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This will be my last EdNews commentary for 2009. (Okay, I'll pause a moment to allow that to sink in ... Or at least long enough for the wild a...
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What Not To Read After A Break Up (PHOTOS, POLL)
Huffington Post | Amy Hertz and Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 12.18.2009 | Books
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Anna Karenina,
Relationships,
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Madame Bovary,
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Sex and the City,
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Love in the Time of Cholera,
End of the Affair,
Portrait of a Lady,
Julie and Julia,
Bad Break Ups,
Bestsellers,
Nicole Kidman,
Cleaving,
Greg Behrendt,
The Notebook,
Revolutionary Road,
Breaking Up,
Reading,
He's Just Not That Into You,
Books News
There's no good time to go through a break up and the holidays are just about the worst. The last thing you want to do is rub salt into a wound by rea...
The Best Books Of The Decade You Never Read
The Guardian | Posted 12.17.2009 | Books
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Cervantes,
War Reporting for Cowards,
Unpopular Books,
Don Quixote,
The Spare Room,
Born Yesterday,
Reading,
The Girl Who Stopped Swimming,
Unread Books,
Mutiny,
The Three of Us,
The Secrest of the Chess Machine,
Barefoot Soldier,
Best Books of the Decade,
Black Juice,
Books,
Best Books,
Boy A,
Journal,
Books News
While people are busy ranking the hit books of the last 10 years, many a publishing insider is quietly mourning a volume that unaccountably never made...
The Philip Roth Reader: Hanging On To "Letting Go" for as Long as Possible
Karen Stabiner | Posted 12.16.2009 | Books
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Books,
The Philip Roth Reader,
College,
Annie Hall,
Fiction,
Woody Allen,
Letting Go,
Reading,
Philip Roth Letting Go,
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The story is such a familiar, valiant mess, or better, a sprawling but disciplined rendering of a mess; 661 pages, and I am starting to regret that it will end.
Goodreads Receives $2 Million, Plans Major Improvements
Los Angeles Times | Carolyn Kellogg | Posted 12.14.2009 | Books
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Goodreads,
Otis Chandler,
Shelfari,
Social Networking,
Books,
Start-Ups,
Funding,
Librarything,
Book Clubs,
True Ventures,
Reading,
Ebooks,
Books News
Last week the books-and-social-networking site Goodreads announced it had received $2 million in venture capital, led by start-up-friendly True Ventur...
Study: Colorado Teacher Prep Programs Are Weak
State Bill Colorado | State Bill Colorado | Posted 12.14.2009 | Home
A new report by the National Council on Teacher Quality zings Colorado's teacher preparation programs for failing to insure that their graduate...
Women Dominate Short Story Writing
The Guardian | Sarah Crown | Posted 12.11.2009 | Books
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Short Stories,
Helen Simpson,
Women Writers,
Grace Paley,
Mavis Gallant,
Women,
Lorrie Moore,
Literary Prizes,
Short Story Writers,
Authors,
Katherine Mansfield,
Books,
Alice Munro,
Reading,
Books News
Given that 2009 looks set to live in literary memory as the year that brought us Dan Brown's "The Lost Symbol", Jordan: "Pushed to the Limit" and "Pri...
The Onion: Adults Go Wild Over Latest In Children's Picture Book Series (VIDEO)
Posted 12.10.2009 | Books
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Comedy,
The Onion,
Reading,
Kids' Books,
Green Man,
Twilight,
Humor,
Books,
Children's Books,
Harry Potter,
Bestsellers,
Picture Books,
Books News
On The Onion News Network: Following a trend of cross-generational popular literature such as "Harry Potter" and "Twilight", a children's picture book...
Naked Girls Reading "A Christmas Carol"
NBC NewYork | NBC New York | Posted 12.08.2009 | Home
Just because they're nekkid doesn't mean this isn't a serious literary event ...
Book Review Roundup
Posted 12.07.2009 | Books
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Book Reviews,
Louis Armstrong,
Reading,
The Art Student's War,
New Books,
P.D. James,
The Last Empress,
Books,
Dorothea Lange,
Sofia Tolstoy,
Walter Isaacson,
Hellraisers,
Books News
Your weekly book review roundup is back again: "Talking About Detective Fiction", P.D. James The New York Times ...[D]ispelling any doubts as to whe...
Short Stories for $3.99: the Atlantic/Kindle Deal is Not So New
Wednesday Martin | Posted 12.07.2009 | Books
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Short Stories,
Curtis Sittenfeld,
Wilkie Collins,
Publishing Industry,
Wednesdy Martin,
Kindle,
Charles Dickens,
E-Reader,
Fiction Sales,
Christopher Buckley,
Atlantic Monthly,
Contemporary Fiction,
Changes in Publishing Industry,
Victorian Fiction,
Amazon,
Reading,
Edna O'Brien,
Ereaders,
Amazon Kindle,
Ebooks,
Books,
Books News
As of December 7, short stories by Christopher Buckley, Edna O'Brien (and by January Curtis Sittenfeld, and presumably many others) are available on Kindle, courtesy of a deal with the Atlantic Monthly.
Google Books And Kindles: A Concentration Camp Of Ideas
Alan Kaufman | Posted 12.04.2009 | Books
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Wwi,
Nazis,
Kindle,
Google Books,
Reading,
Bookstores,
Nazism,
Technology,
Holocaust,
Books,
Ebooks,
Hitler,
Ereaders,
Crematoria,
Books News
The hi-tech campaign to relocate books to Google and replace books with Kindles is, in its essence, a deportation of the literary culture to a kind of easily monitored concentration camp of ideas.
