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Guess the author, abandonment issues, and voguing dinosaurs: Bookishness for July 15, 2013
Mystery (author) solved “Readers described it as complex, compelling and scintillating. They compared the author — a former military police investigator writing under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith — to P. D. James, Ruth Rendell and Kate Atkinson. They said the book seemed almost too assured and sophisticated to be a first novel… As it happens, they…
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Dinosaur kids, Hemingway’s geography, and the Book Madness bracket: Bookishness for Mar. 25, 2013
A clean, well-lighted place Write like Hemingway, at least geographically. “I go to waterpolo and come back to 4 messages from a Cabinet Minister.” James Moore talks with librarians on Twitter. In other librarians vs. the man news http://youtu.be/KfwNQS_h6Qc Oxford students push for the reinstatement of “sacked” librarian after the University takes issue with the above…