most readers are reading more than 2 books a Book Club Buddy - Where book readers and authors connect and book clubs thrive! Irish Authors January 21, 2011 11:30 PM AUTHOR INTERVIEW: Sinead Moriarty Sinead Moriarty is an Irish author who has penned several novels including In My Sister's Shoes, A Perfect Match and From Here to Maternity. Her latest novel, Pieces of My Heart, was released in January and we absolutely loved it! Naturally, we just had to ask Sinead some questions...Please describe your latest book in 15 words or fewer.Its a bitter sweet tale about a family struggling with a life-threatening crisis. What inspired you to write Pieces of My Heart? What are you currently reading? Do you have any tips for readers who are looking to become published authors? Thanks, Sinead! You can find out more about Sinead Moriarty at her website. Posted by Elle Symonds on January 21, 2011 in Interviews, Irish Authors | Permalink | Comments (0) January 13, 2011 12:32 PM BOOK REVIEW: Hello Heartbreak by Amy Huberman Twenty-seven year-old Izzy Keegan has just been dumped by Cian, her boyfriend of three years. Rating: 4/5 And as for Mr Flood?
Share Book Recommendations With Your Friends, Join Book Clubs, Answer Trivia 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. 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 Atherton, Nancy – Aunt Dimity and the Wishing Well – 9780670026692 Bova, Ben – Transhuman – 9780765332936 Calvino, Italo- The Complete Cosmicomics – 9780544231931 Cotterill, Colin – The Axe Factor – 9781250043368 de Rosnay, Tatiana- The Other Story – 9781250045133 Dickey, Eric Jerome- A Wanted Woman – 9780525954279 Hayes, Samantha- Until You’re Mine – 9780804136907 Roberts, Nora- The Collector – 9780399164453 Nonfiction Best Books of 2013 News of the Week: Awards Lists
7 Apps That Will Help You Use Your iPad For Writing Projects While each of us has our own particular needs, I’m sure one or more of these apps will serve your needs. So get ready to set up a folder on your tablet and download a useful collection of resources. Evernote At the top of the list, the popular Evernote app (iTunes Store Link) and web syncing service is an essential tool for writing on the iPad. You can throw in all kinds of text based files, as well as photos and audio notes, into Evernote which will automatically sync all your notes to your iPad, as well as your Mac or PC. Evernote includes a basic text writing tool that of course also syncs back to your computer or other devices. Infinote Pinboard For brainstorming and clustering your ideas, download Infinote Pinboard (iTunes Store Link). SimpleNote The best free option for a fully fledged writing application on your iPad is SimpleNote (iTunes Store Link), which I reviewed here. Private Journal WordPress WordPress (iTunes Store Link) has also developed an application for its users. DraftPad
Top 10 Best Novels of the Last 20 Years Books The ten novels on this list all substantiate the belief that books are the most elastic, introspective, human and entertaining form of media that exist. Not movies, not music, not art, not the theatre. A famous author once said that novels are the best way for two human beings to connect with each other. Music for Torching by A.M. First Sentence: ”It is after midnight on one of those Friday nights when the guests have all gone home and the host and hostess are left in their drunkenness to try and put things right again.” As the only woman on the list, A. Homes makes this common enough theme of suburban ennui feel real with her shining prose, a secondary cast of interesting plots and characters, and lack of a fairy-tale ending. Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk (1996) First Sentence: “Tyler gets me a job as a waiter, after that Tyler’s pushing a gun in my mouth and saying, the first step to eternal life is you have to die.” Of course, Palahniuk had to be on this list. House of Leaves The Road
The Best Science Fiction Books (According to Reddit) - StumbleUpon Recently, someone asked Reddit for a list of the best science fiction books of all time. Being a fan of sci-fi, and wanting to expand my own reading list, I thought it would be helpful to tally the results and preserve them here for future reference. I've also included selected quotes from the comments, as well as my own notes on the books I've already read. PS: All book images in this post are copyright Amazon, and were retrieved using my Big Book Search Engine. So, without further ado, here are the Greatest Sci-Fi Books of All Time, ordered by upvote count: Dune Frank Herbert - 1965 "There's a reason it's the global top selling science fiction book of all time." - NibblyPig If you have a chance, track down the excellent full cast audiobook (unabridged!) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams - 1979 "I really love the cool combination of humor, philosophy, and sheer nuttiness of the entire series." - Scarbrow Ender's Game Orson Scott Card - 1985 Foundation Trilogy Isaac Asimov - 1942
The stars of modern SF pick the best science fiction Brian AldissStar Maker by Olaf Stapledon (1937) It requires little sophistry to consider Daniel Defoe's immortal Robinson Crusoe as a metaphor for a man stranded on an alien planet. Crusoe is an exile, and exile has proved a perennial theme within the genre of science fiction. Of all its great themes, lingering on the fringes of comprehension is Star Maker, by Olaf Stapledon (1882-1950). Stapledon was an exile, his childhood spent between Egypt and England. It was published in 1937, when it received a rather chilly reception; the public did not know what to make of it. The opening sentence of Star Maker is: "One night when I had tasted bitterness I went out on to the hill." What can we make of this terrible thing creating and controlling entire galaxies? "All passions, it seemed, were compromised within the spirit's temper: but mastered, icily gripped within the cold, clear, crystal ecstasy of contemplation." Stapledon's book embraces the firmament. It took me years to read Watchmen.
Digital Digest: How Much Should an E-Book Cost? Poetry isn’t often quoted in judicial rulings, but when Judge Denise Cote of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York approved the settlement of a federal antitrust suit against three publishing houses this past September, she channeled Emily Dickinson: “There is no Frigate like a Book / To take us Lands away.” The deal marked partial closure for a price-fixing investigation launched last spring by the Justice Department, which alleged that five major publishers, along with Apple, had been secretly working to erode Amazon’s market dominance by colluding to set higher prices on e-books. Judge Cote no doubt intended her poetic metaphor as a comment on the social value of books, but the case has intensified arguments over value in its more literal sense, and in particular over who ought to decide one of the thorniest questions in the digital marketplace: How much should an e-book cost? Both cases have become flash points for debates over the economics of e-books.
Links to Themes in U.S. History, 1876-1916 Websites to Themes in U.S. History, 1876-1916 Compiled by Clarice Stasz, Ph.D. Jack London lived during a time of major change, when industrialization and urbanization were becoming dominant. Jim Crow and "separate but equal", along with Chinese exclusionary laws and Indian genocide put racial differences in the forefront of people's minds. At the same time, workers movements responded to unhealthy conditions, long hours, and low pay. All was not so conflicted, of course. NEH Edsitement This wonderfully rich site provides lesson plans for American art ,culture, literature, history, and social studies. 19th Century America, Kingman College LibraryEach decade gets a page, with special emphasis on the culture and society of the time. Digital History An exceptional entree to lesson plans, handouts, documents, media, and much more, for the entire of U.S. history. History Matters Another gateway to lesson plans by the Social History Project. America in the 1890s.
O. Henry The American short story writer O. Henry (1862 - 1910) was born under the name William Sydney Porter in Greensboro, North Carolina in 1862. His short stories are well known throughout the world; noted for their witticism, clever wordplay, and unexpected "twist" endings. Like many other writers, O. O. But banking in particular was not to be O. O. O. The Cop and the Anthem is about A New York City hobo with a creative solution for dealing with the cold city streets during winter. In 1952 Marilyn Monroe and Charles Laughton starred in O. Unfortunately, O. Enjoy some illustrated Short Stories from O. Jeff Peters as a Personal Magnet