Bookshelves in the area where Jaycee Lee Dugard was held captive by Phillip GarridoPhotograph: Nick Stern/Redthinkmedia.comThe image above comes from the amazing slideshow at the guardian of the home of Phillip Garrido, who is being held in the abduction and kidnapping of Jaycee Lee Dugard.In Judging criminal suspects by their book David Barnett
Book Lotto: Author Giving Away £1m to Lucky Readers
Recently, here at Book Patrol, we reported on the author who was giving away free Kindles to promote her book via Twitter.Now, on the other side of the pond, Ben Benson is giving away £1m of his own money to promote his new book; The New Rules of Wealth. For the book Benson, a "property tycoon," talked with 200 entrepreneurs to find out how they made it big.Here's how it works:Each copy of the book comes with a unique number.Benson will announce a winning number online every two months.There will be 10 winners, each will receive £100,000.Though the book has...
Free, Fast, And Hot Off The Press Delivery
You're perusing the latest issue of your favorite magazine, The New Yorker. (Let's be honest here, if you're like me it's more likely you're taking a gander at the latest People Magazine-- we have to keep up with Kate Gosselin, right?) Anyway, next you and I check out the book reviews, and there it is: a four star review of the newest E.L. Doctorow novel, Homer and Langley. Terrific! Doctorow is one of our favorite writers, and he's writing about the legendary Collyer Brothers, who wrote the book on disposophobia, and eventually died as they lived: in a Harlem brownstone...
ABC’s of Book Collecting: Armorial
ARMORIALAs an adjective, used of (1) a binding blocked with the coat of arms, usually in gilt, of its original or a subsequent owner, and (2) of bookplates based on, or incorporating, the owner’s arms. As a noun, used colloquially for an armorially decorated book.Previous ABC's of Book Collecting postsCarter, John & Nicolas BarkerABC's of Book Collecting. 8th EditionNew Castle, Delaware : Oak Knoll Press, 2004Buy a copyThanks to Oak Knoll Press for permission to reprint
Up the Book Staircase
or as Debbie at HarperStudio aptly puts it. A "Stairway to Heaven"Image via