Bibliophile Roll Call – Sites To Enjoy
A list of book-related blogs to enjoy, and coming events for bibliophiles everywhere!
Category Archives: Reading
Get your Geek on…
Tomorrow, May 1st, 2010, is FREE COMIC BOOK DAY!
Since 2002, the first Saturday in May has been celebrated as Free Comic Book Day in independent comic book stores internationally.
Top Five Poems to Celebrate Spring
I am wrapped in thunder and delight, watching the flickering lightning, entranced at the window like a child on her birthday morning. Thunderstorms mean many things to me, but at this fine moment the rumble is repeating only one phrase: Wake up! Spring is coming!
My Top 10 Book Picks for 2009
Here are my top 10 picks for books released this past year.
Get Your Rare Book Fix in Boston
One of the oldest and largest book fairs in the country, the 2009 Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair is sure to be a crowd-pleaser. Browsers and buyers will have the chance to see several incredibly rare books, such as a signed, first edition of Amelia
What I really think of the Kindle…
It’s time to confess: I’ve been “playing nice” during the recent explosion in e-reader popularity. It stops now.
Join the Biblio Book Hunt
We like to play games. But only ones where our customers win something big–like a $200 BiblioBucks gift certificate. And what better game to play than a treasure hunt? So welcome to the Biblio Book Hunt, a treasure hunt exclusively for our Twitter fans! Here’s
“It was a dark and stormy night…”
The winners of the annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction contest have been announced! “What the heck is that?” You may ask yourself. The contest is a fiction parody contest inspired by novelist Edward George Earl Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873). Bulwer-Lytton was famous for The Last Days of Pompeii and
Protesting CPSIA – an activists’ guide for bookstores and libraries
As people are beginning to realize, the recent passage of CPSIA has deep ramifications for education and literacy, reducing access to books in stores, libraries and charities. Hardest hit are the economically disadvantaged children among us. Here are some ideas to help get started in
The Big Kindle; a Bibliophile’s Prognosis
The Buick got bigger. Amazon announced yesterday the release of the new, large format Kindle, specifically designed to appeal to students. Unfortunately, I think that its doomed to fail in the college market – at least on its own merits for three intertwined reasons. As