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  • Short reads: The Rose of Fire – Carlos Ruiz Zafón

    The Rose of Fire Carlos Ruiz Zafón Set at the time of the Spanish Inquisition in the fifteenth century, Rose of Fire tells the story of the origins of the mysterious labyrinthine library, the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, which lies at the heart of Carlos Ruiz Zafon’s novels The Shadow of the Wind, The Angel’s…

  • The ebook generation (cartoon)

    Created by Oliver Widder / Geek and Poke.

  • Recommended ebook: Go Set a Watchman – Harper Lee

    Go Set a Watchman Harper Lee Originally written in the mid-1950s, Go Set a Watchman was the novel Harper Lee written before To Kill a Mockingbird. Assumed to have been lost, the manuscript was discovered in late 2014. Go Set a Watchman features many of the characters from To Kill a Mockingbird some twenty years…

  • You don’t need a big library (cartoon)

    Cartoon by Teddy Tietz. More cartoons about books, libraries, and reading: [ef-archive number=5 tag=”cartoons”]

  • What’s the best way to read? (chart)

    Via The Wall Street Journal. More charts and infographics: [ef-archive number=5 tag=”infographics”]

  • Recommended ebook: Savage Harvest – Carl Hoffman

    Savage Harvest Carl Hoffman The mysterious disappearance of Michael Rockefeller in New Guinea in 1961 has kept the world and his powerful, influential family guessing for years. Now, Carl Hoffman uncovers startling new evidence that finally tells the full, astonishing story. Despite exhaustive searches, no trace of Rockefeller was ever found. Soon after his disappearance,…

  • Recommended ebook: Finders Keepers – Stephen King

    Finders Keepers Stephen King A masterful, intensely suspenseful novel about a reader whose obsession with a reclusive writer goes far too far—a book about the power of storytelling, starring the same trio of unlikely and winning heroes King introduced in Mr. Mercedes. “Wake up, genius.” So begins King’s instantly riveting story about a vengeful reader.…

  • It’s like looking at a book (cartoon)

    Created by Tony Cole.

  • Short reads: Lifeboat No. 8 – Elizabeth Kaye

    Lifeboat No. 8: An Untold Tale of Love, Loss, and Surviving the Titanic Elizabeth Kaye When the Titanic started sinking, who would make it off alive? The two cousins who had been so eager to see their first iceberg? The maid who desperately tried to escape with the baby in her care? The young newlyweds…

  • Recommended ebook: All the Light We Cannot See – Anthony Doerr

    All the Light We Cannot See Anthony Doerr From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, the beautiful, stunningly ambitious instant New York Times bestseller about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie-Laure lives with her…

  • Recommended ebook: Personal – Lee Child

    Personal: A Jack Reacher Novel Lee Child You can leave the army, but the army doesn’t leave you. Not always. Not completely, notes Jack Reacher—and sure enough, the retired military cop is soon pulled back into service. This time, for the State Department and the CIA. Someone has taken a shot at the president of…

  • A reader’s manifesto (cartoon)

    Grant Snider has drawn this fantastic cartoon for the Colombian newspaper El Espectador, but the message is universal. The manifesto would make a perfect wall statement, and you can actually buy it as a poster in Incidental Comics Shop. Which point of the manifesto appeals to you most? Via Incidental Comics Blog. More cartoons: [ef-archive number=5 tag=”cartoons”]