Today is a huge day for Grammar Girl—Mignon Fogarty is being inducted into the Academy of Podcasters Hall of Fame! It’s well-deserved, considering she’s aired more than 500 Grammar Girl episodes over the past ten years, simultaneously educating and entertaining her listeners. She even appeared on the “Today Show” with Hoda and Kathie Lee earlier Know More » […]
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Our #FridayReads – Labor Day Edition
TGIF! You know what that means: it’s time for #FridayReads! We’re especially excited to get bonus reading time over the long Labor Day weekend. (We hope you do, too!)
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Monday Fun Day! (6/17/2013 Edition)
Happy Monday, librarians! I trust you all had a loving Father's Day weekend.
We're busily wrapping up all the loose ends before ALA Annual. Until then, I've posted a few fun bits and bobs below. Enjoy!
- NPR's Fresh Air posted the 1/2 hour audio clip of their segment "Mantel Takes Up Betrayal, Beheadings In 'Bodies'." And Terry Gross asked the question that we've all wanted to ask Mantel,
"You wrote [...] about the French Revolution, and now you've written about Henry VIII, and there are several beheadings in these books. So excuse me for asking this, but if you had to be beheaded centuries ago, would you have preferred the guillotine, or the axe or sword customarily used in England?"
Mantel opted for—drumroll, please—the guillotine! Listen to the full interview now.
- Michael Kelley from Library Journal has called for submissions for Library Cat of the Month! The inaugural kitty, Emma from Lyme Public Library, is featured in the June 15th edition of Library Journal (p. 17) and she's a real beauty! Submission details here.
Twitter PSAs:
Congrats @mkayandrews !! #5 on the 6/23 NYT !! If you're a librarian coming to #ala13 RSVP here to breakfast w her https://t.co/WinBvBY0FW
— Talia Sherer (@taliasherer) June 12, 2013
Download The Bone Season Now! | Macmillan Library http://t.co/iO2PTvcP0R
— Bloomsbury (@BloomsburyPub) June 14, 2013
An intro to CINNAMON AND GUNPOWDER, a swashbuckling epicure’s adventure that @MarianLiberryan shout n shared @ #BEA13 http://t.co/AscU445fqE
— Macmillan Library (@MacmillanLib) June 14, 2013
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Monday Fun Day! (12/17/2012 Edition)
Well friends, the year is winding down. Macmillan offices will be closed for the holidays from December 24th until January 2nd and I'm heading home this Wednesday, so it's about to get pretty quiet on the blog.
Fortunately a bunch of wonderful librarians are chatting about their favorite reads from 2012 on Twitter all week (join them using #libfavs2012)!
Monks! Music! Mayhem! I join @acornsandnuts in nomination of BEAUTIFUL MYSTERY by Louise Penny #libfavs2012
— Janet Lockhart (@HartGami) December 15, 2012
Mr. Penumbra's 24 Hour Bookstore, great book for bibliophiles and technology lovers! #libfavs2012
— Scott Lenski (@LibraryScoots) December 12, 2012
Today's #libfavs2012 Suzanne Joinson's A LADY CYCLIST'S GUIDE TO KASHGAR. Interesting setting and characters.
— Jennifer Winberry (@jwinberry) December 16, 2012
Shelf Awareness featured the book trailer for the final installment of the Robert Jordan's bestselling Wheel of Time series, A MEMORY OF LIGHT, featuring Brandon Sanderson, Harriet McDougal, Tom Doherty, Jason Denzel, and Patrick Rothfuss. Watch it now:
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A Romantic Whirlwind Getaway… er, Giveaway!
Dearest librarians,
We're running a romantic giveaway on Twitter today. Whoever sends us the sweetest tweet will get a pile of love from us including:
GUILTY PLEASURE by Lora Leigh
INSATIABLE by Opal Carew
KEPT BY SEDUCTION by Jaymie Holland
HOW TO ROMANCE A RAKE by Manda Collins
The winner is free to shelve them at the library or at home. Share or hoard the love as you see fit!
Here's the scoop:
Feeling romantic? @ reply with something sweet! I'll send this stack to whoever tweets the sweetest. #HOToffthepress twitter.com/MacmillanLib/s…
— Macmillan Library (@MacmillanLib) August 29, 2012
xoxo, Macmillan Library [...]
We’re on Twitter!
Yes, yes; Talia and I have been romping around the Twitterverse for quite some time now, but we've decided it's time to make it official. You now have a one-stop shop for all your library needs: @MacmillanLib
That's right! We'll be bringing you all the most important tidbits from St. Martin’s Press, Henry Holt, Tor/Forge, Picador, Minotaur, and Farrar, Straus & Giroux, as well as conference information, blog post notifications, our favorite passages, giveaways, and so much gore!... er, that is, so much more.
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Come Talk Books on Twitter
I can't imagine why, but I've heard rumors that some of you aren't on Twitter. And don't think you can pull the wool over my eyes; you're reading this post, therefore, you have Internet access and a few minutes to spare! Caught you.
I believe it's my duty to let you peculiar, non-twittering folks know that you're missing out on a lot of fun such as monthly galley chats with @EarlyWord (#ewgc), discussions with patrons about #FridayReads, and best of all, 140-character book recommendations from all the librarians you love!
Some of my favorite book tweets come from the one and only Nancy Pearl (@Nancy_Pearl). I've posted a few of her suggestions below so you can get a taste of just what you're missing:
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On Lovers and Twitterers
In addition to Talia, DrunkHulk, and yours truly, all you Tweeple out there should be following loversdiction. Once a day, author David Levithan posts a romantic entry in the same format of his unconventional narrative, THE LOVER'S DICTIONARY.
Go forth and follow!
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