Igby

Oooohhhh… new Jeanette Winterson memoir!

assemblage2011:

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Me neither. I bought it because the blurb on the book claimed that it would make me believe in God. Nope.

That said, I’m looking forward to the movie version by Ang Lee!

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glitterskank:

I’ve started to read Life of Pi. And… I don’t really love it. Every time someone sees me with the book, they get so excited and go on about how wonderful it was. I finally talked to a woman at work who didn’t love it and it made me feel better. She quit reading it 50 pages in.

I didn’t love it either. :(

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missballot:

passport cover. 

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I wish my copy was this spooky. :(

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arainbowcupcake:

this is a poster. on it are all the words to fitzgerald’s the great gatsby. for the record, that’s the entire novel on one sheet of paper. one sheet! but i can’t decide if i like this one, which appears to be of better quality, or the one from postertext.com ( http://postertext.com/products/great-gatsby ) which has features a much more gatsbian image. sigh. so many decisions.

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librarianista:

Kate Spade Library Books Mug (found via @msoeldner)

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libraryland:

Stieg Larsson Stats: By the Numbers

With over 3.4 million copies sold in hardcover and ebook formats, Stieg Larsson’s The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest this Sunday, June 5th, will mark its one-year anniversary on the New York Times best-seller list. To celebrate this astonishing milestone,  Knopf  released some illuminating numbers on how Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy has fared  in the United States. 

• 15 million copies in print in hardcover, trade, and mass market editions.
• U.S. digital sales for the trilogy: 3.5 million copies.
• Over 17 million copies sold (all formats) in the U.S and approaching 60 million worldwide.
• 222 printings across all hardcover, trade, and mass market formats.
• Since September 2008, when The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo was published in hardcover, Larsson’s books have been a constant presence on best-seller lists across America.
• The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo has spent 128 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list and 711 days on the Amazon top 100 (hardcover and paperback combined).
• The Girl Who Played with Fire has spent 92 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list and 461 days on the Amazon top 100 (hardcover and paperback combined).
• The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest has spent 52 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list and 524 days on the Amazon top 100 (hardcover and paperback combined).
• Life-to-date sales breakdown (all books, all formats): 80% physical, 20% digital.

“It has been three years since we first published Stieg Larsson,” said Sonny Mehta, chairman of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, “and his readership continues to grow, while interest in his life and work remains high. This year looks promising as well, as we are already beginning to see a ripple effect from the Fincher film, which is not due out until December.”

Last weekend,  an apparently pirated  trailer for David Fincher’s adaptation gave eager Larsson fans  a sneak peak at the “feel-bad movie of Christmas.” For those of you who missed that slightly racier version (now taken down),  here is the official trailer.

—Wilda Williams

These are the only acceptable Margaret Atwood covers in the world and I want them all.

libraryland:

ravished:

reading through margaret atwood’s fiction, currently.

1. Surfacing
2. The Blind Assassin
3. Oryx & Crake

currently reading The Robber Bride.

Gorgeous covers!

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thebloomsburygroup:

Virginia Woolf in 1924, posing for Vogue in a dress of her mother’s.

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My favourite bookworm describing exactly how I feel when I’m trying to Read the Internet. All of it.

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nevertrustajunkie:

Matilda by Roald Dahl.