"You have to read the cloth, like reading a book, " she tells me.

BBC: A Mayan revival

Mickey Pearlman, author of What to Read: The Essential Guide for Reading Group Members and Other Book Lovers also joins the show to talk about the nuts and bolts of book clubs.

NPR: 'The Hemingway Book Club of Kosovo'

But while the New Atheists may be loud, outspoken and popular reading matter among the sort of book buyers who use Amazon or read the New York Times, is there any evidence to suggest they are doing anything more than preaching to the (non-) converted?

CNN: The rise of the 'New Atheists'

Hannah Elliott: Yoko, as you re-read this book does it seem like it was you who wrote it or is it like reading the work of someone else, since it was so long ago?

FORBES: Yoko Ono: I Feel Invisible

Martin's fantasy novel "A Dance With Dragons" finished the book, and spent an average of 20 hours reading it, a relatively fast read for a 1, 040-page novel.

WSJ: Your E-Book Is Reading You

The UI supports a rich set of services, including phone calls, text messaging with vocal read-out, navigation, object recognition, social network services, remote assistance, audio-book reading, and other leisure and entertainment offerings.

ENGADGET: Qualcomm develops eyes-free smartphone for the blind and visually impaired, calls it Ray