Tuesday, September 24, 2013
Amazon Blogs: Omnivoracious Daily Digest
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, …
Monday, September 23, 2013
Amazon Blogs: Car Lust Daily Digest
Check out these updates from Car Lust for September 22, 2013.
September 23 Weekly Open Thread: The Factory of Life
Commence Conformity Protocol. . . .
Simulation is beauty. . . . .
Compliance is security. . . .
Thus begins one of my current favorite commercials, Infiniti's "Factory of Life":
Some of the best commercials are those that manage to relay an entire backstory in a few short seconds of film. The obvious progenitor to our current subject is Apple's iconic "…
Amazon Blogs: Omnivoracious Daily Digest
Check out these updates from Omnivoracious for September 22, 2013.
Kim Stanley Robinson on his Latest Novel "Shaman"
Kim Stanley Robinson's latest novel Shaman is set 30,000 years in the past, and is about a 14-year-old boy named Loon, who has been orphaned and taken under the wing of a shaman. Loon is on a journey to become a man—and a shaman himself—and the book may have a transformative effect on you as well. The world of Loon is extraordinarily well-realized. There's something very authentic …
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