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Favorite Search Terms:

• ulysses moore book map: Earlier this week I read an awesome blog about introductions.  The way that Hazel introduces herself by saying, “I don’t read books with maps.” One: I totally want to be her friend and two: I don’t read books with family trees in the beginning.  Oh, how I wish that were true.  I tend to loathe books with family tree lines, but I still pick them up and hope for the best.  Why do we torture ourselves so? And do you have an absolute NO for certain things in books?  Awkward font.  Bad script.  No author bio at the end that talks about their inevitable two kids.  What’s your anti-obsession.
• yard ornaments to make: I recommend papier-mache flamingos and play-doh gnome couples or just search pinterest because I guarentee three-hundred and seven other women have wondered this same thing.
• one gleaming image to tell the truth of what is hunting us: I decided against googling this because I didn’t want to find out it was a chunk of a quote, or part of a poem because that would ruin the beauty of this line.
• harry potter wedding invitations: SEND EVERYONE WANDS BY OWL.
• beauty and the beast library:
• pregnancy blog week 22: You know that commercial for EPT where the woman says, “I want to be a mother, just not yet,” and EPT comes up and it says “erase panic today.”  I thought that’s actually what EPT stood for, for a whole day.  If that shows you anything about how close this blog is to a pregnancy blog, there you go.

Book News:

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  I’ve been singing this song all week and then the God’s sent me this comic. Thanks, Book Riot.

  Seven Networking Tips for Authors @ The Creative Penn

• The first word for ‘dude’ was ‘dandy’ @ PeterSokolowski
• Neil Gaiman’s Tribute to Ray Bradbury @io9
• Richard Ford talks America after Writing Canada @ The Guardian
• Plagiarism @ Ploughshares
• Should Students Be Memorizing Poetry (YES) @ Huff Post
• Browse Bad Marie Before Buying @ Harper Collins
• Letters in Books @ Forgotten Bookmarks
• Waterloo East: New Granta Poem @ Granta
• Interview with Ernest Cline @ EverydayEBook
• The Best Young Adult Novels? Tell NPR @ NPR
• Rapper Makes Song Using 52 Book Titles @ Huff Post

• Books in Which a Puppet Would Have Improved Plot @ Huff Post
• Seven Bad Dads of Literature @ Huff Post
• Spice Girls Documentary Planned @ Huff Post
• 20 Awesome Fake Literary Band Names @ Book Riot
• “White Guy” Editors @ The Rumpus
• Ten Lessons to Learn from 50 Shades of Grey @ Lit Reactor
• Watch Everything from BEA here @ BEA
• Who Would be the Perfect Christian Grey @ Word&Film
• How Chinese Writers Elude Censors @ NY Times
• Author Shoots Himself as Book Promotion @ Huff Post
• Live Webinar: Writing the Break-Out Teen Novel @ Writers’ Digest
• Famous Authors to Survive Zombie Apocalypse @ Huff Post
• Questionless Interview with Samuel Thomas Martin @ Open Book Toronto
• Five Favorite Literature Inspired Coffee Shops @ Quirk Books
• 20 Literature Chats on Twitter @ Online Education Database
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  My favorite cover on the list: Flowers in the Attic. My mom has been trying to get me to read this book FOREVER.

  50 Coolest Book Covers @ Shortlist

• 2012 Locus Award Winners @ Locus Online
• 10 Amazing Contemporary Comic Book Covers @ Huff Post
• Lev Grossman Guest Post @ Lytherus
• Penning Perfumes: Scent and Poetry @ The Guardian
• Take the Poetry Quiz @ Poetry Foundation
• What if Louisa May Alcott Read 50 Shades of Grey @ Galley Cat
• Literary Burroughs: Brooklyn @ Ploughshares
• The Importance of Good Editing @ The Guardian
• Poetry, Real Estate @ Poetry Foundation
• TV-as-Literature @ The Atlantic
• Bucket List to Book Deal @ The Wall Street Journal
• Couple Ties the Knot in Bookstore @ Quill & Quire
• Heather Christie on PBS @ Poetry Foundation
• Raleigh Review Review @ New Pages
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  Roald Dahl’s Gipsy House

  Famous Writers’ Retreats @ Huff Post

• The Sound of a Sentence @ The Opinionator
• Best Poetry Presses @ Ploughshares
• Want to Review Harper Collins Books @ Harper Collins
• 2012 Breakthrough Novel Award Contest @ Amazon
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  Mikey Stilky Book Art

  Things to Do with a Book Beside Read it @ Pinterest

• Drunk Texts to Paris Review @ Poetry Foundation
• Which Books Impress Women @ The Daily Beast