobby’s Wedding, a book that features a wedding between two male guinea pigs, and it is well [...]
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From the Morning News (God bless the Morning News, by the way. What an incredibly great website. Everything about it makes me happy — the design, the content, the fact that it changes on a regular schedule. It’s what the internet ought to be) comes this story in the Economist about the most challenged books [...]
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Some people have a favorite quote from a book or a poem, something they might say to themselves every now and then, something that speaks to their experience. I know people who carry quotes around in their wallets or write the same quote on the first page of every notebook they buy, an exhortation to [...]
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This Sunday will be the last standalone LA Times Book Review. From now on, book coverage will be carried in the Calendar section, and since I doubt they’re going to be compromising any film coverage to accommodate it, that means there will be less of it. Sorry, I should say even less of it, since [...]
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