Book News
Country singer Taylor Swift donates 6,000 books to library in Reading, Penn.
http://marquee.blogs.cnn.com/2011/10/14/taylor-swift-donates-6000-books-to-library/ Ironic that people in a city called Reading (Pennsylvania, U.S.A.) don’t have enough books to read! Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post
24th Vancouver International Writers & Readers Festival
Oct. 18-23, 2011 in Vancouver, BC, Canada. I find it ironic that in a video promoting a Writers’ festival, they somehow managed to misspell ‘Annually’ as ‘Anually’! Check out the official website of the fest for all the details and events here – writersfest.bc.ca. A few of the famous authors coming to Vancouver this month … Continue reading
Graphic Fiction~!!
Recently, I’ve been getting more into graphic novels and manga (especially ‘gekiga’). Three new titles I recommend (two of which were just released this week) are the following: The Book of Human Insects by Osamu Tezuka, the godfather of Japanese manga – this is one of his more adult tales – for some reason it’s … Continue reading
Tree of Codes
Tree of Codes by Jonathan Safran Foer – Public Reactions from Visual Editions on Vimeo. This is a video of people on the street’s reactions to Foer’s special die-cut book wherein a new story was ‘exhumed’ out of Bruno Schulz’s famous The Street of Crocodiles. Quite a fascinating and unique work of art (although you … Continue reading
The lesson of Borders: Bookstores need to guide us
By Richard Nash, Special to CNN July 21, 2011 11:37 a.m. EDT STORY HIGHLIGHTS *Thousands will be unemployed with the liquidation of Borders, says Richard Nash *In an era of unlimited culture, Borders couldn’t help sift through it, he says *Millions of Americans read for five hours a day, so books will remain with us, … Continue reading
Books-on-a-bike idea sets off
TIMES COLONIST Librarian Avi Silberstein remembers that his neighbourhood didn’t have an ice cream truck when he was growing up but rather an ice cream bike, with treats pulled along in a trailer. Now he’s doing the same thing, but with another kind of treat. “I wanted the same idea, where you could just flag … Continue reading
Books I’ve read (in the past year)
For anyone who’s curious what I personally enjoy reading, I give you a list of all the books that I’ve read–finished–since coming back to Canada from Korea (where I lived for 3 years!) last November, in alphabetical order by title: The 14th Dalai Lama: A Manga Biography, by Tetsu Sawai (comic; 3 stars out of … Continue reading
