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Sophisticated Dorkiness — A bookworm journalist blogs on literature and life. Ricklibrarian. Book Reviews, Excerpts, eBooks and Reader Exclusives - HuffPost Books. Books. Berlusconi’s So-Called Bunga-Bunga Life By Barbie Latza Nadeau In a new authorized biography, ‘My Way,’ there’s an ‘awestruck’ Putin, the sick joke he and Gaddafi made famous—and the Italian playboy PM who remains as slippery as ever. Keep Reading Books Did CIA Director Order the Hit on JFK? By James A. Warren10.13.15 1519 Shares The Ladybird Book Covers: Grown-up Ed...

By William Boot10.13.15 17 Shares U.K. By Tom Sykes10.13.15 50 Shares We’re Suckers for Hil’s Redemption Story By Gil Troy10.13.15 60 Shares How Hillary Remade Her Image By Gil Troy10.12.15 416 Shares Is ‘Artisanal’ Music the Next New Thing? By Ted Gioia10.11.15 3676 Shares Dolley Madison’s Killer Fish Croquettes By Ailsa von Dobeneck10.11.15 394 Shares My Cancer Is As Strange As My Fiction By Adrian Barnes10.11.15 1012 Shares Lou Reed: Dylan Is a ‘Pretentious Kike’ By Nico Hines10.10.15 16579 Shares When Smoking Was Fun By Luc Sante10.10.15 1295 Shares Meet Little Miss Overshare and Mr Selfie By Tim Teeman10.10.15 708 Shares President? 3481 Shares close. Citizen Reader. Blog of a Bookslut. April 20, 2016 Jessa and Ashley, ready to party. The end is nigh, friends! May 2nd will mark the 14th-anniversary, and final, issue of Bookslut. Join us in celebrating the glorious life of our beloved slut with cocktails and stimulating conversation on May 6th, 7 pm at Melville House.

We will be serving up Deaths in the Afternoon, aka the Hemingway, for your refreshment, but please feel free to bring supplemental libations, potato chip offerings for Jessa, etc. as the spirit moves you. Friday May 6th 7pmMelville House 46 John St Brooklyn, NY 11201 F to York; A/C to High St. Detail from Luca Signorelli's chapel at Orvieto Cathedral. The explosion of tempered glass excites a particular blend of fear and fascination, the break propagating at many times the speed of sound, splitting into progressively smaller pieces that jingle and pop and leap at your legs, frozen in mid-step, long after the first boom has ceased to roar down your auditory nerve. April 18, 2016 March 9, 2016 Hey guys. March 6, 2016. Shelf Awareness. EarlyWord: The Publisher | Librarian ConnectionEarlyWord: The Publisher | Librarian Connection - The Publisher | Librarian Connection.

The Reader’s Advisor Online Blog. The readers’s advisory librarian’s weekly update, from a scan of more than 100 blogs, newsletters, magazines, newspapers and television. This blog is brought to you by the Reader’s Advisor Online. TRY THE FREE RAO DATABASE based on Libraries Unlimited’s print Genreflecting Advisory series. Give it a whirl and let us know how you like it. We’d love to hear from you. Feel free to comment on any of our posts, or contact us at rablog@librariesunlimited.com. By Cindy Orr and Sarah Statz Cords New to Bestseller Lists This Week: GRAPHIC BOOKS and MANGA To Be Published Week of April 14-20, 2014 Here are just a very few: Fiction Nonfiction Remember, this is just a sample from our picks of the week.

Best Books of 2013 Our list of Best Books of 2013 is still up in the right hand column as usual, and we’ve begun adding links to lists of the favorite, best, or hottest Previews of 2014 Books. News of the Week: Trends and Hot Titles Happy National Library Week! What will be the next Game of Thrones? Awards Lists.