Archive for 'Reading is Sexy' Category
Project ALA
17 July 2008Here’s what happens when you ask a bunch of kids’ book authors & illustrators “who they’re wearing.” I love everything about this.
Day 13: Missouri
6 July 2008When we got to St Louis, we drove directly to Busch Stadium so I could get one step closer to my life’s goal of eating a hot dog at every major league baseball stadium. The cardinals’ stadium is beautiful:
and we loved the view of the arch. We were under the overhang, which was lucky as [...]
Day 10: Utah II
6 July 2008We filled our Utah stops with books and dinosaurs, which I think was my mom’s silent way of apologizing to me for Reno. She knows me well enough to be sure that putting dinosaurs in front of me will guarantee my happiness for the next 600 miles or so.
We woke up in Salt Lake City [...]
if you don’t know me by now you will never never never know me
16 June 2008I spend a lot of time and money on Amazon. More so than any other retail site or store, easily. Which is why it’s so upsetting that they haven’t figured out which email blasts would work on me.
(Click picture to enlarge). So, let me get this straight– you’re trying to sell me a device that [...]
Building a mystery
13 June 2008I love everything in this story about an architect who built a series of clues and puzzles into a family’s apartment. It’s like a real life Westing Game or From the Mixed Up Files, and it sounds impossibly fun. (Keep your eyes peeled for Jonathan Safran Foer, who turned down the opportunity to be a [...]
Minders of Make-Believe
11 June 2008Leonard Marcus has been busy– he just wrote the history of American children’s book publishing.
My favorite part of the LA Times review:
Well into the 1960s, the field was almost exclusively female. Seen as woman’s work, children’s books cracked open the men’s club of publishing to female membership. Marcus acknowledges the freedom their employers’ lack of [...]
boston school of wizardry
9 June 2008JK Rowling’s Harvard graduation address.
Great as a stand alone, but I’ll always compare speakers to this one (ed note: No, that was not my graduation ceremony; yes, I am still bitter) and most are found wanting.
reading is sexy: indecision 2008
2 June 2008Whenever the NYT polls famous authors on a topic I tend to automatically love it. Before HPVII came out, they asked a few established authors (though, naturally, I can’t remember any of them other than Meg Cabot) to write what they thought the last page of Harry Potter would be, and it made me deleriously [...]
sweet spot
21 May 2008I got a look at an old edition of Edith Nesbit’s Five Children and It today, and the dedication (To John Bland) made me want to either cry or embroider it onto something for Baby Meg.
My Lamb, you are so very small,
You have not learned to read at all;
Yet never a printed book withstands
The urgence [...]
Come to my window
14 May 2008Hey Cristin, whatcha looking at right now?