Today's poem is shamelessly stolen from flyakate's own poetry postings. :)

( 'Instructions' by Neil Gaiman )

I love Neil Gaiman so much! He's just won the Newbery Award for The Graveyard Book and his blog post about being woken at "five thirty in the bloody morning" and trying not to swear at the Newbery Panel is awesome (and tagged "god i love librarians"!). ♥

I actually haven't read The Graveyard Book yet, but he read part of it at the National Book ( Read more... )

It's almost time for the National Book Festival! Okay, it's not for two more weeks, but still.

Last year, there wasn't anyone I was particularly looking forward to seeing, but of course I went anyway because, you know, book geek and I was vaguely interested in some of the people, just not bouncing-off-the-walls. Mostly the authors I popped in at ( Read more... )