Pillars of the Earth on the Small Screen
Ken Follett’s epic novel, Pillars of the Earth, will debut as a television mini-series this Friday on Starz. Will you be watching?
Farewell Frank McCourt
The author of the heartbreaking memoir Angela’s Ashes passed away on Sunday. Click here for the obituary from the New York Times.
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Frank Miller’s 300
After having seen Frank Miller’s 300 on opening night, I can tell you that it is brutal in its beauty, surreal in scope and cinematography, and totally gripping. It’s one of those films that, the more you think about it, the more it burrows under your skin. Based on Miller’s (also of Sin City fame)…
National Book Critics Circle Awards
The NBCC Awards were announced on Thursday. Kiren Desai’s book The Inheritance of Loss won for best fiction. “In a crumbling house in the remote northeastern Himalayas, an embittered, elderly judge finds his peaceful retirement turned upside down by the arrival of his orphaned granddaughter, Sai.” Click here for more award winners.
Vampires on Lifetime?
If you’re a fan of private investigator/vampire/preternatural fiction, you may be interested in a new television show based on Tanya Huff’s series featuring P.I. Vicki Nelson. Blood Ties will premiere on Sunday, March 11th at 9 p.m. (And, yes, this will, unfortunately, conflict with the SciFi Channel’s excellent Dresden Files series, which is based on…
Winter weather getting you down…
Check out Nancy Pearl’s Books for Armchair Travel and Adventure on NPR’s Morning Edition.
Will it be life or death?
As you probably already know, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows will be released on Saturday July 21, 2007. For more on the story click here. What do you think? Will J.K. Rowling kill off her beloved main character?
It’s time to read something heavy. Try the Chunkster Challenge
The days are short. The weather is cold. Now is the time to curl up with a good book. Why not make it a big, fat book. Bookfool at Bookfoolery and Babble is sponsoring the Chunkster Challenge. In short, you need to read something over 400 pages and there is a drawing for prizes. Here…
These Books May Make You Skip Work
Check out book guru and librarian action figure model, Nancy Pearl, on NPR’s Morning Edition. On this page she offers up her summer reading selections for 2006. Like the title says, “These Books May Make You Skip Work.” If you call in sick, we’ll know what your doing! http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5474426 Other Summer Reading selections on NPR…
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