Have you noticed a rise in great blogs about books? My attention has recently been drawn to bookbar.com and to Danuta Kean's web site and associated blog both of which are well worth taking a look at. There was a thoughtful guide to the UK's book bloggers in The Bookseller last week, too.
I also just wanted to highlight The Guardian's recent coverage of German bestseller Measuring the World, which has been a runaway sensation selling 600,000 copies in hardback since last September and is published by one of the Holtzbrinck Group companies, Rowohlt. Not only has it delighted readers but it has also been universally praised by Germany's 'famously grudging critics'....Its author - 31-year-old Daniel Kehlmann - has been hailed as 'a literary wunderkind'.