I spotted "The Cloud Collector's Handbook" in a bin of shamelessly disregarded books near my editor's desk.
By his own admission, Park Jung-geun has long been an Internet wiseguy, a young photographer and blogger with a cyber chip on his shoulder whose favorite target for satire is the North Korean government.
Take a minute to think about your favorite book from childhood. Do you envision lots of furry animals? A wise old tree? Kids in the forest? With environmental issues so prominent in the American mindset, one would think that the natural environment would play a larger role now in children's books than it did several decades ago. But a new study has found a steady decline in the number of children's books that depict the natural environment.
"Mr. Prickles: A Quill-Fated Love Story"
Rankings for hard-cover books sold in Southern California, as reported by selected book stores:
Rankings for hard-cover books sold in Southern California, as reported by selected book stores:
David Choe, the graffiti artist who made headlines last week for having an estimated $200 million in Facebook stock, spent this week in New York granting interviews to a lucky few media outlets.
"Comic Book Men" is a new retail reality show from AMC, a network not commonly associated with reality shows. It is different from other retail reality shows in that it comes from and features Kevin Smith, the movie director and Hollywood refusenik, who owns the Red Bank, N.J., comic book store in which it's set.
The new series "Comic Book Men" taps into the love and longing that many of us have for those colorfully drawn magazines of our youth. And it gives us reason to believe that our love for those pages of bright, action-laden panels had some value.
SAN JOSE, Calif. - Few experts were surprised when Facebook disclosed in its recent IPO filing that its user growth had slowed in the U.S. and Canada. But a deeper look at Facebook's user numbers shows its growth is also slowing in Europe and Asia, untapped markets seen as vital to its fast-growing business, putting more pressure on the company to assure investors it can keep its revenue and profit expanding.
Facebook is made up of two kinds of people: people who give a lot, and people who get a lot.
SAN JOSE, Calif. - Few experts were surprised when Facebook disclosed in its recent IPO filing that its user growth had slowed in the U.S. and Canada. But a deeper look at Facebook's user numbers shows its growth is also slowing in Europe and Asia, untapped markets seen as vital to its fast-growing business, putting more pressure on the company to assure investors it can keep its revenue and profit expanding.
"Sudden Attraction" by Rebecca York; Harlequin ($5.25, paperback)
Readers are fond of asking author Eleanor Brown which of her fictional, Shakespeare-loving sisters she's most like: capable, responsible Rose (named for Rosalind in "As You Like It") ; independent, prickly Bean (formally Bianca, named for Kate's sister in "The Taming of the Shrew"); the baby of the family, wild child Cordy (short for Cordelia, King Lear's favorite daughter).
"A Good American" by Alex George; Amy Einhorn Books ($25.95)
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