April 2013
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March 2013
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Good Stuff Happened Today →
Does everyone know about Good Stuff? Because you really should.
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YA!flash: Serious post for booklovers, dudes →
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This is a serious post for people who love books.
So, you may not have heard about this, but B&N and Simon & Schuster are currently locked in a dispute over financial stuff. Normally this is all behind-the-scenes publisher/bookseller stuff, but this is directly affecting authors because B&N…
Well worth repeating.
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Read so far this year ...
I’m trying to keep track of what I’m reading a little better, so I’m making lists all over the place.
So far in 2013, I’ve read:
The Chaperone, Laura Moriarity
Beautiful Darkness, Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
A Brief History of Montmaray, Michelle Cooper
Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn*
Maisie Dobbs, Jacqueline Winspear**
The Irresistible Henry House, Lisa Grunwald
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bookish:
Take a look at the trailer for Joss Whedon’s film adaptation of ‘Much Ado About Nothing.’ Can. Not. Wait.
Have you seen this? Watch it again anyway, you know you want to.
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For readers interested in learning more about how not to be labeled as...
– Mallory Ortberg, laying waste to fools on GAWKER, today, regarding CNN’s offensively lovey-dovey coverage of the two high school football stars who were convicted on Sunday of sexually assaulting a blacked-out drunk 16 year old girl from a neighboring town at a party, and then sharing pictures of...
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Francine Prose’s writing about writing is always as good as her creative writing. (Not that writing about writing can’t be creative, of course.) In this piece in the New York Review of Books, she discusses dreams in fiction.
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Then began an experience that turned my life around…working on a book with a...
– —Ezra Jack Keats (via schoollibraryjournal)
Love.
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Cool Chicks from History: Cool Chicks from History... →
coolchicksfromhistory:
March is Women’s History Month and I’m hoping some of my followers might be up for a simple challenge to put more women’s history on tumblr from March 1 to March 31.
Make one women’s history post or make thirty, it’s up to you. Please source your photos and quotes if possible. There aren’t any…
Great challenge. I’m up for it. Join me?
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