Library Fangirl
Compulsive hoarder of tasty chocolate, kitty cuddles, and really good stories.
Neat website if you’re stuck on what to choose for your next book. Simply enter in the author or title of a book you like, and you’ll be presented with a list of books and author favorited by other readers that you may enjoy.
Kind of like a very simplistic, stripped down version of Novelist. May be good in a jam though if you’re standing in a bookstore feeling overwhelmed!
Straight eye candy, nothing more.
(And FYI, fellow Benedict Cumberbatch fans, please direct your attention to #7. As George Takai would say, “Oh myyyyyy~”) :3
A brief summary of some of the interesting results from a recent Goodreads user survey about how readers are finding out about books, where they get them from, and how they’re reading them. The full survey and accompanying slides can be found here. (Note the particularly encouraging stat showing that libraries are the number one source Goodreads users are acquiring their books through!)
According to the survey, print books are also still the favored medium for reading by Goodreads members, though the overwhelming majority of users use some combination of both print and e-books. (I’m of this camp, myself.)
Holy crap, this is the most awesome fountain EVER.
(via scofflawn)
This is the first video in a new feature from HuffPost Books in association with Book Expo America’s blog, Book Bliss. We’re calling it Have Your (Cup)cake And Read It, Too.
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They will choose books to read, and then Cassandra will create a recipe and a cupcake that plays up the themes of each book.
Mmm, love this. Two of my favorite things: books and baked goods. Throw in a couple of adorable cats in the mix and I may just explode with joy.
I love that the first episode of this features one of my all-time favorite books~ I also love that the book club I’m in is conveniently reading Life of Pi right now, and baking these cupcakes for our upcoming meeting would be fantasmic! Except… I don’t bake. :x (Well, I can. Sort of. But I choose not to because, let’s face it, I’m lazy in the sense that I don’t so much want to spend time preparing tasty food as I simply want it in my tummy.)
Hmm. Conundrum. *Note to self: convince other book club members to bake cupcakes…*
One of the reasons I will always prefer print books to e-readers.
Having nothing to read while eating breakfast is a poor way to start a Saturday of more homeworking. :c
So true. Never have to re-charge a print book.
The only thing worse than having to recharge your ebook is finding yourself (as I did last night) in a cafe that was so dark that I couldn’t read on my Nook. (I have an old model with no backlighting.) I was forced to read the Times on my very old flip phone.
I know, right? Thankfully I have a Kobo Glo with the built-in side lighting (not backlighting thankfully, which hurts my eyes,) but there’s times when I’m stuck somewhere dark with a print book and it makes me start debating on whether I should begin carrying around one of those little clip-on book lights! ^^;
