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The Reading Promise by Alice Ozma

Monday, March 19th, 2012

This young lady, Alice Ozma, and her father made a pact for him to read to her aloud for initially 100 days. This reading streak actually lasted from the time she was 9 years old till she went to University. This shared love for literature impacted her so much she has grown up and wrote a book about it! And now she encourages everyone to take the reading promise and go on a reading streak, with someone else. =)


 

You can read more or make the reading promise with a child in your life here. Why not make this commitment to read with someone (adult or child!) as a birthday gift or holiday gift? Make it a Tuesday gift. =)

Wednesday, March 14th, 2012

A guy walks up to the library desk and says ” can i have a large burger, fries and a coke please?”
Librarian replies “Sir this is a library”
So he whispers, “oh OK I’ll have a large burger, fries and a coke please”

A man gets run over by a mobile library and is rolling around the road screaming in agony, the driver quickly jumps out and says “Shhhhhhhhh”

Q. What did the librarian say when she dropped a pile of books on her foot?
A. Shhhhhh……it!

Q. Why did the librarian slip and fall on the library floor?
A. Because she was in the non-friction section.

Knock knock.
Who’s there?
Snow.
Snow who?
Snow better place to hang out during the winter than the library!
Knock knock.
Student: Who’s there?
Librarian: Winnie.
Student: Winnie who?
Librarian: Winnie you going to bring back that overdue book, hm?

 

Knock knock.
Who’s there?
Rita.
Rita who?
Rita lot of good books!

Q. What do planets like to read?
A. Comet books.

Q. Why did the vampire check out a drawing book?
A. He wanted to learn how to draw blood.

Q. Why does the ghost come back to the library every day for more books?
A. Because she goes through them too quickly.

Q. Why didn’t the skeleton come back to the library with an overdue book?
A. He was too gutless.

Q. What did the detective do when he didn’t believe the librarian’s story?
A. He booked her!

Q. Do you know how many librarians it takes to change a light bulb?
A. No, but I know where you can look it up!

Q. If you travel to Eastern Europe, why won’t you find any books in Prague’s public library?
A. They’re all “Czech”ed out!

Q. What building has the most stories?
A. The library, of course!

Q. Where does a librarian sleep?
A. Between the covers.

Q. When a librarian goes fishing, what goes on her hook?
A. A bookworm, of course.

Q. What does a librarian eat dinner from?
A. A bookplate.

Q. What does the mummy do when he goes to the library?
A. He gets all wrapped up in a good book.

Never judge a book by its movie. JW Eagan

From the moment I picked your book up until I put it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it. Groucho Marx

The first book of the Bible is Guinness’s. In the book of Guinness, Adam and Eve were created from an apple.

Q. Why didn’t the thief burgle the library?
A. Because he was afraid the judge would give him a long sentence.

Q. What did one book say to the other one?
A. I just wanted to see if we are on the same page.

Q. What do you do if pet starts eating your library book?
A. Take the words right out of their mouth.

I can’t understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars. Fred Allen

A chicken walks into the library. It goes up to the circulation desk and says: “book, bok, bok, boook”.

Q. How many reference librarians does it take to change a light bulb?
A. Well, what kind of light bulb were you thinking about?

Puns about books? I’m drawing a blank! (page)

“We better book it…to the library”

Book, line, and sinker.

Q. Why did the Romanian stop reading for the night?
A. To give his Bucharest.

Q. What’s the difference between a schoolboy and an angler?
A. One hates his books.The other baits his hooks.

Q. What’s the difference between a boring person and a boring book?
A. You can shut the book up.

Q. Why does an elephant use his trunk as a bookmark?
A. So he always nose where he stopped reading.

Q. Who wrote the book “Addicted To Reading”?
A. Paige Turner

Q. Who wrote the book “Mr. Nice Guy”?
A. Frank Lee Goode

Q. Who wrote the book “Building The Old Fashioned Way”?
A. Carrie Stone

I like big books and I cannot lie.

When you write copy, you have the right to copyright the copy you write, if the copy is right. If however, your copy falls over, you must right your copy. If you write religious services you write rite, and have the right to copyright the rite you write.

Very conservative people write right copy, and have the right to copyright the right copy they write. A right wing cleric would write right rite, and has the right to copyright the right rite he has the right to write. His editor has the job of making the right rite copy right before the copyright can be right.

Should Thom Wright decide to write right rite, then Wright would write right rite, which Wright has the right to copyright. Its not a joke, duplicating that rite would copy Wright right rite, and violate copyright, which Wright would have the right to right. Right?

Q. Where was the librarian when the lights went out?
A. In the dark!

Q. What’s the difference between an accountant and a dectective solving the Case of the Stolen Book?
A. One’s a bookkeeper and one’s a bookcaper

Book people art

Friday, March 9th, 2012

I came across these fantastic art pieces which I think you might love too!!!

The Arcimboldo Librarian

“]Arcimboldo Librarian by George Phillipp Harsdorffer 

I am not sure the title or the creator of the next one but it is lovely too!

 

 

Happy Women’s Day from BeNonsensical

Thursday, March 8th, 2012

As it is International Women’s Day, I thought I would pay tribute to ten of my favorite women authors… Nicole Krauss, Karen Maitland, Isabel Allende, Maggie O’Farrell, Audrey Niffenegger, Stephanie Kallos, Elliot George, Sylvia Plath, Susannah Clarke and Brenda Maddox. Of course, there are many more talented and lovely women writers out there but I have to choose just a couple handfuls to share for this post!

