by vjbooks | Apr 5, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
(Publisher’s Weekly, Mar. 23, by Dermot McEvoy and Michael Coffey ) Familiar voices crowd the top in fiction; in nonfiction, the fundamental rules apply—plus all things Obama John Grisham’s aptly titled Appeal had the most of it, as far as the novel-buying...
by vjbooks | Jan 26, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
(blogs.thetimes.co.za, Nov. 26) Forbes Magazine has released its list of the world’s highest paid authors. In a year when financial returns are a great source of consternation, some writers have still managed to rake in the cash. Top of the list is unsurprisingly J.K...
by vjbooks | Nov 13, 2008 | We're Talking Books!
(Publisher’s Weekly, Oct. 20) Parade magazine (Sept. 28) asked Nicholas Sparks which novels moved him the most. His list: The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruis Zafon (“Compulsively readable literary thriller”); Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill...
by vjbooks | Nov 4, 2008 | Books to Movies
Nights in Rodanthe Starring Richard Gere, Diane Lane, James Franco. Directed by George C. Wolfe. Release date: Sept. 26 (Warner Brothers Entertainment). Based on the novel by Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central, 460,000 trade apepr; 1.3 million mass market). Nights marks...
