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April isn’t ending well for a couple of historians.
Orlando Figes, a University of London professor who specializes in Russian history, was identified as the author of some scathing reviews of other historians’ books on Amazon. Figes originally claimed his wife wrote the the reviews but now has ‘fessed up. But that does not […]
Rebecca asks: With yesterday being Anzac Day, I thought I’d ask a theme question this week. Are you a reader of war books? And if so, do you have any favourites?
I decided to respond to this meme in large part because I just finished Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War by Karl […]
In the midst of National Library Week, the American Library Association has released both its list of the 10 most frequently challenged books of 2009 and the top 100 banned/challenged books of 2000-2009.
Just as with the bestseller lists, J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series is number one on all-decade all-star team, so to speak. […]
Randy Cohen, the NYT‘s “ethicist” caused a minor uproar when he opined last weekend that although downloading a pirated electronic version of a book you already own might be illegal, it is ethical. It led to blood boiling on the part of some publishers and authors while others weren’t all that concerned. I tend to […]
I recently mentioned my overabundance of books waiting to be read. That meant I recently returned one of last month’s lusted for books to the library unread because I couldn’t get to it and someone else was waiting on it. So, to be lusting after even more books is probably ill-advised. But what is an […]
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