with Bookslut.
Penguin’s new graphical covers for their classics series is great and gets this week’s “Thumbs Up”.
Category Archives: Book Reviews
Speaking of Reviews
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.
Just in time…
Now that Summer is half over and school starts in just two weeks… Birmingham’s local Black and White city paper has released its Summer Reading issue.
Better get cramming!
Reading 5 books a day
According to this cool article/interview, Amazon’s most prolific customer reviewer has posted 12,000 reviews in 7 years. That’s unbelievable and a lot of folks in the industry have been taking note. Though an English professor interviewed for the article admits that she has, on occassion, read 5 books in a day!
I don’t think I can drink enough coffee to get me to that pace.