I followed a link to this site after reading about the returned book in Michigan a few weeks ago and kept forgetting to post this link to
11 Ridiculously Overdue Library Books (That Were Finally Returned)

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I have always found myself attracted to people's handwritten notes or manuscripts. I love looking at them and imagine them sitting down and writing those very words. It's the purest connection between someone's creativity or thought and the physical product. There's also something fascinating about seeing what their handwriting is like, how they ( Read more... )

On her blog, Give a Hoot Read a Book, Jenn just posted a great collection of posts starring cats and bookshelves: http://giveahootreadabook.blogspot.com/2015/06/tilt-library-cats-in-book-posters.html

And now I want ALL of these!

Anne Wagener, a writer who used to be in my local writers' roundtable group before she moved away, just published a book and it hit Amazon today. I bought it in record time for me--about 5 seconds. I hadn't even finished the email Anne sent out about it before I purchased it.

Amazon description of Borrow-a-Bridesmaid by Anne Wagener:

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This was originally posted on the BookCrossing Facebook group and I resemble it so closely I thought it should be something I link to here ( Read more... )

As of today, there are three days left in the Queers Destroy Science Fiction kickstarter. They just unlocked the fantasy perk as well, so I'm really excited to read that!

Fund it if you're interested, because everyone deserves to see themselves not just in LGBTQ fiction but in genre fiction as well :-)

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I'd heard about the library in Ferguson, Missouri opening and housing children and teachers when the schools closed during the first protests. I hadn't heard about the efforts of the library after that and the hundreds of people around the country (and the world) who are continuing to reach out to the library and the community ( Read more... )

11 of the World's Most Beautiful Libraries ( Read more... )

Book Depository sent me an email a few days ago with a link to their list of the most beautiful books.

It's actually a rather nice list. I've only read a handful of books on the list, but I can see why they all made the list. I surely would have put some Brian Selznick on the list, though, if I were in charge of this list. The Invention of Hugo ( Read more... )

I took the What Font Are You? quiz and got a rather interesting result. I can't say I really object to anything about it...

You Are Andale Mono


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