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Bill Bryson's 'Really Short History of Nearly Everything' Is The Dream Gift Book For Every Curious Kid

Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 11.20.2009 | Books

Read More: Science, Biology, Evolution, Bill Bryson, Natural History, Geology, A Walk in the Woods, A Really Short History of Nearly Everything, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, Science Books, Reading, A Short History of Nearly Everything, Books, Books News
Jesse Kornbluth

Bill Bryson has created "A Really Short History of Nearly Everything," and he's done me -- and you, and every curious kid burdened by a dull textbook or a brain-dead science teacher -- a huge favor.

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Jon Stewart: New Yorkers React To "Going Rogue" (VIDEO)

Posted 11.19.2009 | Books

Read More: Reading, Jon Stewart, Sarah Palin Going Rogue, Bookstores, Going Rogue, Books, New Yorkers, Sarah Palin Book, The Daily Show, Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin Memoir, Books News

How are New Yorkers reacting to the recent release of Sarah Palin's new book, "Going Rogue"? Last night on "The Daily Show," John Oliver went to New Y...

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The Bible In 90 Days: Can A Book Club Do It?

Detroit Free Press | Niraj Warikoo | Posted 11.18.2009 | Books

Read More: Reading the Bible, The Bible, Reading, Book Clubs, Bible, Reading Groups, Books, Religious Book Club, Book Groups, Books News

Every Wednesday evening at Kirk in the Hills church in Bloomfield Hills, worshipers gather to discuss the world's most popular book: the Bible. And th...

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eReader Gift Guide

Engadget | Paul Miller | Posted 11.18.2009 | Books

Read More: Spring Design Alex, Sony eReader, Kindle, Reading, Holidays, Gift Guide, Christmas, Plastic Logic, Irex, Kindle DX, Wikipedia, Ereaders, QUE eReader, Sony, Alex Ereader, Iphone, Ebooks, Books, OpenMoko WikiReader, Nook, Books News

We've rounded up a few of our favorite devices, though be warned: with a market this much in its infancy, there's always going to be something just a ...

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The Film of Cormac McCarthy's 'The Road' Is About To Open, So I Read the Book. I'm Still Shaking.

Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 11.18.2009 | Books

Read More: The Road, Apocalypse, Cormac McCarthy, The Road Movie, Reading, No Country for Old Men, Oprah, Books, Cormac McCarthy the Road, Pulitzer, Books News
Jesse Kornbluth

Opening soon: the movie made from the novel of The Road. I saw the preview and was impressed, so I picked up the book. And, to my surprise, it knocked me out.

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Recession Confession: If Only I Stopped Buying Poetry Books I Could Still Afford...

The Poetry Foundation | Jeff Gordinier | Posted 11.18.2009 | Books

Read More: Tess Gallagher, Li-Young Lee, Books, Nikki Giovanni, Poets, Bookstores, Poetry Books, Poetry, Recession, Buying Books, A.R. Ammons, Poems, Adam Zagajewski, Tom Clark, John Keats, Reading, Books News

Jeff Gordinier The Poetry Foundation In Port Angeles, Washington, it was Tess Gallagher. I had stopped for a lunch of yogurt and fresh figs on ...

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The Philip Roth Reader: Love Means Always Having to Say You're Sorry

Karen Stabiner | Posted 11.17.2009 | Books

Read More: Misogyny, Short Stories, Judaism, Politically Correct, Coen Brothers, Goodbye Columbus, Roth Five Short Stories, The Philip Roth Reader, A Serious Man, Defenders of the Faith, Political Incorrectness, Jewish, The Humbling, Reading, Philip Roth, Books News
Karen Stabiner

I'll endure a dollop of political incorrectness for the sake of an insanely smart story; in this post-feminist world, I'm just that confident.

