What’s on your nightstand?

What books are you reading, or will be reading, during the next month? 
 
 
 
 
The folks over at 5 Minutes for Books have an ongoing community event called “What’s on your nightstand” that happens every fourth Tuesday of the month. A fun way to see what other book bloggers are up to.
Here’s what’s on my nightstand (arranged [...]

Christmas gifts for book lovers

Looking for an additional gift for someone who loves books? 
Publishers Weekly “Shelftalker” blog had a great post a few days ago with book-related items from Etsy, a community/selling web site for people who handmake beautiful items. 
Of the gifts Shelftalker picked out, these are my favorite: 
Checkbook covers (this one is from A Light in the Attic) by IKCDesign:

Pillowphyte’s bookish [...]

Pride and Prejudice, Facebook style

For anyone who has read Pride and Prejudice or knows the story… this is so funny View the original page here.

Charles Bingley is buying a house!

Mrs. Bennet became a fan of Charles Bingley.

Kitty Bennet can’t stop coughing!!!

Charles Bingley is now friends with Mr. Bennet and Sir William Lucas.

11 of your friends are attending Assembly at Meryton.

Fitzwilliam Darcy is dreading this evening.

Charles Bingley and Jane Bennet are now [...]

Will Johnny Depp pull off Mad Hatter in Tim Burton’s ‘Alice in Wonderland’?

        
Johnny Depp ruined the classic “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” with an effeminate, prissy Willy Wonka (though I suppose that’s really Burton’s fault – I think Depp is enormously talented). Now he’s set to place the Mad Hatter in Burton’s “Alice in Wonderland”, due out in 2010.
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland has a special place [...]

Awesome book-inspired furniture and decorating

I’ve always loved books, but now that I’m living on my own (over a year now!) I’ve also started to love furniture. What better than to combine the two? I discovered this brilliant idea recently during visits to two houses with tables that looked like stacked books. One was a set of three stackable end [...]

28 reasons that ‘Twilight’ the movie is better than ‘Twilight’ the book

Check out New York Entertainment magazine’s awesomely funny slideshow. 
This is my favorite slide:
At no point in the movie does this scene occur.

I couldn’t agree more.