ELECTRIC LITERATURE
Nothing comes more straightforward than our first website recommendation for the UAE’s Year of Reading: Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading. This site is spawned from Tumblr – a favoured blog / photo hosting site by today’s millennials which makes it a whole lot easier to follow. What caught the Tempo team’s eye is its simple layout with an equally simple premise: present an excerpt from a book that’s soon to be launched as a weekly feed along with a direct link to buy it if the reader gets hooked on the story!
http://recommendedreading.tumblr.com
BOOK RIOT
As the title suggests – it’s the whole shebang, as the website neatly divides all genres as a hub for readers to choose whichever genre they feel like reading. Each category supplies the reader not just with books, but with related articles published by their team of writers as well. What makes this site great is that they make it a point to donate part of their profits to their selected charitable organization: First Book, an institution that has been providing new books to children in need since 1992. Talk about paying it forward!
FULL STOP
This website delivers that feeling of being connected to the authors you’ve learned to love. Aside from publishing book reviews and feature articles, Full Stop has published more than 30 in-depth, no-holds barred interviews with authors from all over the world. Full Stop allows the visitors to get to know about the thoughts of their authors through hard-hitting questions on anything from the idea for the book to personal questions about their families.
Special Mention:
LARGE HEARTED BOY’S “BOOK NOTES”
While this next website isn’t about reading at all, readers manage to step into the minds of the authors who share the kinds of music they played as they wrote their favourite books! Authors like Carl Wilson, Jami Attenberg, Kate Christensen, Tupelo Hassman, Peter Straub among others share the music playlist that inspired them to write their novels. They say creative influence whether painting, writing or anything involving the arts often comes from music – this website is a delightful testament to that.
http://www.largeheartedboy.com/blog/archive/book_notes_2012/
