BNA_Daily | October 30, 2009
Just in time for Halloween, Stephen King is popping up everywhere in the lit-blog world. The master of horror has several projects in the works, including a vampire series told through serial comics and a 1,000+ page thriller. His stories are also being used in an anthology tracing American horror and our obsession with being [...]
BNA_Daily | October 29, 2009
Today’s news is a series of best and worst, with Omnivoracious beginning their “Best Books of the Year” countdown, AbeBooks announcing the “worst pulp novelist of all time,” and Philip Roth foreseeing a fearful reading apocalypse. Scary, and just in time for Halloween.
It’s not quite December, but Omnivoracious has begun the countdown for Best Books [...]
BNA_Daily | October 28, 2009
With the excitement of Teen Read Week last week, we didn’t mention the latest book from Malcolm Gladwell that released last Tuesday. What the Dog Saw is a compilation of Gladwell’s best articles from years as a staff writer for The New Yorker. Topics range from birth control to Enron to dog whispering, which keeps [...]
BNA_Daily | October 26, 2009
Recently the National Book Award Finalists were announced, including five titles in the the Young People’s Literature category. Three biographies and two works of fiction make up the list, and we’ve combined review quotes and brief synopses to introduce you to each title. Which book do you think is the strongest, and what do you [...]
BNA_Daily | October 21, 2009
In keeping with Teen Read Week, today’s news centers around the YA world, with a disproportionate number of John Green references.what can we say, this self-proclaimed nerd is extremely popular!
Is David Small’s Stitches a young adult book? Lots of people have been asking this question since the National Book Award finalists were announced, and John [...]
thomas_b | October 20, 2009
Sure, it’s TEEN Read Week, but that doesn’t mean that you can’t also use this time to promote great books and reading to children who are going to be teens eventually. If your child or tween wants to find some engaging reading material for the Halloween season, but they’re not quite ready to venture into [...]
BNA_Daily | October 20, 2009
Move over Bella! Readers are falling for Katniss and Fire, the heroines of two current bestsellers that aren’t afraid to fight (in some cases, to the death) for what they believe in. In honor of Teen Read Week, we wanted to highlight these young women and the exciting novels they star in. Chances are, you [...]
thomas_b | October 19, 2009
Do you know a teenager who needs to be dragged away from his Twitter feed and dragged into a local library? Are you a teen yourself who needs to figure out something new to read now that Bella and Edward’s adventures are through? Well, this is the PERFECT time of the year to re-introduce an [...]
BNA_Daily | October 16, 2009
National Book Award finalists, stuff white people like, and a “masochistic” author that does stand up - it’s the perfect mix of Friday randomness. Enjoy!
This week the National Book Award finalists were announced, with five nominees listed in each of four categories: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and young people’s literature. Publishers Weekly, The Millions, and Jacket [...]
BNA_Daily | October 15, 2009
On Tuesday, Michael Connelly’s latest installment of the Harry Bosch series, Nine Dragons, released to an onslaught of rave reviews. In this book, the 15th in the Harry Bosch drama, Bosch must deal with his normally locked up emotional side while investigating a case that takes him to Hong Kong. This time, it’s impossible for [...]
