You can keep your ebooks. There is no better way to engage with words than through a paperbackEverything changes so everything can stay the same. In the beginning I read a lot. I read paperback books. The Famous Five, the Secret Seven and all that stuff. I had – have, actually – all 21 Famous Five books. They’re in paperback, apart from the fifth one, Five Go Off in a Caravan, which is in hardback. A present from my nan. Nice. But I preferred paperbacks. I’ve never seen the point of hardbacks. They’re unwieldy, harder to hold in bed, especially under the sheets when I was supposed to be asleep.In my teens I raced through Agatha Christie, Alistair MacLean and the like, and Reader’s Digest too, countless editions of which were lined up beside every toilet in the house. Then schooling started interfering with my tastes and I got into Thomas Hardy in a big way, and other big thick, proper paperback novels. After my A-levels I went cycling in France with a mate, which was a miserable experience, saved only by the enjoyment I got from reading Anna Karenina, the battered doorstop edition of which I still have but am fearful of looking at lest it completely falls apart. Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
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Atria’s reimagined Washington Square Press imprint releases its first frontlist hardcover titles this month after many years focusing on paperback reprints. Its editorial director ran us through some of the changes. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, Feb. 16, 2025, including hardcover and paperback fiction and nonfiction. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
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Last year, burned out from going straight into a full-time lectureship after a pandemic PhD, I needed the kind of intellectual rest that only one thing brings: re-reading an old favorite novel. For me, that was Anne Bishop’s Black Jewels Trilogy, the fantasy series that got me through my... Continue reading at Electric Literature
[ Electric Literature | 2025-02-11 12:10:00 UTC ]
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Freida McFadden’s latest psychological thriller, ‘The Crash,’ tops our trade paperback list. Plus Neko Case plays confessor, brings the flood of emotions in her new memoir, and MSNBC host Chris Hayes sounds the alarm against ‘The Sirens’ Call.’ Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2025-02-07 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Freida McFadden’s latest psychological thriller, ‘The Crash,’ tops our trade paperback list. Plus Neko Case plays confessor, brings the flood of emotions in her new memoir, and MSNBC host Chris Hayes sounds the alarm against ‘The Sirens’ Call.’ Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2025-02-07 05:00:00 UTC ]
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The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, Feb. 9, 2025, including hardcover and paperback fiction and nonfiction. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
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Your roundup of new YA books out this week in hardcover and paperback is here. Your TBR is about to grow. Continue reading at Book Riot
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Generations of middle graders have learned about bodily functions from author Sylvia Branzei and illustrator Jack Keely’s 1995 'Grossology: The Science of Really Gross Things!' and its multimedia spinoffs. Now Grosset & Dunlap has released a redesigned, commemorative hardcover edition, plus... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2025-02-04 05:00:00 UTC ]
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It’s difficult, perhaps, not to feel that this past month has felt longer than a typical January, its natural disasters, sudden shifts, and political upheavals making this month seem as though a whole year or more had already rushed by. As February approaches, there is an inevitable sense of... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
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The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, Feb. 2, 2025, including hardcover and paperback fiction and nonfiction. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
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The indie publisher hopes to get ‘The Tulsa Race Massacre: The Department of Justice Review and Evaluation,’ which was released as a federal report on January 17, into bookstores by mid February. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2025-01-27 05:00:00 UTC ]
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The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, Jan. 26, 2025, including hardcover and paperback fiction and nonfiction. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
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'Beg, Borrow, or Steal,' Sarah Adams's her third contemporary rom-com set in Rome, Ky., debuts at #3 on our trade paperback list. Plus January's Read with Jenna selection debuts at #12 on our hardcover fiction list and Amanda Gorman and Loveis Wise celebrate 'Girls on the Rise.' Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2025-01-17 05:00:00 UTC ]
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The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, Jan. 19, 2025, including hardcover and paperback fiction and nonfiction. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
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The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, Jan. 12, 2025, including hardcover and paperback fiction and nonfiction. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
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