Book Notes
§ - SF's Death Greatly Exaggerated - Great essay!
§ - Woman Bites Two Librarians in Robbery - Gee, in all my years as a librarian we never had this much excitement!
§ - Second-hand Bookstores in Kanda Prospering - A real commentary on cultural differences! Every American book lover I know delights in any source of secondhand books but apparently this is not the case for Japanese readers. (Women are actually afraid to go into used book stores? Can't imagine it!)
§ - Why do so many authors and librarians persist in using underlining for book titles? That was back in the Olden Days when we were stuck with typewriters and the underline was to tell the typesetter to use italic font. Uh, you can italicize things on your blog. Please do so! Underlining on a web page means a link, not a title. Got that? (At the very least, if you really, really, really feel a need to underline, at least give us an Amazon link, okay?)
| I wasn't hungry, but the first rule of BookTour is probably Eat If You Can. Because you never know when there won't be food and you'll be on the road, so I ate what they had, which was a sad salad and a cheese plate and some melted ice cream. (Rule two of BookTour is probably And Grab the Hotel Bedtime Pillow Chocolates you don't want, and drop them in your computer bag, because one day it'll be 4.00am somewhere there isn't any food, and you'll remember you have hotel chocolates somewhere, and it's better than nothing.)
Neil Gaiman |
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