March 2011
“What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a...”
– Neil Gaiman, American Gods (via bookoasis)
February 2011
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“Books act like a developing fluid on film. That is, they bring into...”
– Clifton Fadiman (The New Lifetime Reading Plan: The Classical Guide to World Literature, Revised and Expanded)
Yummy Books →
hdteo:
Yummy Books is a blog where one reader makes delicious food related to books she is reading/has read. Recipes range from James and the Giant Peach Bourbon Peach Handpies to Miss Havisham’s Toasted Almond Cherry Bride Cake (complete with spiders!) to Beloved Blackberry Tart, as seen below.
“Price Stern Sloan, another Penguin imprint, sold 42,000 copies of “Mad Libs” in...”
– Publishers Look Beyond Bookstores to Help Sales - NYTimes.com (via teleportal)
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“Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive....”
– Ezra Pound (via libraryland)
Barnes & Noble opens doors for self-published... →
goodanya:
B&N is giving authors who use its PubIt! self-publishing program some Nookstore shelf space. The bookseller will host in-store events, create a bestseller list for PubIt! books, and include the authors in its “Read In Store” program.
What do you think? High time or apocalyptic sign?
Do we still look down our noses at the self-published, or are we equal-opportunity readers these...
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“Hank Nearly was an avid reader. He arrived early in his brown corduroy coat,...”
– Joshua Ferris, Then We Came to the End
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“Good thought can be imbibed by reading and studying good books and by...”
– Yajur Veda
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“Studs Terkel, the oral historian, was known to admonish friends who would read...”
– Book Lovers Fear Dim Future for Notes in the Margins - NYTimes.com (via simsian)
