Books(in140) & Other Things

NEED/Jones: Twilight fans & more will enjoy sweet & scary YA book about spooky pixies and a spunky girl and her werewolf love. (@TammyLNYC) (#) $

LIGHT OF OTHER DAYS/Clarke & Baxter: Fascinating future w/ ability to witness history, no personal privacy. Timely read. (@rotaadmiral88) (#) $

REVOLUTIONARY ROAD/Yates: Microscope on (happy?) couple in 1950s suburbia: depression, disappointment, and love (maybe?) (@vmayo) (#) $

BOOK OF NEGROES/Hill: Courageous, hopeful look @ life of female Black Loyalist. Embedded in history. Inspired, rich book. (#) $

FAT WOMAN NEXT DOOR IS PREGNANT/Tremblay: Humorous, dark portrait of life in 40s Quebec town. Rich characters & writing. (#) $

STIFF:Curious Lives of Human Cadavers/Roach: Macabre, humorous, respectful, fascinating uses/abuses of the dead. Eye opening! (@applecheeks) (#) $

SAY YOU’RE ONE OF THEM/Uwem Akpan African stories: child sex slave trafficking, religious/ethnic conflict. Visceral, troubling. (@mcogdill) (#) $

FRUIT/Francis: Overweight outcast 8th grader in Sarnia, ON in 84. Fast, funny & universal. Concept may be too strange for some. (#) $

WATCHMEN/Moore&Gibbons: Perfect, pivotal, DARK graphic novel. Even more fascinating now for all that it spawned. (@graphicmatt) (#) $

MERCY AMONG THE CHILDREN/Richards: Dark, frustrating, yet immensely rewarding read about poverty, human spirit and family. (#) $

YEAR OF LIVING BIBLICALLY/Jacobs: agnostic editor is LOL, thoughtful. Grows beard, reads Bible, covets Foer’s speaking fee. (@mcogdill) (#) $

SCHULTZ & PEANUTS/Michaelis: Interesting, dark bio of Peanuts creator. Loved the cartoons. More to Schultz than explored, but worthy effort. (#) $

AUDITION/Walters: Writing too chirpy, but surprisingly engaging and honest. Who knew she had such soul? (@libbyfh) (#) $

A MERCY/Morrison: Underscores exactly what freedom is not, and the consequences of not recognizing when we are our own light. (@llapen) (#) $

KITCHEN CONFIDENTIAL/Bourdain. Not your typical insider’s look @ restaurant biz. Simultaneously interesting, coarse & addicting (@ramiam) (#) $

JOHNATHAN STRANGE & MR NORRELL/Clarke: Brits, books, magic, and footnotes. Utopia? Perhaps. (@baronetess) (#) $

NEED/Jones: Twilight fans & more will enjoy sweet & scary YA book about spooky pixies and a spunky girl and her werewolf love. (@TammyLNYC) (#) $

• RT @mdash: Vintage Pelican book covers. See evolution of design and typography from the 30s to the 70s. http://bit.ly/E80j (via @doshdosh) #
• @mitchjoel on the future of the book industry and #bookcampto http://tinyurl.com/acuacq #
• @mdash @hughmcguire #bookcamp toronto is June 6, no? June 9 is a Tuesday. #
• #bookcamp toronto Saturday, June 6 at MaRS Centre. http://bookcampto.pbwiki.com #
• @blackeyedesign wiki says June 6th now. Would make more sense, as 9th is a Tuesday. http://bookcampto.pbwiki.com/ #
• @blackeyedesign aaah, the wiki does say June 6 AND june 9!! Confusion!! I’m sure @hughmcguire will clear this up soon! #
• @annkingman put together list of cheap hotels & distances from location for #bookcampTO #bookcamp toronto: http://tinyurl.com/alkrlh #
• #bookcampto #bookcamp toronto date confusion cleared. It’s Saturday June 6th!! http://bookcampto.pbwiki.com (via @bookoven) #
• @mdash guest blogs for @globebooks on #bookcampto #bookcamp toronto http://tinyurl.com/aryzws #
• Google making 1.5 million books mobile: http://tinyurl.com/ce6g8s (via @globebooks) #
• @mikecane FAIL indeed! Who would’ve thunk? #
• FREE CULTURE/Lessig: Lots has changed since ‘05 (ahem, Twitter!) but lots of ideas & arguments about “free” remain relevant & useful today. #

• Superexcited for a yummy Winterlicious meal with my bookclub gals tonight! #
• TV tangent: I think I’m addicted to PROJECT RUNWAY CANADA. My episode recap from last night here: http://tinyurl.com/ac6v72 #
• What sort of sessions would you want to see at #bookcamp? Share your ideas! #
• HEARTBREAKING WORK/Eggers: Aptly named, smart, raw tale about a boy & his brother who grew up too fast yet not fast enough. Unique voice. #
• @chriswebb Why did you decide to use that platform for your digital catalog? What were the benefits as opposed to a 2.0 website? #
• The inaugural poem, remixed: http://tinyurl.com/dydcyg (via @latimesbooks) #
• Lots of twittering about “newspapers are dead” today. Why is everyone so caught up w/ the “paper” part of “newspaper”? #
• @ShawnY Thanks for the tip! I’ll definitely give it a listen! #
• RT @Marvel Take 10: Girl Power: http://www.marvel.com/news/comicstories.6773 Marvel’s 10 most powerful women. I think Rogue’s my favorite. #
• @Lionnesss I’ll admit I haven’t. Runaways has been on my “to read” list for far too long! #
• Director to publish book on making of TWILIGHT. Movie was not inspiring/challenging, but should make fans happy: http://tinyurl.com/d3mpbq #

