Favorite Tweets:

Favorite Search Terms:

• library bingo card: I’d like to come to this church’s bingo night.  Hoo-ha!
• spinster chotskies: I just love that someone came to my blog with this.  It almost defines me as a cat lady.
• how to talk to your mother notes: I love talking to my mother.  In fact this morning, I cried as soon as I woke up over something ridiculous and she was like “why are you crying?” and I said, “it’s too early for this, wah.”
• picture of 2 girls in petticoats and a boy reading a book with footstool with basket of daisies on it?: this sounds adorable.  You should decorate your child’s room with this.

Book News:

• Ten Short Stories to read online (including Flannery) @ Flavorwire
• Francine Prose (swoon) talks Edith Wharton @ The New York Review of Books
• Lavina Greenlaw reads “Coleridge” from Casual Perfection
• Excerpt from At the End of Life, True Stories About How We Die by Creative Nonfiction Books and edited by Lee Gutkind
• 40 Books Every Child Should Read @ Half Price Books
• Nine Things to Never Say in a Book Club @ CNN
• Copper Canyon looking to Poetry E-books @ Poetry Foundation
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  Encyclopedia Collage By Brian Dettmer @ Book Riot

  Five Songs of Spring @ Huffington Post

• Markus Zusak on YA or Adult – Who is He?
• The 100 Greatest American Novels, 1891-1991 @ Book Riot.  I feel a new book challenge coming on for some of you.
• Steinbeck on Love @ 100 Letters.
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  Hark! A Vagrant by Kate Beaton - Cartoon for Hamlet

  Five Art and Design Projects Inspired by Literary Classics @ Brain Picking

• What would Hemingway Think of Men Today? @ Good Men Project
• What Lost Books Say About their Authors @ Huff Post
• Help Fight Hunger with Hunger Games
• Half Price Books – Tournament of Villians
• Celebrated Poem @ London Olympics.  Submit your words here.
• Blog of Myself by Oyl Miller @ McSweeney’s
• Katniss: Cinderella or Survival @ Slate
• Poets on the Radio for World Poetry Day
• Art Carved out of Books @ Good Design
• Tumblr as Book?
• Kirkus Review of Wild by Cheryl Strand
• Alice Walker and a Poetry Conversation @ The Atlantic
• A List of Lists @ NY Public Library
• On Sending, and Receiving Letters @ The Rumpus (My Letter Writing Project in March has been wonderful and I’m so thankful for the poetic, and beautiful hand-written responses I’ve received back.  A big thanks to:  Kate | Claire & Whitney for writing me back.  I will have letters back to you all this week).
• Complaints Monks Scribbled in Margins of Manuscripts @ The Atlantic
• Charles Simic writers on The Age of Ignorance for NY Books.
• Dear Bully – New Book from Harper Collins where 70 authors tell their bully stories.  What an important read for current students.
• Should Amazon by Taxed to Protect Local Bookstores @ Huff Post (yes).
• Faulkner’s Epigraph to Mosquitos @ Norton Tumblr
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  Book Bag @ Etsy by Imissyoualready (To JD Salinger)

  Harper Collins Book Bags @ Pinterest

• St. Martins Press sent 11 lbs of Pot in the Mail (Mar-ih-ju-a-na) @ Huff Post
• Book Blogging Unconference @ The Reading Ape
• About the Cover | Tin House #15
• Brian Dettmer talks Book Sculptures @ Book Riot