Check out these updates from Omnivoracious for September 23, 2013.
Picking Tips for Aspiring Mushroom Hunters
After Jon Foro highlighted Langdon Cook's The Mushroom Hunters--which he called "a collection of delightful stories of a mycelial underground filled with eccentrics and obsessives who at first seem strange (and maybe even unsettling), but grow more charming by the page"--in our Big Fall Books Preview, our whole editorial team got an unusual invitation: Langdon was headed out to the …
"Their War Had Become an After-War" - David Finkel Discusses "Thank You for Your Service"
Some books just sneak up on you and you're never the same after. I'd heard very little about David Finkel's Thank You for Your Service before reading it, and I hadn't read his previous book, The Good Soldiers, so my expectations were muted going into it. That changed quickly. This book is so personal, so moving, that I devoured it. Although the subject matter is difficult, you …
Defending the Greats For Banned Books Week
For us, cracking a new spine, turning another page, and letting ourselves be transported by the written word is crucial to our happiness. Which is why it's so painful to hear the words "challenged," "banned," and "burned."
It's Banned Books Week Sept. 22-28, and in celebration of the freedom to read, Amazon has compiled an extensive list of book's that have -- in some way, …
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