Book Review: 'The Casual Vacancy' by JK Rowling

Book Review: 'The Casual Vacancy' by JK Rowling
New York Times
With J. K. Rowling's new novel, “The Casual Vacancy,” we are firmly in Muggle-land — about as far from the enchanted world of Harry Potter as we can get. There is no magic in this book — in terms of wizarding or in terms of narrative sorcery. Instead ...

Book details child's view of Cambodia killing fields
Reuters
NEW YORK, Sept 27 (Reuters) - A seven-year old child is torn from a secure and happy life when the Khmer Rouge come to power in Cambodia in 1975 and send her privileged family into the misery of hard labor as the new regime destroys the established ...

Victim 1 in Jerry Sandusky trial has book deal
Sacramento Bee
Victim 1 first alerted authorities in 2008 that he had been abused and helped launch the investigation leading to Sandusky's conviction in June on 45 counts of child sexual abuse. Now 18, Victim 1 will reveal his identity on the day of the book's ...

Eric Gagne's career ended with a failed spring training tryout for the Dodgers ...
CBSSports.com (blog)
Sure, that's right. Eric Gagne says in his book that he used HGH toward the end of his career. Right, he used performance-enhancing drugs when he stunk, not when he saved 84 straight games, not when he won a Cy Young Award and allowed 37 hits and...

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In praise of 'One Book, One Chicago'
WBEZ (blog)
The purpose of One Book, One Chicago is not just to generate a list of worthwhile books. It's real purpose is to share ideas and encourage debate and dialogue through seminars and presentations. But for me the best part of it has been the innumerable ...

Class, today's word is irony
Chicago Tribune
In my own library each year, we celebrate Banned Books Week with a showy shelf display and signs encouraging students to check out a "banned book." In doing so, I trick students into reading my favorite classics, like "Native Son," "The Color Purple ...

Rachel Carson's book turned the environmental world on its ear 50 years ago
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring" was published 50 years ago today, and, like few others, the bookabout the dangers, damage and risks of excessive pesticide use moved the world. One of the most influential and controversial books of the 20th century, it ...

Domtar partners with First Book to support literacy for children in need
Sacramento Bee
MONTREAL, Sept. 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - Domtar Corporation (NYSE: UFS) (TSX: UFS) today announced that it is teaming up with the Washington, D.C.-based non-profit organization First Bookto put over 20,000 new books in the hands of children in need ...

Barnes & Noble launches new tablets in e-books fight
Reuters
The largest U.S. bookstore chain has staked its future on success in the growing e-books industry in the face of declining sales of physical books that last year led to the bankruptcy of the Borders bookstore chain. Barnes & Noble introduced a $199 7 ...

Book-publisher Penguin Group files lawsuits against authors who skipped ...
New York Post
Book-publishing giant Penguin Group has filed a dozen lawsuits in the past week against authors who have failed to meet their deadlines, despite being paid big advances. The alleged deadbeat dozen include “Prozac Nation” author Elizabeth Wurtzel, New ...

New York Post

UFOs Are Real, Should Be Studied, Says Ex-Project Blue Book ...
By The Huffington Post News Editors
Robert Friend, a former director of the Air Force's nearly 20-year UFO study, Project Blue Book, says that science should continue looking into the mystery of flying saucers. Friend ... The Internet Newspaper: News, Blogs, Video, Community ...
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BIG book deal news & BIG giveaway | Chick Lit Is Not Dead
By Liz
BIG book deal news & BIG giveaway. by Liz. Are y'all sitting down? We've got news. BIG news. Our manuscript, The Toast, sold to Greer Hendricks at Atria Books! *jumps up and down and pees pants a little bit*. We signed with the fabulous ...
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Author Stephen Chbosky realizes dreams with 'Perks of Being a Wallflower' film
Examiner.com
Stephen Chbosky, who not only wrote and directed the dramedy “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” but also authored the book on which it is based, considers working on the new movie the greatest artistic experience of his life. “The book is very personal ...

Examiner.com

How to Prep for the NY Art Book Fair
New Yorker (blog)
It's been a busy few days, with a lot of heavy-metal music, as Konrath and his colleagues at Pau Wau Publications printed, cut, and bound a collection of photobooks and zines to display at their booth this weekend. Above is a selection of photos from ...

New Yorker (blog)

Author Michael Morris: "Man in the Blue Moon"
WALA-TV FOX10
The highly praised Southern author returns with a new book that will vividly bring readers back to a time of hard-fought survival during the First World War. In Man in the Blue Moon, Ella Wallace's husband has left her and her three sons saddled with ...

Banned Books Week: Local Bookstores Support the 'Right to Read'
Patch.com
In the Tri-Valley, independent bookstores are showing their support through displays of these challenged books — some marked with caution tape, others noting when and why each book was banned. Pleasanton's Towne Center Books' display sits proudly in ...

