Another one autobiography from Danish Mohammed
14 Nov 2010 00:40:53
In Denmark's western town of Aarhus, the autobiography of Kurt Westergaard had already sold out and book stores there were "desperate" for more copies, John Lykkegaard, the author and publisher of the book, said Friday evening.
Book shop owners "visited me today to get more copies so I even handed out those that were meant for the press conference in Copenhagen on Monday," he told AFP.
The book entitled "The Man Behind the Line" details the life of 75-year-old Westergaard, and also features a ... Read Full Story
Read or don’t read- it is your opinion! Bush's memoir
13 Nov 2010 00:52:11
Surprising for a memoir by a president whose "base" was more to the right than for any chief executive since Ronald Reagan, "Decision Points" is only an alternate at the Conservative Book Club, a 50,000-member organization founded in 1964 and adhering to the motto of "Conservatives Serving Conservatives."
Editor-in-chief Elizabeth Kantor wouldn't offer a specific reason why Bush was not a main selection, a status granted to former top Bush aide Karl Rove's "Courage and Consequence." She did not... Read Full Story
Talking with Nora Ephron
13 Nov 2010 00:44:34
She wonders what they are. It's one of those concepts, such as Twitter and heavy metal, that exist only to remind her she has lived too long. Unsure of her own definition, she takes a little nip from that electronic flask in her handbag, that digital demon rum: her iPhone.
"Algorithm," she reads, "a set of rules for solving a problem in a finite number of steps, as for finding the greatest common divisor."
Exactly. "Thank God for my portable device."
She is seated at an Upper East Side diner,... Read Full Story
Owners of originally comics Superman will put up one part for auction
13 Nov 2010 00:43:32
The cover art for the Superman 14 issue, also known as the Superman Patriotic Shield cover, is described by auction house ComicConnect.com as "by far the single most valuable piece of original comic book artwork still in existence."
Illustrated by DC artist Fred Ray, the sketch shows Superman with an eagle on one arm in front of a stars and stripes shield and is regarded as defining the action hero's status as a 20th century American icon.
Steven Fishler, chief executive of ComicConnect.com, t... Read Full Story
Another autobiography from Natalie Cole and her assistant David Ritz
12 Nov 2010 01:17:02
Cole had lived a lifetime by then. But she was in for a shock when she was diagnosed in 2008 with hepatitis C, a liver disease spread through contact with infected blood.
She said at the time the disease was revealed during a routine examination and was likely caused by her drug use years earlier.
Her new book, "Love Brought Me Back: A Journey of Loss and Gain," tells of a two-year struggle with blood transfusions, her subsequent need for a kidney transplant, the death of her beloved sister Ca... Read Full Story
Beautiful book about beautiful girl "Jane"
12 Nov 2010 01:10:07
Jane's childcare experience and indifference to celebrities make her the perfect nanny for 5-year-old Maddy, the daughter of rock star-narcissist Nico Rathburn and his former girlfriend.
Her job requirements are simple: Don't talk to the press, never interrupt when Nico is composing — and stay away from the third floor.
With his bad-boy days behind him, Nico has reunited his band for a big comeback. Press interviews and extended tour dates to promote his new album keep him apart from his daugh... Read Full Story
?nalogue of Winnie-the-Pooh from Charles Elton
12 Nov 2010 01:08:15
Luke Hayman, the protagonist of Charles Elton's "Mr. Toppit," similarly feels the burden of "empty fame." Luke's father, Arthur, writes a series of children's books called "The Hayseed Chronicles," using both Luke's experiences and name. Their worldwide popularity, spawning adaptations, games and various baubles become an overwhelming shadow from which Luke cannot escape.
"Mr. Toppit" is one part dysfunctional family saga — as Luke struggles with his father's success, his mother turns more dist... Read Full Story
Sunset Park is a book from famous Paul Auster
09 Nov 2010 20:58:51
In "Sunset Park," Auster is more interested in the neighborhood's vast semi-industrial stretches peppered with nondescript houses, all the better to endow the proceedings with an enforced sense of dreariness.
It's probably a good thing then, that very little of the action takes place in Sunset Park, where an unlikely group of squatters nurse their emotional wounds in a ramshackle house abutting the massive Greenwood Cemetery.
The book opens with the main character, Miles Heller, living in Miam... Read Full Story
Book about time of Cold War with beautiful name: Bridge of Spies
09 Nov 2010 20:56:00
"Bridge of Spies: A True Story of the Cold War" (Broadway Books $24.99), by Giles Whittell: Two highly trained Cold War spies — one American, one Soviet — both failed in their most important missions. Neither was entirely to blame. Giles Whittell, Washington bureau chief for The Times of London, sees much greater import in the American fiasco.
"It gave us 30 years of cold war that might very well have been avoided," he writes in "Bridge of Spies." It's a factual account of events half a century... Read Full Story
Nicolle Wallace wrote new novel named Eighteen Acres
09 Nov 2010 20:53:16
With realistic characters and unusual insight into the West Wing, a place that will be opaque to most readers, "Eighteen Acres" is, on some levels, very successful. Bedraggled by plot points that the author, a former White House communications director under President George W. Bush, surely knows are implausible, it is also filled with disappointments.
Some real successes and some bitter disappointments. How many presidencies fit a description like this?
"Eighteen Acres," which gets its name f... Read Full Story
Judith Dupre wrote new book Full of Grace
09 Nov 2010 03:38:53
The text is divided into 59 brief chapters — one for each bead of the traditional Marian Rosary — interspersed with full-color reproductions of great artworks like "The Ghent Altarpiece," Michelangelo's Pieta and Giotto's famed frescoes at the Scrovegni Chapel.
Writing in clear, evocative prose, Dupre describes what life might have been like for a girl of Mary's age, class and religion in Palestine at the time of Christ. She then brilliantly explicates the 13 sections of the Bible in which Mary... Read Full Story
Romantic in our hands from Carlos Eire
09 Nov 2010 03:37:15
It's 1963, Carlos Eire is 13 and when the snowflakes finally fall in his new corner of the world, he writes, they "snuck up on me, just like the Cuban Revolution. Except this is the best of all surprises, not the worst."
With vibrant details that practically dance off the page, Eire again offers all the wonder, fear and simple joys of childhood, but grounds them in the sadness and sensitivities of an adult who had his parents and homeland ripped away.
This book deftly continues the story of Ei... Read Full Story
