I will admit to you that I enjoyed John Grisham‘s newest book. I finished it before Christmas. But, I was also very disappointed in him. It simply screams “there will be a sequel.” It is unlike every other book he has ever written. The book is called Gray Mountain (Doubleday, 2014). It is about a… Read More Grisham’s Newest Book Cries For the Sequel We Don’t Want
One of the great gender-based stereotypes about authors is that females emphasize character development, while males emphasize plot development. Intuitively, I believe this to be true, but it is never exemplified any better than in two recent non-fiction best-sellers. Claire Messud wrote The Woman Upstairs (Knopf, 2013), a first-person rendition of Nora Eldridge, an elementary school teacher… Read More Gender Stereotypes in Action in Recent Best-Sellers
Let’s wait just a few moments before we christen Kindle as the force that did away with traditional books. Although this technology will continue to add available titles, and as sales for the product through Amazon.com will continue to rise, the chances that it will eliminate books with hard covers, paper, jackets, and traditional marking… Read More Why Kindle Won’t Win: Books are Symbols!
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