Yes, it's that time of year again. The time when I don't particularly care if we get out and about much. Why? Because I love spending time in the pool with a succession of good books. Even Denis has a water-proof case for his iPod so he can float around listening to audiobooks.
I know I promised a post about Leakey's Bookshop in Inverness and it hasn't turned up yet, but I figure if I hurry up and post these links for you, I can get the one about Leakey's posted before my self-imposed deadline is up. Nothing like running down to the wire, eh? So without further ado---
Bookish News & Other Interesting Stuff
- This is bound to provoke a chuckle or two: What happens when you like books more than anything in the whole world.
- During this week's Hay-on-Wye book festival, they talked about saving the Timbuktu Library.
- Check out this eight-year-old's invention for keeping books dry in the bath!
- Fellow book blogger Chachic asks "What are the things you give up so you can read and blog?"
- Any Bridget Jones fans here? Helen Fielding has revealed a few more details about her next book Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy.
- Is internet English debasing the language?
- The strange history of Stonemere made this writer think about Manderley.
- A letter has been recently found in which Rudyard Kipling admitted to plagiarizing some of his best known works. And speaking of Kipling, it just wasn't his week. He and Agatha Christie are also accused of turning Britain into a nation of passive racists.
- On a brighter-- and much more welcome note-- have you heard about Sophia Moss from Louisiana? This five-year-old read 875 books in one school year.
- Don't tell anyone, but I have a thing for woolly mammoths, and scientists just found one in Siberia that still had liquid blood.
- CSI creator Anthony E. Zuiker will publish a series of novels based on the upcoming reality TV show, Whodunnit?
- Ancient Egyptians crafted jewelry from meteorites.
- One of the topics during this week's BEA was literary ethics for reviewers.
- Waterstone's in the UK has launched a project called The Book That Made Me.
- Have you heard of Bloggers Recommend? It's put together by some very familiar names in our community.
- Amazon insists upon keeping busy. It told popular UK book recommendation site Lovereading.co.uk to remove all its affiliate links to Amazon, and now it's starting up production of original television series.
Digital Reading
- The UK's The Guardian newspaper is taking its online news reporting global.
- Summer reading programs for children have been launched by Barnes and Noble and Amazon.
- Have you heard of nobooko, the Kobo and Nook User Group's online forum?
- Premier Digital Publishing has launched an eBook bundling retail network.
- HarperCollins is now providing digital galleys to its authors.
I ♥ Lists
- Someone took some dumbfounding client feedback and turned it into some very funny posters.
- 24 classic books' original titles.
- 25 signs you're addicted to books.
Book Candy
- No much here this week, except for a YouTube video that made me drool over McIntyre's Books, an independent bookstore in North Carolina. Next time I'm their neck of the woods, you don't have to guess where I'm headed!
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!
Thanks, Cathy, as ever for these links. And I don't blame you one bit for doing the poolside reading thing. This is the time of year for it.
ReplyDeleteIt certainly is. As soon as I've sent Denis off to work with a smile and a kiss this afternoon, I'm heading for the pool!
DeleteI found this fun quiz related to a new book coming out named Lexicon. It's related to the story, but is a pseudo personality type quiz. http://maxbarry.com/lexicon-quiz/
ReplyDeleteI'm off to look at the links, esp. the Rudyard Kipling one.
Thanks for the link, Alyce. I'm going to check it out now!
DeleteLucky you having a pool in which to relax and read. I can't see anyone in the Big Apple doing that, unless one treks for an hour on the subway to a very hot, crowded beach. Not my cup of tea.
ReplyDeleteI'll sit in my air-conditioned room and read, sipping iced tea.
I have to comment on one of the articles in the links round-up. I have never read anything by John Barnes but I completely agree with him. I've never liked Kipling as his racism and superiority is quite prominent in his writings.
And when I was 19 and reading the Hercule Poirot books, as someone with many Eastern European Jewish relatives, I was offended by Agatha Christie's anti-Semitism, which I noticed and also was put off by her attitudes towards people of color, including immigrants. So I quit reading her books.
I haven't noticed these attitudes in the Poirot movies with David Suchet, and I think the dialogues were cleaned up a bit, which is fine with me.
Lots of good links this week, always appreciate them.
Many of the things we watch on television have been cleaned up in one way or another, especially if they're based on published books.
DeleteI noticed the same things you did when I read Kipling and Christie, and that's one of the reasons why I didn't enjoy their books and stopped reading them. But I know for a fact that many of the things I read and enjoy contain things that greatly offend others. Sometimes I think the human race is just a huge bundle of exposed nerves.
Yes, but some of these sensitivities stem from bad experiences.
ReplyDeleteYes, they do, and I never meant to imply otherwise.
DeleteI had not heard of Bloggers Recommend. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome! I hadn't either. I think I've been hiding under a rock lately! LOL
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