Eoin Colfer, author of the Artemis Fowl YA novels and several other books, is a very, very funny man. [...]
|
|||||
   |
It’s Read an E-Book Week! It started yesterday, March 7th, and goes until March 13th. Some of the e-books are free, while others are, as the site says, “deeply discounted.” Many participants are offering a different free download each day during the week. [...] Anyone who’s talked books with me for any length of time will already know my favourite female author — my favourite author, period. Dorothy Dunnett is my favourite fiction author of all time. [...] Yes everyone, it’s time for “Canada Reads” once again. That is, time for the books and their defenders to be announced, so that we all have time to read them before the big discussion and final vote in the spring. [...] Another very cool thing happening for Sawyer right now is the taping of an ABC TV series, Flash Forward, based on his novel of the same name. In this story, the consciousness of every human being on earth is jumped into the future for two minutes, before returning to their own time. [...] I’m sure I heard about this before, but it still comes as news to me today, airhead that I am. Lost Agatha Christie tale debuts Saturday: An unpublished Agatha Christie short story, The Capture of Cerberus, will appear in print for the first time on Saturday. The Daily Mail newspaper in Britain has acquired [...] I don’t think any of my usual readers are in New York, but in case anyone drops by, something really cool is happening tomorrow: the very firstAsian American Comicon. According to this Publishers Weekly article, “Asian American Comicon Debuts in New York,” the con actually grew out of a panel discussion related to Secret Identities, [...] |
 |
|||
|
Copyright © 2012 Bookishgal - All Rights Reserved 
|
|||||