Author: Amber Nicole Brooks

Stunning Photographs of the Most Beautiful Libraries in the World

Michael G.'s avatarTopical Teaching

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I love libraries and below are some of the world’s very best as photographed by British academic Dr James Campbell:

The grand Mafra Palace Library, in Mafra, Portugal

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The Codrington Library was built to house the thousands of books at All Souls College in Oxford

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Biblioteca Joanina, in Coimbra, Portugal

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George Peabody Library, Baltimore

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Admont Abbey in Austria

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National Book Award Finalists Announced

Darth Sarah's avatarThe Pop Culture Pulse

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The five finalists for the National Book Award for fiction has been officially announced. The finalists include Thomas Pynchon (The Bleeding Edge), Jhumpa Lahiri (The Lowland), James McBride (The Good Lord Bird), Rachel Kushner, (The Flamethrowers), and George Saunders (Tenth of December).

Lahiri, Saunders, and Pynchon, have been on USA TODAY’s Best-Selling Books list this year with Lahiri peaking at number 9, Saunders at number 26, and Pynchon at number 29.

Pynchon is the notoriously private novelist who has continually captivated audiences for over 40 years. His novel, “The Bleeding Edge” is set in New York between the dot-com boom and 9/11. He is one of the most known novelists in this year’s finalists. However, it is doubtful that he will attend the black-tie awards ceremony in New York as he has evaded journalists throughout his 40 year career. In 1974 when he won…

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Mythbusters: Confirm Or Bust Science

amyslib's avatarChildren's Book Reviews

You have got to read Mythbusters: Confirm Or Bust! Science Fair Book #2 (mythbusters Science Fair Book) an important children’s book. My husband and I hoped to get our daughter who is 9 years old a brand new child’s book and my coworker Darryl Mcintosh from Tampa, Florida pulled out a copy of Mythbusters: Confirm Or Bust! Science Fair Book #2 (mythbusters Science Fair Book) .

Written by Samantha Margles and it is published by Scholastic Paperbacks. The child’s book was released on the 1st of December, 2012. The book has 128 pages. The child’s book dimensions are 0.4″H x 8.9″L x 7″W.

Let yourself end up being engrossed during this children’s book. Just picture yourself being the key figure, pondering and also struggling to find an answers in the process. You could get as imaginative as you choose with the circumstances in your mind. It’ll most likely put you…

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Don’t Tell Me How to Think

Kathleen Dunn's avatarThe fault is not in our stars

I went to a Banned Book website to pick which book I wanted to read during Banned Books Week, a site that, for me, is so high in comedic value.  Charlotte’s Web is on there?  It’s such a wonderful, sweet book that teaches kids about the power of friendship and helps them understand death.  Who could possibly not want their children to read that?  Oh, I see.  The people who complain that talking animals are blasphemous.  Sigh.

I realize I will never understand the Religious Right, but perhaps I can give them some perspective:  It’s MAKE BELIEVE!  It’s FICTION!  Animals don’t really talk.  Nor have the ability to be blasphemous.

Do they never let their children near any book that has talking animals in it?  It seems to me that three-quarters of picture books we read to our children before they are old enough to read for themselves have talking…

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Update on the Harper Lee Lawsuit

A.M.B.'s avatarThe Misfortune Of Knowing

TKaMB 123Harper Lee, author of To Kill a Mockingbird, and literary agent Samuel L. Pinkus have reached an agreement in principle to resolve Ms. Lee’s lawsuit against Mr. Pinkus. At the moment, the terms of the settlement are undisclosed, and it’s common for such terms to remain confidential.

I discussed this lawsuit in a previous post, When Our Literary Heroes Become Victims, in which I said that “the complaint is a difficult set of allegations to untangle.” Ms. Lee alleged that Pinkus, the son-in-law of her former agent Eugene Winick, breached his fiduciary duties (by failing to be truthful, self-dealing, and failing to ‘work’ the copyright to maximize royalties) and manipulated Ms. Lee into assigning away the copyright to her classic novel. It was particularly sad to read about her failing health, which Lee alleges Pinkus exploited for his personal gain.

To Kill a Mockingbird is one of…

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Book Review: Etiquette & Espionage (Finishing School #1)

I haven’t read any of these, but I had to reblog since the genre is listed as YA AND Stempunk! Wow.

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Author: Gail Carriger

Genre: YA/Steampunk

Summary: It’s one thing to learn to curtsy properly. It’s quite another to learn to curtsy and throw a knife at the same time. Welcome to Finishing School.

Fourteen-year-old Sophronia is a great trial to her poor mother. Sophronia is more interested in dismantling clocks and climbing trees than proper manners—and the family can only hope that company never sees her atrocious curtsy. Mrs. Temminick is desperate for her daughter to become a proper lady. So she enrolls Sophronia in Mademoiselle Geraldine’s Finishing Academy for Young Ladies of Quality.

But Sophronia soon realizes the school is not quite what her mother might have hoped. At Mademoiselle Geraldine’s, young ladies learn to finish…everything. Certainly, they learn the fine arts of dance, dress, and etiquette, but they also learn to deal out death, diversion, and espionage—in the politest possible ways, of course. Sophronia and her friends…

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Lady Cordelia #CBR5 Review #69: Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

I tried to give everyone I knew a copy of this book over a decade ago. It’s incredible–The Diamond Age may be better. And then of course, there are die hard Baroque Cycle fans. But Snow Crash is certainly the most accessible of his works.

ladycordeliacrispinbreeley's avatarCannonball Read V

imagesSnow Crash is one of the best books I have ever read.  I feel like buying a copy for every single one of my friends, forcing them to read it while I sit and watch their faces.  THAT’S how much I loved this book.  Yes, I was the annoying person on the train during the morning commute laughing out loud, and if any of those poor bastards had dared make eye contact with me, I would have probably insisted on reading entire sections out loud.

I didn’t initially think it was going to be for me.  I’m not a huge sci-fi fan, particularly futuristic technological stuff, but this story is all about people.  Okay sure, a lot of the story was set in the virtual reality Metaverse, but I actually understood what was going on.  And why isn’t more sci-fi funny like this?  Stephenson obviously loves a good pun and…

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