
BookBrowse Books The New Oxford American Dictionary has announced "unfriend" as its 2009 Word of the Year. Other candidates included sexting, paywall, intexticated (driving while texting), birther, green state, hashtag, and a whole host of variants on Twitter & Obama. Which newly minted word would you choose to win? More to the point, if you could make a word, or concept, disappear from usage what would it be?
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Birds are singing, the sun is shining and I am joyful first thing in the morning without caffeine. Why you ask? Because it is Word of the Year time (or WOTY as we refer to it around the office). Every ...

Saunee Cobb Always look forword to your reviews. Keep up the good work.

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I just read an alarming article in yesterday's London Times about computers being used to mark exam essays (Britain puts much more emphasis on essays than the US with many national exams being 100% essay based). The computer failed Churchill's "Fight them on the beaches" speech, and also turned its nose up at Earnest ...Hemingway, William Golding and Anthony Burgess. What's most alarming is that The Times claims that computers are already being used to mark essay questions in the USA! Does anyone know if this is really the case?Read More
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
They are some of the most memorable and stirring words of the 20th century, but Churchill’s speech exhorting the British to “fight on the beaches” would fail if submitted as a school essay and subjected to a proposed computerised marking system.

Phyllis Ingle Walk Two Moons is a great young adult read

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Our featured "Editor's Choice" review is "Justice" by Harvard professor Michael J. Sandelone which offers a searching exploration of the meaning of
justice, and invites us to
consider familiar controversies in fresh and illuminating ways. The review includes a link to the PBS website where it's possible to view the televised version of his lectures. Worthwhile stuff!
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Justice: Book review of Justice by Michael Sandel, plus backstory and other interesting facts about the book.

BookBrowse Books Barnes & Noble is in the process of closing all but two of their B. Dalton mall stores by January 2010. Now Borders has announced that they will close about 200 of the remaining mall-based Waldenbooks outlets in January, which they say will result in the loss of about 1500, mostly part-time, jobs. As Dalton all but disappears and Waldenbooks reduces to 130 outlets nationwide, will you miss these two stores?
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Borders Group Inc., the second-largest U.S. bookstore chain, said Thursday it would shutter more of its small-format Waldenbooks stores in January as it focuses on its more profitable superstores.

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Our featured 'Editor's Choice' for the next couple of days is "Half Broke Horses" - A novel from the author of "The Glass Castle", based on her irresistible and eccentric grandmother's hard life in the American West. And the sidebar remembers the S&H Green Stamps that were a part of so many of our lives right up throu...gh the 70s, maybe beyond. If you've still got boxes of the things in the attic - good news, then can still be redeemed :) For the next couple of days, you'll find our review, an excerpt, reading guide and video interview all linked below, or under the "Top Books" tab on FacebookRead More
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Jane Haase
Just finished reading Jim Kokoris' new book THE PURSUIT OF OTHER INTERESTS. I LOVED his first book THE RICH PART OF LIFE .... LOVED! One thing I really like about his writing is that he doesn't carbon copy his books into the same plots reworked. SISTER NORTH, his second novel, was just as great as his first....but ...on a very different level. The same goes for his third and latest......nothing like the other two, but very enjoyable.Read More

Amy Pritchard Does anyone remember a quote about a man never getting over his first love? I think it may have been from Second nature.

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Summer reading is overrated - give me a good book and a nice warm room while it's raining outside over a beach anyday! Elizabeth Strout agrees - she's just written a lovely blog for us on the topic: http://www.bookbrowse.com/blogs (or under Book Blog on Facebook). While on the topic of cold weather reading, what bett...er than an Icelandic police procedural set in modern, multicultural Reykjavik: You'll find "Arctic Chill" reviewed under Top Books on our Facebook page or at the link below (fascinating sidebar too, explaining why most Icelanders don't have surnames)Read More
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Arctic Chill: Book review of Arctic Chill by Arnaldur Indridason, plus backstory and other interesting facts about the book.

BookBrowse Books The publishing industry is beginning to murmur that the current fascination in vampires in young adult (YA) books maybe on the wane; so there's much talk about what will be the new new thing. The article linked below suggests that postapocalyptic fiction might be it. We've done wizards and vampires, what do you think will come next, and/or what would you like to be the next trend in YA books?
Source: www.publishersweekly.com
Vampires may live forever, but the recent vampire trend in YA fiction won't. Author Michael Grant, for one, is "sick to death of vampires," and he is not alone. But when one hugely popular trend ...

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Sorry to be posting for a second time today but Barnes and Nobel's Nook has just launched and articles are flooding in, at least one describing it as the Kindle Killer. Among Nook's features are that you can loan books to friends, can read PDFs, it's got a color screen, and it supports an open standard so that anythin...g can be distributed on it, including 1/2 million public domain titles from Google. The price is US $259 price. One article here: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/10/b arnes-nobles-kindle-killing-dual-screen- nook-e-reader-leaked/, and another below.Read More
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There is a new e-reader in town, and Amazon's Kindle should be very afraid.

BookBrowse Books If you're a blogger, advertiser, or just a USA consumer fed up with dodgy testimonials on infomercials and the like, Marketing Sherpa's just published report on the FTC’s new guidelines for testimonials and endorsements (due to take effect on Dec 1) makes great reading. The report is open access until Oct 30 after which it's only available to Sherpa's paying subscribers.
Source: www.marketingsherpa.com
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BookBrowse Books The Walmart vs Amazon price wars are escalating with each vying to undercut the other (Walmart.com at $8.99 for a small handful of hardcover bestsellers, and Amazon at $9). Publishers and independent booksellers are deeply worried about the effect such price cutting will have on the publishing industry. I'd be interested to know what you think, are your buying habits being changed by extreme discounting?















