While you are waiting for the next review to arrive on this blog, get on over to A Bigger Brighter World’s Facebook page to keep feeling the love we have for the world of books.

There you’ll find longlists and shortlists, announcements of prize winners, posts about the evolution of reading technologies and people wasting valuable reading time arguing about which technology is better (and better for you).

There are lists of the best of past publications and lists of the most promising among the forthcoming.

You’ll find library advocates, interviews with authors, announcements of launches, dates for festivals and clubs, readings and reviews.

Did you know, for instance, that digital natives love print?

I’ve always thought that printed books help build “a physical map in my mind of where things are”;  that you can “remember the location of information simply by page and text layout”.

Apparently we can feel confident that there will always be a place for books we touch and hold.

“The physical places where such books are bought aren’t dying either. The independent brick-and-mortar bookshop is slowly reviving in America, with glimmers of a similar rebound in Britain.”

The best books, I’m sure you know, give readers a profound aesthetic and intellectual experience: they are objects of both beauty and permanence.

So celebrate books along with Viv Groskop, artistic director of the Independent Bath Literature Festival, and check out the “definitive list of the best books of the past two decades”. (Any list with McEwan’s Atonement, Coetzee’s Disgrace, Mantel’s Wolf Hall, McCarthy’s The Road and Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad gets my vote.)

And if you “like” our Facebook page you can join in our daily celebration of books and be alerted when there are additions to A Bigger Brighter World!