by Cassandra Drudi

Bookninja co-founder offers a blander blogging alternative

Bookninja co-founder Peter Darbyshire has a new litblog on the site of his employer The Province. After stepping down from blogging duties chez Bookninja a while back, Darbyshire has clearly gone the straight and narrow ... Read More »

June 27, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

Death to Harry Potter! Well, maybe… Okay, probably not…

By Cassandra Drudi

The CBC was trumpeting the news yesterday that two key characters are going to be offed come the newest installment of the bespectacled moppet's adventures. They reported that an interview broadcast on Monday on Britain's ... Read More »

June 27, 2006 | Filed under: Authors

Update: ban-tastic library revokes heinous policy

By Cassandra Drudi

Earlier this week, In Other Media linked to the story of an Indiana library's new restrictions on homeless shelter residents' lending privileges and their cutting shelter children off from borrowing entirely.The Post-Tribune reports today that ... Read More »

June 22, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

The science of book rot

By Cassandra Drudi

An Associated Press story in The Washington Post reports that a biologist has discovered a new way to date books, a fact that is sure to get fraudsters quaking in their boots and antique book ... Read More »

June 22, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

Selling out for a bestseller

By Cassandra Drudi

The L.A. Times has a cute op/ed piece by Jane Smiley, pondering the pros and cons of auctioning off a novel cameo to the highest bidder. While she is no stranger to selling a spot ... Read More »

June 21, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

Cops think library's torched gay books section a possible hate crime

By Cassandra Drudi

Okay: how hideous do you have to be to set a library on fire?I mean, yikes. The library is one of the holies of holies! (Okay, we're a little biased, but...)Last week, Chicago's ABC7 reports, ... Read More »

June 21, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

Authors shouldn't just make things up

By Cassandra Drudi

While newspaper journalists can make stuff up and fling accusations with glee, book authors must be taken to task when it comes to The Facts, apparently. The Guardian reports that ex-policeman Michael Charman is suing ... Read More »

June 20, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

Shelter kids denied access to library books: for shame!

By Cassandra Drudi

In a scandal broadcast far and wide by book-blogs Bookslut and Bookninja, children from homeless shelters in Indiana's Porter County are having their library cards taken away and their lending priviliges revoked, according to the ... Read More »

June 20, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

Fave novels: women dig the classics, while men are stuck in puberty

By Cassandra Drudi

Bookninja links to online magazine Reason's article about a "Favourite novel?" survey of hundreds of people and, while the ladies books were somewhat of a yawnfest with predictable picks like Jane Eyre, Gone With the ... Read More »

June 15, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

Today's book clubs: no books allowed!

By Cassandra Drudi

The New York Daily News documents the demise of many young women's book clubs in the big bad city, due mainly to the fact that their members aren't reading the books and are instead talking ... Read More »

June 15, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

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Quill and Quire

Bookninja co-founder offers a blander blogging alternative

Death to Harry Potter! Well, maybe… Okay, probably not…

Update: ban-tastic library revokes heinous policy

The science of book rot

Selling out for a bestseller

Cops think library's torched gay books section a possible hate crime

Authors shouldn't just make things up

Shelter kids denied access to library books: for shame!

Fave novels: women dig the classics, while men are stuck in puberty

Today's book clubs: no books allowed!

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