Follow BookBlips on TwitterMost Searched Topics
costabookawards.com - 9 days ago
—
costabookawards.com —
Category Shortlists Click below to see what the
judges thought of each of 2009's shortlisted books, and...
why they have been shortlisted. Costa First Novel Award The Finest Type of English Womanhood by Rachel Heath (more...) John the Revelator by Peter ...
(more)
Costa Book Awards
Comments
vote down
CMIS Evaluation Fiction Focus
found this 9 days agofound this
100scopenotes.wordpress.com - 13 days ago
—
100scopenotes.wordpress.com —
Jen Robinson’s Book Page does it. A Fuse
#8 Production does too. Abby (the) Librarian also takes...
part. What is it? The link roundup. I enjoy those posts, so I’m throwing my hat in the ring with Morning Notes. I’m thinking this will ...
(more)
Morning Notes: NBA Edition
guardian.co.uk - 8 days ago
—
guardian.co.uk —
Lines from the Roman poet are at the
centre of a court case - and many news...
organisations still dare not translate them Quite an extraordinary chapter in the already extraordinary story of Mark Lowe and Jordan Wimmer. For those who haven't been ...
(more)
Catullus still shocks 2,000 years on
newyorker.com - 2 days ago
—
newyorker.com —
In 2007, Cindy M. Meston and David M.
Buss, both psychology professors at the University of Texas...
at Austin, published a joint research paper on human sexuality titled “Why Humans Have Sex.” The answers of their study’s female ...
(more)
Ask an Academic: Why Women Have Sex
jo-scrawls.blogspot.com - 7 days ago
—
jo-scrawls.blogspot.com —
X-posted from Once Upon a Bookcase . I've
just had news of another Merlin TV tie-in that's...
taking place! If you're a Merlin fan and are local, try and get to it! N.B. Only those with tickets will have access to the event Who? Colin Morgan (Merlin) and Bradley James (Arthur) Stars of the ...
(more)
Book Signing: Stars of Merlin Sign at Lakeside
sacramentobookreview.com - 11 days ago
—
sacramentobookreview.com —
By Andrew Zuckerman Chronicle Books, $19.99, 112 pages
What I like most about Creature ABC is that...
it fulfills the reading needs of young, first-time book browsers with BIG, BOLD visuals. In spite of their two-dimensional style, the pictures are so stunning in their detail that a child can ...
(more)
Creature ABC
nytimes.com - 7 days ago
—
nytimes.com —
The Book Review has made these selections from
books reviewed since Dec. 7, 2008, when we published...
our previous Notables list. It was not easy picking the winners, and we doubtless made mistakes. To the authors who made the list: congratulations. To ...
(more)
100 Notable Books of 2009
timesonline.typepad.com - 6 days ago
—
timesonline.typepad.com —
Lucky Catullus (in Alma-Tadema's version, centre, above). He
has had more publicity in the last 24 hours...
than in the last 24 years. Whole cohorts of journalists who have never read a word of the first century BC poet have...
(more)
Pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo: what was Catullus on about?
Comments
vote down
Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk
found this 6 days agofound this
amazon.com - 2 days ago
—
amazon.com —
In the tradition of The Christmas Shoes and
A Christmas on Jane Street , the heartwarming story...
of The Christmas Glass shows how, today as always, the Christmas miracle works its wonders in the human heart. In the early days of World War II in ...
(more)
The Christmas Glass: A Novel (9780824947767): Marci ...
mhpbooks.com - 8 days ago
—
mhpbooks.com —
A few years ago, when Michael Wolff was
still writing for New York magazine, he wrote a...
fun column taking the book business to task: “I mean, books suck. Most books are dopier than television or movies or even advertising (many books tend to ...
(more)
Wolff calls for book boycott — all books, that is
Comments
vote down
Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk
found this 8 days agofound this
guardian.co.uk - 7 days ago
—
guardian.co.uk —
Jack Nicholson in The Shining Jack Nicholson as
Jack Torrance in the film adaptation of Stephen King's...
The Shining. Photograph: Ronald Grant
(more)
Stephen King plots The Shining sequel
counterpunch.org - 6 days ago
—
counterpunch.org —
home / subscribe / donate / books /
t-shirts / search / links / feedback / events...
/ faq
(more)
Charles R. Larson: The Autumn of Chinua Achebe
inspringitisthedawn.com - 4 days ago
—
inspringitisthedawn.com —
I was going to post about some of
my reading plans for next year regarding challenges and...
whatnot today, but it's late now so I'll just have to post about them another day. Instead today when I haven't been distracted by various other things like Google Wave or those household chores ...
(more)
Sunday Salon: Reading in progress
redroom.com - 4 days ago
—
redroom.com —
What was Tiger Woods doing at 2:30 AM?
And what was his wife Elin Nordegren Woods doing...
with that golf club? Was this a case of a couple going to play midnight-miniature golf gone terribly awry? These are the burning issues facing America—and the world—on day 213 of the Tiger Woods crisis.If, ...
(more)
The Daily Sam: The Tiger Woods Crisis
thatteencanblog.blogspot.com - 3 days ago
—
thatteencanblog.blogspot.com —
I went to see New Moon Friday the
20th at 8:00 PM. I was amazed. The theatre...
definately knew what was coming. It took us more than half an hour to get there when it usually takes less than 10 minutes because of the busy traffic. New Moon outshined Twilight by a long shot. The movie kept much ...
(more)
My New Moon Adventure
bermudaonion.wordpress.com - 6 days ago
—
bermudaonion.wordpress.com —
Julie of Booking Mama and I enjoyed bringing
you The Twelve Days of Christmas Cookies and hope...
you enjoyed it too. Now that they’re over, we’re hoping you’ll share one of your tried and true recipes on your blog. (If you don’t have a blog, leave your recipe in the ...
(more)
Virtual Cookie Swap
nytimes.com - 5 days ago
—
nytimes.com —
As you probably know, the California-based company Apple
makes a portable communication device — a device that...
an acquaintance of mine whose first language is not English distinguishes as a “self” phone. Though proper nouns conventionally begin with a ...
(more)
Against Camel Case
blographia-literaria.com - 9 days ago
—
blographia-literaria.com —
Zadie Smith suffers from "novel-nausea." A response in
the form of cantankerism: A new book by the...
American novelist-essayist David Shields (to be published here by Hamish Hamilton early next year) makes the case for irregularity. In Reality Hunger: A Manifesto Shields argues passionately for ...
(more)
Zadie Smith's Essay on Essays: Off with the Top of Her Head
thebookresort.blogspot.com - 3 days ago
—
thebookresort.blogspot.com —
My thoughts & prayers to all those who
have lost a loved one to this heinous but...
preventable disease. May a cure not be too far away. World AIDS Day , observed December 1 each year, is dedicated to raising awareness of the AIDS pandemic caused by the spread of HIV infection.
(more)
World AIDS Day
worldaidsday.org - 3 days ago
—
worldaidsday.org —
There are over 80,000 people living with HIV
in the UK and new infections continue to increase...
every year. Over a quarter of people living with HIV in the UK don t know they are infected. People living with HIV still face discrimination, but treatment ...
(more)
World AIDS Day 2009 – Official Website
