Odds ‘n ends about books and reading that caught my eye this week. You’ve probably seen some/most/all of them, but just in case:
Banning Books Is a Threat to Public Education: To say nothing of the fact that we don’t value reading enough in the first place!
You Wouldn’t Pirate a Book?—for a pleasant (?) change, this piece about book piracy has nothing to with eBooks.
8 Mental and Physical Benefits of Audiobooks
An Author’s Monster Manual series continued over at Witty & Sarcastic Book Club:
…Featuring Rob Edwards
…Featuring Ryan Howse
…Featuring Sean Gibson
…Featuring Ricardo Victoria
…Featuring Jeffrey Speight
…Featuring Joshua Gillingham
…Featuring Luke Winch
…Featuring Virginia McClain
Pet Peeves About Book Series—there’s a distinct theme here
On the Why of Genre—sometimes on a Monday, I’ll read something that was so good that I don’t have to read anything else for the week. This did it for me. As a bonus there was the clip from Spaced (which almost succeeded in getting me to rewatch the entire series)
How I learned to love the digital book—a song many of us have sung
A Book-ish Related Podcast episode (or two) you might want to give a listen to:
Blood Brothers Episode 106 with Ian Rankin—I’m beyond excited for the new Rebus now (and there was plenty of other good material).
This Week’s New Releases that I’m Excited About and/or You’ll Probably See Here Soon:
Dead Man’s Hand by James J. Butcher—A jaded monster hunter and a minor magician team up to hunt a killer in this promising series debut. I had a few things to say about it here.
Santa’s Little Yelpers by David Rosenfelt—There’s only a dash of holiday cheer in the middle of this better-than-I-expected legal thriller (and I expected to enjoy it) I talked about it a couple of weeks ago.
Death at Paradise Palms by Steph Broadribb—The second Retired Detectives Club has these retirees juggling personal issues and a search for a missing/kidnapped movie producer.
Cash Rules Everything Around Me by Rob Gittins—an fresh out of prison, a thief tries to plan one final score in a hometown he barely recognizes.
Random by Penn Jillette—this Vegas-set thriller has a philosophical bent.
Nerd: Adventures in Fandom from This Universe to the Multiverse by Maya Phillips—”In the vein of You’re Never Weird on the Internet (Almost) and Black Nerd Problems, this witty, incisive essay collection from New York Times critic at large Maya Phillips explores race, religion, sexuality, and more through the lens of her favorite pop culture fandoms.”
The Big Bang Theory: The Definitive, Inside Story of the Epic Hit Series by Jessica Radloff—I don’t know that the world needed an oral history of this show, but now that we have it, I’m pretty curious.
Peat
Well that just made my day. And possibly week. Many many thanks.
(Also quick heads up that the Pet Peeves link is broken as its just ww )
HCNewton
Appreciate the catch–got that fixed (and will spend too much time wondering how I deleted that “w”).
You’re quite welcome, of course, for the link. Have read that post a couple of times already…
WS_BOOKCLUB
I loved On the Why of Genre! it was fascinating and so well written.
Thank you for including my series.
HCNewton
Indeed, that was a great post.
Those Monster Manual posts are pretty nifty, too. 🙂 Dig the series!
Peat
A belated thanks for that comment Jodie 😀