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While looking at various blog posts via my RSS newsreader, I stumbled across a compilation of book-related statistics and facts at ParaPublishing. Although some are a bit dated, here’s several that caught my eye:
In 1947, there were 357 publishers, that increased to 12,000 in 1980, to nearly 53,000 in 1984 and an estimated 73,000 […]
I’ve said before that my book tastes would probably mean those who pride themselves on their literary status would classify me as an “illiterati.” The NYT Book Review asked a large panel of judges to vote for “the single best work of American fiction published in the last 25 years.” While certainly the Review doesn’t […]
I don’t usually do these “meme” things but found this one interesting enough to break my rule. It is based on list of books below. The instructions: bold the ones you’ve read, italicize the ones you might read, cross out the ones you won’t, underline the ones on your book shelf, and place parentheses around […]
As I battle the annual spring illness, a few awards slid by that are worthy of mentioning:
Of course, you should have heard that the 2006 Pulitzer Prizes were handed out. Geraldine Brooks won the Fiction award for March; David M. Oshinsky won the History award for Polio: An American Story; the Biography award went […]
As I thought about the last two books I requested from publishers to review, I began wondering what they indicated about my taste in reading material. Are my tastes eclectic or simply eccentric? Do they make me “well-rounded” or weird?
The first was Jason Colavito’s The Cult of Alien Gods. It explores two themes. The […]
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