PLEASE REBLOG/LIKE THIS POST IF YOU’RE A BOOK BLOG
I get tons and tons of requests to be added to my book blog link list (which I updated hugely today). I try my best to consistently add book blogs as I find them and/or are directed to them, but MAN there are a lot of us! So please, please reblog/like this so I can do my best to both catalogue and follow (I follow with my personal blog, hangonsilvergirl) all the blogs in our little neck of the Tumblr woods. If you don’t have a book blog list on your own Tumblr but would like to direct people, feel free to use mine as a master list of sorts; you’re welcome to save or direct link the pre-made banners posted above (click on the photo and you should be able to copy and paste the link into your browser).
I’m also happy to link to/share book blogs and vlogs outside of Tumblr! Pop a note in my ask box and we can go from there. :)
Thank you!
The book is dead and the children are dumb—according to this documentary. I will probably watch it anyway.
Can’t wait to get to Chicago for ALA 2013? Here are the Top 40 Chicago Novels by Chicago Magazine.
Amazon Buying Goodreads: Industry Reactions - Shelf Awareness
Pretty impressive list of ownership by Amazon. And by impressive, I mean “thoughtfully frightening sometimes”.
(via booksyarnink)
Frightening indeed.
Iraqi librarian saved 30,000 books during 2003 invasion
“About ten days after the troops entered [Basra], the library was completely burnt down. We carried about 30,000 books to the restaurant and to our homes. Then, we transferred them from the restaurant to our homes in my own car and in cars belonging to the employees. Most of these books and manuscripts were rare and important ones. Regrettably, we lost a lot of books in the fire,” she said.
(Source: themugglelibrarian)
What Happens When Your Son Falls in Love with a “Girly” Book Series?
I have often had little boys confide in me that they like the princess books or the “girly” parts in an adventure story.
I’ll be reading Orlando by Virginia Woolf. What book will you be reading?
YES!! I can’t wait!
The cover (which is by the artist Seth) of the second book in Lemony Snicket’s “All the Wrong Questions” series has been revealed.
When Did You See Her Last? will be released on October 15th.
(via GalleyCat)
Happy Birthday to Daniel Handler, aka Lemony Snicket! The way he turns a phrase has brought us countless hours of enjoyment! Here are a few Lemony Snicket quotes from today’s birthday boy…
- Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don’t always like.
- Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.
- One of the remarkable things about love is that, despite very irritating people writing poems and songs about how pleasant it is, it really is quite pleasant.
- If writers wrote as carelessly as some people talk, then adhasdh asdglaseuyt[bn[ pasdlgkhasdfasdf.
- People aren’t either wicked or noble. They’re like chef’s salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict.
- There are some who say that sitting at home reading is the equivalent of travel, because the experiences described in the book are more or less the same as the experiences one might have on a voyage, and there are those who say that there is no substitute for venturing out into the world. My own opinion is that it is best to travel extensively but to read the entire time, hardly glancing up to look out of the window of the airplane, train, or hired camel.
- Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another.
- There are many, many types of books in the world, which makes good sense, because there are many, many types of people, and everybody wants to read something different.
- All the secrets of the world are contained in books. Read at your own risk.
- No matter who you are, no matter where you live, and no matter how many people are chasing you, what you don’t read is often as important as what you do read.
- Strange as it may seem, I still hope for the best, even though the best, like an interesting piece of mail, so rarely arrives, and even when it does it can be lost so easily.
- It is useless for me to describe to you how terrible Violet, Klaus, and even Sunny felt in the time that followed. If you have ever lost someone very important to you, then you already know how it feels, and if you haven’t, you cannot possibly imagine it.
