BookLovers Review Update

Hello BLR readers,

We do plan to renew activity in this blog in the near future.

For the past year, we've been blogging about books, and other issues, on:

Epublishers Weekly, at www.EpublishersWeekly.com

On Epublishers Weekly, we will announce the re-opening of the new BookLovers Review.

Until then, enjoy our archives.

Michael Pastore
50 Benefits of Ebooks

Fahrenheit 451 -- Watch the Film, Free

Reading the best books makes us human. Here's the film that explains why:

Fahrenheit 451 -- Click here to Watch it Free

Read the Paris Review Interviews, Free

Thanks to the Paris Review for making this invaluable resource available, free, for everyone.

Paris Review Interviews
http://theparisreview.org/literature.php/prmAlpha/A-E

20 Most Interesting Books of 2006

See the list, and read the reviews, of the BookLovers Review awards for the 20 Most Interesting Books of 2006.

Albert Schweitzer -- Read the free Ebook

A free ebook about Albert Schweitzer is now available for reading online:

Animals, Nature, and Albert Schweitzer

Need information about Copyright? ... Try here.

For copyright information, try this page from the Cornell Copyright Information Center:

http://www.copyright.cornell.edu/

And help from the US copyright office, is here:

http://www.copyright.gov/help/

The Ithaca Manual of Style, edited by Michael Pastore

A new style manual, revolutionary in approach, explains how to write with power, sincerity, clarity, and grace.

The Ithaca Manual of Style
http://www.zorbapress.com/books/ithacastyle.html

Read A Sample Chapter from the Novel: "The Sea Devil"

Sparks fly when a young Russian woman meets her idol.
Read a sample chapter, here:

http://www.reinventingyourself.com/

Free Presentation about Print-on-Demand Publishing

Authors Beware:
The Pleasures and Perils of Publishing by Print-on-Demand

Print-on-Demand (P.O.D.) is a revolutionary method for rapidly producing professional-quality hardcover and paperback books. Often praised as a panacea for unpublished authors, this rosy path to publication can be a quicksand of pitfalls, predators, and hidden costs. This lively session explains how P.O.D. compares with traditional commercial publishing; how to understand and evaluate the options; how to distinguish genuine P.O.D. companies from the slippery vanity presses; and how to use the best facets of this new technology to publish your own book.

2:00 to 3:00pm on Saturday June 24th
at the Tompkins County Public Library's Borg-Warner Room
101 East Green Street, Ithaca, NY

A Knowledge-Town Forum by Michael Pastore

Free and open to the public

NY Times Survey of 25 Best American Fiction Books

A New York Times survey selected the best work of American fiction from the past 25 years.

THE WINNER:

1. Beloved by Toni Morrison (1987)

The RUNNERS-UP:

2. Underworld by Don DeLillo (1997)
3. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy (1985)
4. Rabbit Angstrom: The Four Novels by John Updike (1995)
5. American Pastoral by Philip Roth (1997)

OTHER BOOKS RECEIVING MORE THAN ONE VOTE:

6. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole (1980)
7. Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson (1980)
8. Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin (1983)
9. White Noise by Don DeLillo (1985)
10. The Counterlife by Philip Roth (1986)
11. Libra by Don DeLillo (1988)
12. Where I'm Calling From by Raymond Carver (1988)
13. The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien (1990)
14. Mating by Norman Rush (1991)
15. Jesus' Son by Denis Johnson (1992)
16. Operation Shylock by Philip Roth (1993)
17. Independence Day by Richard Ford (1995)
18. Sabbath's Theater by Philip Roth (1995)
19. Border Trilogy by Cormac McCarthy (1999)
20. The Human Stain by Philip Roth (2000)
21. The Known World by Edward P. Jones (2003)
22. The Plot Against America by Philip Roth (2004)

The Adventures of Mr. Marigold -- by Michael Tobias

The Adventures of Mr. Marigold
a novel by Michael Tobias
Published by Craig Potton Publishing

"Certainly the book of the year; probably the book of the decade."
--Michael Pastore

Read the full review, here: http://www.bookloversreview.com/fiction/marigold2006.html

Visit the book's web page

Thoreau Reader -- Read Thoreau's Key Works, Free

Throreau's key works can be read free, at this website. Scroll down near the bottom and you can find a link to a site where you can download then build a cardboard copy of Thoreau's cabin, immortalized in Walden.
Read more ...http://eserver.org/thoreau/default.html

Author Fred Madeo Writes About His Novel

When I began my novel, "The Shout and the Avalanche," I intended it to be about friendship and loyalty. It was not until I had completed several chapters that I realized that my overarching theme was anti-Semitism. The reason was simple: the events of America in 1939 were being shaped by Nazi Germany.

America and the world were gripped in a deep economic depression. By 1939 it showed signs of easing up, but they were not out of the woods yet. Not only had economic conditions shaken Americans who lost their jobs and had to stand on soup lines for sustenance, but also in the mid-thirties Mother Nature struck a devastating blow at the lives of farmers of the midwest. She gave them no rain. The earth was dried up; top soil had been torn away by the winds, and the bleached earth was barren. No crops, no cash, no way to pay the mortgage, so the banks took their land and the people were driven westward to look for work. John Steinbeck told their story in his great novel, "The Grapes of Wrath." Like a colony of ants the disinherited traveled westward on the highways, in search of sustenance, of relief from the hot and unyielding sun and winds.

Read more ...

How Accurate Are Online Rankings and Reviews ?

At last, an authoritative source questions the accuracy and methods of online reviews for books and ebooks. Two scholars from Yale and Cornell have just published an article: Six Degrees of Reputation: The use and abuse of online review and recommendation systems.

Visit the article's web page, read the abstract, and then download the article -- or have it emailed to you.

Learn more ...
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=857505