I am not the only one… I actually find myself zooming in on photographs of bookshelves to see what books are on them… here, you can see some random bookshelves, as well, here!
Love to look at bookshelves?
February 22nd, 2012Reading Weekend
February 16th, 2012
WOW! Who knew? This weekend, if you are near Sussex, you can enjoy a “Reading Weekend”… you can read more details here. Basically, reading related events, story time and comfy surroundings to immerse yourself in reading. While we all can’t be in Sussex (myself included), we can all celebrate with them by proxy… we can set up our house for a reading weekend, can’t we? I think I will designate the weekend after this one (February 24th – 26th) as reading weekend. This will give me time to prepare. Finger foods and leftovers… comfy spots… and lots of good lighting and books. I think this will be fun. I’ll invite others to join me. FUN STUFF!! Maybe I can make it a yearly event.
A Reading Poster…
February 10th, 2012
Original Source: http://edped.tumblr.com/post/1218809574/submitted-by-alex-kostiw
The Gift of Reading by Michael Omara books
February 9th, 2012I received this little book as a gift. It is full of fun reading related facts and anecdotes. Super cute.
And here is one of the anecdotes:
The thirtieth President of the United States, John Calvin Coolidge, loved reading but when his wife was persuaded to buy a very expensive medical almanac from a traveling salesman one day, he was less than impressed, and pretended not to notice the book. Several days later, when Mrs Coolidge opened it up, she noticed that her husband had written inside: “This work suggest there is no cure for a sucker.”
2012 Reading Challenges
February 3rd, 2012OK! I am quite good at starting challenges and even fairly consistently finishing them but I am horrible at reporting or posting about it… so let’s see if that can be my goal this year! I am officially joining two for now…the Eclectic Reader Challenge 2012 and The Chunkster Reading Challenge 2012… so… let me tell you a bit about them.
The rules are simple.
Read 12 books (one from each of the following genre) and then post about it and post the link to my reviews.
Genres
- Literary Fiction
- Crime/Mystery Fiction
- Romantic Fiction
- Historical Fiction — The Street Sweeper by Elliot Perlman
- Young Adult
- Fantasy
- Science Fiction
- Non Fiction
- Horror
- Thriller /Suspense
- Classic
- Your favourite genre
And…
I love this challenge. I’ve done it (unofficially) for a couple years now. This will be my third. I am going to get brave and go for the top level… Mor-book-ly Obese!
Participation Level: Mor-book-ly Obese - This is for the truly out of control chunkster. For this level of challenge you must commit to EIGHT or more Chunksters (525 pages or more) of which three tomes MUST be 750 pages or more.
1. The Street Sweeper by Elliot Perlman (617 pages)
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And so… here goes! How fun. Some of these I don’t read on a regular basis, so I am all for the discovery of new ones! If you have suggestions, please feel free to comment. A favorite book you’d like to share? Let me know!
Wish me luck! (And join in, if you dare!)
Travel me storied…
February 3rd, 2012I happened upon some lovely book-related things… a picture and a poem. I am not certain who wrote the poem, I found it in a book but it says it was written anonymously (I found out who it was, see below). I will share them both with you. I hope you like them.
The photo is property of Rune Guneriussen (http://www.runeguneriussen.no/wallno02/02_02.html)
The poem:
I’ve travelled [sic] the world twice over,
Met the famous; saints and sinners,
Poets and artists, kings and queens,
Old stars and hopeful beginners.
I’ve been where no one’s
been before,
learned secrets from writers
and cooks,
All on one library ticket
To the wonderful work of books.
– Janice James (I found the author…with a little google help…)
I like big books…
February 2nd, 2012
Another Stop Motion Bookshelf
January 18th, 2012Along with this week’s theme…
Book Store Stop Animation
January 17th, 2012This one is even better than yesterday’s! I love love love it… so cute! They put a lot of time and energy into this, bravo!
The people who made it posted this,
After organizing our bookshelf almost a year ago (http://youtu.be/zhRT-PM7vpA), my wife and I (Sean Ohlenkamp) decided to take it to the next level. We spent many sleepless nights moving, stacking, and animating books at Type bookstore in Toronto (883 Queen Street West, (416) 366-8973).
Everything you see here can be purchased at Type Books.
Grayson Matthews (http://www.graysonmatthews.com/) generously composed the beautiful, custom music.
Stop animation bookcase reorganizing
January 16th, 2012This was a nice stop animation video of someone reorganizing their bookshelf. Pretty nifty…
