My favorite finds from around the web:
• How Instagram became the new Oprah’s Book Club. It all started with Reese Witherspoon’s instagram …
• What do we do with the clothing of grief?
• Ask a librarian: what’s the strangest thing you’ve found in a library book? That line about using cash as a bookmark, again? Could have been my husband, talking about me.
On the blog:
One year ago: 7 books I’ve been meaning to read.
Two years ago: I went on a blind date with a book.
Three years ago: The nerdy trick I use to keep my focus on the things that matter most. (Hint: books are involved.)
Four years ago: Grown-ups shouldn’t finish books they’re not enjoying.
Five years ago: What the craft of storytelling teaches us about life.
Have a great weekend!
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One of the used bookstores around here has a stack of pictures used in books that were purchased by the store. Patrons are free to look through in case they’re missing an important photograph.
I love the idea of Instagram as the new way to advertise books, although I worry about the ramifications of sponsored posts. BOTM club is always posting beautiful shots from their readers.
One of the most fun blogs I know of is called “I work in a public library”. Anne, do you know this site? Here is the link: http://iworkatapubliclibrary.com
“What do we do with the clothing of grief?” was very moving. I had to get rid of the skirt I wore to my Dad’s memorial service.
I’ve always loved the idea of beautiful and unique bookmarks, but I always end up using whatever random scrap of paper that happens to be closest to me! I’d probably just lose the pretty ones anyway!
You know the little strips of card you get to spray perfume samples on? I spray a perfume on one and then use it as a bookmark. Whenever I smell that perfume even years later, I always remember the specific book I was reading at the time.
Pretty recently I found that my library book was used to kill not one but TWO flies, who were still in the book. SO DISGUSTING. I guess at least it wasn’t bologna …?
That character change study done in Scotland was fascinating to read! I’ve got to say…I’m pretty glad that I’ll be a completely different person than I was at 14. I’m 26 now, and I’m happy that I still have some growing and changing to do, haha!
I left an ultrasound picture in a book once. Over a year later the library called to ask if I would like it back. I thought it awfully nice of the librarian to track me down.
Oh YIKES! Thank goodness for resourceful librarians who could track it down.
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