Favorite Tweets:
Favorite Search Terms:
- attractiveness for a book: I’m looking for a perfectly bound man with a leather spine. If you have gold paned edges and words that are in perfect Georgia font, I’d like to take you to dinner in my purse to mingle with my tissues, receipts and empty lipstick containers. That Southern accented font gets me every time. If your blurb reads “couldn’t put me down,” call me – 1800bokdate.
- poems for funny stories in relation to blood borne pathogens: The best thing I could find on google for this was a “Bloodborne Pathogens Rap,” here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hti4LBGaBXQ (Someone’s science teacher is awesome).
- books on hovercrafts: With those eyes, aliens probably need large print.
- short stories about glaciers: I’m not sure about short stories, but check out Glaciers by Alexis Smith, and Shiver by Nikki Gemmell.
Book News:
- Deborah Clearman talks about Workshops in Women Prisons @ Ploughshares
- Vintage Children’s Classic has a New Video @ Vintage
- Giles Harvey Talks Literary Taste @ New Yorker
- Hemingway Writes Home @ Letters of Note
How a Book is Born @ WeldonOwen- Postcard 2 by Franz Wright @ Poetry Foundation
- 12 Super Story Collections @ Book Page
- Do E-Books Push Writer Productivity @ Christian Science Monit0r
- Would you Attend a Fifty Shades of Grey Sex Workshop? @ Huff Post
- Stories in Your Pocket: How to Write Flash Fiction @ The Guardian
- Seattle Public Library Hides 1000 Books for their Annual Summer Reading Program @ Boing Boing
- The Dystopian’s Guide to Positive Thinking @ For Books’ Sake
- Interview with Peter Carey @ Goodreads
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A.A. Knopf Poster
Julia Child Centennial Poster @ Book Seller Center
- In Honor of Zombie Awareness Month @ Harper Perennial
- Could the Internet Save Book Reviews @ The Atlantic
- Literary Death Match This Week
- In Defense of NY Public Library @ The New York Review of Books
- David Sedaris All Truth in Memoir @ Washington Post
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I love this self-drawn portrait of Margaret Atwood. She’s clearly a bird lady too with a bird nest of hair, and scales.
Silly Photos of Serious Writers @ Flavorwire
- How to Plot Your Book the Hard Way @ Meg Rosoff
- Unusual Reads about Mommy’s @ Everyday E-book
- Book Claims Zodiac Killer is Still Kickin’ at 91 @ LA Times
- State of the Bible @ NY Daily News
- Hipser Book Quotes @ Tumblr
- Man Freed on Bond but Must Write Book Reports (BEST JUDGE EVER) @ Fox News (I wouldn’t trust a damn thing Fox News says but, I thought this article was interesting.
- Field Notes of Grief (Self-Published) @ WV Public Broadcasting
- Printed Books Existed Nearly 600 Years Before Gutenberg’s Bible @ io9
- Book Fetish @ Book Riot
- 65 Read-Aloud Books for Boys @ 4 Tunate
- Narrative X-Ray @ Matthew Epler
- Map of Dickens’ London @ The Dickens’ Page
- 40 Books that Every Artist Should Own: Part 1 @ The Artinfo Bookshelf
May 15th, 2012 at 1:12 pm
“Seattle Public Library Hides 1000 Books for their Annual Summer Reading Program @ Boing Boing”
This is why I adore my local public library system. They do awesome stuff like that.
May 15th, 2012 at 1:18 pm
I hope you find one in the grocery store or something, behind a box of Macaroni and Cheese or in a freezer. (I always put really terrifying books in my freezer).
May 15th, 2012 at 1:36 pm
Most excellent stuff! I love Lauren Groff. She’s the Empress of Twitterville.
May 15th, 2012 at 1:39 pm
She totally is, what a great wa to say it. Have you read Arcadia yet? If so, what did you think?
May 15th, 2012 at 5:33 pm
I loved The Monsters of Templeton, but don’t like the look of Arcadia.
May 15th, 2012 at 5:55 pm
Arcadia is way more than weird, hippie, barefoot story. I promise. Check out my review a few posts back. I think you would like it, it’s very much literary fiction.
May 15th, 2012 at 6:00 pm
PS. Her book of short stories, Delicate Edible Birds, is one of my favorite books of all time. Give that a shot as well.
May 15th, 2012 at 11:14 pm
Whenever you publish a post, I always have to make sure I set aside enough time to go through it all haha. I love everything you blog, link, and talk about though. I got caught up in the 12 Super Stories Collection and the Hipster Quotes links. :)
May 16th, 2012 at 11:38 am
Wow, thank you dear. I love finding short story collection recommendations because you really never know what you’re going to get with them because the blurbs can’t discuss every story and usually they’re all different. Plus, there are so many good ones that I agree with in that list I put up. I hope I can continue to inspire your patience! : )
May 17th, 2012 at 11:10 pm
That is true, short stories definitely fill up a quench that might need fulfilled for a brief time being. I just recently came across ‘The Landlady’ by Roald Dahl… forgot how creepy it was! And yes, please keep doing what you do, I love it!
May 18th, 2012 at 9:12 pm
AH, I haven’t read that one. But I LOVE Roald Dahl. I was so scared of The Witches as a child, and then they made the movie which was just as creepy. The noses on those witches, man oh man.
May 16th, 2012 at 10:22 am
“How a book is born” is just the best diagram ever created. Especially the bit about the intern royally screwing up someone’s project (who *can’t* relate to that?!).
May 16th, 2012 at 11:37 am
Isn’t it?? I love that Lady Gaga and Stephen King are in the same bubble at one time, haha. They are both little monsters though.
May 17th, 2012 at 6:13 am
I’d like to see your handled doodled portrait, I’m sure it has wings :)
May 17th, 2012 at 11:04 am
Haha, it would be a stick figure girl with big hair and big hands, with wings. You’re so right. : )
May 21st, 2012 at 10:51 pm
I read that NYT article about high productivity in ebooks and the thought of publishing twelve ebooks a year kind of makes me want to vomit. I’m really not sure that is humanly possible; James Patterson must have cloned himself.
May 21st, 2012 at 10:55 pm
Agreed. That or Nora Roberts had one very good affair with a cop. Jodi Picoult is in the running as well. I purposefully turn her books over or hide them in book stores. I can’t handle it now so the ebook publishing boom is terrifying.