A notepad to write on in the shower! Cool! (via Inkygirl)

Here's a demonstration:

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Have you seen this list of Gossip Girl character Dan Humphrey's favorite books for 2009? I haven't read any of them, but I have read other books by a few of these authors.

(via bookshelvesofdoom -- man she finds some good stuff!)

And check out my guest post to Livia Blackburne's blog: http://blog.liviablackburne.com/2009/11/writing-lessons-from- ( Read more... )

PoojaMakhijani.com has a great list online of YA books that depict South Asia and South Asian chacters. Head over there and check it out! She also has lists of picture books, folk/fairytales, and what she calls "crossover" books (not sure what that means, but the books look interesting nonetheless ( Read more... )

Via The New Yorker's Book Bench:

Apparently the world's largest book is Bhutan: A Visual Odyssey Across the Himalayan Kingdom by MIT's Michael Hawley available from Amazon.com by Friendly Planet for $30,000.

Wow. I am definitely putting this one on my Xmas wish list :)


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I'm far from having to worry about this yet, but The Millions has posted an article about funny author photos. Here is the gallery that the writer refers to by Marion Ettlinger: http://www.marionettlinger.com/gallery1.phpRead more... )

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I haven't been able to find a good master list of children's author events in the Boston area, so I thought I'd make my own. The Boston Globe's book blog, Off the Shelf has listings of Boston area readings, but they only do week by week and they include both adults and children's. Sometimes it's hard to tell which is which just based on the names/ ( Read more... )