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The GCAs What authors wrote and what readers voted. Goodreads announced the winners of the 2018 Goodreads Choice Awards Goodreads Choice Awards is the only major book awards decided by readers. With more than 5 million votes across 21 categories. These are Goodreads community of readers' favorite books of 2018. Congratulations to the best books of the year! Winners of the #2018GCAs: It’s the most wonderful time of the year… and one of the most highly anticipated times for authors and readers in the Goodreads community. BookTrib editors examined the 16 finalists in 16 of the 20 categories, squared off, and cast their own votes on who they felt deserving of the 2018 Goodreads Choice Awards. Billed as the “only major book awards decided by readers,” the 21 categories attracted more than 5 million votes from users of Goodreads, the Amazon-owned book social network. ― Announcing the Winners of the 2018 Goodreads Choice Awards! The Goodreads Choice Awards are the only...

Dutton, a Penguin Random House imprint, releases its first batch of mini books, with a box set of novels by the best-selling author John Green. The tiny editions are the size of a cell phone and no thicker than your thumb, with paper as thin as onion skin. They can be read with one hand — the text flows horizontally, and you can flip the pages upward, like swiping a smartphone.  Over the centuries, publishers have experimented with smaller paperback books, occasionally with great success. In 1939, Pocket Books introduced pocket-size mass-market paperbacks in the United States and sold them in department stores, newsstands, and drugstores around the country. During World War II, an effort to arm American troops with books gave rise to Armed Services Editions, miniature paperbacks that troops carried with them, which helped create a new audience for mass-market paperbacks. But in the last few decades, most of the pivotal advances in publishing have been digital, with the evolu...

'How Doctors Use Poetry' Physicians are beginning to understand that the role of language and human expression in medicine extends beyond that horizon of uncertainty where doctor and patient must speak to each other about a course of treatment. The restricted language of blood oxygen levels, drug protocols, and surgical interventions may conspire against understanding between doctor and patient—and against healing. As doctors learn to communicate beyond these restrictions, they are reaching for new tools—like poetry. Article: ' How Doctors Use Poetry '  Photo: Mark Doty, UNM Alumni / flickr A Harvard medical student describes how he is learning to both treat and heal. Citation: 'How Doctors Use Poetry' Article by Danny W. Linggonegoro via @NautilusMag Poetry is, in some ways, uniquely capable of addressing problems. “Poetry is a beautifully condensed form of what all of language does, which is what captures the real world and turns it something mana...

THE GREAT AMERICAN READ A new eight-part television competition and nationwide campaign, explores the power of books and the joy of reading through the lens of America’s 100 best-loved novels, as voted on by the public. THE GREAT AMERICAN READ | Fall Kick-Off | PBS THE GREAT AMERICAN READ investigates how and why writers create their fictional worlds, how we as readers are affected by these stories, and what these 100 different books have to say about our diverse nation and our shared human experience. The television series features entertaining and informative documentary segments, with compelling testimonials from celebrities, authors, notable Americans and book lovers across the country. It is comprised of a two-hour launch episode in which the list of 100 books is revealed, five one-hour theme episodes that examine concepts common to groups of books on the list, and a finale, in which the results are announced of a nationwide vote to choose America’s best-loved book. The ...

Now Read This A BOOK CLUB FROM PBS NEWSHOUR AND THE NEW YORK TIMES Now Read This is a partnership between The New York Times and PBS NewsHour, in which every month they discuss a work of fiction or nonfiction that helps us make sense of today’s world. The club allows members to connect, discuss their thoughts and stay engaged with one another through PBS’s guided reading questions, and live chats. PBS Journalist Jeffery Brown conducts an interview with the month’s author on PBS NewsHour. The interview consists entirely of reader’s questions raised. Brown says that when picking each month’s book, he tries to “mix it up, have new things, and introduce the audience to books that they might not otherwise read,” while staying true to the criteria when unveiling his book choice of the month. NRT: To join this virtual book club, participants are encouraged to read, and to keep the conversation going via their Facebook page. Interview w/ PBS Journalist Jeffery Brown. Citation: Sam...

'It's more important than ever that reading stays alive.'— Trip Adler: Scribd, launched as a simple way to publish any kind of written content on the web; keeping reading alive in the 21st century. Changing the way the world reads, Scribd brings together the best books, audiobooks, and journalism to help readers become their best selves. Scribd Core Values *People: We're an eclectic group of readers, thinkers, and makers based in San Francisco – and we believe that everyone brings something to the table. *Learning: Our readers are on a mission to become their best selves, and so are we. We’re not afraid to take risks because we know that — win or lose — we’ll learn from them. *Craftsmanship: We want to bring readers exactly what they’re looking for, and if we do our job right, we’ll bring it to them before they even know they’re looking for it. 'Curiosity is available to everyone.' So, Stay Curious, reading has no limits; there’s always something...

