I hope you all enjoyed Halloween. Denis and I spent yesterday afternoon taking in the Monarch butterfly pavilion and Dia de los Muertos exhibit at the Desert Botanical Garden and yesterday evening at The Poisoned Pen to see Sara Paretsky. Fun, fun, fun-- and more about all of it later!
Bookish News & Other Interesting Stuff
I ♥ Lists
Book & Halloween Candy
- Why you should have a messy desk.
- I fell in love with Bookworm Gardens the moment I laid eyes on it.
- Estherville, Iowa has a vandal on the loose!
- Check out this international movie trailer for The Book Thief.
- It can't be stressed enough: the value of reading novels.
- A 15-year-old landed a book deal and a movie deal... all in the same year.
- Downtown Boston will become the first Literary Cultural District in the U.S.
- I just reviewed one of Peter James' novels yesterday, and I found a post in which he talks about living in a haunted house.
- J.K. Rowling is now working on liberating a million children from care homes.
- It's gorgeous-- and tiny! Check out Slovenia's miniature island city.
- In just 37 seconds, see why we have an absolutely ridiculous standard of beauty.
- eBooks have settled in as a normal way of consuming content. (Was someone hungry when they wrote that?)
- When it comes to France, vive la bookstore!
- In the realm of "Believe It or Not" Captain James Kirk will be commanding a new Navy destroyer.
I ♥ Lists
- 10 great meals in literature.
- 22 things that belong in every bookworm's dream home.
- Some of the rejection letters of Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro have been found.
- These 20 photos may restore your faith in your fellow humans.
Book & Halloween Candy
- 18 literary pumpkins
- 15 bookish pet costumes
- Book-o'-Lanterns
- Mitt Romney's new house has a secret room behind a bookcase.
That's it for this week. Don't forget to stop by next weekend for a freshly selected batch of links for your surfing pleasure!
I love the messy desk link! lol It makes me feel better about my desk.
ReplyDeleteIt made me feel better about mine, too, Kathy! LOL
DeleteCathy - Sounds as though you had a great day! And I'm most eager about Sara P.'s visit to the PP. And really? A 15-year-old got a contract like that? *sigh*
ReplyDeleteParetsky's appearance was the first one we've attended with which we've been disappointed-- and it had absolutely nothing to do with Paretsky!
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