- contemplating reviving TRR as non-fiction review site – rather than focus on conservatism. What do you think? (assuming anyone reads this) #
- This @bencasnocha review of From Poverty to Prosperity (from @EncounterBooks) makes me want to read it even more: http://ow.ly/ESYQ #
- RT @bnreviewer: The answer is revealed — what fave childhood book did Gingrich, Chomsky and Hefner all cite? http://bit.ly/5eTKwP #
- Paul Rahe, author of Soft Despotism, Democracy’s Drift, is on @uncknowledge this week http://ow.ly/EV4z; TRR review: http://ow.ly/EV3z #
- Ah, tolerance: left-wing website launches a coordinated attack on novel just because author is conservative. http://ow.ly/EVsq #amazon #
- Network troubles this morning means the site is down. Sorry, working on it now. #
- Ross Douthat calls on Republican lawmakers to get serious about Wall Street and read After the Fall: http://ow.ly/FmyN (via @EncounterBooks) #
- What are the best sources of intelligent non-fiction book reviews online? What are your "go to" web pages? #books #reviews #
- RT @bdomenech: assumed books looked ugly on #Kindle because people didn't know how to format – learned it's because Amazon hates good code. #
- Thankful for books & ideas & for people who – amazingly – find what I have to say about them interesting enough to read. Happy Thanksgiving! #
- Shortlist for the 2010 BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction announced (via @CdnPress_Arts) http://bit.ly/5dsZm5 #books #
- Jay Winik calls Empire of Liberty an account of America's first quarter-century, presented w/ great insight & scholarship. http://ow.ly/GiSo #
- 'The Last Empress' presents Madame Chiang Kai-shek as far more complicated, awful and brilliant than we had imagined. http://ow.ly/GiUU #
- National Post (@npbooks) Books Quarterly offers some suggestions: Books for the big thinker http://ow.ly/GsMP #
- Nonfiction Book Reviews from @PublishersWkly for Week of 11/30/09: http://bit.ly/6VK7gr #
- Govt controls 30% of economy. How did we come to this? Tim Carney's new book Obamanomics has the answers. http://ow.ly/HePC (via @Regnery) #
- It's Book Monday, and the 2009 Books on the Nightstand Holiday Gift Guide is here! http://ow.ly/Hhdx #
- Need gift ideas? Check out NRO's book symposium http://ow.ly/HhFl #
- Audio Interview with author Bruce Bawer conducted by Nigel Beale: On Islamism and Islamophobia http://ow.ly/Hhe5 #
- Chat room open for questions for MIRACLES devotional author Karen Kingsbury http://ow.ly/HzJ8 (via @FaithWords) #
- Excerpt from Obamanomics by @TPCarney – "Obamanomics 101" – available at the Washington Examiner http://ow.ly/HAx7 #
- Penguin has a wonderful Great Ideas series: http://bit.ly/nwpvx & LibriVox has many as audiobooks: http://bit.ly/8kt4yp (via @bookoven) #
- Excerpt from 'The Meaning Is in the Waiting' by Paula Gooder at Christianity Today http://ow.ly/HFWt #
- Laura Miller's THE MAGICIAN'S BOOK out today in paperback (via @littlebrown). Read an excerpt: http://ow.ly/HBYw My review http://ow.ly/HP9N #
- Will Mary Gordon's READING #JESUS answer anybody's prayers? Read @roncharles take in Wash Post: http://bit.ly/8H3wVQ #atheism #Bible #faith #
- The Great War and Modern Memory: @TheOccasional reviews a new illustrated edition of Paul Fussell's classic http://ow.ly/HRxS #
- "Obamanomics" by @TPCarney available on #Kindle: http://bit.ly/4YNB1H As is "From Poverty to Prosperity" http://tinyurl.com/y93sqj6 #
- David Gelernter, author of "Judaism: A Way of Being" interviewed by Tablet Magazine http://bit.ly/6ptW7Y via @yalepress #
