libraryland:

starsandbutterflies:

Gorgeous library interior in Brazil.

libraryland:

twowaymonologue:

booklover:

1-1984 by George Orwell

2-The Magus by John Fowles

3-Stories by Edgar Allen Poe

4-Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

5-Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevski

6-Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin

7-One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey

8-Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

9-Fellowship of The Ring by J.R.R.Tolkien

10-Amber Night by Sylvie Germain

11-Black Book by Orhan Pamuk

12-The Saint of Insipient Sanities by Elif Şafak

13-Little Prince by Antoine De Saint Exupery

14-Therese Raquin by Emile Zola

15-Baron In The Trees by Italo Calvino

sweetnonsense:

1. Tuck Everlasting (Natalie Babbitt)

2. Wizard’s First Rule (Terry Goodkind)

3. The Dogs of Babel (Carolyn Parkhurst)

4. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)

5. Stargirl (Jerry Spinelli)

6. Inkheart/Inkspell (Cornelia Funke)

7. Dracula (Bram Stoker)

8. The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)

9. The Historian (Elizabeth Kostova)

10. The Time Traveler’s Wife (Audrey Niffenegger)

11. Tess of the D’Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy)

12. Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)

13. The Mists of Avalon (Marion Zimmer Bradley)

14. His Dark Materials (Philip Pullman)

15. The Confessions of Max Tivoli (Andrew Sean Greer)

1. A Confederacy of Dunces

2. Guns, Germs, and Steel

3. Future Shock

4. The Princess Bride

5. The Phantom Tollbooth

6. World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability

7. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe

8. A Short History of a Small Place

9. Breakfast of Champions

10. The Golden Compass

11. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

12. The Secret History

13. Horton Hears a Who

14. The Mouse That Roared

15. Where the Sidewalk Ends

1. The Time Traveller’s Wife
2. The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe
3. The Mote in God’s Eye
4. Ringworld
5. Rape: A Love Story
6. Anne Frank’s Diary
7. Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
8. Dracula
9. The Stand
10. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (I think that’s the title)
11. To Kill a Mockingbird
12. Roots
13. Twilight Only kidding!
14. 13. The Ablemarle Book of Modern Verse
15. 14. The Cruel Sea
16. 15. The Tales of Mavin Many-Shaped

tarts:

Kluster Issue Six: The Writer’s Issue is now online! There’s not much I can say about this except it’s a writer’s issue, with super smart people contributing to it, and the design/layout makes me salivate every time I browse through the pages. Go have a look!

(PS, disclosure, whatever you call it: I’ll be interning with Kluster early next year. But I wouldn’t promote them if I didn’t genuinely like what they’re doing!)

Wow Georgia - What a memory. All you other folks, go read Georgia’s story - it is definitely worth it!

georgiaisyourfriend:

Here’s something I wrote a while ago about the day I met Ray Bradbury (aka the best day of my life).

I’ve been meaning to update it about what happened next.

I read this many moons ago - many, many moons. Written in the 1950s, this deeply cynical and darkly prescient dystopian novel in which advertising, conspicuous consumption and capitalism have run rampant in a world beset with overpopulation and environmental degradation, seems all too apt.

From the Cover:

It is the 20th Century, an advertisement-drenched world in which the big ad agencies dominate governments and everything else.

Now Schoken Associates, one of the big players, has a new challenge for star copywriter Mitch Courtenay. Volunteers are needed to colonise Venus. It’s a hellhole, and nobody who knew anything about it would dream of signing up. But by the time Mitch has finished, they will be queuing to get on board the spaceships.

About the Authors
Pohl and Kornbluth started writing together as early as 1940, although both authors produced a wide variety of stories separately, under their own names and using psuedonyms. Each wrote sections, starting where the other left off, and through long experience they developed an almost telepathic awareness of each other’s intentions.

Frederik Pohl was born in 1919 and has been professionally involved in sf as an editor and writer since his teens. Among his many books are A Plague of Pythons, Gateway, Man Plus and JEM: The Making of a Utopia.

C.M. Kornbluth (1923-1958) was the bureau chief of a Chicago news agency until 1951 when he took up fiction writing full time. He established himself very quickly as a brilliant short-story writer with works such as ‘The Little Black Bag’, ‘The Marching Morons’, ‘The Cosmic Charge Account’ and ‘Two Dooms’. Pohl and Kornbluth started writing stories together in 1940 and their collaborations include The Space Merchants, Search the Sky and Gladiators-at-Law.

Definitely worth picking up a cheap copy.

(thanks spacenoir for reminding me of how much I like this book. Shall be digging this off the shelves and giving it a reread quite soon!)

I think this is how Bowie wrote his lyrics, on strips of paper.

libraryland:

easilydistracted:infinitebutterflies:booktumbling:librarianpirate:nerdgasms:dailymeh:Hundred Thousand Billion Poems, by Raymond Queneau, reminds me of Borges’s Library of Babel: [Hundred Thousand Billion Poems] is a set of ten sonnets. They are printed on card with each line on a separated strip, like a heads-bodies-and-legs book. As all ten sonnets have not just the same rhyme scheme but the same rhyme sounds, any lines from a sonnet can be combined with any from the nine others, so that there are 1014 (= 100,000,000,000,000) different poems.

Potential literature indeed.

What a great idea. If by any chance this was available from the NYPL (I’m assuming it’s far too delicate for a lending library) I’d check it out, despite my ambivalence to poetry.

Sheri S Tepper has crafted a far-future fantasy that reads like the best of whodunits: murder, religion, treason, a mysterious ailment called Batfly Fever, interplanetary spies, true love, and planetary consciousness are the strands woven into this colourful tale.

Singer from the Sea begins with a simple storyline and evolves into an eco-feminist tale of the struggle to save the women of Haven, and the planet itself, from a uniquely hideous end.

Sheri’s Wiki Page

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