- It's Banned Books Week again - censorship is still stupid.
- A wonderfully detailed and comprehensive essay on the excellent Bring Up the Bodies.
- A new wind for the novella? A thought-provoking post:
"For a book publisher, a novella is too small to charge full price for, even though the costs of setting up a production run aren’t that much less. The wise choice, especially among the mass-market publishers, was to print something a little bit longer that you could charge full price for."
- Finally, another example of a literary critic claiming that book blogging will lead to the demise of literature, and an interesting rebuttal from the always thoughtful John Self of Asylum.
Isn't it amusing, in a way, that book blogging gets slammed so often? It's true that there are blogs which seem to be less in-depth than others, but I think that any way of getting information about books 'out there' is better than none. I turn to book bloggers' reviews more than any other source for reliability, personally. Plus, what a community of friendship! Wonderful.
ReplyDeleteAh yes, the blogging incident - just another example of a high-profile literary figure with a bee in his bonnet on a grumpy day...
ReplyDelete...but it's time to move on ;)
I think novellas are coming back, which is awesome.
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