"The Polar Express": Counting Down to Christmas
Karen Walsh | Posted 12.04.2009 | Books
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Christmas Books,
Children's Book Publicity,
Chris Van Allsburg,
Publishing,
Marketing,
Publicity,
Reading,
Book Publishing,
Kids' Books,
Christmas,
Books,
Children's Books,
Children's Book Marketing,
The Polar Express,
Books News
"The Polar Express" is a book about hope and joy and how kids can possess a more unfettered wisdom than adults, and it is the summation of all that is great about the holiday season.
The Best Book Of The Decade
Alexander Nazaryan | Posted 12.05.2009 | Books
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American Novels,
Joseph O'Neill Netherland,
The Grapes of Wrath,
Best Books,
Books,
Netherland,
Best Book of the Decade,
Joseph O'Neill,
Immigration,
Post 9/11,
Reading,
New York City,
The Great Gatsby,
Books News
No novel better captures the background dread of everyday life these days -- terrorism jitters, credit-default swaps, mutant flu strains -- than Joseph O'Neill's "Netherland".
eReaders Through The Eyes Of Thriller Writers
The New York Times | PETER WAYNER | Posted 12.03.2009 | Books
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Lee Child,
Kindle,
Novels,
Reading,
Thrillers,
Ereaders,
Writers,
Joseph Finder,
Thriller Writers,
Writing,
Authors,
Ebooks,
Books,
Amazon,
John Updike,
Fonts,
Books News
What do authors think of the new electronic replacements for bound paper? Some are traditionalists who want nothing to do with electronic readers -- o...
How Romance Novels Take the Romance out of Romance
Alan Elsner | Posted 12.03.2009 | Books
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Literature,
Romance,
Sexuality,
Mr. Darcy,
Reading,
Jane Austen,
Writing,
Pride and Prejudice,
Books,
Romance Novels,
Sex in Books,
Books News
I don't do explicit sex in my books because I'm more interested in love -- and love takes place in the mind where it has to fight for its existence against all the other challenges presented by life.
Canada Reads Contest Finds The Book That All Of Canada Should Read
Toronto Star | Posted 12.02.2009 | Books
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Cbc,
Reading,
Generation X,
Good to a Fault,
Canada,
Canada Reads,
Books,
Fall on Your Knees,
The Jade Peony,
Nikolski,
Books News
At Tuesday's announcement of the 2010 five-book reading list, much was made of the sales bump experienced by past winners of the annual CBC Radio lite...
How Stories Save Us
Pam Allyn | Posted 12.02.2009 | Living
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Parenting,
Madeline,
Kids,
Children's Books,
Children,
Homer,
Goodnight Moon,
Books,
Eloise,
The Odyssey,
Story Time,
Story Telling,
Where the Wild Things Are,
Stories,
Reading,
Living News
Here is the longing inside all of us: that we are fearless enough to embark upon those adventures, but that as we go we are inspired and propelled by a sense of home waiting for us at the other end.
Laundry Room Libraries
The New York Times | SUSAN DOMINUS | Posted 12.01.2009 | Books
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Recycling,
Recycling Books,
Laundry,
Libraries,
Books,
Apartments,
Book Clubs,
Green Living,
Reading,
New York City,
Books News
My old neighbors in Washington Heights were marvels of resourcefulness, natural born recyclers inspired by thrift, as opposed to love of the environme...
9 Books To Curl Up With Instead Of Watching Sports
Huffington Post | Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 11.27.2009 | Books
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Tryptophan,
Books,
Football,
Thanksgiving,
Slidepoll,
Post-Thanksgiving,
Reading,
Feel-Good Books,
Books News
Has the tryptophan made you sluggish? Are you not the football-after-Thanksgiving type? This long weekend is perfect for curling up with a good book; ...
Thanksgiving Poems: The Cranberry Cantos
The Poetry Foundation | Editors | Posted 11.26.2009 | Books
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American Poets,
Poets,
Poems,
Poetry,
Reading,
Thanksgiving Poems,
Thanksgiving,
Books,
Books News
The Poetry Foundation Thanksgiving is America's harvest festival--a time to acknowledge the help of family and friends, and a reminder of what a gift...
"The First Tycoon": A Good News Publishing Backstory
Bruce Harris | Posted 11.25.2009 | Books
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Publishing,
The First Tycoon,
Reading,
T.J. Stiles,
Knopf,
Non-Fiction,
National Book Award,
Books,
Cornelius Vanderbilt,
Vanderbilt,
Books News
Alfred A Knopf is probably looking down from book heaven, stroking his luxuriant mustaches and smiling with delight at yet another Knopf prize winner.
Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer Reading and Booksigning This Sunday
The Watch | The Watch | Posted 11.24.2009 | Home
San Miguel County poet laureate Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer has published her fourth book, Intimate Landscape: The Four Corners Region in Poetry & Photo...
Are You Dickensian?
Matthew Pearl | Posted 11.24.2009 | Books
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Charles Dickens,
Dickensian,
The Last Dickens,
Reading,
A Christmas Carol,
Books,
Dickens,
The Mystery of Edwin Drood,
Books News
The world around us has become more Dickensian lately. At least that's how it seems by the way the word circulates.
Literacy Non-Profit For Teens Recognized At National Book Awards
Seattle Times | Mary Ann Gwinn | Posted 11.23.2009 | Books
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Teen Literacy,
Reading,
Literacy,
Young Adult Books,
Books,
Literacy Non-Profits,
Readergirlz,
Teenagers,
National Book Awards,
Books News
[R]eps from a Seattle-based nonprofit attended the [National Book Awards] event to pick up one of five "Innovations in Reading" prizes for their onlin...
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