Today’s links of interest:
- Real readers want bookshops with personality and choice
Also, coffee and wine. - Review: Five yummy-mummy lit novels
Oh lord, please save us from "yummy mummy" lit. It seems that Bridget Jones has turned eleven without aging a moment while her readers are, well, seeing the ravages of time. But does that mean we need to suffer the word "yummy"? It’s so…well, Fountains of Wayne. - Venezuelan Book Network Wins Lindgren Award
Banco del Libro, a nonprofit Venezuelan network that has distributed books to children for nearly half a century, is the 2007 winner of the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award for Literature.