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25 Things I Learned From Opening a Bookstore

1. People are getting rid of bookshelves. Treat the money you budgeted for shelving as found money. Go to garage sales and cruise the curbs.
   
   
2. While you're drafting that business plan, cut your projected profits in half. People are getting rid of bookshelves.
   
   
3. If someone comes in and asks where to find the historical fiction, they're not looking for classics, they want the romance section.

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El Ateneo

El Ateneo located in Buenos Aires is the largest bookstore in South America and one of the most mind-blowing bookstore experiences one can ever have.

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The 10 most expensive books in the world

John James Audubon’s Birds of America already holds the title of most valuable printed book in the world, having sold for about $11.5 million in 2010. In fact, according to The Economist, a true list of the ten most valuable single books ever sold would have to include five copies of The Birds of America.

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Is CanLit sexy?

"Move over Gosling, we’ve got Mistry, Martel, and Munro." More »

The consequences of writing without reading

At The New Yorker Book Bench Macy Halford recently posed an important question: “What is wanting to write without wanting to read like? It’s imperative that we figure it out, because Giraldi’s right: it’s both crazy and prevalent among budding writers.” She was echoing a question asked by debut novelist William Giraldi who in the course of teaching writing at Boston University has noticed a growing number of aspiring writers disinclined to read.

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Social Media-Inspired Public Library Ads Remind You To Read More

Milwaukee Public Library launched an advertising campaign, using famous social media logos, to encourage more people to take up a book.

The logos of social media networks, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, were given a clever spin, and put into perspective that viewers should be spending more time reading than checking status updates, tweeting thoughts, or watching videos.

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The Joy Of Books

Best of the Book Lists (2011)

Here it is, the meta-list of lists listing the best books of 2011. More »

2011: Books Read

1. Real Simple: The Organized Home, Editors of Real Simple. 2011.01.03
2. Throw Out Fifty Things: Clear the Clutter, Find Your Life, Gail Blanke. 2011.01.11
3. Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader, Anne Fadiman. 2011.01.23
4. Tetrasomy Two, Oscar Rossiter. 2011.02.08
5. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass, Lewis Carroll. 2011.02.10
6. The Animal Garden, William Mayne. 2011.02.13
7. More Show Me How, Derek Fagerstrom, Lauren Smith & the Show Me Team. 2011.03.07
8. Granta 29, Jonathan Raban, Rian Malan, Robert Fisk, Roger Garfitt, Josef Skvorecky, Paul Theroux, Patricia Highsmith, Tim O'Brien. 2011.03.25
9. The Magic Flute, adapted from the opera by WA Mozart, P Craig Russell. 2011.03.30
10. Supreme Justice, Philip Margolin. A Calliope pick. 2011.04.08
11. The Sleeping Beauty & Other Classic French Fairy Tales, Charles Perrault & Madame d'Aulnoy, ill. Edmund Dulac, Gustaf Tenggren & William Heath Robinson. 2011.04.15
12. Gothic, David Day, ill. Alan Lee. 2011.04.19
13. Neon Angel: A Memoir of a Runaway, Cherie Currie, with Tony O'Neill. Foreword by Joan Jett. 2011.05.23
14. Won Ton: A Cat Tale Told in Haiku, Lee Wardlaw, ill. Eugene Yelchin. 2011.05.30
15. Far Horizons: All New Tales from the Greatest Worlds of Science Fiction, ed. Robert Silverberg. 2011.06.27
16. Plato And A Platypus Walk Into A Bar: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes, Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein. 2011.07.04
17. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett, ill. Robert Ingpen. 2011.07.12
18. Man With A Pan: Culinary Adventures Of Fathers Who Cook For Their Families, ed. John Donohue. 2011.07.20
19. 150 Best Eco House Ideas, Marta Serrats. 2011.07.21
20. Baking As Biography: A Life Story In Recipes, Diane Tye. 2011.07.25
21. Heidegger And A Hippo Walk Through Those Pearly Gates: Using Philosophy (And Jokes!) To Explore Life, Death, The Afterlife, And Everything In Between, Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein. 2011.08.06
22. Collecting Design, Adam Lindemann. 2011.08.16
23. The Ambler Warning, Robert Ludlum. 2011.08.31
24. The Passage, Justin Cronin. 2011.09.27
25. The Golden Treasury Of Children's Literature, Ed. Bryna & Louis Untermeyer. 2011.10.19
26. Michael Foreman's Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll. 2011.10.26
27. Flashing Swords #5: Demons And Daggers, Ed. Lin Carter, by Roger Zelazny, CJ Cherryh, Diane Duane, Craig Shaw Gardner, Tanith Lee. 2011.11.02
28. Figuring It Out, Nuno Crato. ISBN 978-3-642-04832-6. 2011.11.19
29. Eco-Yards, Laureen Rama. ISBN 978-0865716827. 2011.12.02
30. The Toy-Collector, James Gunn. ISBN 978-1-58234-149-4. 2011.12.15
31. Robert Ludlum's™ The Lazarus Vendetta, Patrick Larkin. ISBN 978-0-312-99072-3. 2011.12.31

December 2011

BOOKS ACQUIRED

1. High Fidelity, Nick Hornby. ISBN 978-1-57322-821-3. 2011.12.04
2. Blindness, José Saramago. ISBN 978-0-15-603558-3. 2011.12.04
3. The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne. ISBN 0-553-21009-2. 2011.12.04
4. Dr Zhivago, Boris Pasternak. ISBN NA (Wm. Collins Sons & Co, Ltd., London, 1958). 2011.12.10
5. Phantom Lady, Cornell Woolrich. ISBN 0-345-30652-X. 2011.12.29
6. Waltz Into Darkness, Cornell Woolrich. ISBN 0-14-023973-1. 2011.12.29
7. I Married A Dead Man, Cornell Woolrich. ISBN 0-14-023427-6. 2011.12.29
8. The Gamesman, Barry N Malzberg. SBN 671-80174-0. 2011.12.29
9. Beyond Apollo, Barry N Malzberg. SBN 671-77687-8. 2011.12.29
10. The Sodom And Gomorrah Business, Barry N Malzberg. SBN 671-77789-0. 2011.12.29
11. Phase IV, Barry N Malzberg. SBN 671-77710-6. 2011.12.29

BOOKS READ

1. Eco-Yards, Laureen Rama. ISBN 978-0865716827. 2011.12.02
2. The Toy-Collector, James Gunn. ISBN 978-1-58234-149-4. 2011.12.15
3. Robert Ludlum's™ The Lazarus Vendetta, Patrick Larkin. ISBN 978-0-312-99072-3. 2011.12.31