Review: Eduardo Halfon's moving 'The Polish Boxer'
Los Angeles Times
In the closing pages of "The Polish Boxer," a book that willfully and delightfully blurs the boundaries among novel, memoir and meditation, Guatemalan writer Eduardo Halfon exposes what he, what anyauthor, is up against. "Literature," he explains, "is ...

Book Review: Insider knowledge leads to gripping story; Feingold's "While ...
Hudson Star Observer
Book Review: Insider knowledge leads to gripping story; Feingold's "While America Sleeps". White Bear Lake novelist Julie Kramer makes good use of her past experience as a news producer for NBC, CBS and WCCO-TV, which is only one reason she has ...

BOOK REVIEW: 'Pacific Time on Target'
Washington Times
The vast majority of veterans have departed the scene, and the author of this book is 99. I'm happy to report that he is still alive, well and living independently in South Florida. This book has been literally 70 years in the making. Christopher ...

Washington Times

The most important book you will ever read
New York Daily News (blog)
Humphrey, a graphic designer, and Sheppard, a writer/director who is also the drag star of the book, must have realized the futility of trying to scrap together a few phrases into a physical book, because the photographs look like they're trying really ...

Whitney Houston getting primetime special, greatest hits package, photo book
Entertainment Weekly
Finally, the month will wrap up with the release of Whitney: Tribute to an Icon, an official photo bookdue to hit bookstores on November 27. Part of the proceeds of the book, which is being put out by Atria, will support Teen Summit, one of Houston's ...

Wisconsin author wins new public-school alumni award
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (blog)
A new award the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction has developed for "distinguished public-school alumni" from the state will be given to a well-known author from rural Wisconsin. Michael Perry, from New Auburn, is a humorist, musician and pig ...

Book Review: Jerusalem: The Biography by Simon Sebag Montefiore
Blogcritics.org (blog)
Jerusalem: The Biography is certainly splendidly written and meticulously researched—Montefiore paid for translations of certain historical materials—and Montefiore is a master of popular history, having established himself with books like Stalin ...

'May We Be Forgiven' Blames The Online World
NPR
Two generations have passed since I'm OK, You're OK went from pop-psychology book title to a national feel-good catchphrase, and self-help books have convinced Americans that high self-esteem is a more noble trait than altruism and moral good. In a ...

Montclair author to discuss best-selling biography of David Foster Wallace ...
NorthJersey.com
Max, who is married and is a father of two young children who attend the Montclair Cooperative School, wrote the book at Panera Bread on Bloomfield Avenue and at the Montclair Public Library. "It was really fun and absorbing," Max said, "the most ...

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Book Review: Tracks in the Snow by Sandra H. Esch
Blogcritics.org (blog)
I appreciate the way the author took her time in developing her characters and the question of how she was going to put all the loose ends together at the end kept me reading. At times I found Jo too perfect and goodie-goodie, but in the end she wins ...

Ebook lending review announced
The Guardian
Photograph: Martin Argles for the Guardian. Culture minister Ed Vaizey has announced a government review of ebook lending – a thorny issue that publishers believe could have "serious implications" for the book trade. To be led by publisher and Forward ...

The Guardian

The Writing Life: Straight talk with Susan Straight
Los Angeles Times
Her latest book is her first to be published by Dave Eggers' McSweeney's imprint. Straight says she chose to publish with him because "I loved their joyful, old-fashioned books — books you can hold in your hands." With its off-kilter dialogue and ...

About Books: Chris Spielman kicks off local One Book, One Community
Canton Repository
This year's One Book, One Community literacy effort will begin Tuesday with a program featuring former Washington High School and Ohio State University football star Chris Spielman, the 2012 reading program's highlighted author. The focus of One Book, ...

For The Love Of Roots And Cookbooks, An Interview With Cookbook Author ...
Huffington Post
There are a couple of much older books focused on the "common" root vegetables (beets, turnips, rutabagas, sweet potatoes), and there are encyclopedic books written on vegetables, but an encyclopedic book written on the large family of root vegetables ...

Irish potato famine the subject of a new book
MetroWest Daily News
“I read a number of books on the famine. The most famous book, 'The Great Hunger,' by Cecil Woodham-Smith, was great in terms of its detail, but I never got any overarching theme except that the British were bad and the Irish were long suffering. It ...

New JK Rowling book for adults on sale
WMBF
LONDON (CNN) - Whatever the literary merits of J.K. Rowling's new novel, the Harry Potter author is unlikely to earn many plaudits for the originality of her subject matter. With a plot examining social tensions and class divisions between the rich and ...

Book Review: Luck or Something Like It by Kenny Rogers
Blogcritics.org (blog)
Throughout the book, Rogers occasionally calls upon several friends or acquaintances for short stories in their own words. ... Subtitled as a “memoir,” Rogers' book offers many personal experiences, anecdotes, successes, failures and even a few secrets.

