Book lovers in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania are not exactly “feeling the love” from the City of Brotherly Love right now. The Free Library of Philadelphia has announced that it will be closing their doors on October 2, 2009. The Free Library has reported that without the necessary funding from the State Legislature it will be unable [...]

Jim Carroll, a renown poet, musician, and author, passed away last Friday in his home in Manhattan at the age of sixty. Carroll suffered a fatal heart attack.
Carroll, whose life was shaped by drug use, gained attention in his teenage years for his poetry, most notably in 1967 for “Organic Trains”. Carroll would continue to [...]

David Eddings, a much-beloved and acclaimed fantasy author, passed away last Tuesday (June 2nd, 2009) due to natural causes in his home in Carson City, Nevada. Eddings was 77.
Eddings, an American author who was born on July 7th, 1931 in Spokane, Washington, wrote many novels and series. His most well-known series included Belgariad and [...]

Book lovers, have you been dying to get your hands on Amazon’s Kindle? If your answer is yes then you might like to know that GetGlue, the social networking tool that sticks with you, is giving you the chance to win a Kindle 2 free. There is no purchase necessary to enter, you don’t even [...]

ReadingGroupGuides.com is currently conducting a survey of book groups and they need your help. The purpose of this survey is to identify what topics and subjects are of interest to book groups and share them with authors and publishers. This allows publishers and authors to provide better information and materials to book groups. ReadingGroupGuides.com has [...]

I found an interesting website to peruse recently called Booksfree.com. Now, what makes this website so interesting to me is the ability to rent books from a single source that sports a wide selection of titles – over 140,000 titles, both audio and paperback, from more than 36,000 authors in fiction and non-fiction to be [...]

By chance, I happened to glance over the incoming links listed on my blog’s dashboard and I spied one coming from Blacklin’s Reading Room Reviews & More. I was deeply humbled and honored to see The Symposium listed as one of the book blogs that Blacklin likes to visit. Thank you so much!
September [...]

First Book is a non for profit organization that is aiming to give one of our states 50,000 new books for children in need. The campaign is a celebration of the power of books and hopes to help develop a lifelong love of reading in children.
Unfortunately, I found out about this campaign a little [...]

Tim Madden, author of Outbanker, has returned with a new book entitled The Bruja’s Tale. Madden has stepped away from the science-fiction genre and plunged right into mystery thrillers. His latest effort was inspired by the society and culture that he experianced first hand in Guatemala, a place where shamanism and witchcraft combine and meld [...]

I just noticed a post Deb posted on the Booking Through Thursday blog, one that I felt I had to pass on to others.
Author Terry Pratchett has donated $1 million USD (£500,000) to help fund research for Alzheimer’s disease. Pratchett himself recently posted, on December 11, 2007, that he had been diagnosed with a rare [...]