Chances are there’s a Borders store near you that’s either closing or will close within the next year. Fortunately, the store in my town will remain open – for now - though another location 15 minutes north of here isn’t quite so lucky. I’ve visited the unfortunate Borders store three times since they put up the [...]
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The ten most boring books
Posted: February 21, 2011 in Lists, Lists and More Lists, Reading HabitsTags: boring books, reading, unread books
According to a columnist for the Guardian U.K., these are the ten most boring books ever written: 1. Robert Burton: The Anatomy of Melancholy 2. Robert Musil: The Man Without Qualities 3. Kazuo Ishiguro: The Unconsoled 4. Malcolm Lowry: Under the Volcano 5. Virginia Woolf: The Waves 6. James Joyce: Finnegans Wake 7. Thomas Wolfe: Look [...]
War and Peace 101
Posted: January 31, 2011 in Reading HabitsTags: natasha rostov, tolstoy, war and peace
[Content previously published in another, undisclosed location where I can swear with abandon and discuss embarrassing personal habits, none of which are considered appropriate on a professional blog. Go figure. And not the same undisclosed located which Dick Cheney inhabited for eight years, which was called "Narnia."] Welp, I finished it. All 1,200ish pages of War [...]
April 18, 2010 Scrawled in the Margins, Signs of Twain as a Critic By ALISON LEIGH COWAN By the end of his life, Samuel Langhorne Clemens had achieved fame as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi, a globe-trotting lecturer and, of course, the literary genius who wrote “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” and other works [...]
This from The WashingtonPost.com: ” Amazon ( NSDQ: AMZN) CEO Jeff Bezos has been famously tight lipped on anything to do with data on the Kindle. Just about the only hard stat ever given out is that of the 125,000 titles the company sells in both physical and electronic forms, the electronic ones account for [...]
Is there a difference between what men and women look for in a novel? Apparently so, according to at least one study conducted this year in the UK. The researchers found, among other things, these contrasts between the sexes: ” Women readers used much-loved books to support them through difficult times and emotional turbulence. They [...]