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Why Precious Matters: Fiction as Witness

Nina Sankovitch | Posted 11.17.2009 | Books

Read More: Fiction, Sapphire Push, Precious, Sapphire, Reading, Push, Hold Love Strong, Matthew Aaron Goodman, Books, Realistic Fiction, Books News
Nina Sankovitch

It is no accident that the hopes of Precious become manifest when she learns to read and write and she begins to do both, voraciously. It is through reading and writing that Precious finds her own life and her own voice.

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'Precious' Tweets Translate Into Dollars For Literacy Org

Posted 11.16.2009 | Impact

Read More: Lionsgate, Literacy, Education, Precious, Causes, Reading, Tweets, Twitcause, Impact News

Lionsgate's new release, "Precious," is a powerful film that centers around the transformative journey of 16-year-old Claireece "Precious" Jones. The ...

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Why We Read Cookbooks

The New Yorker | Adam Gopnik | Posted 11.16.2009 | Books

Read More: Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Cooking, Baking, Reading, Julia Child, Books, Mark Bittman, Cookbooks, Recipes, The Elements of Cooking, Food, Books News

We say "What's the recipe?" when we mean "How do you do it?" And though we want the answer to be "Like this!" the honest answer is "Be me!" "What's th...

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In Search of Reading Role Models

Andrew Zack | Posted 11.14.2009 | Books

Read More: Miley Cyrus, Tom Brady, Reading to Your Kids, Angelina Jolie, Parenting, The Jonas Brothers, Reading, Obama Reading List, Books News
Andrew Zack

What the publishing industry needs today is not just best-selling authors like Rowling or Brown, but also reading role models that will inspire children and their parents to pick up more books.

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"Alice In Wonderland" Inspires Bestselling Trilogy "The Looking Glass Wars" (VIDEO)

abcnews.com | Posted 11.13.2009 | Books

Read More: Young Readers Day, Kids Reading, Lewis Carroll, Books, Archenemy, Author Interview, YA Authors, Young Adult Books, Alice in Wonderland, Frank Beddor, Authors, YA Books, Looking Glass Wars, National Young Readers Day, Reading, Books News

Tomorrow is National Young Readers Day, an initiative to celebrate and encourage a love of reading in kids, and in honor of that, we bring you this in...

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Forget the Facebook Quizzes: This'll Tell You Who You Are

Suzanne Morrison | Posted 11.11.2009 | Books

Read More: Our Town, Eudora Welty, Reading, Re-Reading, Francois Mauriac, Hemingway, Facebook Quizzes, Ana Akhmatova, A Moveable Feast, Books News
Suzanne Morrison

Shut down your Facebook page. Do it now, and give this a try.

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Miami Book Fair Going Strong This Week

The Huffington Post | Posted 11.11.2009 | Books

Read More: Barbara Kingsolver, Tracey Kidder, Books, Margaret Atwood, Mary Karr Lit, Book Fair, Lit, Author Events, Book Fairs, Barbara Kingsolver Lacuna, Margaret Atwood Year of the Flood, Authors, Miami Book Fair, Joyce Carol Oates, Year of the Flood, Orhan Pamuk, Ruth Reichl, Author Readings, Gourmet, Sherman Alexie, Lacuna, Jonathan Lethem, Mary Karr, Reading, Miami, Isabella Rossellini, Books News

All this week, Miami is celebrating the world of literature with its annual Book Fair. Running from November 8 - 15 and open to the public for a small...

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New Website Aims To Be An iTunes For Poetry

John Lundberg | Posted 11.06.2009 | Living

Read More: Literature, Emily Dickinson, poetryspeaks.com, Itunes, John Lundberg, Lifestyle, Hobbies, Edgar-Allen-Poe, Reading, Poetry, Poetryspeaks, Living News
John Lundberg

The new website PoetrySpeaks is aiming to serve as a social networking hub and online marketplace for poets.

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9 Of Your Favorite Books: Huffington Post November Readers' Picks (PHOTOS, POLL)

The Huffington Post | Posted 11.06.2009 | Books

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Ever since we posted our first installment of the HuffPost Readers' Picks, we've gotten a flood of further reader recommendations. The feature has bee...

