April is National Poetry Month
April is National Poetry Month. So, if you’re a poet and don’t know it, celebrate good times!
Save Book World
As mentioned on January 21, 2009, in http://isak.typepad.com/isak/2009/01/save-wapos-book-world.html, The Washington Post is seriously considering folding its entire stand-alone book section, Book World. An effort was launched to save Book World from folding.
Sadly, this was to no avail. The Post announced January 28 that it was ending regular publication of Book World, eliminating one of the few stand-alone book review sections left among daily newspapers. The Post said it will review books in its Style and Outlook sections. The Book World will publish its final weekly edition Feb. 15.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/29/AR2009012902311.html
updates to my "To Read" goodreads list
From time to time I’ll post what I’ve added to my “to read” list. More books that I could possibly find time to read. Oh, one day……
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The Evolution of Useful Things: How Everyday Artifacts-From Forks and Pins to Paper Clips and Zippers-Came to be as They are Petroski, Henry
The Toothpick: Technology and Culture Petroski, Henry
The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance Petroski, Henry
Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt Brands, H.W.
The Lost of Art of Walking Nicholson, Geoff
The Wordy Shipmates Vowell, Sarah
The Hour I First Believed Lamb, Wally
The Whiskey Rebels Liss, David
Now the Drum of War: Walt Whitman and His Brothers in the Civil War Roper, Robert
Poe’s Children: The New Horror: An Anthology Straub, Peter
Fractured Slaughter, Karin
Life and Death are Wearing Me Out Yan, Mo
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle Wroblewski, David
The Pig Did It Caldwell, Joseph
Man in the Dark Auster, Paul
The Flying Troutmans Toews, Miriam
Enlightenment Freely, Maureen
The Enchantress of Florence Rushdie, Salman
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer Süskind, Patrick
The Dogs Who Found Me: What I’ve Learned from Pets Who Were Left Behind Foster, Ken
Patient Zero Maberry, Jonathan
The Scarlet Plague London, Jack
The Purple Cloud Shiel, M.P.
The Night Land Hodgson, William Hope
Books on the Internet
a free service that lets you find a great book or two and schedule just a couple minutes a day to be sent to your email - http://www.dailyreader.net
The Reader's Bill of Rights
To encourage reading and for those who must finish a book:
1. The right to not read
2. The right to skip pages
3. The right to not finish
4. The right to reread
5. The right to read anything
6. The right to escapism
7. The right to read anywhere
8. The right to browse
9. The right to read out loud
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/yalsa/teenreading/tipsenc/tipsencourage.cfm
Banned Books Week Celebrating the Freedom to Read September 27–October 4, 2008
Read a banned book - celebrate the fun!
http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/bannedbooksweek/bannedbooksweek.cfm
The British Library
Outside of the Library of Congress, I do not know of any other place on Earth where books and publications are revered and stored. From the library website (http://www.bl.uk) there is a collection of:
- every publication produced in the UK and Ireland
- 150 million items, in most known languages
- manuscripts, maps, newspapers, magazines, prints and drawings, music scores, and patents
- sound recordings from 19th-century cylinders to the latest CD, DVD and minidisc recordings
- 8 million stamps and other philatelic items
Additionally, 3 million new items are incorporated every year, the collection requires over 625 km (388 miles) of shelves, the earliest dated printed book, the Diamond Sutra, can be seen in the exhibition galleries and if you see 5 items each day, it would take you 80,000 years to see the whole of the collection.
Just amazing. I was there this past week and saw what I belive to be some of the “holy grail” of literature and publications:
- Magna Carta
- Lindisfarne Gospels
- Leonardo da Vinci’s Notebook
- versions of the Guttenberg Bible
- original manuscript volumes, from Jane Austen to James Joyce, Handel to the Beatles
I plan to make a pilgrmage to the LC in the near future!
Upcoming local book fests
Baltimore Book Festival
September 26, 2008 05:00PM
Mount Vernon Place, 600 Block North Charles st, Baltimore, MD,
2008 National Book Festival
The 2008 National Book Festival, organized and sponsored by the Library of Congress and hosted by First Lady Laura Bush, will be held on Saturday, September 27, 2008, on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., between 3rd and 7th streets from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Go to http://www.loc.gov/bookfest/ for more info.
WorldCat!
WorldCat is the world’s largest network of library content and services. WorldCat libraries are dedicated to providing access to their resources on the Web, where most people start their search for information.
WorldCat.org lets you search the collections of libraries in your community and thousands more around the world. WorldCat grows every day thanks to the efforts of librarians and other information professionals.
Now if this doesn’t satisfy your library jones…..
