Some might call it science fiction; others might call it fantasy. I call it a rippin' good story -- and without being pedantic, it reinforces "the American way" as it was before 2000. The book isn't new -- it was written in 1998-99.
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Today we're particularly thinking about banned books, books on love, and crockpot or soup cookbooks.
Isn't it time for another knitting post on books? Or at least some type of handcrafts?
Please let us know about any great fireside reads too.
Thank you!
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What are you reading now?
If you were going on vacation to a country where you couldn't easily buy books in a language you speak, what books would you bring?
What do you have to read for work?
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Thanks.
We are also looking for recommendations on good fall books, either fiction or non-fiction, especially on travel, cooking, hikes or good fireside reads.
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Lists welcome, as are short or long reviews, essays on fiction, etc.
See our last Book Review, see also why we post, here, and other past book reviews.
]]>Because all over the country, newspapers are closing or cutting book reviews, we are trying to keep the book review tradition alive. For the latest update on the latest closings, see here.
Please post a book review.
All welcome.
What are your top five books?
]]>Newspaper book reviews around the country, along with newspapers, continue their decline. Many newspaper writers and editors have been fired.
Via Forbes:
"Buyouts are being offered to 55 percent of The Sacramento Bee's full-time employees and a smaller number of part-timers, including most editorial employees, according to Sacramento Bee publisher Cheryl Dell...(The Bee is) owned by McClatchy Co., which has seen advertising revenue at its California and Florida newspapers drop 22 percent this year, Dell said....
"Sacramento-based McClatchy owns 30 daily newspapers nationwide. It imposed a companywide wage freeze two weeks ago.
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Please give us a review...or a list of your top ten. Or the best health book, garden book, cookbook...your choice welcome.
What book changed your childhood? See interesting answers from last night here.
This is one of our last calls for beach books too.
Help save fictional lives. Review a book today.
]]>Let's keep the book review tradition alive. If you click each of the last 4 words separately, you will go to our past Sunday Morning Book Reviews, then Lost Clown's Austen Reviews with others reviewing the same book, and then Sarah's 1632 review from last week.
Tell us what's on your bookshelf--just a list is fine.
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Some might call it science fiction; others might call it fantasy. I call it a rippin' good story -- and without being pedantic, it reinforces "the American way" as it was before 2000. The book isn't new -- it was written in 1998-99.
]]> This week another book review section, that of the large and influential LA Times, has ended entirely. A number of very well known and respected authors, as well as brand new writers, had been reviewed there throughout the years. (Book reviews are still being run at the LA Times but without a special section and with less staff (150 editors fired) and less pages available (reduction of 15%.) The motive? Profit.
Apparently that whole "public service" model of newspapers is so old news. And also gone is the theory: "give the readers what they want to sell papers." The on-going motto now seems to be: "newspapers have to make as much profit as possible for their owners as the first consideration."
I started Sunday Morning Book Reviews with this overview (updated below):
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Book reviews have been cut because they are not a big source of ad revenue for the newspapers (except for the NYT Book Review.) But they are an important public service and cultural resource. Many people read book reviews, and used to buy newspapers to read them.
So let's review some books here!
Today, we have a focus on political books...books on politics, on politicians, current and past, on the art of politicking, on the good science of government (or not), political novels...etc.
Because it's summer, we're also running beach books--because you just have to read in the sun on the beach...
And of course, what's on your bookshelf?
]]>Welcome to our book review section, where we help keep the newspapers' dying book review alive.
Please grab your juice, tea, or coffee, and sit down and read our book reviews. (Click "book" for last week's reviews, "reviews" for the week before, or read below.) Then tell us what YOU think...
Please review a book below.
Tell us about...an old favorite, a book that changed your life, what you're reading now, or your choice...
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