Bibliophiles Anonymous

April302012

What Lena Dunham is reading.

Yes, I am in love with Lena Dunham enough to look for any relevant means to post about here.

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Lena Dunham also known as my new hero reading New York Times

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lovely reading

April272012

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cat reading William S. Burroughs

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I have the t-shirt of this mug well geez I do hope it's true reading reading is sexy

April262012

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Neil Gaiman reading

April242012

“…there’s a certain set of magical things fiction can do for us. There’s maybe thirteen things, or which who even knows which ones we can talk about. But one of them has to do with the sense of, the sense of capturing, capturing what the world feels like to us, in the sort of way that I think that a reader can tell ‘Another sensibility like mine exists.’ Something else feels this way to someone else. So that the reader feels less lonely.” David Foster Wallace

David Foster Wallace DFW reading writing lit

April222012

Teach the Books, Touch the Heart

Why teaching for the test, instead of for the love of literature, is hurting the students who need books the most.

NYT New York Times op ed education lit literture reading tests Sunday Review well we all need books the most but still

April202012

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library libraries reading true that

April122012

Cut in E-Book Pricing by Amazon Is Set to Shake Rivals

“If there’s an upside, I don’t see it yet,” said J. B. Dickey, the owner of the Seattle Mystery Bookshop. “My fear is that the major publishers won’t be able to stay in business just selling e-books. You can’t bring in enough money to support the infrastructure. If that happens, there goes the marketing, the editorial, the author tours, the expertise of the book industry.”

Oh look, another disgusting advantage for Amazon in the e-book market. Another slap to publishers and bookstores. Oh please oh please, if you care about books (print and electronic), stop supporting Amazon.com. (Don’t take my word for it, read the article, and the other twenty I’ve posted from an assortment of sources.)

Amazon Amazon.com NYT New York Times e-books books reading apple kindle nook Barnes and Noble shop independent shop brick and mortar oh please oh please