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Harry Potter Meets The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
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I just finished reading Revenge of the Witch by Joseph Delaney. It was kind of a cross between Harry Potter (a boy leaves home to learn of magical things) and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (the bad guys are a family of backwood witches that enjoy murdering and dining upon unsuspecting travelers).
It was a fun and fast read, sprinkled with moody illustrations by Patrick Arrasmith. Snag it from Amazon using this link and I should get a penance: Revenge of the Witch (The Last Apprentice)
The library is still cool.
So I suppose all those predictions about libraries being felled by the Internet were a little premature. In fact it looks like all the cool kids are doing the library thing.
According to the newest study from the Pew Internet and American Life Center – the youngest, most affluent and most internet-connected adults in the US are also the most likely to visit a physical library. It wasn’t that way just 10 years ago. How many other legacy industries can you think of today that can say their strongest growth is among young, affluent, power-internet users? Something is going very right in library land.
For once I am one of the cool kids.
A four million dollar fairy tale.
Amazon.com has purchased J.K Rowling’s hand-written book of fairy tales for a boat load of loot.
We’re incredibly excited to announce that Amazon has purchased J.K. Rowling’s The Tales of Beedle the Bard at an auction held by Sotheby’s in London. The book of five wizarding fairy tales, referenced in the last book of the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, is one of only seven handmade copies in existence. The purchase price was £1,950,000, and Ms. Rowling is donating the proceeds to The Children’s Voice campaign, a charity she co-founded to help improve the lives of institutionalized children across Europe.
I have no clue if the stories are good or not, but the I really dig the idea of a handwritten book. Visit Amazon.com for more images of The Tales of Beedle the Bard.
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P.S. I recently read the first Harry Potter book and though I liked it, I felt that I already knew the whole story because of it’s intense pop-culture saturation. It’s like knowing all the words to a Britney Spears song without owning any of her albums or listening to any stations that play her music. They (Potter and Britney) are such powerful pop-culture machines that you can’t help but let them seep into your brain.
A Star Wars pop-up book.
I must have this. Here is a review of the book from the NY Times.
I learned of this awesomeness via Whitney Matheson’s Favorite Things post.
Need a book to read?
The Onion’s A.V. Club has posted a listing of 21 books that should be good movies. It’s an interesting article, but the listing also serves as a decent reading list. I’ve added a couple books from the post to my to-read list.
- Cordelia Underwood: Or, The Marvelous Beginnings of the Moosepath League by Van Reid
- The March: A Novel by E.L. Doctorow
- The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Plus, I was happy to a see a couple of my favorites on the list.
- King Dork by Frank Portman
- World War Z by Max Brooks
- The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
NaNoBloWriMo.
November is quite a month. You can write a novel, post to your blog everyday, or even grow a stache for charity. Of the three November activities Movember sounds the most doable. I mean all I have to do is not shave, right? Plus I could have an awesome flavor savor for Turkey day.
I’ve been missing my stache as of late. Maybe Movember is a good enough reason to grow it back? Anyone want to embark on this charity event with me? Anyone?
Gibson’s hundred little blog posts.
I finally finished Spook Country by William Gibson and it was a really awesome read. The story flip flops between a host of off-beat characters (a faded pop star, a junkie, a Cuban spy/crime family, and various quasi-government spooks) as they all converge on a mysterious shipping container. The main story itself is great, but one of the best parts is all the little references sprinkled throughout the text. They’re like a hundred mini-blog posts waiting for you to put the book down and go investigate.
That being said this book is a good one to read with an index card by your side so you can scribble down notes for later Interweb searching. To give you a flavor of the book here are some of the items I Googled after I finished:
For more about Spook Country, check out Boing Boing’s review and this WikiP entry.
You will listen to everything I say.
This may wake us from our media slumber.
Pass the ammunition.
The dog looks worried. The photo comes from the book Armed America. {Via}
