Bookdwarf

It’s a very nasty day here in Cambridge, all billowy and cold, down to the bones cold. I’ve been quiet again. I’m just not reading much that excites me these days. Right now I’m reading Cleaving by Julie Powell. I’m not sure why though. Trust me to say that I’m not here to trash her [...]

My friend Emily Pullen at Skylight Books in Los Angeles wrote a great post about the price wars between Amazon and Wal-Mart. If you haven’t heard, the two behemoths are reducing prices of bestsellers to ridiculous prices. I love Emily’s response: But times are tough, everyone’s pockets are feeling a little empty these days, right? [...]

Owner of my store, Jeffrey Mayersohn, has a post over at the Huffington Post, where he discusses why exactly he bought the store. The trailer for The Fantastic Mr. Fox directed by Wes Anderson looks amazing! The National Book Award Finalists were announced today. It’s an odd list, if I might say so. Almost no [...]

The 2009 prize was awarded to Herta Muller. I had to look her up. The Literary Saloon has more information on her.

The title of the post pretty much says it all. “Speaking on stage after her name was announced, Mantel said: ‘I can tell you at this moment I am happily flying through the air.’”

New England booksellers are optimistic according to this PW article about the NEIBA trade show I missed last week in Hartford. “Incoming NEIBA president Dick Hermans, owner of Oblong Books & Music in Millerton and Rhinebeck, N.Y., said that his stores were up in August, which is usually his third biggest month.” Optimistic booksellers are [...]

I read these two large books back to back: Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel and The Children’s Book by A.S. Byatt. One of the few things they have in common is that they’re both shortlisted for this year’s Man Booker Prize. One is an exploration of Tudor politics through the eyes of one of the [...]