The PopMatters Books Blog 2008-10-13T15:49:24Z Copyright (c) 2008, PopMatters.com ExpressionEngine tag:popmatters.com-reprint,2008:10:13 tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/reprint/33.64375 2008-10-13T13:07:06Z 2008-10-13T13:07:06Z Lara Killian tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/reprint/33.64037 2008-10-07T16:55:20Z 2008-10-07T16:55:20Z David Pullar Joy In The Morning, in which Bertie Wooster tries to find a copy of Spinoza in a bookshop. On asking the bookshop employee,... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/reprint/33.64146 2008-10-06T21:09:54Z 2008-10-06T21:09:54Z Lara Killian tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/reprint/33.64015 2008-10-02T00:02:57Z 2008-10-02T00:02:57Z Nikki Tranter tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/reprint/33.63945 2008-09-29T22:53:58Z 2008-09-29T22:53:58Z Lara Killian The Secret Life of Bees. This book is very readable and has a number of thought-provoking themes, taking place as it does in the summer of 1964... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/reprint/33.63705 2008-09-23T22:52:55Z 2008-09-23T22:52:55Z Patrick Schabe Achewood: If you come across the comic strip online right now, in it's seventh year of publication, you'll probably feel like... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/reprint/33.63704 2008-09-22T22:38:46Z 2008-09-22T22:38:46Z Lara Killian tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/reprint/33.63562 2008-09-19T16:00:01Z 2008-09-19T16:00:01Z Deanne Sole tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/reprint/33.63526 2008-09-18T12:00:00Z 2008-09-18T12:00:00Z David Pullar tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/reprint/33.63442 2008-09-16T00:36:40Z 2008-09-16T00:36:40Z Lara Killian tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/reprint/33.63377 2008-09-14T13:13:09Z 2008-09-14T13:13:09Z Craig Fehrman tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/reprint/33.63317 2008-09-12T19:22:41Z 2008-09-12T19:22:41Z Lara Killian The Wall Street Journal published an article today about a renewed interest in private libraries in the US. In "Why Libraries Are Back in Style", June Fletcher writes that it's not exactly a... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/reprint/33.63090 2008-09-08T10:24:26Z 2008-09-08T10:24:26Z Lara Killian tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/reprint/33.62869 2008-09-04T09:50:07Z 2008-09-04T09:50:07Z David Pullar tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/reprint/33.62838 2008-09-03T11:37:27Z 2008-09-03T11:37:27Z Nikki Tranter this at primary school! The good teachers at Parkdale School in Edmonton gave their students $25 each and let them run wild at a Chapter's bookstore this week to... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/reprint/33.62725 2008-09-01T10:23:11Z 2008-09-01T10:23:11Z Lara Killian Twilight.* Until the publishers release a four volume set just in time for the holidays (hint,... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/reprint/33.62665 2008-08-28T21:43:08Z 2008-08-28T21:43:08Z John G. Nettles tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/reprint/33.62573 2008-08-26T23:11:25Z 2008-08-26T23:11:25Z Nikki Tranter tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/reprint/33.62490 2008-08-25T11:46:46Z 2008-08-25T11:46:46Z Lara Killian The Atlantic magazine with its intriguing cover headline: "Is... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/reprint/33.62429 2008-08-22T22:02:09Z 2008-08-22T22:02:09Z Nikki Tranter tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/reprint/33.62364 2008-08-21T11:47:12Z 2008-08-21T11:47:12Z David Pullar tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/reprint/33.62345 2008-08-20T17:12:04Z 2008-08-20T17:12:04Z Nikki Tranter Guardian article points out, that's favourite writer. Not favourite children's writer or young adult writer, but writer. In front of Roald Dahl, J.R.R. Tolkein, Beatrix... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/reprint/33.62212 2008-08-18T11:44:31Z 2008-08-18T11:44:31Z Lara Killian The Enchantress of Florence, is another sumptuous feat of storytelling. The author layers story upon story in a muddled palimpsest that meanders... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/reprint/33.62104 2008-08-14T12:09:13Z 2008-08-14T12:09:13Z Lara Killian tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/reprint/33.62091 2008-08-13T23:17:09Z 2008-08-13T23:17:09Z Nikki Tranter tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/reprint/33.61666 2008-08-11T20:04:30Z 2008-08-11T20:04:30Z Chris Barsanti tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/reprint/33.61912 2008-08-08T23:41:16Z 2008-08-08T23:41:16Z John G. Nettles tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/reprint/33.61789 2008-08-06T07:42:09Z 2008-08-06T07:42:09Z David Pullar tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/reprint/33.61778 2008-08-06T01:10:49Z 2008-08-06T01:10:49Z Lara Killian Twilight series, Breaking Dawn. Will... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/reprint/33.61777 2008-08-06T00:38:03Z 2008-08-06T00:38:03Z Nikki Tranter tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/reprint/33.61722 2008-08-04T22:20:06Z 2008-08-04T22:20:06Z Nikki Tranter The Australian's piece on the passing of Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Alongside a straightforward obituary is a 16-page... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/reprint/33.61519 2008-07-30T22:56:11Z 2008-07-30T22:56:11Z Zachary Houle Between Mountains in 2004), that Maggie... