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Fri, 18 Sep 2009 07:50:45 -0700

The Book Cover Archive:

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(via architectureblog) Hi, can Bilbo come out to play today?

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 11:05:44 -0700

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Hi, can Bilbo come out to play today?

So I started reading The Poisonwood Bible a few days ago

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 08:07:00 -0700

but I have had to stop since heymikewaskom threw a fit on twitter about me reading ahead of the book club and so I will be putting that adventure on hold. Now I have to get ahold of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer, which is our first book club read. I’m excited!

libraryland: (via cavesoflilith) Personally, it’s always...

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 07:45:23 -0700

libraryland:

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Personally, it’s always been a goal of mine to get both in the library.

World's Greatest Libraries: Past and Present

Sat, 12 Sep 2009 09:29:52 -0700

World's Greatest Libraries: Past and Present

"Dark and stormy, the night is!"

Sat, 12 Sep 2009 07:58:01 -0700

libraryland:

inothernews:

From the book When Yoda Does Literary Cliches.

Haha. That took me a second longer than it should have, but quite funny.

What YA Lit is and isn’t

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 13:54:22 -0700

What YA Lit is and isn’t:

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"As for you, my galvanized friend, you want a heart. You don’t know how lucky you are to not have..."

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 13:34:10 -0700

“As for you, my galvanized friend, you want a heart. You don’t know how lucky you are to not have one. Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable.”

- The Wizard of Oz (via hopelesslymg) (via feelinganddreaming)

Bwahahahahaha What to Expect When You’re Expected: A...

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:56:00 -0700

Bwahahahahaha

What to Expect When You’re Expected: A Fetus’ Guide to the First Three Trimesters by David Javerbaum available October 13, 2009.

Some responses to your responses

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:11:57 -0700

mustardseedtrees: Several people who are planning to participate in the online book club I’m trying to put together recommended Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close as one of our reads. It looks like that will actually be our first one, too! How did you like it?

bitchpleeze: Hahaha, I’ve been meaning to pick up a copy of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. What did you think? Would Austen be pleased?

commentaire: I love the film adaptation of Stardust, but wasn’t too thrilled with the actual book. Though that may be because I had already fallen in love with the movie by the time I read it and so was biased toward the changes made for the film. Have you read anything else by Neil Gaiman?—I’m embarrassed to say that Stardust is the only one I’ve read.

kaylee: Did you read Lord of the Flies for school or for fun? Did you like it? It’s absolutely one of my favorite books. Also, best essay I’ve ever written was an analysis of LotF, so it holds a special place in my heart for that reason as well.

yellow-walls: I’m sorry you didn’t like The Iliad. I’ve only read parts of it, but I very much enjoyed The Odyssey. What didn’t you like about it? Or was it the having to read it for school that ruined it?

Everyone else who answered my last post: How did you like what you read? Would you recommend it? I’m always looking for books to add to my “to read” list.

What's the most recent book you've read?

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:47:32 -0700

The History of Love by Nicole Krauss

I'm about to throw a fit

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:33:27 -0700

girloffscript:

booksbooksbooks:

lemonadediary:

booksbooksbooks:

This morning my brother asks me to look over something he’s written for his English class (he just started college). So I read it, make a few adjustments, then inquire as to if it should be in MLA format. He says yes, so I put the paper into MLA format, which required rewriting his source citation and adjusting the heading and title.

A few minutes later, my brother returns to the computer and changes it all back. I ask him what he’s doing and he says he’s following the format his teacher used.

I WANT TO SHOOT HIS TEACHER IN THE FACE!

And all other English teachers that choose to have their students format their papers any which way they choose. I’m sorry, but it’s MLA or APA and that’s it. I don’t care what you want.

There’s also Chicago Manual, actually, in the social sciences especially. Don’t forget Chicago! Especially if it’s an entry-level writing class and he’s not an English major. Though I agree with you on the “different styles for different classes” thing. It’s annoying and confusing.

Fair enough. There are several options for acceptable formatting, but this teacher’s version was not one of them. My brother is also attending the same school I went to for the last two years, and I haven’t had any teachers or met any students who used anything but MLA—unless it was one of the crazies that make their own thing up because it’s a convenience for them to do so.

Mmmmmm….the new MLA 7 came out in the Spring, though most of those changes had to do with citations. What the prof could be doing is using a WAY outdated form of MLA, which I know some adjuncts at the local community college do. (Who really only cites once per paragraph? Lies! I say!)

Must have been a really outdated version if that’s the case. Speaking of which, I absolutely love the changes made for MLA 7.

