Ohio Newspapers and Book Blogs

Sorry about the radio silence of late but off-line life has been intruding. I have some reviews and some opinions I would like to share but I need to find some time to get them down in pixels.

There has been a lot of discussion in lit blogs about local newspaper coverage of books. Ohio papers are working at unique ways to bring coverage to the web. I thought I would offer some links to give you an idea of what this entails.

- The Columbus Dispatch is looking to start an online book club and has asked readers to pick the first book. The choices are: Up in Honey's Room by Elmore Leonard; The Woods by Harlan Coben; or The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon.

- Dispatch Book Critic Bill Eichenberger has also started a blog with the rather pedestrian title of Book Blog. One small complaint: good luck finding it from the main page of the paper's website!

- Dayton Daily News also has a book blog more inventively titled Book Nook.

- The Cincinnati Enquirer's Sara Pearce has a book blog called LitChick.

- The Cleveland Plain Dealer (or at least Cleveland.com) doesn't have a book blog but has been running reviews from Blogcritics for some time now and, unlike some of the other papers, they have a nice - and easy to find - book section.

I haven't done any research on other papers. Does your local or state paper have a book blog or a good online book section? It would be interesting to see how many papers are moving in this direction.