Book news, reviews, and musings 7 Dec 2010

News, Reviews, and Musings is a daily feature. Feel free to chime in, or to tweet/email us if we've missed something that you'd like to see featured.

_______________________________________________

Receive new posts via email:

News and features

Were after your personal single sitting reads. Feel free to leave a comment here or on our Facebook page with any books that you simply couldnt put down.

The first draft of Mary Shelleys Frankenstein will soon be on display in London, reports Galleycat.

Figment.com is a new site described as Facebook for literary-minded teens.

Oprah shows Dickens some love with her new bookclub pick.

Are you following us on Facebook? If you dont want to subscribe via email, friend our page on Facebook instead to keep track of our updates.

Dont forget to check out our newest posts: competition round ups, new releases, book reviews, and more!

Sales, goodies, and freebies

Sales, goodies, and freebies is a new section, so feel free to notify me if you have something I should feature!

Independent publisher Senses 5 Press is having a 50% off sale.

The Melbourne City Library is having a massive sale with $1 books, DVDS, and CDs.

Interviews

Illustrator Bob Graham talks to The Age.

Harpercollins'interviews Marjorie M Liu.

Figment talks to Martin Millar.

Reviews

Id so Rather be Reading reviews Awaken by Katie Kacvinsky.

Elizabeth Bryar reviews'Other Stories by Wayne Macauley.

A Girl Reads a Book reviews Bespelling Jane Austen.

Musings

Are these the best new blogs of 2010?

Has an authors online behaviour affected your buying habits?

Are writing courses a substitute for actually writing?

Just for fun

Check out'Pilot Australias Great Typo Hunt (the page was put together by my lovely BF, so show it some love!)

Author birthdays

Happy birthday, Noam Chomsky!

Quote of the day

Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on. David Brin

Beautiful book cover of the day: