After Harry Potter artificially inflated sales for several years running, bookstores needed a way to demonstrate continued YOY growth against such unrealistic numbers. Some of them embraced certain books and tried to drum up enough enthusiasm internally that booksellers would generate WOM buzz and the books would catch on fire. So when a colleague came …
How many steps have you walked today? New Yorkers, on average, walk between 6-10,000 steps per day, which is much higher than most places. For many years, I dragged this average down. When I needed to increase my exercise levels, I started by taking the subway 3 stops instead of 4, and walking that extra …
At one point, my father was stationed in Turkey and, for Christmas that year, he sent me a) a puzzle ring he had bought at the market; b) a pair of harem pants and a head scarf; and c) a copy of this book. The book is written by an earlier member of the Air …
Continue reading 365 Books: Scotch and Holy Water by John D. Tumpane
This book sucked me in. I had just finished reading The Midnight Library for some reason I can't remember, and discovered this book, which is, oddly enough, more about a library than a book. The book starts with a young girl who lives in the middle of a dusty nowhere, a tiny community of people …
Continue reading 365 Books: The Book that Wouldn’t Burn by Mark Lawrence
My husband and I have a cookbook problem. Our 15 linear feet of cookbook shelving has been maxed out and new cookbooks have taken over the undershelf of the coffee table and started taking over the bar between the kitchen and the not-kitchen space in our small New York apartment. Part of this problem is …
Continue reading 365 Books: Bugialli on Pasta by Giuliano Bugialli
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