There have been many excellent reactions and posts from great authors all over the internet, but I felt that this one was particularly brilliant, as it sums it up quite nicely.
"Every thought and every prayer
goes out to the victims and their
families and loved ones. What a
senseless act of waste and violence....
It's hard to imagine any people more
inspiring than all those people who
dashed across Boylston Street within
seconds of the first explosion, and
rushed to the aid of the injured.
Didn't give their own safety a
thought. Made me proud to be a member
of the human race, which I think
was the exact opposite of the effect
the bomber was hoping for....
"When I watch the footage of the
first explosion, I look at the Boston
Public Library Main Branch across the
street, and I think no matter who
they turn out to be--Islamic
jihadists, home grown militia, neo-Nazis,
something else--what really scares
them, what they truly hate, is the
access to knowledge that building
exemplifies.... So proud to be a
Bostonian tonight. So brokenhearted
to be one, too."
--Author Dennis Lehane http://www.shelf-awareness.com/ct/uz3642037Biz16666684
on his
Facebook page last night
My husband once called me a manatee while we were dating (and I was thin then, too) and though I've since learned to look at it as a compliment, I found this tidbit about a bookstore named for these gentle giants of the sea to be just wonderful.
Blue Manatee Bookstore: The Doctor Is
In
Dr. John Hutton "wanted kids to
read books and play outside. He wanted
their parents to unplug the kids'
televisions and computers.... So he
focused on more books and less screen
time. That would be his issue,"
the Cincinnati Enquirer reported in
its profile of Blue Manatee's
http://www.shelf-awareness.com/ct/uz3642037Biz16666718
owner, who has gone from doctor to bookseller to doctor/bookseller
since he and his wife purchased the
bookshop several years ago.
The name, which was chosen through a
public vote, is "symbolic of what
independent bookstores go through.
They are nurturing and intelligent
and sweet, but endangered," he
said.
Being a bookseller has also
"affirmed for Hutton what he already knew:
Reading with a child is rewarding for
the parent and remarkably
beneficial for the child," the
Enquirer wrote.
"This is old-fashioned stuff,
but it is not just nostalgic," he said.
"For a small child, any
interaction with a person reading a book is so
good for a child's cognitive,
language, fine motor skills and emotional
well-being." Hutton now works a
day or two a week as a doctor and the
rest of the week at the bookstore.
This is the link to a blog post that I found to be perfectly marvelous in explaining why it is not a crime to be fat, and why there are healthy fat people (like me, I do not have Crohns because I am overweight, in fact, the medications made me gain weight after my diagnosis) who don't eat junk food every day and who exercise regularly.
http://kateharding.net/faq/but-dont-you-realize-fat-is-unhealthy/
And in other book news, Bill Bryson, former Des Moines (Iowa) Register Reporter is having one of his books made into a movie:
Richard Linklater "could be
headed for A Walk in the Woods
The Los Angeles Times reported that
Linklater is expected to helm Bill
Bryson's bestseller and "could
shoot the independently financed movie as
early as this fall, according to
Robert Redford, who will produce and
star in the film." Nick Nolte
will play Katz.
"A Walk in the Woods is the kind
of movie that has something to say but
can also be really commercial because
it's just so funny," Redford said.
"It will be nice to get back to
doing a comedy."
And there's been a lot of buzz about the latest remake of the Great Gatsby, starring Leonardo DiCaprio:
"There is probably no bigger (or
riskier) question mark this spring than
Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby
which has battled a delay and rumors
of a troubled production only to
nab the opening slot at the Cannes
Film Festival," Indiewire reported in
featuring a new trailer from the 3D
film version of F. Scott
Fitzgerald's classic novel that will
be released May 10.
Yet another reason to go to a real bookstore to buy books:
"The physical browsing process
is enormously pleasant. It's an important
part of our national culture, those
bookshops.... But the arithmetic
does get more and more difficult, and
online retailing gets more and
more seductive. And all of us get
more and more used to it, from grocery
supply to buying books off Amazon.
Yet I go to the Westfield shopping
centre down the road, and it's turned
out to be an absolute goldmine,
heaving with people all year round.
Anyone who tells you they know the
future is telling you the most grotesque
lie, because none of us do."
--Tim Waterstone
founder and former owner of of the
British bookstore chain that still
bears his name, in an interview with
the Guardian. Waterstone is about
to return to bookselling as
"non-executive chairman" of Read Petite
http://www.shelf-awareness.com/ct/uz3642037Biz16623195 an online
outlet for short-form e-books that will be launched to the trade at the
London Book Fair and to the public
next fall.
I read and really enjoyed this book, Beautiful Ruins, which is by a Seattle author:
Cross Creek Pictures' Todd Field
(Little Children) "is teaming up with
Smuggler Films to produce, co-write
and direct Beautiful Ruins
based on the novel by Jess Walter,
Indiewire reported, calling it "an
ambitious project to tackle."
April is National Poetry Month:
Can you hear it now? That, my
friends, is the exquisite sound of poems
making their way in the world. Poetry
is everywhere. "We can leave it
out on the counter for our beloved,
like a bowl of yellow pears," Dobby
Gibson observes in his answer to that
question posed by Common Good
Books. "Or we can fold it up
into a tiny square and bury it in our sock
drawer, like our most dangerous
secret. Either way, it will lie there
patiently and wait to be discovered." --Robert Gray
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