Margaret Atwood offers you some ice hockey tips… • Now you can buy a copy of Schindler’s List. And, no, I don’t mean the book… • Philip Pullman offends Christians everywhere. No, this isn’t a repeat from 1995, 1998, 2003, 2007 or 2008. • Did you know that Libya’s mentally-unstable dictator Colonel Gaddafi has published [...]
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The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo Stieg Larsson Year: 2009 It’s garnered lavish praise from critics and readers alike. It’s sold more than 12 million copies worldwide. Everyone’s been reading it and everyone’s been talking about it and I finally picked up a copy and joined the dialogue. It’s the first in the Stieg Larsson [...]
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Genius. • Nicholas Sparks (of The Notebook fame) calls Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian “pulpy, overwrought, melodramatic” and “horrible”. Hypocrisy Meter explodes. • And there is more McCarthy bashing in this Guardian article about what makes a book ‘bad’. Poor guy can’t catch a break. • Good things come in small packages. • Does Michael Lewis [...]
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A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole Published: 1981 Pages: 444 The rise of the internet has had a profound effect on the collective subconscious of our society. These days, we have unprecedented access to a near limitless fount of information and entertainment. And although it has become a somewhat hackneyed expression, the world is [...]
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Six hours of book cover design in a minute and a half! • James Cameron gives disgraced (?) author Charles Pellegrino some free (?) celebrity endorsement. • And speaking of celebrity endorsement, Sean Penn has stated that all journalists who criticize Hugo Chavez should be locked up. Spit-take? • Thirty years of back breaking labour [...]
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The Zombie Queen of Newbury High Amanda Ashby Pages: 199 Year: 2009 Vampires that sparkle in the sun might be all the fashion in the Young Adult fiction world at the moment, but when you’ve exhausted the Twilight franchise but not your passion for the paranormal, pick up Zombie Queen of Newbury High by Amanda [...]
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To celebrate Dr. Seuss’ birthday, here’s a clip of Jesse Jackson reading from Green Eggs and Ham. Did you know that the book came about due to a bit of a wager? Publisher Bennet Cerf bet the good doctor $50 that he couldn’t write an entire book using less than fifty words – and Ol’ [...]
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