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What are Pocketbooks?
Pocket Books are pocket sized paperback books. This format makes pocket books ideal for reading on the go.
You can read a pocket book anywhere and anytime, while traveling to work, on your work lunch break etc.
Pocket books are also affordable so when you are finished reading your pocket book you can leave the book behind for the next reader to pick it up.
Monthly Archives: June 2010
Reader Review: "The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake"
by Eileen Elkinson (Asheville, NC): In her ninth year little Rose makes an amazing discovery. She can tell what a person is feeling by eating the food they prepare. Rose learns that her happy go lucky mother is actually very sad and unfulfilled. That her brother is almost disappearing in his reclusiveness. These insights slowly … Continue reading
3 million iPads in 80 days
Apple have announced that the company has sold three million iPads in eighty days; and developers have created over 11,000 new apps specifically for the iPad, which join the more than 225,000 apps designed for the iPhone and iPod that also work on the iPad. Read more on bookbrowse.com
Reader Review: "Blonde Faith"
by Woods: I couldn’t put the book down and the twists and turns in Easy’s life made the book alive from start to, well, almost finish. I love Mosely’s use of rainbow adjectives to describe the beautiful array of skin color among "the people". The characters in almost all of his books are so true … Continue reading
eReader price war
The eBook price wars have commenced. A few hours after Barnes & Noble slashed Nook prices, Amazon has announced a special $189 price for the Amazon Kindle–coupled with free shipping…. Read more on bookbrowse.com
Reader Review: "The Mysterious Howling"
by Sue (Saratoga): Driving around Silicon Valley can be an irritating experience. So many cars out there, and it seems other drivers’ only objective is to get in front of me. To keep my speed and blood pressure down, I listen to children’s audio books while commuting. It’s just the right tone, often funny, and … Continue reading
Reader Review: "A Fierce Radiance"
by Alison’s Book Marks (NJ): A front-runner for my #1 book of 2010!! A Fierce Radiance is an extraordinary novel which comes along once every few years. I absolutely fell in love with this book and can’t stop talking about it!! A Fierce Radiance is set in the early 1940s during the first days following … Continue reading
Reader Review: "Losing My Cool"
by GBT (Columbia, MD): Could not put it down. This book should be read by girls headed to high school and college. It should be a discussion topic for all the many African American young men suspended from schools or dropped out. What an eye opening insight into one of the reasons why our kids … Continue reading
Nobel Prize winner, Jose Saramago, dies aged 87
Jose Saramago, the Portuguese writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1998 with novels that combine surrealist experimentation and a kind of sardonic peasant pragmatism, has died at his home in the Canary Islands. He was 87. His publisher in the US, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, has all 13 of his books in print, … Continue reading
Nobel Prize winner, Jose Saramago, dies aged 87
Jose Saramago, the Portuguese writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1998 with novels that combine surrealist experimentation and a kind of sardonic peasant pragmatism, has died at his home in the Canary Islands. He was 87. His publisher in the US is Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, which has all 13 of his books … Continue reading
Reader Review: "Savvy"
by Julia Gulia: I was astonished by this book. The story is both entertaining and heartrending, and Law’s writing style weaves together every element of the story. The book is not only a kids’ story–it is children’s literature. I am not a young adult, so I read this book with the target age range in … Continue reading