May 2013
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Damon Young | Why Libraries Are Important →
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Which brings us to another virtue. Libraries are also civic sanctuaries for people. The physical spaces are vital. The light and warmth, the reading nooks, the comfortable chairs and neat cubicles - they invite patient, attentive reading and writing. They also attract play and intimacy. As I write, a grandfather is saying “B for ‘bird’, a yellow bird,” to a...
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Maria Rodale: Why We Write Romance Novels →
Sometimes we all need a little escape from real life and the 24-hour news cycle, especially when the tragic updates are just relentless. Even daily stressors can take their toll. We need a break from the stress, the fear, the hopelessness (and the dishes, the laundry, and traffic, etc, etc.). So—like millions of other readers around the world—I turn to romance novels.
Call them...
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BBC to challenge Downton with Poldark remake -... →
My heart just skipped a bit. I’ve gone from elation to breathing into a paper bag and forcing myself to lower my expectations to realistic levels.
The romantic saga about a British officer returning from the American Revolutionary War in the late 18th century was a Sunday night hit for BBC1 between 1975 and 1977.
It ran for just two series despite its popularity at the time.
The...
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Bloomsbury laid bare: The last member of the... →
It is more than 70 years since Virginia Woolf last put pen to paper. And 50 since her sister Vanessa Bell put away her paints. In 1941, Virginia filled her pockets with stones and walked out into the River Ouse, never to return. Vanessa died peacefully 20 years later, aged 81, after a bout of bronchitis. But the Bloomsbury Group – of which the sisters were among the leading lights – remains...
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OverDrive Announces Availability of Hachette Book... →
OverDrive Announces Availability of Hachette Book Group eBooks
Bestselling Hachette Book Group Titles Will Be Available for Library and School Lending via OverDrive
CLEVELAND, OH—(Marketwired - May 1, 2013) - Hachette Book Group, one of the largest and most successful publishers in the world, will make its entire digital catalog of more than 5,000 eBooks available to libraries and...
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World's oldest romantic novelist, who has worked... →
Writer Ida Pollock was today hailed the world’s oldest romantic novelist as it was revealed she is still producing steamy books at the age of 105.
Ida has written 123 novels during her prolific career - many of them tales of virgins, chaste kisses and dashing male heroes.
Ida has sold millions of books over nine decades with risque titles such as ‘White Heat’ and...
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History’s ‘Vikings’ Season Finale Attracts 3.6M... →
Yeah, but now it’s over and I miss it already.
History’s Vikings ended its first season with 3.6 million viewers Sunday… The second season of Vikings is scheduled to air in early 2014.
April 2013
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Librarians fight to keep publishers from taking... →
I love librarians!
There’s a tightrope across the digital divide that nearly 7,000 librarians meeting this week in Fort Worth are crossing, but some aren’t tiptoeing. They’re leaping across the gap and looking for ways to stay at the forefront of a new age in reading.
Electronic books and digital devices have altered the reading landscape but for the most part America’s...
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A ‘Brave’ Disney tour of Scotland: Movie magic... →
Of course there’s a Brave Disney tour of Scotland. ;-)
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This Is Your Brain on E-Books | MIT Technology... →
I don’t have the best of memories, but ever since I was young, I prided myself on a particular talent with respect to reading. Occasionally I’d be near the end of a book, and would recall a passage near the beginning that I wanted to revisit. I wouldn’t remember the page or chapter, but almost without fail, I would recall the location on the page where the passage in question was. I knew that...
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Are libraries offering enough self-published... →
A self-published novel, The Bet by Rachel Van Dyken, was the best-selling ebook on Amazon and at Barnes and Noble during the week ending April 13, 2013. This statistic demonstrates a major shift in our literary ecosystem—self-published books have become culturally important.
Our society is now producing relevant books—books worth reading, books impacting our culture—from individuals, not just...
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For Boston
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
–John F. Kennedy, 1961 Inaugural Address
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Digital Library of America launched - Business -... →
This is an exciting new resource!
Millions of digitized books, pictures, and manuscripts from the nation’s top public and academic libraries are now available in one spot. It isn’t Amazon or Google, and it’s free.
The privately funded Digital Public Library of America was launched Thursday and provides users with access to the digital archives of institutions ranging from national the Library...
London Book Fair 2013: Defining the New Role for... →
Short version: Agents are now publishing managers, and ”publishing it [sic] still ‘all about timing and luck.’”
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David Mamet and Other Big Authors Choose to... →
This year, when Mr. Mamet set out to publish his next one, a novella and two short stories about war, he decided to take a very different path: he will self-publish.
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How excited are you all for SERIES TWO? :D
Very!
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New Reading Standards Aim To Prep Kids For College... →
librarylovely:
Some interesting thoughts about Common Core in English classrooms from All Things Considered.
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The Return of the Serial Novel - WSJ.com →
By ALEXANDRA ALTER
Serialized fiction, an all-but-lost art form that was practiced by such literary giants as Charles Dickens, Leo Tolstoy and Joseph Conrad, is rebounding in the digital era. The growing use of tablets, smartphones and e-ink devices has created a vibrant new market for short fiction as readers flock to stories they can digest in one sitting.
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