After making up claims of rape in a successful attempt to profit Crystal Mangum has kept quiet. Now her manager has announced that she will be releasing a "memoir" in October. picked by 2manyusernames 1 year ago

Customers are going crazy for novels that make them the main characters. picked by Bornbad 3 years ago

Tim Robbins, the author of such great classics as Even cowgirls get the blues has written a “a children’s book for grown-ups” or “a grown-up’s book for children. It follows Gracie Perkel’s research into how beer is made. Gracie wants to know, “What’s that stuff Daddy drinks?”—the stuff that’s “yellow and looks like pee-pee. picked by 2manyusernames 7 months ago

Richard Scarry's Best Word Book Ever has gone through some changes since 1963:
Emancipation and gender equality have found their way into the fancy kritters' little world. picked by suckersklub 2 years ago

A children's book by the Robot Face Collective. picked by Inc0m 2 years ago

Pictures inside this building where Detroit's public school system once stored its supplies, and then one day apparently walked away from it all, allowing everything to go to waste. picked by wildminou 2 years ago

A macabre 17th century book about the execution of Gunpowder Plot conspirator Father Henry Garnet believed to be bound in the priest's own skin is going up for auction. picked by mitzuzake 2 years ago

Directed by Jonas Cuarón.Alfonso Cuarón,director of Children of Men, and Naomi Klein, author of No Logo, present a short film from Klein's book The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. picked by Turtle 2 years ago

"In a gloss on the hip-hop videos frequently shown on BET, an animated rapper named D’Mite comes on with what looks like a public service message about the benefits of reading, but devolves into a foul-mouthed song accompanied by images of black men shooting guns loaded with books and gyrating black women with the word “book” written on the back of their low-slung pants. Th... read full post picked by psycmoe 2 years ago

This is an adult novel steeped in children's literature that cannily makes its 1940s junior protagonist credibly ignorant of aspects which the grown-up reader, or any modern kid, will catch at once. picked by Milkshake 3 years ago

Squeamish men look away now. A Serbian chef is bringing out a no-holds-barred guide to cuisine with a twist: The Testicle Cookbook - Cooking With Balls. Download the e-book here. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

Book retailer Borders is removing "Tintin in the Congo" from the children's section of its British stores, after a customer complained the comic work was racist. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

The two guys who came up with "International talk like a Pirate day" release another book in time for this years celebration (Sept 19th).

Yeah, it's a book for sale, but I had to sneak in my link for "Talk like a pirate day" early this year since someone beat me to it last year and I couldn't dupe em.

Arrg. picked by tragluk 1 year ago

...but they only get $300 of it picked by dork 3 years ago

Award-winning "And Tango Makes Three," about two male penguins parenting an egg from a mixed-sex penguin couple, tops the list of most challenged books in 2006 by parents and administrators, due to the issues of homosexuality. picked by makri 3 years ago

Ultra-condensed versions of books. picked by gratheo 2 years ago

The Havamal is a book of wisdom that was according to Viking mythology, written by the hand of Odin and given to mankind so that he might become wiser. Interesting insights to the daily lives of Vikings that show they were concerned with more than just slaughter.

*Theme pic is an Odin statue picked by Moe 1 year ago

What happens to books that library patrons complain about?

Sometimes, they're hidden behind locked doors. picked by suebe 3 months ago

Follow-up to this post by Bornbad: picked by punthe 2 years ago

If you like to read, here’s “Thumb Thing” you must have! Simply put the Thumb Thing on your thumb and pick up a book; the two wings will hold the pages open more easily than if you just used your hand, making reading more comfortable. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago