- Electronic Books Vs Traditional Books
Ebooks have come a long way in the last ten years, but is this a good thing? What's best about electronic books compared to traditional books? Will physical books die out one day?...
- Electronic Books Vs Traditional Books
Ebooks have come a long way in the last ten years, but is this a good thing? What's best about electronic books compared to traditional books? Will physical books die out one day?...
- The Top 5 Art Books
Books have always been a source of inspiration for all kinds of artists. Though there are endless collections of books that can be recognized for today's modern art paintings, this article intends to enlist the top 5 art books that have inspired the multiple generations of art and portrait artists till date....
- Several Steps to Protect Hardcover Book Corners
For those who own expensive text books or any other kind of hardcover books can feel worry if they find that their books are damaged by some causes. Actually, there are some steps that you can follow for protecting the corners of your books from wear and tear. At this time, this article is going to give you some tips to protect corners of your hardcover books by using tape for wrapping...
- Dave Cowen: Live Your Life
I am not a fan of books. I would never want a book’s autograph. I am a proud non-reader of books. I like to get information from doing stuff like actually talking to people and living real life.—Kanye West, promoting his book “Thank You . . ....
- Books: “Mice.”
Reece, the author of several children’s books, makes his adult début with a topical, tautly plotted novel that centers on a bullied teen-ager who discovers her own capacity for violence. Shelley, a meek and studious girl, retreats to an isolated cottage in the British countryside . . . (Subscription required.)...
- Books: “The Curfew.”
Ball’s fiction lies at some oscillating coördinate between Kafka and Calvino: swift, intense fables composed of equal parts wonder and dread. In previous books, the author—a poet with the mind of a cardsharp—has seemed giddy with his powers of invention, as his . . . (Subscription required.)...
- Books: “Mr. Toppit.”
This début novel examines the unexpected consequences of literary fame. Luke Hayman is, to his dismay, better known as Luke Hayseed, the young hero of children’s books written by his father, Arthur, now dead. Luke longs to escape his fictional doppelgänger, but the comparisons . . . (Subscription required.)...
- Complete Your Home Library With Novel Books
Most people interested in expanding the intellect populate their home bookshelves with non-fiction, but fiction - especially novel books, those one-of-a-kind works of exquisite creativity, benefit the reader in many ways. Reading well-written novels broadens the horizons, boosts vocabulary and tantalizes the imagination. Such books take us away from our own existence and place us in someone...
- Books: “True Compass”
It’s hard to pinpoint the moment in this memoir when Ted Kennedy first seems like a grownup. It’s later than it ought to be—well after his election to the Senate. You think he’s there when he’s the one who must . . ....
- Audio Books on the Move
There is a level of professionalism in audio books these days that is unprecedented and audio books are thriving. With all the options for listening, including of course the plethora of mobile devices we now have, from iPhones to iPods to mp3 players, portable CD players and even the GPS navigation devices we have in our cars, we now have many choices, all giving us the opportunity to engage...
- Books: “The Origins of Political Order.”
This ambitious and highly readable study draws on the disciplines of biology, anthropology, economics, and political philosophy to chart how various pre-eighteenth-century agrarian societies, beginning with China, India, and the Ottoman Empire, changed from kin-based tribal communities to societies characterized by an impersonal, merit-based bureaucracy that . . . (Subscription...
- Goings on About Town: Readings and Talks
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Leading children’s-book authors, illustrators, and other related parties—including Jerry Pinkney, Leo and Diane Dillon, Art Spiegelman, Françoise Mouly, Charles Santore, Laura Cornell, Holly Hobbie, Brett Helquist, and John Rocco—gather to discuss their latest books, in advance of . . ....
- About Healthy Living
Over the years, thousands of books have been written about healthy diets and lifestyles. In many cases, the information in those books has been proven false or outdated....
- Jhumpa Lahiri: Notes from an apprenticeship.
Books, and the stories they contained, were the only things I felt I was able to possess as a child. Even then, the possession was not literal; my father is a librarian, and perhaps because he believed in collective property, or perhaps because my parents considered buying books for me . . ....
- Audio Books Online Are a Great Resource For the Enthusiasts
For centuries, people have considered books to be dear friends and fascinating companions that are capable of opening up doors of knowledge and expanding their understanding of the world on many levels. For a number of years, audio book versions have been a popular alternative for people who can't always find the time to read everything they wanted to read and so audio books online are...
- Ngaio Marsh – A True Example of a Great Mystery Author
Ngaio Marsh is one of the best examples of a great mystery author. Her books span from the early 1930s to the early 1980s, with all of them being exceptionally good. Too many times, an author loses steam after writing several books in a series, but still continues to publish books almost on automatic pilot. Not so with Ngaio Marsh!...
- Books: Reviewers’ favorites from 2010.
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- Books: “Parisians.”
Robb’s zesty chronicle of the City of Light is neither a people’s history nor a prince’s. Told in layers through the eyes of the metropolis’s citizens, it encompasses Proust and Pompidou, Hitler and Napoleon, architects and bohemians, alchemists and prostitutes. Throughout, the . . ....
- Google Books hearing officially delayed
The judge overseeing Google Books settlement has agreed to the plaintiffs' request for a delay of the final hearing scheduled to approve the controversial proposal....
- Books: “The Changeling.”
Oe’s latest novel to be translated into English is an essayistic, and often frankly autobiographical, examination of the narrator’s relationship with his brother-in-law Goro, a filmmaker, and the emotional aftermath of Goro’s suicide. (Oe’s brother-in-law, the famous Japanese . . ....
- Books: “The Illumination.;”
In this moving novel, an enigmatic event (the “illumination” of the title) renders all pain radiant: every headache and broken bone glows with an otherworldly light. Brockmeier’s characters, however, all suffer more acutely from emotional wounds, which remain invisible—the inability to communicate, the loneliness . . . (Subscription required.)...
- Books: “Gone to the Dogs”
This irreverent novel inverts the romantic-farce convention of the hero as lovable loser. Here it’s the heroine who’s the ambitionless slob, a grad-school dropout treading water as a waitress and living in a pigsty of an apartment. When she’s eighty-sixed by . . ....
- Books: “Caleb’s Crossing.”
In previous novels, Brooks has conjured Restoration England, Civil War America, and Europe during the Spanish Inquisition. Here she filters the early Colonial era through the eyes of a restless minister’s daughter growing up on the island known today as Martha’s Vineyard. Despite her father’ . . . (Subscription required.)...
- Books: “Hell”
Hatcher McCord is a news anchor with an unusual assignment: to ask Hell’s tortured celebrity denizens, “Why do you think you’re here?” In this compelling surrealist romp, McCord is chauffeured through Hell’s sulfurous streets by Richard Nixon in Satan’s own . . ....
- Comic Books For Sale – So Many Choices
The series "The House of Mystery" was a good place to get an idea for a ghost story so I could scare my sisters. With all these old comic books for sale I can pick and chose from my old favorites. Best of all I can show them to my son and watch his eyes grow as the plot thickens....
- Books: “The Routes of Man.”
Conover reflects on the nature of roads by travelling six specimens, including a West Bank highway, an Andean logging route, and a Himalayan ice trail. Genial and unassuming, he has a knack for fitting in—earlier books found him hanging out with hobos and working as a prison guard . . ....
- Books Collection – The Driving Factors For a Wondrous Hobby
Reading books is among the most resourceful hobbies and most readers end up being ardent book collectors. There may be several factors that encourage book collection and a few of them are in this article....
