The Huffington Post launched its new book site last October, and in the past almost year it has become a thing of note. Authors beg to have their books featured, The New York Review of Books has partnered with them to provide content, and bloggers frantically try to post something witty enough to be included.
This [...]
This week I’d like to feature the site Fantastic Fiction. Its colors may be a bit harsh and gaudy, but the site is so full of information you’ll soon not even notice the atrocious design. The site claims to have information on 30,000 authors and 350,000 books and those numbers keep growing. The webmaster regularly [...]
Page Turners is a book blog by Becky in Sydney, Australia. (It seemed appropriate with the heat we’ve been having lately to feature a blog from “down under”).
I was brought to this site by a link for Book Beginnings on Friday, a meme I might actually join and start doing here. I have liked the [...]
With summer fully underway, lists of best beach reads and summer reading suggestions are cropping up all over. One of the best I’ve found is from a site that, while I have mentioned it before, I haven’t actually featured. So this is a perfect opportunity for me to highlight The Daily Beast and its book [...]
The library’s closed today for our staff development day - a day where we will hopefully learn something new and exciting about how to better serve you, our patrons. In honor of that, I have decided to present something a little fun AND educational for you this Friday - sites filled with book-related trivia! School [...]
I came across this Library Journal article and thought I’d share it to let you know of these great new memoirs:
Down with Summer Reading!: 19 Memoirs for the Recovery Crowd.
I don’t know how I’ve gone this long without mentioning BookSpot on this blog. It is one of the most inclusive and large-scale book-related sites out there. They cover all genres, age/reading levels, formats, news, trivia, etc. They have book lists, links to other great web sites, discussion groups, publisher and author info, and so [...]
This week’s spotlight is on BookBrowse - a site that has a lot going for it.
There is a blog, a current and upcoming books section, an area specially for book clubs, and so much more. They do reserve some of their content for paying members, but there is probably enough content on their front [...]
This week’s spotlight is on Baby Got Books! With a sassy name like that, and a catchy slogan like “your head will collapse if there’s nothing in it,” what more could you want?
What’s that, you want book reviews? Well, yes, they have those too. In fact, they have incredibly awesome book reviews! As well as [...]
With summer reading coming up, and the Mass Book Awards recently presented, it seems a great time to focus the spotlight on the Massachusetts Center for the Book. This is the Commonwealth affiliate of the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress. They, and all the national affiliates throughout the country, work to [...]
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