Lovely Library Things
Interests include, but are not limited to:
- libraries
- books
- reading
- learning
- information
This week, I attended an event at Foyles, Charing Cross Road (one of my favourite bookshops in London) on ‘the rise of sci-fi in children’s & YA fiction’ with Moira Young, Steve Cole and Kim Lakin-Smith, hosted by Philip Reeve.
I feel pretty sure Tumblr has already seen this, but just in case.
Jane Austen’s Fight Club
(via noseinabook)
“…once you are Real you can’t become unreal again. It lasts for always.”
- The Velveteen Rabbit
(Source: dryingthebones, via noseinabook)
Twitter was founded just five years ago, meaning generations of legendary writers missed out on the chance to broadcast their witty thoughts to the world in 140 characters. What would Flannery O’Connor have sounded like if she’d had a Twitter feed? Or Charles Dickens? Or Shakespeare? The writers themselves may no longer be with us, but clever fans are impersonating them on Twitter, imagining what the scribes would have said if they’d had access to the microblogging service. Here are the best dead author Twitter accounts we could find.
“Can you talk about why Quentin survives his encounter with the land whale while Captain Ahab doesn’t survive his encounter with Moby Dick?”
“Is Margo’s hair always in her face because no one is seeing her?”
“Are we really able to reinvent ourselves like Dr. Jefferson Jefferson or are we just boats getting borne back ceaselessly into the past like they say in Gatsby?”
Real questions. Real teenagers. There were hundreds more. And of course there were silly questions, too—do you think margo or lacey is hotter; if you could be any kind of cheese, what kind of cheese would you be? (To the latter, I answered Nicholas Sparks.) Silly questions are great, too. But again and again, I met teenagers who were reading thoughtfully and critically, and I believe that as writers and educators, we have a shared responsibility to give teenagers every opportunity to encounter everything that books can do."
(Source: gnen, via effyeahnerdfighters)
Sydney Carton: I am a bitter, angsty, lonely alcoholic who does self-sacrificial bullshit because ~I wuv someone so much~
Jill: I am a bitter, angsty, lonely alcoholic (probably) who does self-sacrificial bullshit because ~I wuv someone so much~Sydney, this is why we are best friends across time and space. <3
This is too cute.
