None of that domestic goddess stuff this week. For one thing, I'm no goddess and I'm barely domesticated! Besides... give me two author signings at The Poisoned Pen and a trip up to Black Canyon Lake in the White Mountains any day over cooking and laundry. Which reminds me. Perhaps I'd better clarify the title of my post. No, the authors at my favorite bookstore weren't squirrely; I'm referring to the critters up at the lake who love peanuts and sunflower seeds.
If you happen to be one of my Facebook buddies, you've probably already seen this photo and the others that I've posted. You'll be able to read my posts about authors Peter Lovesey and Jon Talton in the near future, so be on the lookout!
Next week I'll be heading back to The Pen to meet one of my favorite new-to-me authors, Alex Grecian, and if all goes well, I'll be reviewing four books, two of which I rated "A" and the other two "A+". Yes, I've been reading high on the hog lately. (And if you didn't know I grew up in farm country, you do now after reading that last sentence.)
Bookish News & Other Interesting Stuff
- How to get children to look beyond the size of a book.
- A stunning Byzantine mosaic has been uncovered in Israel.
- Florence, Italy is hoping for a tourism boom with the release of Dan Brown's Inferno.
- Reburying F. Scott Fitzgerald.
- Don't judge a new cover by the old book.
- In Miami, Florida, literary health isn't necessarily measured by their bookstores.
- The Library's Future Is Not an Open Book.
- I'm always on the lookout for bookstores, and the next time I'm in Prescott, Arizona, I'm going to have to look up the Peregrine Book Company.
- The Japanese have a word for people whose to-be-read piles have gotten out of control: Tsundoku.
- So you think you want to be a librarian?
- How the world's most difficult code was cracked.
- A Harry Potter first edition annotated by J.K. Rowling is going up for auction.
Digital Reading & Techie News
- Some booksellers have decided to let the eReader go.
- How eBooks figure into the winning of an Innovations in Reading award.
- No, you can't read a book on Google Glass.
I ♥ Lists
- The 10 worst mothers in books.
- Famous authors' handwritten outlines for great works of literature.
- The 10 biggest book adaptation flops.
- 8 signs that you're a book person.
Book Candy
- Choose your books Scrabble tile wine glass charms.
- Delaware's only Frank Lloyd Wright home is for sale. Scroll down through the photos to see all the fabulous places to curl up with a book and all the places Wright built in to house those books.
- Check out these posters that chart the colors in famous novels.
- Unique bookshelves for the nursery.
That's all 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!
Glad to know Prescott has a new bookstore!
ReplyDeleteThought you might like that little bit of info! ;-)
DeleteCathy - I'll be looking forward to your posts! And that 'photo of the squirrel is too cute! Oh, and thanks for the links. You know, at one point I thought about being a librarian...
ReplyDeleteGlad you liked the photo of the squirrel. I wish he'd been successful in doing a swan dive into the peanut bag. What a Kodak moment that would've been!
DeleteAll the time I was majoring in history, I kept thinking how if I were smart I would be going on for a library science degree. Did I do it? Nope.
ReplyDeleteGood ole hindsight, eh?
DeleteThe squirrel photo is adorable.
ReplyDeleteDomestic goddess? I'm not one either. My mother used to say that "housework" was the lowest form of life on earth. I tend to agree.
Cooking might be in a different category; friends and relatives love to cook, some see it as an art. So I won't include it.
On being an adamant reader
I want to add other signs that one is a "book person." One can't wait to see a reader-friend to discuss the latest books we're reading; that's the entire conversation after "how are you?" niceties are finished. Other signs are that one discusses books through email with reader-friends, which is the most important topic being taken up. Another one is that one is constantly loaning books to friends, and even to staff at frequently-visited doctor's offices -- because the books are so good, one wants to share and feels the other people are bereft without them.
I'm glad you liked my squirrel photo, Kathy. You'd think I'd have a better outlook on housework, since I had a grandmother who caught the dust before it had a chance to land on the furniture, but that gene didn't make it past all the obstacles in its path.
DeleteI think we'd all have our own additions to the adamant reader list. I know that I do!