I can feel your mind hitting on me from way over here. Stop it.

I usually update on wednesday I've noticed, so here's an update on thursday . And what an update it is! Yes yes, yes yes yes. Hmmm... Apparently there's a woman called Candace Camp who is a historical romance writer (library designation: CAMP). No, I'm not going to suggest you read one of her books, I just wanted to say that Candace Camp is, in my opinion, about the best name ever for ...

e-libraries are closing

Случилось то, о чём так долго говорили большевики до меня лично доходили слухи ещё в начале года: в результате непродления подписки ЮФУ начинает прикрываться доступ к e-библиотекам. Первыми под нож пошли база цитирования Scopus и портал издательства Elsevier, sciencedirect.com . Следующая на очереди, как я понимаю, библиотека издательства Springer, springerlink.com. Я знаю, что многие ...

Black Friday Shill

... gives them exclusive membership into a special society. Sometimes shocking, sometimes mesmerizing, sometimes humorous, this collection will please fans of Raymond Carver and Flannery O'Connor. Recommended for libraries where short story collections are popular.—Kellie Gillespie, City of Mesa Lib., AZ Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. ...

Nooooooooooooooooooo!!!

..., and how little in the grand scheme of things we do know. The accidental discovery of something that 'looks interesting' and the indication that there is more to a subject than you think are both incredibly valuable experiences in danger of extinction at the hands of commercialism. Oh well, maybe it's time for the Libraries of Great Britain to square their shoulders and sort themselves out...

An Unexpected Review

... to be from Booklist. So, big deal, you're probably saying to yourself. Well, it is a big deal. Booklist is one of the BIG FOUR reviewers. With budgets being slashed for books, many libraries make their book-buying decisions from reviews in one of the big four review sources: Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus and ... BOOKLIST. Believe me, if you're a small press author, a big four ...

Nice!

Super Mario Bros. 3!

En casa no quieren que tengamos wii o alguna consola de videojuegos del mundo moderno. Pero ayer hice trampa, poniendo esto en mi netbook: Y con un control como este , mas NEStopia y un Rom de Super Mario Bros. 3 ( busquenlo aquí ), fuimos harto felices. Creo que buscare de esos clones de NES que venen en SAMS para tener en casa... Mario lo vale.

Things For Which I Am Thankful

My family. Old friends. New friends. My job(s). Paid holidays. Sunshine and coconuts. Grocery stores open on Thanksgiving. Libraries. Comfortable heels. Warm cinnamon rolls. Memories. Farmers' markets. Pumpkin pie. Training days. Imagination. Dry cleaning. Interwebs. Tan lines. Chocolate puerh. Christmas carols. Eyeliner. Camaraderie. Down comforters. Candles. The way things always seem to work ...

Welcome!

... with the English/Japanese original version and damn, it was even better than the butchered TV version I had seen. I read 'The Seed and the Sower', I went to a couple of local and thankfully huge libraries, digged out all the magazines from 1983 available and copied all the reviews about MCML I could find. It was like a treasure hunt, haha. There was so much to ponder about, so much symbolism and ...

Book Review: "The Wanderer", "Magic: The Final Fantasy Collection"

...Lebanon, and all it had was paintings of blurry naked women. But then I read one of his quotations on a wooden plaque somewhere and it grabbed me. So I bought a bunch of his book from one of Beirut’s libraries (and by the way, the back of the book says it is published in India, I’m shaking my head at you Lebanon…) His most famous book is “The Prophet”, but I started with “The Wanderer”, a book of...