This is how Heather McElhatton got to her debut novel Pretty Little Mistakes that hits stores today . You see it's a "Do-Over Novel" and she came up with 150 unique scenarios. Yep 150! "One Beginning 150 Endings: The Choice is Yours."Of course I am exhausted just thinking about it but the originality alone merits a peek. If you are fresh out of high school and ready to hit the world then it is closer to a must read.You just graduated from high school and you got a couple of choices. You either "go to college to get ahead or...
The Real Presidential Libraries
In 1822 John Adams, our second president, bequeathed his library to the town of Quincy, MA. In 1894 after living in six different locations the library came to rest at the Boston Public Library. They just staged the exhibit John Adams Unbound. It was the first time his library of 3,500 volumes was together for public view. It was the culmination of a three-year project by the Boston Public Library to catalog, preserve, digitize and provide access to Adams's extraordinary library."There is an outstanding online component which includes an audio tour of the exhibit and many highlight from the library.Some...
Now The Fear and the Copycats: Security Alerts at Eight Libraries in the Wake of Viginia Tech
The Engineering Library at the University of Minnesota was one of 8 buildings evacuated after a typed note was found. No mention of what the note said.University of Maryland at College Park: e-mail stating that a bomb was “in a book in a library.”Library at the University of Texas at Austin: Threatening note found. No mention of what the note said. It was the 5th note found on campus since the Va. Tech shootings. This is where George Bush lived when governor of Texas.West Port High School in Ocala, Florida. Someone found a handwritten note in a book drop. A...
A Lady’s Books Go To Auction
Bloomberg is reporting that Annette Campbell-White, who runs a venture capital firm that specializes in early stage medical technologies, will be selling her book collection through Sotheby's in London.Highlights of the collection include:First Editions of:F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great GatsbyT. S. Elliot's The Wasteland andJames Joyce's Ulysses.An inscribed copy of Ernest Hemingway's In Our Timeand the typescript of Evelyn Waugh's Decline and FallI am uncertain why the California based collector is sending her books to auction in London. She did offer the collection to a New Zealand University (Campbell-White was born there) "but they didn't seem to understand the value."...
Patrolling
Charles Johnson essay in the Seattle PI on a cure for our post-literate, "superflat" society.Edward Champion adds another nail to the newspaper book review coffin. He contends that book reviews are "tailor-made for digital delivery". Hard to argue.Project For Public Places article Libraries That Matter. Get ready for the 21st century library as they "extend their mission well beyond the storage of knowledge."Flickr set from popcornyouth of The “The Big Red C” Buzz Spector's book installation at Cornell's Hirshland Gallery.popcornyouth is the arts blog of the Itacha Times where they also have a great interview with Spector