Oh, Forks...
I'm not sure what I'm more distressed by: the fact that the Twilight series has made such a difference in this tiny former logging town's fame and fortune (c'mon! Meyer didn't even visit before wr...
Contest news
Powell's Books is giving away a full, 20-volume set of the Oxford English Dictionary (something I have always dreamed of owning). Click here for details!
Borders keeps on trucking
In business news, Borders Books appears to be holding in there, despite some ugly returns in the third quarter and, of course, the across-the-board grim economic outlook. The company has cut expen...
Impossibly High Expectations: Jonathan Stroud edition
Early reviews are beginning to pop up for Jonathan Stroud's Heroes of the Valley (his first book since Ptolemy's Gate, the conclusion of Bartimaeus Trilogy, came out in 2006), and they're very pos...
Start saving those pennies now, fangirls!
Because who DOESN'T want a vaguely constipated-looking Edward Cullen action figure?Hee hee hee...Happy Thanksgiving, guys!
Lazy college-prep high schoolers, set your TIVOs.
PBS has posted their 2009 Masterpiece Classic Season schedule, featuring adaptations of novels by Thomas Hardy (ugh), Jane Austen, Emily Bronte (double ugh), and Charles Dickens (sometimes ugh). ...
Scanlation update
Just posted the latest chapter of Absolute Witch, for those of you who are following it!
Take advantage of six promo tours at once
Books of Wonder, New York City's oldest and largest independent children's bookstore, is hosting an reading/book signing/Q-and-A session event with six big-name YA authors tonight: Tamora Pierce, ...
Want to read L.J. Smith's first Night World book for free?
Then today's your lucky day, because Simon and Schuster are currently offering it as a free download on their site!Note: L.J. Smith came in second on our list of the Top Ten Books to Read INSTEAD ...
The full-length Coraline trailer is up...
...and frankly, it's something of a disappointment:It's not that it looks bad, exactly (although I still want to know why they went with American actors). But I think the original illustrator, lon...
Life After Oil, Part II
Remember our post on Luz, the webcomic about a girl living in a post-abundant-petroleum world? Well, if online comics aren't your thing, but you're still interested in literature about living in a...
Literature worth sitting on
I was poking around the web this morning, and I ran across this:Yes, dear readers, you're looking at a Raymond Chandler deck chair—but if you're not a Chandler fan, don't worry: they have several ...
Thanks again, Canada!
A (totally brilliant, obviously) British Columbia-area computer programmer has created an alternative to lorem ipsum: randomly-generated lines from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.
New stuff from Susan Elizabeth Phillips coming down the pike
Wordcandy staff member Megan was sick yesterday, so in honor of her (hopefully brisk) recovery, we're doing a post about her favorite romance novelist, Susan Elizabeth Phillips. Ms. Phillips has T...
We've got movie news coming out of our ears.
Media blog Buzzsugar has posted a ton of literary film-adaptation news in the past few days:*Children's book illustrator Gris Grimly will be directing a movie adaptation of Pinocchio, based on a b...
Pricey! But also cool!
The new book-and-DVD set The New York Times: The Complete Front Pages might cost a whopping $60, but it looks totally awesome:More than 300 of the Times front pages have been reproduced in this bo...
New Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince trailer up...
...and while my favorite HP trailer of all time remains the one for Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (with the school choir clutching toads and singing "Something Wicked This Way Comes"), ...
Blue Bloods: the animated primer
If you're interested in reading our current Featured Book, Melissa de la Cruz's Blue Bloods 3: Revelations, but you're too broke to shell out for the first two installments in the series, she's pu...
Why, Kelley Armstrong? WHY?!?
I was so turned off by the cover art for Kelley Armstrong’s Personal Demon that I didn’t even feel like requesting a review copy, much less actually purchasing one. This is no reflection on Ms. Ar...
The Angels and Demons trailer is up...
Do we have any fans of overwrought fake religious revelations in the house? 'Cause the teaser trailer for the new Dan Brown movie is up:
Want to win a Twilight prize pack?
Trent from PinkistheNewBlog is giving away a Twilight-themed prize pack. To enter, submit a photo of "you, your family and/or your friends doing your best vampire impersonation" by November 24th. ...
America's Test Kitchen books on the cheap
PRE-THANKSGIVING REMINDER:Fans of the fine people at America's Test Kitchen/Cook's Magazine take note: you can get several of their cookbook titles for remarkably low prices at Overstock.com. Titl...
Revelations, by Melissa de la Cruz
I have an intense, long-standing, slightly guilty love for vampire stories, which allows me to tolerate literature I wouldn’t otherwise touch with a ten foot pole. This love might not be powerful enough...
Twilight goes to the mall!
If you just can't get enough of those Twilight books, various cast members from the upcoming movie adaptation are currently on a mall tour.After all, nothing says "dark, brooding romance" like a B...
Why don't we ever get to see animated versions of, like, Paradise Lost?
According to AnimeNewsNetwork, anime director Osamu Dezaki is planning to debut his anime Genji Monogatari Sen-nen-ki Genji ("The Tale of Genji: A Millennium-Old Journal") on Japanese television i...
Conan remake to compete with Red Sonja?
Remember our earlier posts about the prospect of a Red Sonja remake? Well, it turns out the consistently-awful director Brett Ratner is thinking of updating another cheeseball-adventure-series-tu...
We Interrupt this Broadcast, by Joe Garner
Effectively combining history, commentary, and audio recordings of actual news broadcasts, Joe Garner’s recently re-released We Interrupt This Broadcast is a far cry above the typical coffee-table...
Chris Onstad blogs for Powell's
The recently-featured-on-Wordcandy comic strip author Chris Onstad (or, uh, Ray Smuckles) has produced a blog post for Powell's Books... and, as always, it is totally awesome.Note: Today's Achewoo...