Can I just say that I lovelovelove HBO Family programming?

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 08:04:43 -0700

Crashbox? Happily Ever After? Storybook Musicals? Animated Tales of the World? Goodnight Moon and Other Sleepytime Tales?

I’m almost twenty years old and I LOVE these shows. This stuff better still be around when I have kids. None of that Wow Wow Wubzy or Yo Gabba Gabba shenanigans for my progeny.

I'm about to throw a fit

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 07:55:28 -0700

lemonadediary:

booksbooksbooks:

This morning my brother asks me to look over something he’s written for his English class (he just started college). So I read it, make a few adjustments, then inquire as to if it should be in MLA format. He says yes, so I put the paper into MLA format, which required rewriting his source citation and adjusting the heading and title.

A few minutes later, my brother returns to the computer and changes it all back. I ask him what he’s doing and he says he’s following the format his teacher used.

I WANT TO SHOOT HIS TEACHER IN THE FACE!

And all other English teachers that choose to have their students format their papers any which way they choose. I’m sorry, but it’s MLA or APA and that’s it. I don’t care what you want.

There’s also Chicago Manual, actually, in the social sciences especially. Don’t forget Chicago! Especially if it’s an entry-level writing class and he’s not an English major. Though I agree with you on the “different styles for different classes” thing. It’s annoying and confusing.

Fair enough. There are several options for acceptable formatting, but this teacher’s version was not one of them. My brother is also attending the same school I went to for the last two years, and I haven’t had any teachers or met any students who used anything but MLA—unless it was one of the crazies that make their own thing up because it’s a convenience for them to do so.

I'm about to throw a fit

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 07:32:59 -0700

This morning my brother asks me to look over something he’s written for his English class (he just started college). So I read it, make a few adjustments, then inquire as to if it should be in MLA format. He says yes, so I put the paper into MLA format, which required rewriting his source citation and adjusting the heading and title.

A few minutes later, my brother returns to the computer and changes it all back. I ask him what he’s doing and he says he’s following the format his teacher used.

I WANT TO SHOOT HIS TEACHER IN THE FACE!

And all other English teachers that choose to have their students format their papers any which way they choose. I’m sorry, but it’s MLA or APA and that’s it. I don’t care what you want.

"Someone who goes out of their way to see what books I read."

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 14:57:12 -0700

“Someone who goes out of their way to see what books I read.”

- 1,001 Things I Want In A Lover #232

sumfight: Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art…....

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 14:49:11 -0700

sumfight:

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art…. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. ~C.S. Lewis

"I had the lonely child’s habit of making up stories and holding conversations with imaginary..."

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 14:22:47 -0700

“I had the lonely child’s habit of making up stories and holding conversations with imaginary persons, and I think from the very start my literary ambitions were mixed up with the feeling of being isolated and undervalued. I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created a sort of private world in which I could get my own back for my failure in everyday life.”

- George Orwell, Why I Write (via nihilnoetia)

What sort of campaign would you come up with to promote reading?

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 13:39:36 -0700

Be creative.

So apprently I'm quite hung up on these READ posters

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 11:30:05 -0700

But I’ve just now realized that all the READ posters I’ve ever seen are of someone famous holding—not READING—a book. Do these people even know how to read? Really? It’s sick. Reading is not a band-waggon activity, people! Kids shouldn’t be tricked into reading because it’s the “cool” thing to do (even though it is, like, totally cool).

I just went through a whole bunch of these posters on the ALA website, and the ONLY one in which the celebrities actually look like they’re reading a book in the one of Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson. But this poster is even worse than the “let’s-hold-a-book-and-tell-kids-to-read-even-though-I’m-not-really-sure-what-reading-is” posters because Stewart and Pattinson are reading Twilight. And I don’t want my kids (that will one day exist in the real world and not just in my mind) being persuaded to read such … I don’t even know what to call it. They could have at least been reading a good vampire novel. Sheesh.

But I digress. I suppose the point I’m trying to make, but not really succeeding at, is that these posters would be much more effective if the celebrities actually looked interested in the concept they are trying to promote: reading. As it stands now, I look at these posters and think “Oh Orlando, you’re so dreamy. What’s that you’ve got there? A book, you say? Well, you don’t seem very interested in it anyway, so why don’t we just set it down over there and, well, get to know each other a little bit better. ;-)” And you know what?—the thought of reading goes right out of my mind.

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Honestly, I have no idea what I’m talking about above. I apologize. I’m a little bit crazy this morning.