Amazon Book Sales Suggest People Are Turning to Orwell
Sales of George Orwell’s “1984″ have risen sharply since news broke that the US government is listening in on its own people.
Sales of George Orwell’s “1984″ have risen sharply since news broke that the US government is listening in on its own people.
Book Riot recently published a list of non-fiction books they think ought be reshelved as fiction. Believe it or not, Lance Armstrong’s memoir (and pretty much any book he’s written or contributed to) didn’t merit a mention. Really? But, maybe it’s just “too soon” to go there. The worst thing about the list is that Book Riot settled on Sarah Palin’s Going Rogue, as the token politician’s memoir to grace [...]
Last year, thanks to my Kindle and the Goodreads 2012 Reading Challenge, I read a total of 58 books. I originally had set a goal to read 40 books last year. When it was obvious I’d surpass that goal, I bumped it up to 55 books. I’m pretty sure I’d already broken a record for the number of books read in a year at 40 books, so it just goes to [...]