September 2011
“Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly...”
– George Elio (via thewitchinghour3)
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“Libraries raised me. I don’t believe in colleges and universities. I believe in...”
– Ray Bradbury (via quixotic-hobbit)
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Music Video Genome is a Pandora For Music Videos →
“Music Video Genome is an ambitious project to create a Pandora-like application for music videos. It’s in the early stages of development and needs help from the community to grow.”
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“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?”
– Ernest Hemingway (via aunahg)
One 12-Year-Old's Love Affair with Reading on the... →
“Gigi still likes visiting old-fashioned bookstores and libraries. But there she can only judge a book by its cover since neither place offers searchable, right-by-the-shelf, online reviews yet. ‘When you’re online, it [the review] is right there. In the library, I’m not going to go home and check on the computer before I get the book.’) So at the library, Gigi can only read the...
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“A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.”
– Laurence Peter, professor of education, 1977 (via libraryland)
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A Children's Book That Celebrates the Wonders of... →
“We tell our children stories about fairies and giants and wizards and trolls—all still favorites, even as an adult. So let’s not stop with the fables. But can’t we also share with kids the wonders of what’s real?
That’s what evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins has done with The Magic of Reality, a children’s book that cares more about the magic you feel...
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The Children’s Authors Who Broke the Rules →
“Once upon a more staid time, the purpose of children’s books was to model good behavior. They were meant to edify and to encourage young readers to be what parents wanted them to be, and the children in their pages were well behaved, properly attired and devoid of tears. Children’s literature was not supposed to shine a light on the way children actually were, or delight in the...
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Interactive Kindle Books Are My Kind of Nostalgia →
“The specific Choose Your Own Adventure franchise hasn’t come to Amazon’s ebook reader yet, but several “interactive” books along that vein have started to pop up in the Kindle Store. Chief among them: The King of Shreds and Patches, a desktop PC game that’s been reborn as novel-length text-based game that sells for four bucks.”
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“Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and...”
– Ray Bradbury (via makelovetothemoon)
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“There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each...”
– Anais Nin (via anthropologiste)
20 Most Awe-Inspiring Writer’s Rooms →
ilovereadingandwriting:
As a college student, you might do most of your writing holed up in your dorm room or library cubicle — hardly an inspirational setting for getting your creative juices flowing. While a great writer doesn’t always need a beautiful setting to create brilliant works (just think of all the texts written in prisons!) it certainly doesn’t hurt. We’ve compiled a list of the...
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