- 10 Awesome Books to Give Your Nonreading Friends http://ow.ly/HXd2 #
- Popular topic of debate today: The 10 Best Books of 2009 – The New York Times http://ow.ly/IdlZ #
- Don't like the NYT's, try this: Best books of 2009: fiction | csmonitor.com – Mozilla Firefox http://ow.ly/Idsb #
- Sorry about the double tweets, settings off for some reason. #
- Harold Bloom ponders capitalism's future — and its messianic impulse — on WaPo's book blog (@BookWorld) http://ow.ly/Ievo #
- Trivia from @OxfordTML: Of all non-fiction books published in US each yr, only 20% sell more than ? copies, and only 10% sell more than ? #
- Marginal Revolution: Meta-list for best non-fiction books of 2009 http://ow.ly/IxJs #
- B&N editors' picks for the Best of 2009: 30 books, fiction, nonfiction and beyond category http://bit.ly/815tZQ (via @bnreviewer) #
- Miraculous that Paul Johnson has managed to make an excellent job of summing up Churchill's life in a little under 200 pgs http://ow.ly/IE8n #
- RT @CollectedMisc: New Post: Are e-readers 8-tracks in disguise? http://bit.ly/8L5Lsp #books #Kindle #
- Must have icons for book bloggers: FTC Disclosures Made Simple For Bloggers With Conflicts http://ow.ly/IGcz #
- Books of the Year: Page-turners | The Economist http://ow.ly/J2Kg #
- Kindle Fantasies Are Running Wild — But, For Now, Amazon Is Losing Its Shirt (via @booksilove) http://ow.ly/JhTh #
- The end of work as you know it : 8 strategies to redefine work on your own terms: http://su.pr/1ljZeo (via @CrownPublishing) #
- Nook-ie tease? (sorry): Nook In-Store: They'll Show, But Not Sell http://bit.ly/91iFH2 (via @PublishersLunch)
#plnws # - Laura Miller (@magiciansbook) at Salon on The best nonfiction books of 2009 http://ow.ly/JI5K #
- Len Colodny & Tom Shachtman (THE 40 YEARS WAR) explore influence of the Right on US foreign policy: http://ow.ly/JW80 (via @roncharles) #
- Theodore Roosevelt Malloch, author of Thrift: Rebirth of a Forgotten Virtue, Between the Covers podcast on NRO http://ow.ly/JXbA #
- #Kindle = Auschwitz?!? Can we all agree that Kaufman is so far from reality & good sense as to beggar the imagination? http://ow.ly/JZb7 #
- Hmm, very interesting: "Baker & Taylor has the next big thing in ebooks. Really!" http://ow.ly/K4RU #
- RT @JohnKasich: Reading on my Kindle: Game Six: Cincinnati, Boston, and the 1975 World Series: The Triumph of America's Pastime #
- I was going to write something on the hot topic of delayed e-books, but I think I will just offer: "What he said" –> http://ow.ly/Kkzm #
- Want a copy of VICTOR DAVIS HANSON'S NEW BROADSIDE? http://ow.ly/KoUX We'll GIVE AWAY one copy at 6ET today. Tweet @EncounterBooks to win #
- A Very Claremont Christmas: books recommended by friends and colleagues of the Claremont Institute http://ow.ly/KD4c #
- Ouch! RT @PublishersLunch: Nielsen Sells 8 Magazines–and Closes Kirkus http://bit.ly/92ZUbK
#plnws # - The American Spectator reviews We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism By John Derbyshire http://ow.ly/KI8P #
- Seth Godin nails it: "$24 for Kindle 1st 2 wks, then $15 for next 2 & then $9 for year after that; backlist classic, $2" http://ow.ly/KNuJ #
- Hurray for the Kindle, and Nookenfreude – Mike Potemra is "an enthusiastic convert to the Amazon Kindle." http://ow.ly/L6Ai #
- "Churchill’s inspiration and charm are like Novocaine to a reader’s skeptical faculties." http://ow.ly/L6Cm #
- John Milton Cooper Jr.’s monumental new biography, seeks to explain why he deserves our national esteem. http://ow.ly/L6IJ #
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