I ran across The Bookaholics’ Guide to Book Blogs the other day while doing some holiday shopping. I have seen plenty of online writings about the cottage-industry of “book blogs” and “lit blogs”, but never an actual book. Are there others?
This 254-pager seems to give the backgrounds for some ‘big names’ in the book blog world. It might be a fun read. Here is the synopsis from the UK site (it’s a lot more succinct than the US one. Continue reading A book of book blogs
Here is my review of David Silverman’s Typo. Which also happens to be listed in the running for “Best Business Book of 2007” (click here to vote) as presented by 800-CEO-READ.
It looks to be their first (VERY open) competition, but they have some good titles on there. The first round of voting closes Dec. 15th, with the final winners being announced Jan. 15th.
This last weekend I caught a panel of reviewers talking about themselves and book reviews over on BookTV. To be honest, they didn’t say much that hasn’t been said already, just a whole lot of complaining about the “shift in the industry” and how the mega-media companies see no value in printing book reviews.
And then I ran across this story… Continue reading Reviewing the reviews
Reed’s Next Reed points us to the NY Times’ 100 Most Notable Books of 2007.
It’s a mammoth list that makes me feel very much so out of the loop. There are too many on that list that I have never heard of! So I started poking around and found a few more lists:
The Telegraph
The Times
The Guardian
I guess it’s always fun to see what the “pros” are saying around the world, but I find a lot more enjoyable lists when seeing what’s hot on LibraryThing and BookMooch… and blogs! Let me know if you compile your own “Best of 2007” book reading list. I’d like to check out your list!
