May 2013
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The List List #58
at Thought Catalog, 25 Things You Didn’t Know About THE GREAT GATSBY
at Flavorwire, The Funniest Meanest Reviews of Dan Brown’s INFERNO
at The New York Times’ Paper Cuts, Anthologies That (Mostly) Stand the Test of Time
at Writer Unboxed, 10 Ways to Torture Yourself as a Writer
at HTMLGIANT, A Summer Reading List of Conceptual Literature
at EduHacker, 5 Reasons Libraries Will Fail–Published...
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Critical Linking: May 24, 2013
Our daily round-up of bookish links. Tastes great with coffee.
Reducing an entire genre to one person’s books as a source of comparison is limiting and reductive of the nuances, the depth, and the range of voices that exist within it. Believe it or not, John Green is not the be all, end all of contemporary realistic YA fiction.
I hope you have your nerdfighter repellant handy.
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“Metafiction is Hilarious
Vaccaro Seeger (who’s brilliant First the Egg is an...”
– Not all Bunnies and Birthday Cake: Experts on the State of Picture Books
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How to Talk to Your Teen About Books: A Snob's... →
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“Here’s the thing, I love fanfiction. I think it’s often a great supplement to...”
– Amazon Introduces “Kindle Worlds,” Will Sell Fanfiction
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Critical Linking: May 23, 2013
Our daily round-up of bookish links. Tastes great with coffee.
Amazon Publishing announces Kindle Worlds, the first commercial publishing platform that will enable any writer to create fan fiction based on a range of original stories and characters and earn royalties for doing so.
Someone is going to unlock all the potential of fan fiction. Amazon has the pull to do it, but do they get the...
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“The (Fill in the Blank)’s Wife/Daughter
Why are you pushing that feminist...”
– 4 Types of Book Titles I’m Totally Over
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What Your Reading Rules Reveal About Your... →
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“I can’t specify what exactly prompted the urge to purge. I think it was a...”
– The Great Book Purge of 2013
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Critical Linking: May 22, 2013
Our daily round-up of bookish links. Tastes great with coffee.
Girls, not boys, in all three countries received more time from parents on three activities: reading, storytelling, and teaching letters and numbers.
Maybe boys aren’t as interested, and so the interest isn’t reinforced? Too squirrelly to keep still? Huh.
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Ebook besteller lists will now appear only...
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“I hope you have a book like this, a book that makes you feel sane when other...”
– When a Book Gets Everything Right
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The Well-Readheads' Summer Reading Forecast →
What’s on tap for you this summer?
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“At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book—that string...”
– Alberto Manguel (via thelifeofabookjunky)
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Critical Linking: May 21, 2013
Our daily round-up of bookish links. Tastes great with coffee.
The only type of paid review that Amazon supports is an editorial review. An editorial review is a more formal evaluation of a book usually written by an editor or expert within a genre, but can also be written by family and friends. If you have received an editorial review of your book that you’d like to post to the Editorial...
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Commencement Speech Real Talk
At this moment, you are more open-minded than you will ever be again. As you get older, your interests might deepen, but the range will almost certainly narrow. Fight this as hard as you can.
Over the next decade, you will probably be able to count on one hand the number of times you will sit in a room with people that are not your friends and talk about ideas. Find ways to have conversations...
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“Reinterpreting myths, fairy tales, and folk tales is way more than a cottage...”
– Reimagining Folk and Fairy Tales (with Kink, Joy, Nudity)
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“Bad guys who jump off buildings: 1
Deaths: 4
Reminders that Robert...”
– Dan Brown’s INFERNO by the Numbers
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Critical Linking: May 18, 2013
Our daily round-up of bookish links. Tastes great with coffee.
I thought I’d take a look at the SAT Subject Test in literature as a mini case study. I chose the Literature test because it’s a subject I’m supposed to know something about. After all, I have a B.A. and a PhD in English. I have spent the last 25 years thinking about, writing about, talking about, and teaching literature. A one-hour...
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The 4 Kinds of Relationships Readers Have with... →
Are you committed, or commitment phobic?
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“What if it turns out that the romance books I’ve been enjoying are considered...”
– Romance Novels Are Stressing Me Out!
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The List List #57
This week’s List List is sponsored by Biographile.
Love true stories about fascinating people? So do the folks at Biographile, a website dedicated to helping readers discover a rich mix of real lives through author interviews, news updates, reviews, essays, contests, and more. One of their latest Q&As is an exclusive interview with the hilarious comedian and actor Jim Gaffigan,...
A Workout For Book Nerds
epicreads:
All you need for this workout is a stack of hardcovers and some yarn or rope to tie them together!
Workout #1: The Book Curl
Workout #2: The Book Up
Workout #3: The Brunch (Book Crunch) - Just like brunch this can be done alone or with a friend!
Cool Down
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"What's a Library?" : Patrons Share How Libraries... →
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Critical Linking: May 16, 2013
Our daily round-up of bookish links. Tastes great with coffee.
And I have a real problem with this idea that only what is “good” deserves financial success, or that something is off when what is “not good” sells eleventy billion copies. Because I think there is a judgment implied there that carries over to the reader – like, we can dismiss the thoughts of Twilightfans, because we’ve already...
