How’s this for an idea, a cookbook based entirely on foods mentioned in the bible . It’s called The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Good Food from the Good Book.
Perhaps cooking this cookbook will have some positive repercussions in the way people look at you because The Daily Mail reports that Gordon Ramsay fans are show offs
A book restorer, Karen Tolley, in Oregon is profiled.
The Old Bill read? These ones in the Seattle Times do.
Back again after the long weekend. The LA Times has a long article and interview with Bret Easton Ellis, who is now 44.
To some, he’s a kind of Duran Duran of the literary world: fashionable once, but now a footnote. Or at best something that comes back for periodic rediscovery but remains a relic, like the skinny tie
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The Duran Duran of the literary world? Could be worse…. at least Duran Duran had some hits.
Fantastic video preview of an upcoming pop up book.
More madness! Disney has cast its evil, evil spell on Enid Blyton’s Famous Five. Walt has made them all look like Bratz.
But the Famous Five’s offspring are now multicultural; their enemies include a DVD bootlegger and they sport modern gadgets like iPods and mobile phones.
In Colombia, they’re trying.
A country in which 13 million people lived below the poverty line could fill a football stadium for a poetry festival. Colombians are lovers of culture.
AbeBooks.co.uk has finished joint top of a online retailer customer satisfaction survey conducted by UK consumer protection magazine Which? Congratulations to the AbeBooks.co.uk team and the booksellers who keep satisfying our customers in the UK.
For sale - one gently used bookstore chain.
This is a wonderful example of the kettle calling the pot black in the New York Times. The US of A refuses entry to British memoirist Sebastian Horsley, the author of Dandy in the Underworld, because he’s a former druggie and used prostitutes. Interesting! The still warm Eliot Spitzer nonsense is generating acres of newspaper print but US customs and immigration is making sure a sicko Brit doesn’t taint any God fearing Americans.
Here what he would have outlined to America….
In “Dandy of the Underworld” Mr. Horsley, who is notorious in Britain, writes of being raised by alcoholic, sexually promiscuous parents and bouncing through several schools. He details a debauched life of cocaine, heroin, opium and amphetamine use, writing that he spent more than £100,000 (nearly $200,000) on crack cocaine and £100,000 to consort with more than 1,000 prostitutes. He also chronicles his trip to the Philippines to be hung from a cross, an event that was recorded by a photographer and videographer and formed part of an art exhibition that was extensively covered by the news media in his home country.
Sounds like a regular memoir to me - I wonder if he made it up?
A Northamptonshire resident got lucky after purchasing a Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone first edition from a local library sale. The book was sold at Christies today for 4,000 pounds, but not without some amount of drama.
It turns out Christies had not checked the barcode on the book to see if the copy was really ex-library or if it was stolen. In the end a local just knew what to look at the library sale and netted a whack of dough for their efforts!
This is a few weeks old but the LA Times writes about books as a design tool. The usual stuff gets spouted. All I know is I spent most of the winter converting an unfinished basement room into a useable room and as soon as it was finished I bought bookshelves and got books into that room as fast as possible.
The Australian pointed us towards a book we missed on our weirdest travel books poll, Roadkill by Len Zell is a 102 page pocket guide to identifying and dealing with expired Australian species.
Arthur C. Clarke in pictures from The Guardian.
It’s a sad day for Science Fiction lovers as one of the greatest authors in the genre has passed on. Arthur C. Clarke died today after decades of battling post-polio syndrome.
Clarke had a phenomenal creative output, writing more than 80 novels but was most well known among SF fans for 2001: A Space Odyssey, Songs of a Distant Earth, or The City and the Stars.
Almost more amazing was Arthur C. Clarke’s scientific mind. Not only did he write about futuristic settings and outlandish ideas. Clarke described scientific concepts decades before their eventual production. An example would be communications satellites, which he described in 1945 because of this geosynchronous orbits are called Clarke orbits.
However for all the things he did in his life I will remember him as a great writer, and I am glad that he agreed with me!
“Sometimes I am asked how I would like to be remembered, I have had a diverse career as a writer, underwater explorer and space promoter. Of all these I would like to be remembered as a writer.” - Arthur C. Clarke