Category: Books
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Nostalgia and RL
I finished reading Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One today. I checked it out for the Kindle from the North Carolina Digital Library (which made me feel super cool and “future is now!” and everything, fitting pretty well with the book). I hope Mr. Cline doesn’t mind that I didn’t pay anything for it… It took me…
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Rare Children’s Books
Children’s literature is big business these days. Just go to any mega-chain bookstore and check out the square footage devoted to the kids. It’s fantastic that there are so many options for young readers, but the popularity of children’s literature is hardly a new phenomenon. The bookn3rd blog, which focuses on book history, has some…
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Resources for Reading Out Loud
My wife just finished listening to Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere on audiobook. She’s been gushing all month about how fantastic of a reader Mr. Gaiman is–he narrated the book himself–and how he gets all the accents just right. This is something very important to the two of us, as we both love stories read aloud, but…
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b00kn3rd: Really Cool Blog on Rare Books
My friend Laura recently started up a blog called b00kn3rd.com that focuses on all things related to bibliophilia: rare books, the modern bookselling trade, and the history of books. I have to admit, I’m much more up-to-speed with the book trade than I was before I added her blog feed to Reader. She has a…
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Steampunk Novel Checklist
My lovely and talented wife, Natania Barron, who is hard at work on her second book–a steampunk novel of sorts called The Aldersgate Cycle–has posted a fairly humorous steampunk novel checklist. So far, it looks like she’s meeting all the right criteria. It really is a wonderful book and I’m really looking forward to where…