Friday, February 21, 2014

What's Goin' On Weekly Link Round-Up



For one reason or another, an occasional week wafts through my life in which nothing much happens-- or at least nothing much I want to talk about. That's what happened here at Casa Kittling this past week, so I'm going to let these links do all my talking for me.  Have a fabulous weekend, everyone-- and don't forget to read a good book!


Bookish News & Other Interesting Tidbits
  • Stephen King is a busy boy. Mr. Mercedes will be released in June, and Revival is set for a November release.
  • How to protect your Facebook account from Rogue applications.
  • Isabel Allende knows how to ruffle the feathers of the crime fiction community.
  • America's best first lady? It's no surprise who tops the list whenever this poll is taken!
  • Having been less than thrilled with the little anniversary video Facebook cooked up for me, I have to admit I got a chuckle or two from the "much more honest" version someone else took the time to do.
  • Tales2Go launches a Netflix for audiobooks service which is aimed at children.
  • The book industry isn't dying, it's thriving with an eBook assist.
  • I have yet to read Laura Hillenbrand's Unbroken (Shame on me!), but that didn't keep me from taking a look at the first trailer available for the movie which is based on that book.
  • J.K. Rowling is writing a second book under her Robert Galbraith pseudonym. (See if you can catch the error in the article.)
  • Remember when James Patterson told us he was going to give $1 million to independent bookstores during the next year? The first checks are in the mail.

Architecture, Archaeology & Other Links I Dig
  • Having read Empty Mansions last year, I was interested to see that one of Huguette Clark's mansions may finally have sold.
  • Imagine turning 420,000 matchsticks into J.R.R. Tolkien's Minas Tirith.
  • An ancient rural town has been uncovered in Israel.
  • A talented architect has made an RV look like a cabin in the woods.
  • South Carolina archaeologists are racing to uncover a Civil War prison.
  • A 3,600-year-old Egyptian mummy has been unearthed by Spanish archaeologists.
  • An ancient dog burial site has been found in Mexico City.


Mother Nature

I  ♥  Lists

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!



10 comments:

  1. Cathy - Sometimes those 'nothing much' weeks are the best kind - no stress. Now off to see the effect of e-books on the book industry...

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  2. Love the reason for dating bookworms!!!

    Sometimes, links are the way to just say, "here's what's interesting that you've found today." I hope you are reading happily :-)

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  3. The article on J.K. Rowling mistakenly says her first Galbraith book was The Casual Vacancy. Nope. That was published a few years ago under her real name. It was The Cuckoo's Calling that was written by Galbraith.

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    1. You win the prize, Kathy! Now... if I only had one..... ;-)

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  4. Don't worry about it. I did read The Cuckoo's Calling, and it was a good read. It's very detailed, so at times I wanted to edit some of the detail out, but that's the author's style I realized. Some of the details are essential to the murder's solution.

    My prize will be to get a copy of The Silkworm, Galbraith/Rowling's next book. That should be a good one.

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    1. I have a copy of The Cuckoo's Calling languishing on my TBR shelves. At least it's in good company... lots of good company actually!

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  5. The richest presidents is an interesting link and the book industry link on ebooks. Still I'm old-school and go with print. cheers. http://www.thecuecard.com/

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    1. I liked both of those links, too. Nothing will ever replace print books for me, but I have found my Kindle extremely useful.

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