Twitter has developed a special following in the literary community, from high-brow to low, C. Max Magee says in The Millions, and lists some first tweets by authors. I don’t…Continue readingAuthors’ first tweets
BooklyBooks.com says, “We love readers and love to read. Therefore, we have compiled a list of 182 quotes about books for readers and book lovers around the globe. Reading unites…Continue readingQuotes About Books – For Readers
There are few things that can match the pleasure of walking into a building filled with books, Vincze Miklós writes at Io9. But these bookmobiles, book boats, and beasts of…Continue readingBookmobiles around the world
At a meeting of the Tolkien Society at the University of Cape Town where I got all three of my degrees, a woman said plaintively, “I just couldn’t get into…Continue reading50 Incredibly Tough Books
Revisiting ‘The Hobbit’, Noble Smith writes at Huffpost, is like sifting through the deep piles of loot in a dragon’s hoard: there’s always something new to discover about J.R.R. Tolkien…Continue readingA Hobbit by any other name
Take the Willard Library in Evansville, Indiana… The story of the gray lady began in 1937, Buzzfeed reports, when a janitor reported seeing a floating apparition of a woman in…Continue readingHaunted Libraries
I have a cup complete with Shakespearean insults, such as: “long-tongu’d babbling gossip”, “quintessence of dust”, “idol of idiot worshipers’, and “I do desire we may be better strangers.” But…Continue readingShakespearean insults delivered by cats
Most authors have heard about the Bechdel Test for a story: 1. It has to have at least two women in it, 2. who talk to each other, 3. about…Continue readingDo I pass the test?
Arielle Calderon of BuzzFeed suggests some things she thinks belong in every book-lovers home. Actually a lot of them leave me either cold or indifferent. But I do like these.…Continue readingBookworm’s Dream Home
A bookstore in Nanjing, China was blasted for “corrupting minors” and using gimmicks to attract customers, The Want China Times reports. The store said the posters were part of a…Continue readingBookstore blasted for naked reading