• @luthienrising The London one was a success, to give you an idea: http://tinyurl.com/5fyep3 #bookcamp #
• @alexaclark @ehrenc most def! Can we make it happen?! #
• @ehrenc definitely, it always works best ground-up. #
• @alexaclark love the unconference model. There’s so much goodness happening in publishing right now, love to see who’d sign up. #bookcamp #
• @ehrenc Can I just say I’d love, love, LOVE a scholarly publishing #bookcamp? #
• @rog_smith I need a Twitter copyeditor! It is a great book. I didn’t love it as much as I wanted to, but well worth a read. #
• @rog_smith No I haven’t. My intro to Ripley/Highsmith has been a recent one. I’ve heard the later books aren’t as good though-true? #
• @rog_smith I’ll hold you to that! I’ll definitely read another one soon. #
• @BostonBookGirl When I was an intern, my boss mandated that I visit every bookstore in Toronto. Not “research” but got me out of the office! #
• @bostonbookgirl My internship was in May, so it wasn’t too bad! #

• Happy Birthday Ayn Rand, born today in 1905. #
• Hello tweeps! Crazy morning, hope things slow down a bit. I still haven’t had coffee yet!!! #
• @ehrenc This is true. But I LOVE coffee. Mornings are merely an excuse to dirnk it! #
• TIME looks at podcasting your novel: http://tinyurl.com/c2hyr9 #
• @mikecane I’m laughing so hard at how many times the RT of Ayn Rand is going around. Rot in hell indeed! #
• BookExpoCanada is dead. Shows relevance, flexibility, & ingenuity are more important than ever. #
• @mediabistro looks at six great publishers’ blogs: http://tinyurl.com/d7phoe #
• @ehrenc I am so down with a Book Camp! #
• TALENTED MR. RIPLEY/Highsmith: Absorbing crime fiction that brings ’30s to life. Captivating main character. Imperfect but enjoyable read. #

• At conference for @utpress (U of T Medieval!) all day. Nice to be home and relax! #
• Morning tweeps! Debating going to the gym. And by debating, I mean convincing myself not going is a-okay! #
• Penguin UK’s third leg of Round the World in 80 books: http://tinyurl.com/dkzh2u #
• I think Penguin UK has one of the best publisher’s blogs out there! Lots of pubs could read & learn from them: http://tinyurl.com/bxlma4 #
• Today is Norman Mailer’s birthday. As profound as I’m trying to be about this, I can’t shake referencing that GILMORE GIRLS episode. #
• @bookingmama Hooray!! I’m telling myself I’ll definitely go tomorrow. I probably will. my work-out guilt is vast and deep. #

• @mdash @gilliebee *blushes* Thanks! There’s many possible lists-for book lovers, for pub professionals, authors, pub houses, etc. #
• @mdash @gilliebee All would be different and all would be valuable! #
• Barack Obama’s daily routine: http://tinyurl.com/aewzqw #
• TINARS to break away from Pages: http://tinyurl.com/chwxx7 (via quillandquire) subscription needed. #
• For those interested, here’s the complete Obama White House article: http://tinyurl.com/dzvoqk #

• @Weegee I heart all these things immensely. If you love fashion reality television, then we MUST be twins, it’s unmistakable! #
• @Weegee that’s the ONLY way to care about it! #
• Reading stimulates your brain? Who knew?! http://www.physorg.com/news152210728.html #
• @mdash My 10: @mdash (!) @sarahw @jafurtado @mkindness @annkingman @chriswebb @colleen_lindsay @katmeyer @nybooks @harperstudio #
• @mdash it’s interesting, because my top 10 for book lovers would be really different!! #
• @neilhimself Twitter interviews? I do them weekly! Great interview w/ @flamesrising btw! #
• TRUTH ABOUT DIAMONDS/Richie: Forgettable fluff, but if you need to read a fictionalized socialite’s memoir, take Nicole over Paris any day. #

• Esquire lists best online lit mags: http://tinyurl.com/cvpjjq (via @readerville) #
• TV Tangent: PROJECT RUNWAY CANADA 2 premiered tonight. Initial thoughts: http://tinyurl.com/dcdz2a Will flesh out tomorrow. Tonight, SLEEP! #
• @tatvictoria I heart Iman. She can do no wrong-fashion or otherwise-in my mind. #
• @paperhaus I felt the same way. #
• RT @KBTaylor A list of 100 beautiful words: http://tinyurl.com/akbue3 #
• Today is Susan Sontag’s birthday! Have you read her diaries yet? #
• @luxlotus Haha, I ordered it yesterday too!! #
• @llapen I think we need a list of “100 Awesome Words.” Bombastic would DEFINITELY make that one! #
• @Weegee What makes you say that? (I’m taking it as a compliment, BTW!) #