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/reprint/33.61660 2008-07-28T18:40:46Z 2008-07-28T18:40:46Z Lara Killian tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/reprint/33.61319 2008-07-24T10:01:40Z 2008-07-24T10:01:40Z David Pullar The Book Group, but we did meet every month or two to discuss a book we’d all planned to read. The key difference with... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/reprint/33.61284 2008-07-23T12:34:40Z 2008-07-23T12:34:40Z Nikki Tranter New York Times: Lyall Watson, a maverick scientific polymath and explorer who wrote the best-selling book “Supernature” and introduced the “hundredth monkey”... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/reprint/33.61165 2008-07-21T11:44:48Z 2008-07-21T11:44:48Z Lara Killian tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/reprint/33.61122 2008-07-19T01:31:54Z 2008-07-19T01:31:54Z John G. Nettles ... (Or an Incredible Simulation!): I once saw an ad on the back page of this rag for an upcoming show featuring a band that billed itself as “Colorado’s #1 Widespread Panic... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/reprint/33.61075 2008-07-18T02:34:41Z 2008-07-18T02:34:41Z Nikki Tranter Lou Reads. Prior, I'd not read anything new... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/reprint/33.60995 2008-07-16T00:29:16Z 2008-07-16T00:29:16Z Nikki Tranter The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: or the Murder at Road Hill House (Bloomsbury). Summerscale spent the better part of two... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/reprint/33.60935 2008-07-15T00:50:47Z 2008-07-15T00:50:47Z Nikki Tranter Life with My Sister Madonna. Just make sure those 30... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/reprint/33.60867 2008-07-14T02:41:30Z 2008-07-14T02:41:30Z Lara Killian Breaking Dawn. Her Twilight series is Harry Potter huge -- even if the latest cover of Entertainment magazine was... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/reprint/33.60745 2008-07-11T12:16:15Z 2008-07-11T12:16:15Z Nikki Tranter Denver Post: The 34-year-old Denver man also was sentenced to 10 years in state prison Tuesday for checking out roughly 1,400 books and DVDs and reselling most of them... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/reprint/33.60756 2008-07-10T12:02:47Z 2008-07-10T12:02:47Z David Pullar All Men Are Liars over at the Sydney Morning Herald website. It’s popular and very interactive. He posts most days with something provocative, usually... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/reprint/33.60401 2008-07-08T13:22:39Z 2008-07-08T13:22:39Z Chris Barsanti tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/reprint/33.60460 2008-07-07T11:48:34Z 2008-07-07T11:48:34Z Lara Killian tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/reprint/33.60538 2008-07-04T10:46:31Z 2008-07-04T10:46:31Z John G. Nettles The Simpsons, an establishing shot of the Springfield Public Library reveals a desperate sign reading, “We have books about TV.” If... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/reprint/33.60503 2008-07-03T00:54:38Z 2008-07-03T00:54:38Z Nikki Tranter MTV about the "bent and twisted" script that may one day become the Arrested Devlopment movie, his Arrested co-star Henry... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/reprint/33.60406 2008-07-01T12:05:36Z 2008-07-01T12:05:36Z Nikki Tranter Twilight book series. The girls, aged 14 and 15, have composed original... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/reprint/33.60308 2008-06-28T00:14:31Z 2008-06-28T00:14:31Z Nikki Tranter tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/reprint/33.60207 2008-06-26T09:38:11Z 2008-06-26T09:38:11Z David Pullar tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/reprint/33.60196 2008-06-25T19:36:12Z 2008-06-25T19:36:12Z Nikki Tranter Midnight's Children ... 27 years after it was... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/reprint/33.60117 2008-06-24T11:31:23Z 2008-06-24T11:31:23Z Nikki Tranter Guardian today -- a brief interview with author/poet Luke Kennard. The interview is a standard Q&A, but some of the questions are quite probing. Like this one, for... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/reprint/33.60006 2008-06-20T09:56:00Z 2008-06-20T09:56:00Z John G. Nettles Here’s Looking at You, Kid: I came home from work the other day to find my 13-year-old son doing the dishes, voluntarily, to give his mother a break. As I went to him to give him kudos... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/reprint/33.59961 2008-06-19T11:03:00Z 2008-06-19T11:03:00Z Nikki Tranter tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/reprint/33.59914 2008-06-17T22:48:00Z 2008-06-17T22:48:00Z Nikki Tranter tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/reprint/33.59826 2008-06-16T02:22:00Z 2008-06-16T02:22:00Z Lara Killian I am the Messenger (2005). It's worth the read but the first Zusak I'd recommend is definitely The Book Thief (2006). These books are two... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/reprint/33.59684 2008-06-12T11:02:00Z 2008-06-12T11:02:00Z David Pullar tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/reprint/33.59624 2008-06-10T22:00:00Z 2008-06-10T22:00:00Z Nikki Tranter tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/reprint/33.59556 2008-06-09T12:11:00Z 2008-06-09T12:11:00Z Lara Killian The Omnivore's Dilemma, and I'm halfway through Markus Zusak's I am the Messenger. Firoozeh Dumas'... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/reprint/33.59510 2008-06-06T21:47:00Z 2008-06-06T21:47:00Z Nikki Tranter Wisdom and Sense interviews Rose Tremain Rose Tremain just won the Orange Prize for her book, The Road Home. In this 1996 interview with Elena Dedukhina, she talks about literary... ]]>