Want to save libraries but live online? Never fear! You too can be part of Save Libraries Day, tomorrow on the 5th of February. Despite what the BBC Breakfast might think, library statistics are more than just counting foot-fall. Most library services provide online catalogues that are quite simple to use. You can search for, … Continue reading #savelibraries
2011
Paper-back to the Future… BookElf’s List.
Lists of Books What You Should Have Read are more popular than ever; the Richard and Judy list-of-the-decade has been floating about (see below), as well as the usual '1000 books to read before youd die' that N kindly sent me on a spreadsheet... Am I the only one who is made to feel incredibly … Continue reading Paper-back to the Future… BookElf’s List.
Return to Labyrinth
Have you ever been at a party and had someone mention... the macarena or something similar, and before you know it, a whole pile of 20-somethings are on their feet, singing along, doing all the movements, generally making right eijits of themselves, and loving it? Well, my version of that occurs at least twice a … Continue reading Return to Labyrinth
Richard and Judy – Decade’s top 100
So, Richard and Judy have just released their list of the Top 100 Most Inspiring Reads of the Decade Personally, I think it's a bit of a silly name as list names go, but the books seem to be fairly representative of the styles of books that have been on offer the last ten years. … Continue reading Richard and Judy – Decade’s top 100
First big book club meeting…
...will be up later this week. This is not THAT blog. I just wanted to say that I was thrilled by the meeting that we had tonight! It was brilliant to put faces to twitter names...and actual names, and I always love being connected with other bookie people, so even before the meeting had started, … Continue reading First big book club meeting…
Falling For A Dancer
If you've read any of the Steelathon you may be forgiven for thinking me a heartless, emotion-free freak heart-made-of-stone balls-to-love-er. This would be a pretty fair assessment of my attitude towards a certain myth, that of "romantic" love, the one-look-into-their-eyes-lost-forever love (that's lust. Once againLust. . I do, however, believe in Actual Love-that is a … Continue reading Falling For A Dancer
Book Club the Tenth – or Let there be light
Book Club the Tenth - AvidReader - 14-01-2011 - Lemon Meringue Pie Agreed on: Discussed: - The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson - The Long Walk by Slavomir Rawicz - The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty - Falling for a dancer by Deirdre Purcell - The Dark is Rising Series by Susan Cooper Special Topic: … Continue reading Book Club the Tenth – or Let there be light
Sucked In to Books
Some books you start knowing exactly why your reading them. Whether this be because the review is two weeks overdue, book club's in two days, its been staring at you for the past three years or you just want to, at least there is a reason. Some books you start and think, why am I … Continue reading Sucked In to Books
Scarlett vs Amber
Scarett O'Hara and Amber StClare... both are good, but which is better? There's only one way to find out..... FIGHT!!!! OK so first off this is a bitch fight I would love to see. And I used to work in a Yates, so I know a good bitch fight when I see one. Not that … Continue reading Scarlett vs Amber
BookElf Reads 2010
In the Great Tradition of last year... Not published this year, just read this year, savvy? Discovery of the Year Jane Smiley- A Thousand Acres, The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton. I got A Thousand Acres, a Pulitzer winning re-telling of the King Lear story, from a book swap and I don't think … Continue reading BookElf Reads 2010
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