Chelsea Handler’s new book Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang came out today. Did anyone else go pick it up?
Not going to lie, the first chapter made me nervous about life. If you read it, you will know what I’m talking about. Can’t wait to read the rest though. Her writing style is very funny.
[...]
http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/services/education/youthlit/readalert/index.php/2010/02/25/barnes-and-noble-age-branding/
www.commonsensemedia.org
Sex, violence, kissing, gay relationships, angels, soda drinks…are things things that parents need to be aware that their kids are reading about? Well according to Barnes and Noble, they seem to be. Recently B&N online joined forces with Common Sense Media to provided ratings and information on books for children and young adults.
My first [...]
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/23/books/23kindle.html?pagewanted=1&ref=global-home
Give something away free and if it is good enough, people will want more. This is such an easy concept that we see all over the place. A month free trial period of tv channels, free lipstick samples, free song downloads…this list could go on a long time. When I came across this article talking [...]
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article6988740.ece
So here we are in 2010. Technology seems to be the ‘it’ topic right now. From tons of sources lately I have heard things like, don’t buy external hard drives, back up online, no more cds and dvds, everything needs to be digital, and of course, move over paper books, e-books are here.
This [...]
Want to tell someone what you think about book banning? Here is a couple places to go…
http://www.ala.org/ala/aboutala/offices/oif/index.cfm
http://www.abffe.com/
Sometime in the near future I plan to write them by thoughts on why Looking For Alaska by John Green should not be banned. It is currently being challanged and I do not want it to be banned. I [...]
As some of you may know, it is Banned Book Week. The event started in 1982 and is held during the last week of September. The aim of BBW is to gain public awareness of the practice of banning books.
Most books that appear on list in regards to being banned are actually being [...]
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090921/ap_en_re/us_book_review_shooting_stars
This is a really good review. I just came across it and instantly was like, I WANT to read that book. Sport memiors are not even my thing at all. Actually, the only one I have read was Drive by Larry Byrd. It was for class. However, this writer makes Labron James’ new books [...]
http://www.boston.com/news/local/rhode_island/articles/2009/09/22/new_book_delves_into_so_called_craigslist_killing/
Wow, this is apparently the big book news of the day. Every place I looked had a link to some kind of story on it. Basically, it is just a little story saying that there is a book coming out talking about some crimes that were linked back to ads on Craigslist.
Apparently this [...]
http://news.cnet.com/8301-30684_3-10355318-265.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
The world of books is definately chaning. Technology is taking over and chaning everything. This is just more evidence of that fact. Google is hoping to announce tomorrow that all their public domain book will be available to print on demand.
The idea that it is a answer to people reluctate to switch to [...]
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090915/stage_nm/us_fashion_strategy_1
That was actually the very first story that popped up tonight when I was looking and I instantly found it interesting. Obviously many of us are feeling the recession. I’m very fortunate to work at a job that is not. I recently quit my second job though so am definately learning to stretch my [...]