Nicole Krauss

Nicole Krauss is an American author born in Manhattan, New York in 1974 (same year as me!) She began writing as a teenager publishing poetry until her books came. The three books of hers I’ve read (numerous times over) are: The History of Love, Man Walks Into a Room, and Great House.

 

Karen Maitland

Karen Maitland is a British author born in England in 1956. She has been writing for most of her life. She loves to travel and research history. Her attention to details and love for cultural research shows in her writing. I had the wonderful pleasure of doing an e-interview with her. You can read that here. The three books of hers I’ve read (several times) are: Company of Liars, The Owl-Killers and The Gallows Curse.

 

Isabel Allende

Isabel Allende was born in Lima, Peru in 1942 (Ewww! That rhymes!) and is a Chilean writer with American citizenship. She is a passionate writer who delves into magical realism, which is is one of my favorite genres, if I can choose favorites! She has written so many good books it is difficult to choose three but here are three random books of hers I’ve read (I think I’ve read all her work to date!): The House of the Spirits, Eva Luna, and Ines of My Soul.

 

Maggie O’Farrell

Maggie O’Farrell was born in 1972 in Ireland, grew up in Wales and now lives in London! She has been writing since she was four or five years old! How lovely! It definitely shows. She gives women dimension and depth in her novels. Again, I struggle to choose just three of my favorites from her work (read them all!): The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox, My Lover’s Lover, The Hand That First Held Mine.

 

Susannah Clarke

Susanna Clarke was born in Nottingham (like from Robin Hood) in 1959. She writes and has worked as an editor. She is a multi-talented woman! I first fell in love with her books when I read Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell. It is one of the most fascinating fiction books ever! The two novels she has written to date: Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, and The Ladies of Grace Adieu.

 

Brenda Maddox

Brenda Maddox is an American author who writes mainly biographies. She was born in Massachusetts and has lived in the UK since 1959. I first had the pleasure of reading her work when I came across her biography on Rosalind Franklin. It was fascinating! Her writing style is engaging in a way that is rare for biographers. I would recommend the following three books by Brenda Maddox: Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA, George Eliot in Love and Freud’s Wizard.

 

Stephanie Kallos

Stephanie Kallos was born in Idaho and grew up in Nebraska but she now lives in Seattle (yay for the Pacific Northwest!). She has been a teacher of voice, speech and dialects. She is a musician and an actress, as well as a writer. To date, Stephanie Kallos has published two books: Broken For You and Sing Them Home.

 

Deceased women authors…

 

George Eliot

George Eliot was an English novelist (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880). Her work is moving. I think most of you are probably familiar with some of it. Here are three of her pieces I recommend: Middlemarch, Adam Bede and Silas Marner.

 

Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath was born in Massachusetts and published her first poem at 8 years old! She was prolific in her writing. She tragically decided to end her life but her work lives on. She is hands down one of my very favorite authors ever. She wrote of issues facing women in a very personal way. Three works I would recommend by Sylvia Plath are: ;The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar and Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams.

 

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Charlotte Perkins Gilman was an American author (July 3, 1860 – August 17, 1935). She was not just an author but a sociologist and an advocate for social reform. She was revolutionary in her ability to illuminate the plight of women in her time. The works I recommend by Charlotte Perkins Gilman are: Herland and One Girl of Many and I will leave you with her famous, Yellow Wallpaper… click more below.

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A make believe world of books

Thursday, March 8th, 2012

How fun is this? A Slovakian artist, Matej Kren, created this…

 

You can visit his page to read more here. This display is called, “Scanner” and it is displayed at the MAMbo (Museo de Arte Morderna di Bologna

Bedtime Stories Duvet Cover

Tuesday, March 6th, 2012

WELL! This designer (Tiago da Fonseca) took going to bed with a story to a whole new level…

 

You can buy this duvet cover at Etsy! Click here to go to that page.

Happy Belated World Book Day 2012

Monday, March 5th, 2012

Oops, I missed UNESCO’s International World Book Day 2012. So, let me go ahead and promote it now, shall I?

World Book Day 1 March 2012

World Book Day 1 March 2012

 

From the website, directly:

 

What is World Book Day?

 

World Book Day is a celebration! It’s a celebration of authors, illustrators, books and (most importantly) it’s a celebration of reading. In fact, it’s the biggest celebration of its kind, designated by UNESCO as a worldwide celebration of books and reading, and marked in over 100 countries all over the world.

This is the 15th year there’s been a World Book Day, and on 1st March children of all ages will come together to appreciate reading. Very loudly and very happily. The main aim of World Book Day in the UK and Ireland is to encourage children to explore the pleasures of books and reading by providing them with the opportunity to have a book of their own. That’s why we will be sending schools (including those nurseries and secondary schools that have specially registered to participate), packs of Book Tokens and age-ranged World Book Day Resource Packs (age-ranged into Nursery/Pre-School, Primary and Secondary) full of ideas and activities, display material and more information about how to get involved in World Book Day.

Say that you love me…

Sunday, March 4th, 2012

…with a book greeting card! =) What better way to say hello to a friend who loves books? A love who loves books? Than… an antique books greeting card…

Antique Books Greeting Card

 

You can buy it here.

The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore

Monday, February 27th, 2012

A short film worthy of our watching…

Love to look at bookshelves?

Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012

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!