August 2012
July 2012
“Whether you’re a very fast reader, happen to always know about and call the next...”
– If Reading Were An Olympic Sport
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“For me, travel is 90% about the food. Trips are planned around where I want to...”
– The Well-Readheads: Summer of Sequels, Word Association Vol. 2
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Goodreads v. LibraryThing- Part One →
Do you have accounts at both? Neither? Not sure which you want to use? We break ‘em down for cataloguing, book recommendations, reading stats, UI, and discussion groups. And there’s more to come!
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“This trailer is five minutes and forty-one seconds long. That’s like a hundred...”
– The CLOUD ATLAS Trailer Rundown | BOOK RIOT
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“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via allmymetaphors)
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“Twitcommendations for people who were kind enough to get in on the ground floor...”
– Recommending Books Based on Twitter Personalities: Twitcommendations, Round 1
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“We use novels, not old newspapers, to get a sense of what life was like 100...”
– Robin Sloan, writing for The New York Times, on the future of fiction. (via jarrettfuller)
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The List List #17
Our weekly round-up of the best bookish lists floating around the internet. This one’s a monster!
at Vogue, Required Reading: 30+ Best Bets to Pick Up This Summer
at Flavorwire, 10 Stories of Famous Literary Exiles
at Terrible Minds, 25 Things You Should Know About Antagonists
at LitReactor, 5 Ways Your Brain Sabotages Your Writing…And What to Do About It
at The Guardian, Shehan...
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Riot Asks: Lydia Netzer →
The author of SHINE SHINE SHINE hits the hot seat in our interview series that focuses on writers as readers!
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Riot Recommendation: Magic Realism for Kids →
Know any great books for kids that feature magic realism?
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“If you could hear a beloved poem read aloud in a breathtaking landscape, where...”
– “Poems Like Boxers”: Anyone Been to Peace Camp?
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“It’s me. I’m the one who thinks riding around on a kitchen spoon and having to...”
– Rumpelstiltskin | BOOK RIOT
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If Hip-Hop Lyrics Were Book Blurbs
Perfume by Patrick Suskind
I hit the skins for the hell of it, just for the yell I get, mmm mmm mmm, for the smell of it.
(“Shoop” by Salt n Pepa)
Any Victorian novel ever
Have you ever met a girl that you’re tryin’ to date, but a year to make love she wanted you to wait?
(“Just A Friend” by Biz Markie)
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Broken heart again, another lesson learn. Better...
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“The most solid advice for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to breathe...”
– Ernest Hemingway (born today in 1899)
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“A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a...”
– Alan Bennett (via saras-scrapbook)
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Exclusive: Book Trailer for “Fifty Shames of Earl... →
The book trailer for Andrew Shaffer’s FIFTY SHADES OF GREY parody, only at Book Riot.
