Monday, May 20, 2013
A Workout For Book Nerds
File under “New Uses for Old Books.”
All you need for this workout is a stack of hardcovers and some yarn or rope to tie them together!
Workout #1: The Book Curl
Workout #2: The Book Up
Workout #3: The Brunch (Book Crunch) - Just like brunch this can be done alone or with a friend!
Cool Down
“I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.”
—Pearl S. Buck
We are thrilled to announce the addition of fifteen classic titles by the legendary Pearl S. Buck to the Open Road ebook collection on May 21, 2013.
National Short Story Month continues this week. Read “Gibberish” by Thomas Berger for free only on Tumblr
Friday, May 17, 2013
Short Story Month continues. Read Thomas H. Cook’s crime short story “Fatherhood”. Only on Tumblr.
Thursday, May 16, 2013
“If Camilla keeps producing mysteries as richly textured and downright breathtaking as her latest, who knows? Maybe, one day, we might be identifying Agatha Christie as ‘the British Camilla Läckberg.’”—NPR on THE STONECUTTER
Läckberg’s latest is finally out—and it’s everything crime fiction fans hoped it would be.
Eight people tried to kill Queen Victoria during her lifetime, including a hunchbacked dwarf and a paranoid poet-assassin.
This book is about all of them.
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
David Downie’s PARIS TO THE PYRENEES is one of The Sunday Times’ Travel Books of the Month:
Downie is a long-term American expat living in France and Italy, whose previous books have focused on food and Paris. For this one, he headed into the countryside on foot, following one of the many routes that used to feed into Europe’s most popular pilgrim networks. But it’s the act of walking with his photographer wife, the pleasures of the French countryside, the lighting out for the territory when one is a certain age, that give this book its reason, more than religion and pilgrims (and how could it be otherwise with a self-proclaimed “freethinker and an agnostic fallen Catholic”?). The narrative lingers over Downie’s passion for food and drink, sweeping views and history. He is an amiable companion, questioning and willing, and flawed, too — a damaged back and aching knees force him to stop just outside Mâcon, less than a third of the way to Compostela. They eventually make it to the Pyrenees, but, once again, it’s not the destination but the pleasures and revelations of the journey that matter.
“Fantasy is the most endearing genre of them all.” Join five time Nebula and Hugo Award—winning author Robert Silverberg in a tour of his home. Against the backdrop of ancient artifacts, Silverberg speaks about how the great myths and stories of the past, from Gilgamesh to the Odyssey, have inspired his now-iconic works, including the Hugo Award—winning novella Nightwings. Learn more about the author that joined the ranks of fellow science fiction Grand Masters Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Robert A. Heinlein, Jack Williamson, L. Sprague de Camp, and more.
Born on the Fourth of July (Ron Kovic’s iconic anti-war memoir upon which the movie was based) is on sale now in ebook for just $3.99.
Writer of the Future: Grand Master Robert Silverberg. His iconic works, now available as ebooks, continue to inspire. Learn more about this 5 time Hugo and 5 time Nebula award winner.
