>I’m quite enjoying The Rights of the Reader, the new Candlewick edition of Daniel Pennac’s Comme un Roman, first published here as Better than Life, and I have been pondering Right No. 3, “The Right Not to Finish a Book.” Here as elsewhere, Pennac’s aphoristic style puts the ooh-la-la in Gallic shrug: So the book [...]
>Why aren’t they called adults’ books
February 20, 2009 By 43 Comments
>As Alice Rosenbaum turns in her grave
February 18, 2009 By 7 Comments
Lurve is in the air
February 5, 2009 By 4 Comments
and Claire has been busily sighing and swooning on your behalf. See her latest booklist of love stories. Speaking of Claire, she’s been pushing me for years to read Neil Gaiman’s American Gods, which I’m finally doing. And loving, not least for the following exchange, among the most indelible in American literature: The bird turned, [...]
>Sitting at the grownups table
January 7, 2009 By 15 Comments
>Over at Nonfiction Matters, Marc Aronson cautions us to think about the larger context in which debates about social responsibility and the Newbery take place: “What I’d like is a set of comments on the Newbery that is not drawn from a survey of four winners, or the latest demographic chart, but a wider sense [...]
>J.K. Rowling wishes they paid by the word.
January 6, 2009 By 19 Comments
>Agent Amanda Urban on the economics of book publishing: “Books can only support a certain retail price,” she said. “It’s not like you have books that can be Manolo Blahniks and books that can be Cole Haan. Books are books. A book by James Patterson costs the same as a book by some poet.” Which [...]
>Support your local superstore!
November 29, 2008 By 13 Comments
>Yes, boys, but when no one is looking?
October 30, 2008 By 7 Comments
>Katie Couric apparently asked McCain and Obama about their favorite books and got pretty convincing answers: McCain chose For Whom the Bell Tolls and Obama Song of Solomon. As I said in the comments on yesterday’s post re Palin’s reading choices, “What are you reading?” and “What is your favorite book?” aren’t as easy to [...]
>There Is No Shame in Loving The DaVinci Code
October 29, 2008 By 11 Comments
>People magazine (November 3, 2008 issue) gives Sarah Palin three chances to enlarge on her claim to be a “voracious reader” and three times she escapes: People: What do you like to read? Palin: Autobiographies, historical pieces–really anything and everything. Besides the kids and sports, reading is my favorite thing to do. People: What are [...]
>Help me out?
October 16, 2008 By 20 Comments
