Even though I don’t give ratings in my own blog reviews, I always look at the one-star reviews of books I want to read on Amazon or Goodreads and sometimes wonder what compels people to write ...
https://alittleblogofbooks.com/2015/08/13/book-blogs-hatchet-jobs-and-one-star-book-reviews/
Set in small town Ohio in 1977, ‘Everything I Never Told You’ by Celeste Ng tells the story of sixteen year old Lydia Lee who is found dead at the bottom of a nearby lake in a suspected suici...
https://alittleblogofbooks.com/2014/11/30/everything-i-never-told-you-by-celeste-ng/
For the printed book purist, the mere suggestion of libraries lending eBooks conjures up images of empty shelves, redundant librarians and tumbleweeds drifting across abandoned buildings. However...
https://alittleblogofbooks.com/2014/05/03/ebooks-in-libraries-worth-the-investment/
This week, I found a very interesting post by Amanda Nelson on an awesome website called Book Riot which lists the sort of things that a stereotypical book snob might say and then a “transla...
This week is Independent Booksellers Week. An interesting article in The Guardian yesterday outlined five reasons to support your local indie bookshop. In order from worst to best, they are: ...
https://alittleblogofbooks.com/2013/07/05/five-reasons-to-support-your-local-indie-bookshop/
Here’s one way of preventing Amazon’s hegemony over book sales: in France, book prices are fixed by law so they cost the same amount whether you buy them online, in a chain shop like Fnac or ...
The eBook debate continues to rage incessantly and provoke some very important questions. Is the controversy less about the value of books and more about the development of modern technology...
https://alittleblogofbooks.com/2012/08/28/the-rise-of-ebooks-evil-or-essential/