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"Very exciting news to share: Little Free Library Reykjavík was installed in Hljómskálagarður (the park along Tjörnin), next to the statue of Bertel Thorvaldsen on June 14, 2013! It’s a lovely spot for the library—there’s even a bench right next to..."
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"The best fiction should be universal" Her debut novel achieves this with the highest distinction. Her lyrical prose, evocation of the harsh physical and social realities of the setting, and above all, her medi... " Read more of this review » |
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“He'd always had a quickening of the heart when he crossed into Arizona and beheld the cactus country. This was as the desert should be, this was the desert of the picture books, with the land unrolled to the farthest distant horizon hills, with saguaro standing sentinel in their strange chessboard pattern, towering supinely above the fans of ocotillo and brushy mesquite.”
― Dorothy B. Hughes, The Expendable Man
― Dorothy B. Hughes, The Expendable Man
“...Orm always afterwards used to say that, after good luck, strength, and skill at arms, nothing was so useful to a man who found himself among foreigners as the ability to learn a language.”
― Frans G. Bengtsson, The Long Ships
― Frans G. Bengtsson, The Long Ships
“I think you’re more an archivist than a librarian,” he said.
He told me that archivists and librarians were opposite personas. True librarians are unsentimental. They’re pragmatic, concerned with the newest, cleanest, most popular books. Archivists, on the other hand, are only peripherally interested in what other people like, and much prefer the rare to the useful.
”They like everything,” he said, “gum wrappers as much as books.” He said this with a hint of disdain.
”Librarians like throwing away garbage to make space, but archivists,” he said, “they’re too crazy to throw anything out.”
”You’re right,” I said. ”I’m more of an archivist.”
”And I’m more of a librarian,” he said.
”Can we still be friends?”
― Avi Steinberg, Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian
He told me that archivists and librarians were opposite personas. True librarians are unsentimental. They’re pragmatic, concerned with the newest, cleanest, most popular books. Archivists, on the other hand, are only peripherally interested in what other people like, and much prefer the rare to the useful.
”They like everything,” he said, “gum wrappers as much as books.” He said this with a hint of disdain.
”Librarians like throwing away garbage to make space, but archivists,” he said, “they’re too crazy to throw anything out.”
”You’re right,” I said. ”I’m more of an archivist.”
”And I’m more of a librarian,” he said.
”Can we still be friends?”
― Avi Steinberg, Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian
“Can a person who has been brought up in the heart of a thick dark forest, where one has to beat a path through multiple layers of trees just to take a letter to the post office, have any conception of what it’s like to spend one’s entire childhood waiting for a single tree to grow?”
― Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, The Greenhouse
― Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, The Greenhouse
“Remember, any lie you are told, even deliberately, is often a more significant fact than a truth told in all sincerity.”
― Halldór Laxness, Under the Glacier
― Halldór Laxness, Under the Glacier
Little Free Library Reykjavík is Up and Running! (Select)
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updated Jun 14, 2013 06:04pm
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LFLR is ready for readers!
Building the First Little Free Library in Iceland! (Nonfiction)
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updated Feb 07, 2013 04:31am
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A small multi-lingual collection in Reykjavík.
GalleyCat's Varney the Vampire Literary Remix (Select)
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updated Dec 22, 2012 06:11am
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I contributed a rewritten and restyled page to GalleyCat's 2012 Literary Remix Contest of the Victorian vampire novel VARNEY THE VAMPIRE, OR, FEAST OF BLOOD. My page (229 in the .html version)--given the heading "Western Union Varnegram"--was rewritten in an epistolary fashion, with telegrams ("Varnegrams"), gossip columns, and even a bureaucratic memo from an overseer in a dank mine to his supervisor.
From the official description: "In the fall of 2012, GalleyCat hosted a writing contest to celebrate Mediabistro’s Media App Summit.
Illustrating the Media App Summit’s spirit of digital innovation, a crew of dedicated writers remixed a single page from Varney the Vampire-a bestselling vampire novel from the 19th Century filled with enough star-crossed romance, vampire action and purple prose to inspire another Twilight trilogy.
More than one hundred and sixty years after the novel was published, these readers found new ways to tell the melodramatic vampire story. They rewrote the pages in their unique style, from poetry to Twitter updates to illustrations to Facebook accounts to imitations of great writers."
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (On Film) (Nonfiction)
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updated Mar 18, 2010 08:56am
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As posted on <i>The L Magazine</i>'s website, 3/17/10 (here: http://www.thelmagazine.com/newyork/taser-wielding-badass-seeks-truth-justice/Content?oid=1568147), my review of the film adaptation of Steig Larsson's <i>The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo</i>.
Leave Them Kids Alone (Nonfiction)
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updated Feb 18, 2010 07:57am
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Review of <i>Stolen Spring</i> (1940) and <i>The Missing Bureaucrat</i> (1938) by Danish author Hans Scherfig
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