I missed it this year but I think it’s an annual event so maybe I’ll get to the Havana International Book Fair someday?
We all know that most books are better than the movies that they inspire. Books give much more depth and insight and allow you to actively create a world for yourself rather than having one created for you passively. But a recent Reddit thread asking this question led me to do a general Google search […]
A few links about where the place where writing, publishing and selling controversial books intersects… In a post about Chapters deciding to not stock Mein Kampf during FTRW 2007 (part of a larger post that’s worth re-reading this week, he says humbly), I stated that although I wished bookstores would operate to a higher standard […]
The 100 Best First Lines The 100 Best Last Lines Part of Pace’s storytime routine is that when we come to the end of a picture book, I say “What do we say when we come to the end of a book?” and then he yells out “THE END!” So that’s probably my favourite last […]
Reading: “Life” – Keith Richards On Deck: “Delivering Happiness” – Tony Hsieh In the Hole – “Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution” – Richard Dawkins (All subject to change of course when the next shiny book catches my eye!)
An AskMetaFilter thread on books & movies to help someone construct meaning from a non-religious point of view.
Michelle sent me this link before Christmas but I still think it’s worth posting. Reminds me of when Pace opened a gift bag containing pyjamas last year, threw the clothes over his shoulder then kept digging while asking “Where present?”
Atheism week continues here on the Head Tale with today’s Music Monday clip, “Thoughts of a Dying Atheist” by Muse. A quick review of the lyrics could provide a few meanings. On its surface, iit’s basically about how an atheist must feel when facing death, knowing that their beliefs mean there is nothing afterward – […]
A Google Labs project, the strangely named NGram Viewer allows you to search for various words and see how their usage in books within the Google Books archive has changed over the past 200 year (or any time frame you specify). Examples: Hitler Computer (note the weird blip around 1900?) War Socialism Negro Canada (highest […]
Google is apparently preparing to launch an e-book service by Christmas with the big unique feature being that the books you purchase will be linked to your Google account so you can access them from pretty much any kind of device rather than having the book downloaded to one or a few proprietary devices. In […]
