Archive for September, 2008
Book News: David Foster Wallace Dead
September 14th, 2008Sad news from the LA Times: David Foster Wallace, the novelist, essayist and humorist best known for his 1996 novel “Infinite Jest,” was found dead Friday night at his home in Claremont, according to the Claremont Police Department. He was 46. His wife came home only to find that her husband had hanged himself. Wallace [...]
Book News: Michael Phelps is an Author too!
September 13th, 2008Michael Phelps is king of the world right now. He is hosting Saturday Night Live tonight (although I’m not sure if that is show is significant anymore) and just signed a $1.6 million deal to write his autobiography/memoir. From The Cleveland Leader: The minimum price tag just to start dealing was $1 million, which went [...]
Author Interview: Nancy Taylor
September 12th, 2008Recently, I reviewed Go Green by Nancy Taylor. It was enjoyable and educational. Luckily for us, Nancy agreed to answer a few of my questions. And Here. We. Go. Generally recycling is an extra cost additional to garbage pick up. Why should I (or anyone) pay the extra money? Some municipalities charge for recycling and others [...]
Book News: More E-Reader News
September 12th, 2008From Sky.com (another British article about the Sony Reader): Reading material for kids is mainly limited to menus, text messages and tarot cards. But as they all love gadgets, the E Reader might be a way of actually getting them to read. These are the ridiculous words of British author Kathy Lette. Menus, text messages [...]
7 Years Ago
September 11th, 2008Take a minute to remember what happened 7 years ago today Take a minute to pray for those still affected by this attack Take a minute to pray for those still affected by the fight against the attackers
Best Novel Ever
September 10th, 2008If you will allow me to remove my non-fiction hat for a moment…Caite over at Caite’s Day At The Beach found a list of the Top 50 Books of all time (according to a poll conducted by The London Telegraph). I thought it might be a good discussion piece. How do you feel about this [...]
He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not by Trish Ryan
September 9th, 2008Title: He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not Author: Trish Ryan Publisher: FaithWords (2008) This is the second spiritual memoir written by a girl that I have reviewed at Letters on Pages. I loved Trespassers Will Be Baptized…and this was a great book too. I can only assume that all spiritual memoirs written by girls [...]
