Bradbury comes to Fifty-Two Stories – Now I’m not saying for one minute that each and every FREE story that Harper Perennial serves up at their Fifty-Two Stories website isn’t special, but this week they’ve really excelled themselves by presenting a story from literary ‘demi-god’ Ray Bradbury. Coming from his recently released collection We’ll Always Have Paris, the story on offer is Ma Perkins Comes to Stay. I have no idea what the story is about (Cal Morgan is his usual enigmatic self), but coming from the pen of such a great, it’s sure to be a good one.
Ohhh and while we’re on the subject of Fifty-Two Stories. Including this week’s Bradbury short I’m now three behind in my reading of these offerings. So if I only do one thing this week (among the other thousand things), it’s to make sure I catch up. And to help me do that I’m banning myself from Bradbury until I’ve read the other two stories – I’ll consider that punishment enough.
Clothes for Disabled People and more – Kathleen over at Abe’s Reading Copy Book blog points to the highly bizarre, yet utterly compelling Awful Library Books blog, a blog run by two librarians who explore some of the worst library holdings they’ve come across in their time.
Awaiting you is a cornucopia of bookish delight. Look forward to reading about many delectable titles, such as Careers in the Protective Service, Brakes: Do it Yourself or Not, You’ll Save Big Money, The Catholic Youth’s Guide to Life and Love and the utterly unmissable Clothes for Disabled People.
It’s like a car crash folks, you just can’t look away. Thanks for the ‘heads up’ Kathleen.
Lovers of pristine books, look away now – Dennis Johnson over at the Mobylives blog, points to an excellent article written by book reviewer and writer Laura Miiler. In her article Miller describes her technique for annotating and note taking in books, a technique which stems from a similar one applied by the late, great C.S. Lewis.
Be warned, Laura’s article isn’t pretty (because it involves marginal scribing in the books themselves *shivers*), but it’s a nice little insight into how a ‘proper’ book reviewer gets the job done. Thinking about it though, Miller’s technique could be adapted to some extent so that no books would be ‘harmed’ in the note-taking process. Regardless, this is an article well worth taking a look at. I certainly took a few things away from it.
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