Books: The Reading Life
Currently listing articles 129-101:
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Review: Amazon Kindle - Books Were Just A 'Gateway Drug'!— Built-in wireless (called Whispernet) downloading is also free with purchase of the Kindle.
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Book Review: The Library at Night by Alberto Manguel — Alberto Manguel's new book is a meditative essay on libraries, books, and those who love them.
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Revisiting the Amazon Kindle e-Book Reader— Revisiting the Amazon Kindle after eight months of daily use: the good and the could-be-better.
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The Great Book Adventure: Don Quixote - Part One— Don Quixote de la Mancha, more modern than you know.
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A Novel Idea: They’ll Never Catch On!— Cry Random House, cry.
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Book Review: 1001 Books for every Mood by Hallie Ephron— An invaluable addition to any reader's collection with an eclectic list of books.
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The Great Book Adventure: The Three Musketeers - Part Three— It's been called the greatest cloak and sword story ever written. Now I know why.
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Book Review: The Death of the Critic by Ronan McDonald— If the critic isn't dead, his postmodern cousin is on life support.
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The Book ATM: Printing Books on Demand— The future of book selling is just around the corner.
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Interview with Kevin Eagan of Blogcritics Magazine and There There Kid— "The Internet is a great place to find some excellent review sites, but it's also rife with gushy fan forums that hold no weight," states
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The Great Book Adventure: The Three Musketeers - Part Two— Where are the brothers in this brotherhood of men?
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The Great Book Adventure: The Three Musketeers - Part One— The French can't fight? Don't tell that to The Three Musketeers.
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Book Review: Kafka's Soup - A Complete History of World Literature in 14 Recipes by Mark Crick— A cute gift book for bibliophiles, if not food for thought.
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The Great Book Adventure: Slaughterhouse-Five— Is Slaughterhouse-Five a great book? I'm still trying to figure it out.
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Ugliness Is Skin Deep— Ugliness is a learned concept, said my writing teacher Khambatta.
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Writer Impossible: The Scent Of A Good Scene— Add depth to your writing by describing smell.
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The Great Book Adventure: Walden - Part Three— The 21st century could use more Thoreau.
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Book Review: Armageddon In Retrospect by Kurt Vonnegut— A review of Kurt Vonnegut's most recently published work, released posthumously by his son Mark Vonnegut.
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Book Review: The Bookaholics' Guide to Book Blogs by Rebecca Gillieron and Catheryn Kilgarriff— An introduction to the world of wordy-wise book bloggers is impaired by a loose approach to quality control.
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The Great Book Adventure: Walden - Part One— Thoreau calls us to simplify and it's one we should heed, now more than ever.
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Book Review: The McSweeney's Joke Book of Book Jokes by the editors of McSweeney's— A great collection of smart silliness.
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Remembering Phyllis A. Whitney, September 9, 1903 - February 8, 2008 — Her writing career lasted for over 65 years in which she completed over 75 novels as well more than 100 short stories.
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The Great Book Adventure: Peter Pan - Part Two— Between Captain Hook and Peter Pan is Wendy and a word of caution.
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The Great Book Adventure: Peter Pan - Part One— It turns out the Neverland isn't quite what we expected.
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What’s so Funny ‘Bout Fiction: The Question of the 'Fake' Memoir— There are many different kinds of truth.
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The Great Book Adventure: Bleak House - Part Three— With Charles Dickens and Bleak House, time is on your side.
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The 2008 New York Book Festival: Celebrate And Get Singled Out — The awards ceremony will be hosted at the literary landmark Algonquin Hotel June 27, followed the next day by a festival in Central Park.
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The Great Book Adventure: Bleak House - Part Two— Caught in a web of personalities in which I’m willingly tangled...
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The Great Book Adventure: The Picture of Dorian Gray - Part Two— Dorian Gray falls under Lord Harry's influence, to more than just his picture's detriment.
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