OWL: Librarian's Place

"The Dabbler is delighted to bring you an exclusive competition. Slightly Foxed  - producers of ‘The Real Reader’s Quarterly’ – are giving away a free annual subscription to one lucky dabbler." - Maxine from Bookmarklet

Mainly a review of Hornet's Nest with a bit of Stiegmania thrown in. - Maxine from Bookmarklet

"The University will host a celebration of the life of one of its most widely respected alumni, the novelist Stanley Middleton" - Maxine from Bookmarklet

What good news. Must look out for it. - Maxine

via Dave Lull. They miss out all the best ones! - Maxine from Bookmarklet

SYKM deserves to be on the list. The others ... what?? - barbara fister

Via Dave Lull. Quote: "A small but vocal subculture has emerged on Twitter of grammar and taste vigilantes who spend their time policing other people’s tweets — celebrities and nobodies alike. These are people who build their own algorithms to sniff out Twitter messages that are distasteful to them — tweets with typos or flawed grammar, or written in ALLCAPS — and then send scolding notes to the offenders. They see themselves as the guardians of an emerging behavior code: Twetiquette." - Maxine from Bookmarklet

via Dave Lull - Maxine from Bookmarklet

via Dave Lull - Maxine from Bookmarklet

Works Discussed: 1. Cemetery Road 2. Gutshot Straight 3. False Mermaid 4. The Darkest Room 5. The Case of the Missing Servant 6. The God of the Hive 7. The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane 8. Bait 9. Bad Things Happen 10. The Dark Horse 11. Snow Angels 12. The Brutal Telling 13. A Thousand Cuts 14. The Nearest Exit 15. The Girl Who Played with Fire 16. Red to Black 17. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie 18. The Godfather of Kathmandu 19. The Poacher's Son - Maxine

"Brian will be in Stride country on the release date [April 13] for his new book, THE BURYING PLACE. He's teaming up with the Bookstore at Fitger's in a fundraiser to support the Duluth Public Library. The store is donating 10% of all sales that afternoon and evening to the library, so come meet Brian and help the library while you shop." http://www.bfreemanbooks.com/2010... - Dave Lull

Saving the Google Students - LATimes.com - http://www.latimes.com/news... - Dave Lull

Abe books. - Maxine from Bookmarklet

Also a good piece in the Times the other day on this, interview with Ian McEwan. (17 or 18 March?) - Maxine from Bookmarklet

Ed Champion criticizes this article, and Jonah Lehrer responds among the comments, here: http://www.edrants.com/jonah-l... - Dave Lull

I've seen quite a few criticisms of this from neuroscientists, also, since then. - Maxine

And Jonah Lehrer has responded to criticisms in several blog postings, beginning with this one: http://scienceblogs.com/cortex... - Dave Lull

Good piece by Barbara Fister. - Maxine

Quote; "Abu Dhabi’s future libraries are likely to feature 24-hour, self-service facilities with vending machines stocked with books, CDs and DVDs, allowing people to take out and return them any time of the day or night." - Maxine

Writer Ian Hocking comments on Guardian piece of same title. - Maxine from Bookmarklet

Lots of suggestions/ comments at the FF link in this post. - Maxine

Quote: "In two decades the world wide web has become the most powerful information tool since Gutenberg's printing press, but also the most intrusive and threatening. Aleks Krotoski, presenter of a major new series on the history of the net, reports" - Maxine from Bookmarklet

pq: "The more like one of my kind of person I become, the less me I am, and the more I am a demographic type." And here the most dangerous aspect of the web, IMHO: "Socially, this is as potentially damaging as what the extremists peddle; we are coagulating into tight-knit groups who reinforce our own beliefs. It's a far cry from the global group hug that web proponents such as Fry or Gore had hoped it would be." - Björn Brembs

Not focused on crime fiction, but of interest? Quote: "One of the best things about keeping a book blog is meeting, both virtually and occasionally in person, so many like-minded individuals from across the world. If there's one thing that unites us it's our love of reading and all things bookish. So I was delighted last week to be invited to take part in a brand new blogging venture, the Not The TV Book Group. Together with three other lovely UK-based bloggers, Dovegreyreader, Other Stories and Savidge Reads, we will be bringing you a fortnightly book group over 16 weeks that we hope will inspire you to read along with us. " - Maxine from Bookmarklet

Nice post and conversation. - Maxine from Bookmarklet