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Rick Riordan announced on his official blog and Twitter that the next installment of the Kane Chronicles series will come out on May 3, 2011. This is around the same time of year as the first book in the series, The Red Pyramid, was released this year. The Kane Chronicles follow Sadie and Carter Kane as they battle Egyptian gods in an attempt to save [...]
Last week, Putnam Books released the book trailer for Dead or Alive, the highly anticipated return of Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan book franchise. The book, co-written by Clancy and Grant Blackwood, brings together many characters of the Ryanverse to track down a dangerous terrorist before he strikes America. Dead or Alive will be released on December 12, 2010. Follow me on Twitter @josedaemons
Nowadays, it seems like you can’t swing a dead mummified cat without hitting a book involving monsters, vampires, or zombies. That’s why it’s so important to call attention to a book that stands out from the pack with a great read with a good story. Night of the Living Trekkies delivers on both counts, and does so by bringing us the scariness of zombies [...]
It’s been said that one of the hardest things to do is to write a sequel to a hit. The expectations are high, and it’s rare to recapture the same magic twice. I can only imagine this pressure is multiplied by a thousand when it’s an author who is writing a follow-up to a highly successful series. This is the challenge Rick Riordan takes [...]
On Tuesday in London, Howard Jacobson was announced as the winner of the 2010 Man Booker Prize for Fiction for his book The Finkler Question. The award is given each year to the best full-length English novel by authored by a citizen of the Commonwealth of Nations, Ireland, or Zimbabwe, that was published in the past year. Jacobson’s win was a surprise, most expected Tom [...]
I became interested in THE MAZE RUNNER after reading Kristen’s list of books to read after finishing The Hunger Games trilogy. After reading through the whole book over a weekend, I can tell you that The Maze Runner is a great book, and I can’t wait to read the one in the series. What is The Maze Runner About? The publisher of The Maze Runner [...]
Deadline.com broke word over the weekend that 20th Century Fox has won the five studio bidding war for the movie version of Seth Grahame-Smith’s hit book, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. Grahame-Smith wrote the screenplay for the movie, while Timur Bekmambetov (Wanted) is set to direct with Tim Burton as one of the producers. Production on the 3D movie is set to start in March, 2011, [...]
One of the main issues I’ve had with Smallville is how they’ve taken liberties with the Superman canon established in the comic books. If you’re going to base a TV show on a beloved comic book character, don’t go changing his origin story. Fortunately, it looks like the folks at DC Comics are going to help clean up some of the inconsistencies by bringing a [...]
Rick Riordan recently tweeted about his progress on the second book in The Kane Chronicles series (follow his tweets @camphalfblood). He will wrap up work on the still untitled book this week, and it will be published in May 2011. The Kane Chronicles tells the story of Carter and Sadie Kane, who find that they are descendants of the Egyptian pharaohs. The siblings inherit powers [...]
So tomorrow’s the big day! Oprah will announce her next book club pick live on tomorrow’s show. In anticipation, I thought I’d look at the leading contenders and rank them by the likelihood Oprah will pick them. Conversations with Myself by Nelson Mandela Why Oprah Will Pick It: Mandela and Oprah are close friends and the foreword is written by Friend of Oprah, President Obama. [...]
