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Required Reading: Devastatingly Sad Books

flavorwire.com | Posted 07.12.2011

Read More: Ernest Hemingway, Emma Donoghue, She's Come Undone, Room, Lorrie Moore, Sad Books, The Year of Magical Thinking, Susan Sheehan, Atonement, Wally Lamb, The Road, Joan Didion, Joyce Carol Oates, A Widow?S Story, Ian McEwan, Islands in the Stream, Cormac McCarthy, Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro, Books News

We’re the first to admit that, sometimes, the best cure for a hard week, a long day or just a rainy weekend is a really sad book....

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Books to Get Me in the Christmas Mood (While the Cookies Burn)

Nina Sankovitch | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: David Small, Augusten Burroughs, Lois Lenksi, A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens, Tazewell Thompson, Ghosts for Christmas, Wally Lamb, Kate Kingsbury, Christmas booksRumpole, John Mortimer, Pennyfoot Hotel, Margaret Maron, David Sedaris, Bonny Becker, St, Books News
Nina Sankovitch

Christmas is coming and all of our family Christmas books have been brought down from the attic.

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Bidding Farewell to Accidental Books

Sophia Dembling | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kindle, Lolita, Reading, Luggage, Airports, Wally Lamb, Readers, Facebook, Devil Wears Prada, Digital Age, Annie Proulx, Vacation, Books, Digital Books, Nostalgia, Flying, Ipad, Books News
Sophia Dembling

Accidental books are books we might not have chosen given unlimited choice, but also don't mind reading when they fall in our path.

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Reading In Public: Not Everybody's Reading The Top Of The Bestseller List (PHOTOS, POLL)

The Huffington Post | Amy Hertz and Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Slidepollajax, Bestsellers, Godin, Tribes, Let the Great World Spin, Literary Prizes, Bus, New Moon, Ereader, Subway, Airplane, Wally Lamb, Kindle, Stephenie Meyer, City of Thieves, Flight, Toibin, Twighlight, Ebooks, Books News

Reading books in public makes a statement, we think, about how someone feels about a particular work. It usually means someone is engaged enough that ...

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The Future of Publishing: 10 Predictions Plus 2

Laurence Hughes | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Daniel Pink, New Decade, New Year, Books, Nostradamus, On the Road, J.G. Ballard, Publishing, Predictions, Rodeo Clowns, Vampire Novels, New Year New You, Antichrist, Comedy of Errors, Wally Lamb, Satanic Bible, Audrey Niffenegger, John Grisham, End of Days, Armageddon, One City One Book, Scott Turow, Twitter, Her Fearful Symmetry, St. Paul, Twin Cities, Oprah, Dickie, Shakespeare, Book Publishing, Bestsellers, Ebooks, Books News
Laurence Hughes

I had hoped to be out in front of the pack with some pithy prophecies of my own, but the holidays got in the way. Turns out the only thing I'm better at than prognostication is procrastination.

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New Books Ring Out the Ghosts of Christmas Past

Nina Sankovitch | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gregory Maguire, Augusten Burroughs, Christmas, Wally Lamb, John Mortimer, Santa, Hank Stuever, Rumpole, Cleo Coyle, Books News
Nina Sankovitch

Augusten Burroughs' You Better Not Cry, Wally Lamb's Wishin' and Hopin', and John Mortimer's posthumous releases in A Rumpole Christmas all pop a cork of nostalgia for times gone by.

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