TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics » book review http://www.teleread.com News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:12:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Book Review: Iron Druid series by Kevin Hearne http://www.teleread.com/book-review/book-review-iron-druid-series-by-kevin-hearne/ http://www.teleread.com/book-review/book-review-iron-druid-series-by-kevin-hearne/#comments Mon, 20 May 2013 20:08:07 +0000 Juli Monroe http://www.teleread.com/?p=85358 Summer is almost here, and it’s time to find some light vacation reading. If you’re a fan of light fantasy and haven’t tried The Iron Druid series by Kevin Hearne, I’d suggest you give them a look. The basic premise is that the main character, Atticus O’Sullivan, is the last Druid, and he’s 21 centuries [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/book-review/review-this-is-not-the-end-of-the-book-by-umberto-eco-and-jean-claude-carriere/feed/ 12 Subscription book review site launched http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/subscription-book-review-site-launched/ http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/subscription-book-review-site-launched/#comments Wed, 20 Jun 2012 13:32:32 +0000 Paul Biba http://www.teleread.com/?p=66729 From an article in paidContent: Media Source, the company behind review publications like Library Journal, School Library Journal and Horn Book, is launching a subscription-based site, BookVerdict.com, that aggregates over 300,000 reviews from its publications. The site is aimed at book-buying librarians, though anyone can subscribe. It includes over 20 years of reviews, including starred reviews, “best” [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/subscription-book-review-site-launched/feed/ 0 A reviewer’s rant, by Meredith Greene http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/a-reviewers-rant-by-meredith-greene/ http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/a-reviewers-rant-by-meredith-greene/#comments Thu, 07 Jun 2012 13:32:52 +0000 a TeleRead Contributor http://www.teleread.com/?p=66378 I write to warn all who read this of a growing problem that has permeated deep within several groups I associate with, namely those referred to as book reviewers, a.k.a. “the damn critics!” As a writer of fiction, myself, I am known in some reviewing circles as being “easier” on new/young writers than some of [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/review-jailbait-justice-by-danny-hogan/feed/ 0 The work of others, by Meredith Greene http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/the-work-of-others-by-meredith-greene/ http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/the-work-of-others-by-meredith-greene/#comments Wed, 28 Sep 2011 15:42:21 +0000 a TeleRead Contributor http://www.teleread.com/?p=60005   An unexpected phenomena begins to occur once a writer signs on to be a book reviewer. Not at first, mind you, but around the mark of one’s first year at reading and rendering of opinions on prose, something almost magical takes place wherever one posts on the hills and dales of the vastly diverse [...]

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