Lost Titles, Forgotten Rhymes: How to Find a Novel, Short Story, or Poem Without Knowing its Title or Author (Virtual Programs & Services, Library of Congress) This is a site you’ll definitely want to bookmark. What if you wanted to locate Robert Burton’s masterful 17th century opus, The Anatomy of Melancholy? But wait: You can’t […]
Electronic Device Stirs Unease at BookExpo – NYTimes.com This article discusses the current status of electronic books, with focus on the two most popular ebook readers, Amazon’s Kindle and the Sony Reader. The article points out that one advantage of ebooks is that the supplier never runs out of copies. Scott McClellan’s “What Happened,” the
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Schwartz, Lynne Sharon. Disturbances in the Field New York: Counterpoint, 1983 ISBN 1-58243-332-1 Highly Recommended We hear a lot about nutritionally dense foods these days. Foods that are nutritionally dense provide high nutritional value in proportion to the calories they contain; they are the opposite of junk food, which delivers high calories with
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About an hour ago I took down the old pages of the Notes in the Margin Web site and uploaded an all-new, streamlined version. For now, the Fiction Notes page is sparse, with no linked reviews for many of the books listed. I apologize for that. I’ll be catching up with the fiction reviews bit
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Sometime recently (probably over the U.S. Memorial Day weekend) Notes in the Margin went over 1,000,000 views. Since I have no idea who the 1,000,000th viewer was, I’ll thank everybody who has visited over the years since this Web site was born. Send all your friends. . .
I have now enabled comments for new posts. When I created this blog I did not enable comments because I did not have the time to moderate them. I still don’t really have the time, but I’m interested in the conversation. Since comments are moderated, it may be a (short) while before you see your
Troubled book world is going for novel ideas – Los Angeles Times As Book Expo America, the nation’s largest annual book convention, opens today in Los Angeles, innovation — some would say desperation — will be the main order of business. More than 2,000 exhibitors from every facet of the publishing world, nearly 1,000 authors
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A south Alabama town that was the inspiration for the setting in Harper Lee’s book “To Kill a Mockingbird” is finding itself as the backdrop for a real-life legal case involving allegations of racism at school. The parents of several black junior high school students have filed a discrimination lawsuit claiming their children are subject
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In ‘Bright Shiny Morning,’ James Frey Presents Little Pieces of Los Angeles in His Way – New York Times New York Times reviewer Janet Maslin writes about James Frey’s new novel: He got a second act. He got another chance. Look what he did with it. He stepped up to the plate and hit one
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O’Farrell, Maggie. The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox New York: Harcourt, 2006 ISBN 978-0-15-101411-8 Blackstone Audiobooks, narrated by Anne Flosnik Recommended This novel is about family stories–in this case, the truths that don’t get told and the lies that spring up to fill the void–and how those stories reverberate through generations. Iris Lockhart
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