by Sarah Statz Cords
Our “Best of 2009″ lists will resume next week, as we pause briefly while everyone passes the holiday week in their own style. All of us here at RAO offer all of you our best wishes for safe travels and peaceful holidays, and of course, a fantastic 2010, filled with exciting books and soothing books and award-winning books and books with beautiful covers, and, well…you get the idea.
In the meantime, there’s still some interesting articles out there about reading, just waiting to be read themselves. Have you seen these?
- Even book terms can have buzz; terms “orphan book” and “vook” among New York Times’ 2009 buzzwords;
- Even The Daily Beast gets in on the Book List action;
- There’s a new movie out about Queen Victoria, but has that venerable monarch been shortchanged in the historical fiction department?;
- Now THAT’S a holiday! Jane Austen’s birthday: December 16, 1775*;
- All right, books! Fourth on the list of “favorite entertainments”!;
- Nancy Pearl’s “Reissues Wish List”–are you paying attention, publishers?;
- Gotta love the Guardian: they ask readers to “name and shame” the decade’s worst books, and get 892 comments;
- Has everyone heard the Carte Noire Readers? Our little gift to you: British actors reading classics. You’re welcome;
- Book Covers Galore! The winners are listed here, but the nominees page is a lot more fun.
*Yes, yes, I have a Jane Austen addiction problem. I am aware.
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