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No Time to Read? Go Short

Nina Sankovitch | Posted 11.06.2009 | Books

Read More: Edgar Allan Poe, Short Stories, Ernest Hemingway, O. Henry, Kurt Vonnegut, Reading, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charles Dickens, Dave Eggers, Leo Tolstoy, Book Groups, Book a Day, Paul Auster, Annie Proulx, Reading All Day, Books, Christmas Carol, Kazuo Ishiguro, Books News
Nina Sankovitch

There is a solution to the time crunch: the beauty and brevity of a short story. For those with circumscribed time, short stories deliver, and deliver big time.

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How to Get Your Kids to Read

Maria Rodale | Posted 11.07.2009 | Living

Read More: Importance of Reading, Reading, Books, Family, Little House on the Prairie, Magazines, Living News
Maria Rodale

While the media and teachers complain that kids don't read anymore, I can't get my kids to stop. Even Lucia, who is too young to read, is a voracious reader. So what's the secret?

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Debunking John Boehner's "Monthly Abortion Premium" Claim (By Reading the Bill)

Sunlight Foundation. | Sunlight Foundation | Posted 11.05.2009 | Home

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The Drudge Report is leading off today with an outrageous and false claim about the House health care bill from House Minority Leader John Boehner [R...

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Debunking John Boehner's Absurd Abortion Claim (By Reading the Bill)

Sunlight Foundation. | Sunlight Foundation | Posted 11.05.2009 | Home

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The Drudge Report is leading off today with an outrageous and false claim about the House health care bill from House Minority Leader John Boehner [R,...

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Hillary Clinton Spotted Reading The Lost Symbol (PHOTO)

Posted 11.05.2009 | Books

Read More: Poll, Egypt, Hillary Dan Brown, Reading, Airplane Reading, Hillary Clinton Reading Dan Brown, Plane, Dan Brown Lost Symbol, Clinton, Plane Reading, Hillary Clinton, Lost Symbol, Books, Airplanes, Dan Brown, Books News

On a recent trip to Egypt for talks with the Egyptian President, Foreign Minister, and Intelligence Chief, Hillary Clinton was spotted, as seen on Lau...

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Barnes & Noble And James Patterson Team Up For In-Store Kids' Book Recommendations

CNN Money | Posted 11.05.2009 | Books

Read More: Books, Barnes, Children's Books, Children, James Patterson, Reading, Bookseller, Barnes & Noble Children's, Women's Murder Club, Patterson, Maximum Ride, Barnes and Noble, Children's Book Recommendations, Barnes & Noble, Kids' Books, Pop Goes the Weasel, Alex Cross, Books News

Barnes & Noble, Inc. continues its storied tradition of making books and reading more accessible to kids with its newest addition to the Children's se...

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iPhone eBooks: Competition For Kindle And Nook?

PC World | David Coursey | Posted 11.02.2009 | Books

Read More: Amazon Kindle, Kindle, iPhone Apps, Reading, eBook Apps, Book Apps, Apple Tablet, Iphone, Books, Ebooks, Nook, Ereaders, Books News

Just because a Flurry study found that more book apps than games were developed for the iPhone over the past four months does not mean the Kindle and ...

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I Hate Books

The New Yorker | Dave Cowen | Posted 11.02.2009 | Books

Read More: Kanye West, Reading, Kanye, Burning Books, Humor, Kanye West Books, Books, Kanye West Reading, Non-Readers, Books News

I am not a fan of books. I would never want a book's autograph. I am a proud non-reader of books. I like to get information from doing stuff like actu...

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The Great Conversation Interrupted. Kindle, Annotated.

Gerald Sindell | Posted 11.02.2009 | Books

Read More: Writers, Amazon Kindle, Margins, Kindle, Reading, Writing, Books, E-Books, Annotations, Books News
Gerald Sindell

When we buy a copy of a book, we own that copy. When we purchase, for almost as many dollars, a Kindle or other electronic version of a book, we have not really bought a copy of the book.

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