Object Lessons; an essay and book series about the hidden lives of ordinary things, from sardines to silence, juniper berries to jumper cables, driveways to footprints, founders to partnerships. Series Editors: Ian Bogost and Christopher Schaberg Published by The Atlantic and Bloomsbury. Each Object Lessons project will start from a specific inspiration: an anthropological query, ecological matter, archeological discovery, historical event, literary passage, personal narrative, philosophical speculation, technological innovation—and from there develop original insights around and novel lessons about the object in question. Object Lessons invites contributions from scholars, writers, scientists, artists, journalists, and others. Potential topics include: rubber band, plastic bag, tornado, turpentine, wind, wall, Glock, drone, Lamborghini, flak jacket, steamboat, shoehorn, laughter, hatred, air, Google Glass, catnip, platinum, money, rebar, polyester, microchip, marriage, time ...

The Paris Review hopes to emphasize creative work—fiction and poetry—not to the exclusion of criticism, but with the aim in mind of merely removing criticism from the dominating place it holds in most literary magazines. I think The Paris Review should welcome these people into its pages: the good writers and good poets, the non-drumbeaters and non-axe-grinders. So long as they're good. — William Styron William Clark Styron   Letters and Essays One morning, almost fifteen years ago, I woke up from a dream that was so vivid and powerful that I knew it must be true. I still remember both what happened in the dream and the feelings it left me with. Now the fact is that listening to someone else’s dreams is nearly always tiresome; usually, if it goes on for more than a few seconds, unbearable. Dreams in literature are monstrosities: whenever I come across one, it takes a lot for me not to flip past it or shut the book altogether. It tells me that the writer has failed to understa...

Grammar and Spelling Takes On A Whole New Meaning  Millennials have created a new rulebook for a variant of written English unique to social media. A rulebook which states that deliberately misspelled words and misused grammar can convey tone, nuance, humor, and even annoyance. Image : Bob Al Greene / Mashable Dr. Lauren Fonteyn, English Linguistics lecturer at University of Manchester, told Mashable "something exciting" is happening with the way that millennials write, and it goes far beyond our proclivity to use acronyms and "like." Fonteyn says millennials are "breaking the constraints" of written English to "be as expressive as you can be in spoken language." This new variant of written English strives to convey what body language and tone and volume of voice can achieve in spoken English. Citation: Article by Rachel Thompson via Mashable Millennials destroyed the rules of written English - and created something better The s...

We believe that this category is necessary. We long for the day when we don’t have to single out authors – or anyone of any walk of life, for that matter – for their gender. We celebrate female authors, and Books written about women. The Guardian asked their readers to share; which female writers shaped their lives. Here are the most mentioned female authors, in no particular order, and what readers had to say about them: Celebrated/Inspiring female writers you need to read. Article by Marta Bausells Books Celebrating Powerful Women: Women's Studies, Social Sciences, Books Explore our list of Women's Studies Books at Barnes & Noble®. Shop now & receive FREE Shipping on orders $25 & up!

Take advantage of flexible access models to support your community reading programs. Combine Simultaneous Use or Per-Unit access with a time limit to maximize cost-effectiveness. BCM: The Book Club Model allows libraries to serve their communities through long and short-term bulk sales. Now you can support your book clubs and community reading programs with eBooks. Special sale pricing meets the needs of library budgets and puts authors’ works in the hands of more readers. Libraries have built engaging campaigns around these successful digital book clubs, including dedicated websites, organized group discussions and even special author appearances. Learn more about Flexible Access Models.   Big Library Read The Big Library Read is the first-ever “global eBook club,” connecting readers around the world who read the same eBook at the same time from their library. Over the past few years, thousands of libraries and schools and millions of readers have embraced the program. Bi...

How to Learn the Craft Learning to write is like learning anything else, and can be broken down into three general parts. ― Advice for Writers by Nicholas Sparks: How to Learn the Craft Learning to write is like learning anything else, and can be broken down into three general parts. Research First, there are entire books written on this subject, and it’s important to realize that any information provided here will be in greatly abbreviated form. With that in mind, the first step would be to read a variety of books on the craft of writing. On Writing by Stephen King, The Elements of Style by William Strunk and E.B. White, Creating Fiction edited by Julie Checkoway, and A Dangerous Profession by Frederick Busch, are but a few that I would recommend. I also like Screenplay by Sid Field, which isn’t about novel writing, but has a lot of useful information. These titles are enough to get you started and there are countless other books on the topic that will help as well, for e...