At least two sources are from time to time posting lists of what people are reading on public transportation, in Seattle at Shelf Talk and all over the place (wherever the “peripatetic spies” are on the job) at Reader’s Advisor Online. I love this idea!
An annotated, linked list of places where reference questions (and answers) are being archived, from Swiss Army Librarian. Sources listed include “a Google custom search engine of just reference questions from libraries,” Yahoo Answers, Ask.com, Ask MetaFilter, Internet Public Library Reference Desk, Answers.com, and WikiAnswers. Handy.
Children’s book illustrator and author Tasha Tudor, “whose delicate and dreamy artwork was featured in about 80 books, including a 1944 edition of Mother Goose that was so successful it enabled her to buy a farm and create a lifestyle rooted in the early 19th century,” has died at age 92 of complications related to [...]
“Man Writes Dog: Death and Rebirth in the Canine Memoirs” by Terry Caesar in The Common Review explores the changing roles of dogs from “man’s (or woman’s) best friend” to “humankind’s saviors,” based on the ” evidence of the current proliferation of best-selling nonfiction memoirs about dogs.” The focus is on Jon Katz’s memoir of [...]
While the book is selling like hotcakes, 007 fans are not feeling the love. About Devil May Care, the “new Bond” book written by Sebastian Faulks “in the style of” series creator and writer Ian Fleming (who died in 1964), Bond fans are saying:
“Anyone who thinks this style re-creates Fleming, or is evocative of Fleming, [...]
Reminder: More content added daily to the recommended lists of summer books!
Seattle librarian David Wright at Shelf Talk provides a très petit glossary of French terms that relate to French fiction (e.g, L’esprit de l’escalier, Épater le bourgeois, ennui, noir) as well as a select list of French novels in English translation. Fun!