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As I’ve often said, you can shop online and find whatever you’re looking for,...
– Economist Paul Krugman Is a Hard-Core Science Fiction Fan | Underwire | Wired.com via Shelf Awareness (via housingworksbookstore)
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The Forbes Fictional 15 →
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Because you need to know which fictional characters boast the most wealth.
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Being a geek is all about your own personal level of enthusiasm, not how your...
– The Mary Sue defines what it means to be a geek — and I couldn’t have said it better myself.
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Omnivoracious: Summer Reading Lists Are Here →
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The New York Times offers an eclectic list of books to read, ranging from an autobiographical pop culture read to a serious history of digital computers.
NPR did something interesting with their summer reading list. They had indie booksellers make the picks.
USA Today goes interactive with their picks.
The Wall Street Journal put out a well-chosen summer...
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Neil Gaiman: Made rebloggable by request. On... →
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What’s your opinion on authors singling out negative reviews (explaining in comments why the review is wrong, defending their book, etc) of their work on sites like Goodreads?
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I think authors are allowed to point out errors of fact in a negative review, if…
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I don’t think it’s terribly controversial to note that women, from a young age,...
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Jennifer duBois, Writing Across Gender
(via literarynerd)
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I hate when you let someone borrow one of your...
This is why I threaten people who borrow my books. Apparently I’m very convincing. (I have let at least two people borrow my signed copy of ANANSI BOYS by Neil Gaiman and it still looks like no one has ever read it.)
Also, in high school, my friends and I lent a bunch of stuff out. Basically, each person was responsible for buying three or four authors/series/whatever and it gave the...
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Poll: Tomorrow's Movie Monday
Would you rather read a post on Men in Black III (recently released blockbuster) or Kagemusha (late-period Kurasawa samurai film)?
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Not just how I feel about Fanfic based on my... →
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The Mermaid Resurfaces by Meghan Cox Gurdon →
Mermaids are having a moment right now in books for the YA crowd and younger. This article is a good guide to recent releases, but I’m mostly posting the link due to a bit that baffled me.
Emma, the violet-eyed heroine of Anna Banks’s “Of Poseidon” (Feiwel and Friends, 336 pages, $17.99), comes across as rather a crude girl. At one point she “stabs into the belly...
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It’s not as if I don’t have anything to read; there’s a tower of perfectly good...
– Lewis Buzbee, The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop (via prettybooks)
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