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RA Dickey Pitches a Book
New Yorker (blog)
The conversation eventually turned to “Knuckleball Ned,” a thirty-two-page picture bookthat is the second of three books in the deal that Dickey signed with the publisher. Dickey pulled a twenty-page manuscript, dense with type, from his bag. On one ...

New Yorker (blog)

Why J.K. Rowling's new ebook is $17.99 — paidContent
By Laura Hazard Owen
The Casual Vacancy, the first and much-buzzed-about book for adults from “Harry Potter” author J.K. Rowling, hits shelves (and the e-readers of those who've preordered it) on Thursday. The book, an almost guaranteed bestseller, is likely to be publisher ... Publishers use wholesale pricing for printbooks: They set the books' list price; retailers buy the books at a discount and can then resell them at whatever price they want. That's why The Casual Vacancy hardcover is $20.90 on ...
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Amazon Reviewers Failed J.K. Rowling's New Book | TechCrunch
By Gregory Ferenstein
Goddess of the Harry Potter Universe, J.K. Rowling, released her new book to instant global stardom, but if eager fans rush to Amazon to see if Rowling still has her literary magic, they will be dreadfully disappointed: most reviews aren't about ...
TechCrunch

'Savages' Author Don Winslow Awarded Raymond Chandler Award ...
By MIKE FLEMING
His books have always sold well overseas, but Winslow is finally getting some Hollywood action on novels that include The Winter Of Frankie Machine, Satori and Power of The Dog. “I have always been convinced that there is a strong ...
Deadline.com

National Book Foundation Reveals 5 Under 35 Honorees - GalleyCat
By Dianna Dilworth
Independent Publishers Group is looking for a Special Sales Associate. next job Cambridge University Press is looking for a Production Editor. next job Quirk Books is looking for a Writer/Editor. next job ABRAMS is looking for a Associate Managing ... Jennifer duBois, author of A Partial History of Lost Causes; Stuart Nadley, author of The Book of Life; Haley Tanner, author of Vaclav & Lena; Justin Torres, author of We the Animals; and Claire Vaye Watkins, author of Battleborn, will be ...
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Harry Potter author's first adult novel hits bookstores — RT
By RT
The new book by world-famous 'Harry Potter' author J.K. Rowling hit stores in the US and the UK. Rowling's first adult novel is one of the most anticipated releases of the year, and already sparked buzz over its contents.
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Banned Books Week celebrates 30 years of defiant reading ...
By Dan Eldridge
If you've never read a book specifically in celebration of Banned Books Week, you might want to consider rectifying that situation this Sunday, September 30,
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Victim 1 In Jerry Sandusky Trial Has Book Deal « CBS Philly
By Crystal Cranmore
A key witness against convicted child molester and former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, known in court papers as Victim 1, has a book deal and will soon reveal his identity, a publisher announced Thursday. ... Victim 1 In Jerry Sandusky Trial Has Book Deal. September 27, 2012 1:17 PM. Share this. View Comments. More Activity. Facebook Activity. What's this? Add to Timeline - What's This. Click "Log in" to publish what you read to Facebook. See what your ...
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JK Rowling's New Book Is a Total Disaster on the Kindle
By Kyle Wagner
JK Rowling's new book The Casual Vacancy—her first for adults—is a pretty big deal in the publishing world. So is the Kindle. And that is why it is so very funny and great that the Kindle version of the ebook seems to be a woefully misshapen ...
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Victim 1 In Sandusky Case Has A Book Deal | SportsGrid
By Dan Fogarty
ictim 1 in the Jerry Sandusky sexual abuse trial will be releasing a book on October 23rd. On the same day, Victim 1, now 18, will reveal his identity in a televised interview with ABC's Chris Cuomo.
SportsGrid

An Interview with Nonbeliever Nation's Author, David Niose
By Hrafnkell Haraldsson
He is the author of Nonbeliever Nation: The Rise of Secular Americans (2012), which I reviewed here yesterday. Here I ask Mr. Niose some questions about themes in his book but also about recent events in both America and around the ...
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Digital publishing for professionals | Adobe Digital Editions Home
Organize your eBooks into a custom library and annotate pages. Digital Editions also supports industry-standard eBook formats, including PDF/A and EPUB.
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Rowling's new book divides critics - Hindustan Times
Harry Potter author JK Rowling's first novel for adults hit the shelves Thursday with reviewers giving the gritty tale a mixed reception.
www.hindustantimes.com/world...s.../Article1-936718.aspx

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Potter author's first novel for grown-ups divides critics - Yahoo! News ...
Harry Potter author JK Rowling's first novel for adults hit the shelves Thursday and ... Fans of Rowling snapped up copies of "The Casual Vacancy" when the book went on sale, ... Other reviewers hailed Rowling's foray into books for adults .
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