Every book lover has been there – you’re given a ‘bad book’. So what do you do next? Continue reading “What to do when you are given a ‘Bad Book’”
Category: Weekend Reads
Weekend Reads: Working Titles, Bleeps and Signing Ebooks
Settle down for some reading this weekend with our selection of the best articles we enjoyed this past week. Featuring bleeps, signing ebooks and the origins of Elvish, Klingon, Dothraki and Na’vi… Continue reading “Weekend Reads: Working Titles, Bleeps and Signing Ebooks”
Weekend Reads: Typing Jaws, Reinventing Book Clubs and James Franco Book Covers
Settle down for some reading this weekend with our selection of the best articles we enjoyed this past week. Featuring Jaws, beer and James Franco… Continue reading “Weekend Reads: Typing Jaws, Reinventing Book Clubs and James Franco Book Covers”
Weekend Reads: How to write the Simpsons, Fact-Checking Stephen King and more
Settle down for some reading this weekend with our selection of the best articles we enjoyed this past week. Continue reading “Weekend Reads: How to write the Simpsons, Fact-Checking Stephen King and more”
Weekend Reads: A Secret New JK Rowling Novel, The Story Coaster, Introductions and more
Settle down for some reading this weekend with our selection of the best articles we enjoyed this past week. We’ve got a brand new novel from JK Rowling, the story coaster, why you should read the introductions to novels at the end and what are the movies that audiences loved but the critics hated? Continue reading “Weekend Reads: A Secret New JK Rowling Novel, The Story Coaster, Introductions and more”
Weekend Reads: D&D and Storytelling, Movie Posters, Bookworms and more
Settle down for some reading this weekend with our selection of the best articles we enjoyed this past week. We’ve got film posters, storytelling, who reads the most and more from the recent Gatsby movie. Continue reading “Weekend Reads: D&D and Storytelling, Movie Posters, Bookworms and more”
Weekend Reads: Book Smells, Game of Thrones Dating, I Am Stephen King and more
Settle down for some reading this weekend with our selection of the best articles we enjoyed this past week. Continue reading “Weekend Reads: Book Smells, Game of Thrones Dating, I Am Stephen King and more”
Weekend Reads: A Scrabble Poem, Eight Rules for Writing Fiction, Forty Unbelievable Sequels and more
Settle down for some reading this weekend with our selection of the best articles we enjoyed this past week. Continue reading “Weekend Reads: A Scrabble Poem, Eight Rules for Writing Fiction, Forty Unbelievable Sequels and more”
Weekend Reads: Remixing Shakespeare, Library Dominos, Books on Prescription and more
Settle down for some reading this weekend with our selection of the best articles we enjoyed this past week. Continue reading “Weekend Reads: Remixing Shakespeare, Library Dominos, Books on Prescription and more”
Weekend Reads: A Deceased Authors Special
It seems that this week on Weekend Reads we’ve inadvertently selected articles featuring authors who have all passed away… Continue reading “Weekend Reads: A Deceased Authors Special”
Weekend Reads: Addicted to books, Best first lines, Highlighted Kindle passages and more
Settle down for some reading this weekend with our selection of the best articles we enjoyed this past week. Continue reading “Weekend Reads: Addicted to books, Best first lines, Highlighted Kindle passages and more”
Weekend Reads: How to write Star Trek, Retyping The Great Gatsby, Westworld and more
Settle down for some reading this weekend with our selection of the best articles we enjoyed this past week. Continue reading “Weekend Reads: How to write Star Trek, Retyping The Great Gatsby, Westworld and more”
Weekend Reads: Happy Endings, Hitchcock on Psycho, The Great Gatsby Recut and more
Settle down for some reading this weekend with our selection of the best articles we enjoyed this past week. Continue reading “Weekend Reads: Happy Endings, Hitchcock on Psycho, The Great Gatsby Recut and more”
Weekend Reads: Anatomy of a MASH script, Julian Barnes on books and disappearing ink
Each weekend we round up some of the best articles or features that you may have missed during the week. Sit down with a coffee (other beverages are available) and enjoy.
Anatomy of a M*A*S*H script – (Whole Earth Blog)
What went into making a single episode of M*A*S*H.
Julian Barnes: My Life As A Bibliophile – (The Guardian)
From school prizes to writing his own novels, the author reflects on his lifelong bibliomania and explains why, despite e-readers and Amazon, he believes the physical book and bookshops will survive.
And finally, a book that won’t wait to be read…
Weekend Reads: Mystery Genre’s Terrible Secret, E-Book Inheritance, What Facebook Knows About You and Aaron Sorkin’s Newsroom
Each weekend we round up some of the best articles or features that you may have missed during the week. Sit down with a coffee (other beverages are available) and enjoy.
The Case of the Mystery Genre’s Terrible Secret – (The Millions)
The biggest secret in crime fiction is that there are only four ways to tie up a mystery. Get ready to have an entire genre irrevocably spoiled.
Will Your Children Inherit Your E-books? – (NPR)
What happens to your e-books when you die?
What Facebook Knows About You – (Technology Review)
The data that Facebook knows about you and the effects it can have on society.
The Newsroom: Are news anchors really that important? – (The Guardian)
Will Aaron Sorkin’s major series The Newsroom do for journalism what his acclaimed West Wing did for US politics?