Showing posts with label Books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Books. Show all posts
Saturday, March 31, 2012

Bookview's April Edition is Posted

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By Alan Caruba For those of you who are avid readers, my monthly report on new non-fiction and fiction, Bookviews.com , is posted for Apri...
Wednesday, December 28, 2011

The Magical Mental Exercise Called Reading

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By Alan Caruba In 1942 my parents purchased a home in a picture-postcard suburban New Jersey community and the first improvement they made...
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Thursday, July 21, 2011

Borders Bites the Dust

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By Alan Caruba The obituary for Borders Group, the competitor of Barnes & Noble bookstores, Amazon.com’s bookselling operation, and sc...
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Wednesday, November 10, 2010

In the Conservative Reading Room

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By Alan Caruba With Christmas around the corner, it’s probably a good idea to look at some books that conservatives would enjoy and from w...
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Wednesday, January 13, 2010

The Future of Books

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By Alan Caruba There is, I’m told, a lot of hand-wringing in the book publishing industry these days over the advent of the new, electronic ...
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Friday, May 29, 2009

Are There Too Many Books?

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By Alan Caruba I am back from walking the many aisles of Book Expo in the cavernous New York City Jacob Javits Exposition Center. For a char...
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Saturday, February 9, 2008

Too Many Books

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By Alan Caruba I have been reviewing books since the 1960s and am a founding member of the National Book Critics Circle. For years I have al...
Tuesday, November 6, 2007

The Quotable John Wayne

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By Alan Caruba It was a fortunate generation or two that grew up watching John Wayne movies. We learned how to be men from his films because...
Thursday, November 1, 2007

One Hundred Young Americans

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By Alan Caruba As a longtime book reviewer, I get lots of them. I average about 140 a month. Every so often, though, one stands out from the...
Monday, October 1, 2007

Bookviews is Posted. Announces Ban on Self-Published Books.

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By Alan Caruba Rejoice booklovers! The October edition of Bookviews.com has been posted and it offers news of nearly sixty new fiction and n...