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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
This doesn’t have much to do with reading exactly, but it’s still something I think you will enjoy and that will be helpful. One of my favorite parts of our collection here at the library is the cookbook section. I love drooling over the pictures, and browsing for ideas and flavors to try. As each [...]
Powell’s Book Store, probably the most famous (and definitely the largest) independent book store in America, has a great website which I’d like to point you all towards. They have a very entertaining and informative blog, author interviews, weekly best sellers, staff picks, and just a really great site packed with a whole lot more. [...]
The Morning News is running its annual Tournament of Books. They describe this contest as “literary awarding gone ferocious, March Madness-style.” Basically, they take 16 novels from the previous year and seed them into a competitive bracket, much like in sports challenges. A group of judges then pick their favorite from each head-to-head match over [...]
I love book lists. Being able to find lists of books on various subjects, or of a certain genre, or that just share something in common is a wonderful aid when looking for something to read. So this week I’d like to highlight a few web sites that contain marvelous book lists.
Booklist Center - although [...]
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