Saturday, March 28, 2015
The Cover Of Jonathan Franzen's New Book Looks A Lot Like This Painting Of A German Terrorist
Purity will be released on Sept. 1, 2015, but looks a lot like October 18, 1977.
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Friday, March 27, 2015
How Good At Quidditch Would You Be?
Have you got the quaffles to compete?
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My 8 Most Important Memories As A Book Lover
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When I was 8 years old, my mother and I left our home in inner-city Boston and moved to a rural town in the middle of Northern Massachusetts. I was a city kid who had grown up in a rough neighborhood, used to seeing blood on sidewalks, not fields that stretched for miles. My father did not come with us. I missed him the way you miss something you don't know is missing, which is to say I didn't know why he was gone. I could feel the trouble but I couldn't put words to it. My mother worked and slept and cried and I was left to myself, using my imagination to fill up the great space that now surrounded us. I don't know if I spoke to my father of my loneliness, but I will never forget the first package he sent me. It felt odd to get mail from him, when he used to sleep in the room right next to mine, which was the room he still slept in — I was the one who had moved miles and towns and worlds away. If the package contained a note I do not remember it. All I remember is holding the cassette. On its label, in my father's handwriting: "Book One of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring." Below that was simply: "The Beginning." I had an old tape recorder and a pair of hastily repaired headphones and that year my father read the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy to me, despite the fact that he was nowhere close to me at all.
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Eventually, my father moved back in with us — joining us in our rural life, where we used a wood stove to heat our drafty house and placed warm bricks in our beds. Still, my mother didn't stop crying. Our once empty-feeling place was now loud with my parent's yelling, as they did their best to patch their lives back together. I spent lots of time going exploring on my bike, no longer forced to stay within eyeshot of my house, as I had been in Boston. In the center of town I became friends with an old man whose one leg was shorter than the other. He was a retired minister who played piano and lived in a house overflowing with books. I'm not sure why he pegged me as someone who would enjoy Stephen King. Maybe it was because he could tell I was having a hard time at home. Maybe it was because he'd seen me sneak behind the town hall to smoke cigarettes. Maybe it's because it's impossible to be young and not love Stephen King. Either way, he said, "I think you'll like this," as he handed me The Stand. I devoured it immediately. There's no escape from reality like being terrified of something imaginary. When I brought The Stand back next week, the minister took every Stephen King book he had and piled them into a giant cardboard box, which I tied to my bike before riding home, careful not to lose my balance.
27 Insanely Clever Ways To Display Your Books
You can only stack so many on your nightstand.
Weigh your reading options with a scale shelf.
Buy it on Etsy
Convert an old refrigerator into a book safe.
Learn how here.
Make your shelf your "to read" list.
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This picture is worth way more than a thousand words.
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How Well Do You Know John Green?
The author behind beloved books Paper Towns and The Fault In Our Stars dishes about everything from the song he sings in the shower to his favorite sports team.
This Is The Future Of Architecture In 8 Ingenious Buildings
The future is now, people!
After his groundbreaking Ted Talk on 30 years of architectural history, he's now released a new book, The Future of Architecture in 100 Buildings , which brings together 100 of today's most radical designs for a new tomorrow.
Rather than moving from style to style, architecture is entering an age of wild experimentation and a return to hyper-local solutions. Every selfie that someone snaps in front of a building, every comment someone makes about a place widens the dialogue around architecture. My hope is that the public starts looking around them critically. Asking 'why are we building buildings the way we always have!? There has to be a better way!'
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Thursday, March 26, 2015
Here's The Cover Of The Fully Illustrated Edition Of "Harry Potter"
Scholastic and Bloomsbury have released the cover of the upcoming fully illustrated Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.
Scholastic and Bloomsbury, the U.S. and U.K. publishers of the Harry Potter series, today released the cover image of the upcoming fully illustrated edition of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone:
Jacket art by Jim Kay © 2015 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.
Illustrated by award-winning artist, Jim Kay, the cover is an image of Harry Potter on Platform 9 ¾ surrounded by witches and wizards, trunks and owls, about to board the Hogwarts Express for the first time and is available for download at http://mediaroom.scholastic.com/harrypotter.
Previously, Scholastic released four full-color images from the book, which will have over a hundred full-color illustrations:
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Are You More Gryffindor Or Slytherin?
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