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The Book Maven's Bottom 10 Books of 2009
Earlier this week I shared my Top 10 Books of 2009, admitting that they are mine and mine alone. Same goes for this list of my Bottom 10 Books of 2009 -- until I have a deputy editor, several more assistant editors (there's only one so far!), a passel of interns, and a partridge in a pear tree to top it all off, that's the way it will be.
Read more »Read This, Not That: "Her Fearful Symmetry" versus "The Graveyard Book"
You didn't think we'd just keep things same-same all the time here on The Book Studio, did you? Nah. We want to find new ways to talk about books and to help you figure out what to read.
Our latest feature is what women's magazines might call "service-y," in that vein -- Why bother reading something that isn't as great as it can possibly be? I for one believe that there are simply too many books out there to bother with one that isn't worth it for you (I won't say perfect; that happens, but there are so many variables...).
So often there are Big Books getting lots of buzz -- and they don't deliver. But that doesn't mean that a) those Big Books don't have some good stuff in them or b) readers aren't hungry for what the buzz promised in the first place.
Read more »Literature Map
On the Literature Map, the closer two authors are located next to each other, the more likely that a person will like both of them. The map is experimental and based on the input of users. (We think it's kind of neat!)
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