Saturday, February 16, 2013

The Making Lists Weekly Link Round-Up




Exactly one month from now Denis and I will be beginning a much anticipated journey, and I've reached that stage where I'm constantly making mental lists and trying to streamline everything as much as possible. And since all this is distracting me from imparting any news that may have occurred, I'm going to cut to the chase and make a few lists for you containing the links I found this week!


Bookish News & Other Interesting Stuff
  • Some people are talking about having bookshops charge for browsing. I don't agree with it, but I understand the reasoning behind it. How many people have gone into bookstores and used them as showrooms to test drive books, then gone home to buy those titles from someplace like  Amazon? No wonder the "show rooms" are closing in droves.
  • Washington, D.C. is the most literate city in the country.
  • Wow! A typo cost this woman a fortune!
  • There are negative reviews, and there are personal attacks. We need to know how to separate the two.
  • A stash of 400-year-old gold coins were found under the floorboards of an Irish pub. (Now... why couldn't I find something like this when I had that old carpet torn up?!?)
  • Author Terry Deary boldly stated that libraries are no longer relevant. Has he been hung in effigy yet?
  • Life lessons from Middlemarch, Little Women and other books we love.
  • Diagnosing your romantic issues based on your favorite literary couple.

I  ♥  Lists

Book Candy

New to My Google Reader

That's it for this week. Don't forget to stop by next weekend when I'll have a freshly selected batch of links for your surfing pleasure!

12 comments:

  1. Always interesting links, which I could spend hours looking at, but one thing that immediately grabbed my eye was the list of "50 most influential books by women."

    This list could use a bit of multi-culturalism itself. For instance, Toni Morrison's "Beloved" was an incredible book, one of my top best reads. She won the Pulitzer Prize for it, and then the Nobel Prize for Literature.
    Alice Walker's "The Color Purple," was also an amazing book, adored by many.
    This is not to mention the many other African-American women writers and poets, such as Rita Dove. Maya Angelou is a writer and a poet.
    There are so many Latina writers, too and Asian women authors.
    And then there are other contemporary authors, too, like Barbara Kingsolver, whose Poisonwood Bible contended for a Pulitzer, and whose new book Flight Behavior addresses global warming within a wonderful story of a woman moving ahead in her life.
    I usually follow crime fiction, but hear about such good fiction written by women from friends all the time -- novels, short stories, poems.
    We have to modernize these "best of" lists and add multiculturalism.

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    1. You're mentioning some of the very same books others have been talking about, Kathy. What books get included depends very much on the person who's compiling the list!

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  2. I hadn't remembered but "The Color Purple," also won a Pulitzer, and so did Jhumpa Lahiri's "Interpreter of Maladies," also an excellent book of short stories.

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    1. You just keep on adding wonderful books, Kathy! :-)

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  3. Cathy - Oh, it's so much fun isn't it to start planning for a trip? I always like the anticipation that comes from making lists and getting ready to pack.

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    1. We've been planning this trip for a very long time, Margot, but it's finally becoming real to both of us!

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  4. I could spend all day visiting all these lovely links! Thank you, Cathy!

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  5. Cathy, Hope you and Denis have a wonderful time and take notes on anecdotes and interesting sites and also bring back photographs for your loyal bloggers to see.

    Some of us just take virtual vacations, but we wish you both a wonderful time.

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    1. I'm taking my journal and two cameras, Kathy, so I plan to be very obliging!

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  6. Hooray for DC, the most literate city. I lived there for 15 years and can say they have great bookstores and great libraries, including the Library of Congress & the National Archives which are treasures. Politics & Prose is great and so is Kramers. cheers. http://www.thecuecard.com/

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    1. I wish I'd had more time to explore when Denis and I were there!

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