Using the bestsellers lists from Publishers Weekly and USA Today (1993 – 2003) the authors read all the books we were buying and devised an opinion on what type of readers buy what books. They looked at four categories: hardcover fiction, hardcover…
The review for the book Why We Read What We Read Book was first published at 4/12/2008 at Literary Fiction BellaOnline. The full review of Why We Read… can now be read at SquidLit.
When you step out of the shower and look in the mirror do you ever wonder if they are normal? Here is your chance to see how the other half looks in the comfort of your own home. Artist, Cheryl-Ann Webster has self published a book on her labor of love of the last few…
Book Review, by Annie Haws This is a delightful approach to a necessary “evil”. As the co-authors (independent editors themselves) remind us, writing and editing are two very different capabilities, which ought not to be engaged in simultaneously. Write first–get out that first draft–THEN edit–not before. The aim of this book is to guide authors…
What could be more beautiful than a family? Why, the debacles of two of course! Awarded the Orange Prize for Fiction, On Beauty follows the Belsey and the Kipps families through 443 pages of shenanigans only family can forgive. This review appeared 7/17/2006 on Literary Fiction, BellaOnline. The full review of Zadie Smith’s On Beauty…
If you didn’t know Jane Austen wrote a sequel to Emma, that’s because she didn’t. This sequel was written by Rachel Billington. The story opens a year after Emma’s marriage to Mr. Knightley with the couple still living at Hartfield with Mr. Woodhouse.
The Love Song of Monkey was written by Michael S. A. Graziano, a professor of Psychology at Princeton University. This is a strange little book about a man dying from Aids who sneaks into a hospital with the help of his wife to have an experimental
There’s more to a woman than meets the eye. You would think that being a woman would put you at the top of the list of knowing about ourselves. That just isn’t the case. There is a lot we don’t know about ourselves. Some we just assume, others we just try not to think about….