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Book News, Reviews, and Musings 30 October 2010

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

News and features

Will the ebook change the way we read? The Australian reports.

Melville House has withdrawn from Amazons Best Translated Work awards, citing ideological reasons.

The Mrs Giles Whiting foundation has awarded ten $10,000 grants to up and coming NY writers.

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

Interviews

The always wonderful Oliver Sacks, author of The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat, talks brains.

Booktopia chats with Aussie comedian turned writer Shaun Micallef.

Reviews

The Five Borough Book Review looks at Hummingbirds by Joshua Gaylord.

Alaine at Alaine Reading reviews If I Fall by Lauren Oliver.

Dot at the Scribbles blog reviews Getting Away with It by Julie Cohen.

Musings

YA author Danielle Joseph talks about her novel Indigo Blue.

The Poisoned Apples blog at Boomerang Books muses on spooky Halloween stories.

Jeri Smith-Ready ponders the Ghosts of, erm, Halloweens past.

What do editors do, anyway?

Just for fun

Library Science Degree gives us the 50 most hated characters in literary history.

Author birthdays

Happy birthday, Ezra Pound!

Quote of the Day

Action is character. F Scott Fitzgerald

Beautiful book cover of the day (with bonus awesome title):

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