Just a heads up to all of you Leviathan and Behemoth fans: today is the day that you have been waiting for as the third chapter in the series has, as they say in the super cool music world, dropped.

As told by Amazon:

Alek and Deryn are on the last leg of their round-the-world quest to end World War I, reclaim Alek’s throne as prince of Austria, and finally fall in love. The first two objectives are complicated by the fact that their ship, the Leviathan, continues to detour farther away from the heart of the war (and crown). And the love thing would be a lot easier if Alek knew Deryn was a girl. (She has to pose as a boy in order to serve in the British Air Service.) And if they weren’t technically enemies.

Amazon currently has the hardback listed for $11.75. Now that’s a deal.

For more information about the series, check out Scott Westerfeld’s official site.

It’s that time. Only six years have passed since the last in the Song of Ice and Fire series was released, so the most of us have been waiting to see what the scoop is with the characters we like and not the crumb-bums of Feast for Crows. This is going to be a short post because I need to get to reading, but look at these few pictures of A Dance with Dragons! Oh man!

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If you have been keen to the internet in the last month or so, you might have seen news about a new children’s book that aims to get them to go to sleep as easily as possible: by just telling them exactly what mommy and daddy truly are thinking. “Please, my darling, just go the f*** to sleep.” Now you don’t even have to read these words aloud, you can let Nick Fury do it!

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Neil Gaiman is not a name that is unfamiliar around these parts. Since doing the show we have discussed three of his novels and one film based on one of his novels. Soon, in cities far cooler than where I call home, you might be able to catch a glimpse of the Dr. Who-episode-writing author and maybe even get a signed copy of American Gods at one of the tour stops.

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School, work, kids, dogs, dinner, TV, internet, bears, sharks, armageddon. All of these things can get in the way of you and your books, your precious, precious books. Where do you go to escape these perils of life to relax and read?

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Well, he did it. Ol’ Jimmy “slick jacket” Fallon shot up to the top of the charts over at Amazon with his fancy tricks. I, for one, congratulate him on this. The ever better news is that that ESPN book has dropped to number 3*.

If you would like to see what the book is all about, you can check it out right here.

*I am sure that that book is great.

It’s finally happened. After just four years in the mainstream market, it looks like these little electronic, non-tangible books we like to read on our Kindles have finally surpassed that of smelly, old, paper ones, at least, according to Amazon. Read more…

We don’t normally discuss the goings on of Twitter here (that’s what the sidebar widget is for!), but this little story is interesting in its potential execution. James T. Fallon, of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon fame, is trying to turn the tides in his favor by crowd-jacking the Amazon bestsellers list.

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It has been less than two years since the first NOOK (it’s all capitalized for some reason) appeared, and although we have seen the emergence of a color, tablet version last fall, the original E-Ink reader hasn’t changed much. Well, that is, until today. Barnes & Noble decided to do a little re-engineering. Read on for the deets. THE DEETS, I SAY.

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FREAKING FINALLY. I am probably not the only one to finish reading A Feast for Crows by George R. R. Martin and be just slightly upset that it really was only half the story he wanted to tell. But now we know when the fifth (and final?) book in the Song of Ice & Fire series – A Dance with Dragons – will release. Or in George’s words:

Yes, I know. You’ve all seen publication dates before: dates in 2007, 2008, 2009. None of those were ever hard dates, however. Most of them… well, call it wishful thinking, boundless optimism, cockeyed dreams, honest mistakes, whatever you like.

This date is different. This date is real.

OH MAN! And just because I can, I will be a total jerk and make you click-through to find the actual date!

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