The cof­fee com­pany Star­bucks is named after the first mate of the Pequod, (the whal­ing ship from Moby Dick which was the company’s orig­i­nal name).

I did not know what to expect, I knew it wouldn’t be a mag­nif­i­cent piece of lit­er­a­ture, but I have heard many pos­i­tive reviews and sev­eral bad ones.

While I'm not much of a fan­tasy reader, I do love the movies. I thought the Lord of the Ring tril­ogy was fan­tas­tic even though I couldn't get past 150 pages in the book itself. Check out the first trailer for the last piece of The Hob­bit movie tril­ogy, The Hob­bit: The Bat­tle of the Five Armies (release date Decem­ber 17th, 2014).

An insight­ful book about the char­ac­ter of this very divi­sive politician.

This week I cel­e­brated my fourth blo­giver­sary, my first post was, of course, about Don Quixote. I can­not believe four years have gone by and I'm still blog­ging about books. The past sev­eral months I didn't have the energy to put into the pro­mo­tion of this site as I did before. and I know that as […]

Elias Canetti (25 July, 1905 – 14 August, 1994) was a nov­el­ist, non-fiction writer, mem­oirist and play­wright. Mr. Elias was born in Bul­garia, but is known as a Swiss and British nov­el­ist. Image from russianroulettehitscannes.wordpress.com Books by Elias Canetti The ances­tors of Mr. Canetti were Sephardi Jews who were expelled from Spain in 1492. Canetti came […]

A 14th Cen­tury book is found hid­den in a wall in a monastery, inside it there is a map which points to a cave filled with out­stand­ing paint­ings on its walls. The book is sent to Paris for restora­tion where Hugo Pineau, a lit­er­ary his­to­rian, enlists the help of Luc Simard, an archae­ol­o­gist to find the cave.

To cel­e­brate Bat­man Day Ama­zon is giv­ing away "Bat­man Eter­nal #1" for free by using promo code "BATMAN75". Click on the link or on the image below for that pro­mo­tion (Until August 3, 2014). Comics Sale Fea­tur­ing Bat­man, $0.99 Each Also on sale are Bat­man Graphic Nov­els for $2.99 each

About: Bring­ing Down Gaddafi: On the Ground with the Libyan Rebels by Andrei Netto is a non-fiction book telling the story of the author, a Brazil­ian jour­nal­ist. Mr. Netto trav­eled to Libya to wit­ness first­hand the upris­ing against Gaddafi. 320 pages Pub­lisher: Pal­grave Macmil­lan Trade Lan­guage: Eng­lish ISBN-10: 1137279125 My rat­ing for Bring­ing Down Gaddafi — […]

We've received a total of $20.41 in repay­ments this July. Loan repay­ments in the amount of $12.02 were made on a por­tion of a loan pur­chased with pro­mo­tional credit, so this amount was returned to the pro­mo­tional account.   Click here to donate your­self Funded on Aug 16, 2013 Fredy Celestino Guatemala  |  Inter­net Café You Loaned: $25.00 […]