Bethanne Patrick Joins Shelf Awareness
Bethanne Patrick (pictured, via) has joined Shelf Awareness. According to the publishing site, Patrick will serve as “editor of our upcoming consumer publication.”
We reached out to the site, but no more details were offered about the new...
The Book Maven’s Top 10 of 2010
Creating this list is one of the biggest challenges of each year for me. There are many worthy contenders, and I'm never entirely certain that I've chosen the best books of the year. That's why I don't call this a "Best of" list; it's merely ...
Books for Holiday Giving 2010
Once a month, I trek to the Big Apple and share my book picks with the lovely Kristen Shaughnessy at NY1 Cable. It helps me to focus my thoughts to share with you here, since I have less than two minutes per segment in which to cover five books!&n...
Recommended Reading: "The Company Town" by Hardy Green, reviewed by Mark Athitakis
The Company Town: The Industrial Edens and Satanic Mills That Shaped the American Economy
By Hardy Green
Basic Books, 288 pp., $26.95
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"Homer and Langley" by E.L. Doctorow, reviewed by Matthew Tiffany
The Collyer brothers lived in Manhattan of the early 1900s, hermits and hoarders in the city before modern efficiencies of rumormongering and rapid news transit took hold. They did not live in an era where compulsive hoarders are filmed into a cable te...
Top Ten Reads: The Thriller Edition — UPDATED
UPDATE: Here are the NY1 clips:
NY1 -- Bethanne Patrick discusses Thrillers for Her
NY1 -- Bethanne Patrick discusses Thrillers for Him
Greetings, readers! We have so much happening here at The WETA Book Studio behind the...
September Top 10 Reads Review: "Freedom: A Novel" by Jonathan Franzen
"Freedom: A Novel" by Jonathan Franzen (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; September 2010)
Reviewed by Levi Asher
There’s a subtle change of tone between "The Corrections," Jonathan Franzen’s 2001 bestseller...
September Top 10 Reads Review: "To the End of the Land" by David Grossman
"To the End of the Land" by David Grossman/Alfred A. Knopf, September 2010
Reviewed by Michele Filgate
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September Top 10 Reads Review: "The Elephant’s Journey" by Jose Saramago
"The Elephant's Journey" by Jose Saramago/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, September 2010
Reviewed by Matthew Tiffany
Jose Saramago is one of those authors that writes each character with a love - whether the character be likable or despicabl...
