Food and books, a yummy combination

Books 2 Eat
The Edible Books Festival pays homage to Brillat-Savarin. Now you can have your cake and read it too!
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Bookshelf:
The home of interesting bookshelves, bookcases and things that look like them.

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Naked Brunch

This 2003 novel by Sparkle Hayter is a werewolf romance, a genre I'm not usually drawn to but, hey, this is Sparkle Hayter and that girl always makes me laugh. The stories of Annie Engel, legal secretary/ werewolf, Sam Deverell, aging reporter/cuckold, Dr. Marco Potenza, werewolf/werewolf tamer, Jim, a werewolf falsely accused of a murder/ Annie's love interest and the lovesick mayor of New York, are skillfully intertwined. It all unfolds in New York's seamy underbelly, in its tunnels and on its rooftops. The werewolves are sympathetic characters who rip out the throats of egregiously corrupt scumbags, ridding the world of human waste, as it were. It's funny, not howlingly funny, but Hayter's humourous turns of phrase always leave me wishing I could write like that. Naked Brunch is a book I'd like to read on an airplane but I couldn't wait two weeks to sink my teeth into it.

A sweet literary quiz

Guardian.Books: "Easter being the traditional religious festival of chocolate, we are honouring this holiest of confections with a chocolate-coated literary quiz."

Rebecca West - West -- Wells to Watergate

On this day in 1983 Rebecca West died at the age of ninety. Cicily Fairfield took her pseudonym from the passionate, outspoken heroine of Ibsen's Rosmersholm; from her early days writing about suffragettes to her last days writing about Watergate and Marshall McLuhan -- a seventy-year career of novels, essays, journalism, literary criticism, and non-fiction books on a range of topics – she lived up to it. More

That's a Lot of Books

When shopping consider a good book instead of a prostitute

Things Vital to the Honor of Human Life

I wonder: do others have favorite signature passages in books they love — a sentence or two that seem to convey the essence of a complex, beautiful work?

I could while away an hour or two reading the responses to this question.

GBS humour

George Bernard Shaw once came across one of his own books in a used bookstore in London. He was surprised to find his own inscription inside — he had presented the book 'with esteem' to a friend. He immediately bought the book and had it wrapped and delivered again, after adding a second inscription: 'With renewed esteem, George Bernard Shaw.'

The Twenty Science Fiction Novels that Will Change Your Life

I must not want to change my life - I don't think I'll read any of these.
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Hey Oscar Wilde! It’s clobberin’ time!!!

Hey Oscar Wilde! It’s clobberin’ time!!!
This website, now in its ninth incarnation since being launched in 06.1998, is an extension of a personal art collection of various artists interpreting their favourite literary figure/author/character

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Saving Fish From Drowning

Amy Tan's story about a group of 11 American tourists kidnapped by Burmese tribesmen and narrated by a ghost is not as gripping as it should be. In fact at times it really drags. The tourists are superficial, self-absorbed, materialistic cliches. The tribesmen are innocent, naive cliches. The kidnapping takes place well into the book and Tan leads us down too many paths on the way there. I couldn't seem to care about any of the characters other than the little puppy one of the children adopted and smuggled into Burma. They got malaria- I didn't care. They were treated with great respect while in captivity. I think I may have secretly wanted them to suffer a little more so I could feel their pain. As it turns out I'm left feeling like I spent too much time reading a book that leaves me shrugging and saying, "meh".

50 crime writers to read before you die .

From G K Chesterton to Elmore Leonard, The Daily Telegraph presents a list of of its favourite crime writers of all time

A Comical History of Brussels

What Brussels lacks in Shakespeare, Joyce or Pope, it makes up in floppy-eared dogs, mustachioed Vikings, shadow chasing cowboys, an adventurous boy with an easily excitable sailor sidekick and, well lots of little blue Smurfs.

Read all about Belgian comics at LiteraryTraveler