In March of 2008 writer and librarian Scott Douglas and then library assistant Diana Vizcarra got married. From the invites to the table settings their book love paved the way to what had to be an event to remember.Image by Jack RodriguezNow that looks like fun. No reason the theme shouldn't become part of the arsenal for any wedding planner.Diana shares the experience - How to Have a Library Themed WeddingScott shares his thoughts on the event and some pictures here
Open Book TV : A New Way of Viewing
Open Book TV premiered this week on the linktv network.
Photography Books at Christie’s
from Nakaji Yasui and Tampei Photography Club. Lot 42On May 19 Christie's will be holding an auction of Photobooks. The 191 lot event features many of the 20th/21st century's leading photographers.About the auction Sven Becker, the photography specialist at Christie's, tells Book Patrol:The selection is representative of the broad trends in photobooks from about 1900 to the present: from Henry Emerson's Marsh Leaves (1895) right up to Christieen Meindertsma's Pig 05049 (2007). The auction includes fantastic copies of great rarities: like Bellmer's Les Jeux de la Poupee (lot 55) or Jack Smith's The Beautiful Book (lot 75). But it also...
Bridget McNulty’s "Strange Nervous Laughter"
To coincide with the release of the American edition of her first novel Strange Nervous Laughter author Bridget McNulty has embarked on a blog tour. Book Patrol is pleased to be a part of the event and has invited McNulty to share an excerpt and her thoughts and hopes for the book."Set against a sweltering South African summer, McNulty’s heady debut twines her characters’ unusual circumstances as they construct and destruct the joy and displeasure of love’s erratic consequences" - from the review in Booklist, the magazine of the ALA.The book is also as much a testament to place as...
The Autobiography of a Horse – And the Woman Who Loved Him
The horse as litterateur is an obvious and ripe subject for serious inquiry. Space limitations, alas, preclude a full exegesis of the roman à clop, so a brisk lap around the track will have to suffice.Over the course of equine evolution, horses have had to overcome enormous obstacles to verbal and written communication. Verbal skill first manifest itself during the 1940s with the discovery of a talking mule within the U.S. Armed Forces stationed in the Pacific during World War II who acted as aide-de-camp for a hapless Marine lieutenant. The story was broken in a 1950 documentary:The mule later...