Bookdwarf

My friend Churchill bought this book in our used department the other day:

The boys at Green Apple Books made a hilarious series of videos showing a smackdown between the Book and Amazon’s Kindle:

I’ve been pondering what to say about Jonathan Lethem’s forthcoming novel Chronic City all week. No matter how careful, I worry that I’ll give something away in writing about it. Not that there’s a secret twist necessarily, but the whole book seems cloaked in a paranoia. Perhaps it’s all the pot the characters smoke? Like [...]

Shelf Awareness reports Sean Bean will star in HBO’s adaptation of the George R.R. Martin fantasy-book series Game of Thrones, with Tom McCarthy directing. The Hollywood Reporter noted that “Mark Addy is in final negotiations to also join the production. Kit Harrington, Jack Gleeson and Harry Lloyd also have come aboard. . . . Bean [...]

Summer finally hit New England. I spent a lovely, hot Saturday wandering around Davis Square’s ArtBeat. I’ve lived in the neighborhood for ten years and not a day goes by that I’m not thankful I live in such a great area. I also finished reading Christopher Priest’s The Inverted World over the weekend, published by [...]

Due to the appendix nonsense, I’m very behind at work, which is why I haven’t been blogging. I want to take a minute to mention two great books, however, because they’re so fantastic: Brooklyn by Colm Toibin and Let the Great World Spin by Column McCann. Pretty much all they have to do with each [...]