My husband and I took our son, who will soon turn five, to see WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE last weekend. I figured that my son needed an antidote to his most recent movie experience– Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs–which was so inane and loud and transparently moralistic as to be inappropriate for viewers [...]
Time to start thinking about what will go under the Christmas tree. I’ve already ordered these: The Little Prince pop-up book, and Hi-Ho Cherry-O. The Little Prince is one of my favorite all-time stories; I already read it to my four-year-old, and he loved it. I think the pop-up edition will be even more magical. [...]
More confusion on Nook ereader lending policy. From Publishers Lunch:
At the press conference BN said there is no limit on how many times an ebook can be lent–only that you can lend an ebook to one person at a time, and just for up to 14 days…One publisher told us that BN was initially trying [...]
One of Barnes and Noble’s selling points for its new e-reader, Nook, is the “sharing” feature, which the website describes thus:
You can share nook to nook, but it doesn’t stop there. Using the new Barnes & Noble LendMe™ technology… you will be able to lend to and from any iPhone™, iPod touch®, BlackBerry®, PC, or [...]
I ran into Malena Watrous and her husband outside the Litquake party at Elbo Room in San Francisco Saturday night. Malena mentioned that she was working on her website–which reminded me that she has a book coming out next spring. Malena’s debut novel, If You Follow Me, is set in Japan. Thisbe Nissen calls it [...]
Is six-year-old Falcon Heene a kid who got scared and hid in the attic, or was he the pawn in his family’s publicity stunt? Either way, he’s cute, and the balloon boy saga was a riveting human interest story for a few hours yesterday, the sort of story where just about anyone who tuned in [...]
When Wolf Blitzer asked Falcon Heene why he didn’t come out of the attic when his parents called for him, the little boy said to his father, “You guys said that we did this for show.” The father, Richard Heene, then becomes flustered and says, “Whenever we tell him it’s a bad thing to do, [...]
The three Heene boys, including 6-year-old Ryo (confusing, as he is referred to in Falcon in at least one article), who was believed to have floated away in his family’s hot air balloon earlier today, appear in this rather odd rap-style home video with an unappealing title. The balloon has since come down, and the [...]
San Francisco writer Michelle Zaffino just posted this video review of NO ONE YOU KNOW. Honestly, I’d never even heard of bloggers posting video reviews. I think it’s a terrific idea. Thanks, Michelle!
My friend Ben Fong-Torres will be at the Booksmith on Haight Street tonight at 7:30, talking about his new book, Grateful Dead Scrapbook: The Long, Strange Trip in Stories, Photos, and Memorabilia.
Also, read a terrific blog post here for Asian Connections in which Ben talks about Telling My Story, sparring with Pat Sajak, his [...]
