Category Archives: Books

More Better Book Titles

Posted on October 9, 2010 by Brian D. Butler

More from Better Book Titles

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The 19th Century Kindle

Posted on October 8, 2010 by Brian D. Butler

  Lighthouses were often time located in remote areas and as such had no access to city services such as libraries, bookshops, entertainment, etc. that most people enjoyed who lived in a town or city. As light keeping was a … Continue reading →

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Happy Birthday to the Dickens of Detroit

Posted on October 7, 2010 by Brian D. Butler

Elmore Leonard was born in New Orleans on October 11, 1925, so is celebrating his 85th birthday next week. In the 1950s, he wrote western novels and short stories, and finished his first crime novel, The Big Bounce, in 1969. … Continue reading →

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Out-of-Print But In Demand

Posted on October 5, 2010 by Brian D. Butler

  Out-of-print and in demand Every year BookFinder.com tracks the most sought-after out-of-print titles in America.  In this, the eighth edition, several books garnered enough attention for publishers to re-print them in the near future. They also find some out-of-print mainstays … Continue reading →

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Everyone Has Secrets

Posted on October 4, 2010 by Brian D. Butler

PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where people mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a postcard. There is also a series of PostSecret books published by Harper Collins, and “PostSecret Live” – a multi-media presentation by … Continue reading →

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Bye-Bye Banned Books Week (til next year)

Posted on October 2, 2010 by Brian D. Butler
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Remembering the Bookseller, Not the Books

Posted on October 2, 2010 by Brian D. Butler

I was saddened to hear this week of the passing of Dublin’s most genial bookseller, Mr.Enda Cunningham of Cathach Books on Duke Street. It’s been about four years since I last visited the bookshop, and I can’t recall the last … Continue reading →

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Why Not Moby-Dick ?

Posted on October 1, 2010 by Brian D. Butler

Inspired by Zak Smith’s Gravity’s Rainbow project and the Blood Meridian project, artist/illustrator/librarian Matt Kish has created the Every Page of Moby-Dick blog, where he posts one drawing per day illustrating each of the 540 pages of the Signet Classic … Continue reading →

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Blood Meridian at 25

Posted on September 30, 2010 by Brian D. Butler

This week, Random House is commemorating the 25th anniversary of Cormac McCarthy’s blood-soaked, horror-story of a Western, Blood Meridian, by releasing a special hardcover Modern Library edition of the novel. McCarthy fans will also want to check-out an amazing ongoing … Continue reading →

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Great First Lines From Banned Books

Posted on September 29, 2010 by Brian D. Butler

If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know where I was born… J.D.Salinger Catcher in the Rye It was a pleasure to burn. Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 Someone must have slandered Josef … Continue reading →

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