RIASS stuff:
Book review: How Many Miles to Babylon?'by Jennifer Johnston:'A deeply moving account of forbidden friendship against a WWI backdrop.
Reading second-hand books: annotations and underlines:'Does reading an annotated book influence your own experience of a text?
Coming up: a review of A Tale Dark & Grimm, a guest post from Kate Forsyth, and an interview with Joel Naoum from Momentum publishing.
Just a note that I'll be tango dancing my way through Argentina in April, and would love to receive some guest posts to feature during that time. Feel free to drop me a line at readinasinglesitting@gmail.com.
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Other bookish stuff:
Best job application ever:
I like words. I like fat buttery words, such as ooze, turpitude, glutinous, toady. I like solemn, angular, creaky words, such as straitlaced, cantankerous, pecunious, valedictory.'I like the word screenwriter better than copywriter, so I decided to quit my job in a New York advertising agency and try my luck in Hollywood, but before taking the plunge I went to Europe for a year of study, contemplation and horsing around.'I have just returned and I still like words.'May I have a few with you?
Wheeler Centre director Michael Williams on his career:
Ill take that to mean career as a verb rather than a noun; barrelling forward with varying degrees of control. For as long as I can remember Ive known that whatever it was I wound up doing I wanted it to be somehow in the world of books, writing and ideas. An Arts degree at the University of Melbourne provided limited answers, but an internship followed by some casual work followed by six years of ongoing employment at Text Publishing showed me that it was possible to make a career out of a love of books.
After 244 years, the print edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica is no more:
'It's a rite of passage in this new era,' Jorge Cauz, the president of Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc., a company based in Chicago, said in an interview. 'Some people will feel sad about it and nostalgic about it. But we have a better tool now. The Web site is continuously updated, it's much more expansive and it has multimedia.'
The fine art of sexposition:
One of the early adopters was James Poniewozik, the TV critic of'Time'magazine, who offers his own definition of sexposition: Its something more than gratuitous or ample sex and nudity in a show its using that sex to divert the audience or give the characters something to do in scenes that involve a big download of information or monologue.
And while were getting our sexy on,'erotic book covers from'Vintage Books
Liz Fielding on creating a rich fictional world:
I want you to imagine your heroine arriving at an airport in a strange country. Somewhere she's never been before. There's no one to meet her.'How do you describe that? What will bring the scene to life for the reader?'Not a long description of what everything looks like. All modern airports look the same ' even if she's only seen one on television the reader will provide the picture. It's only in the details that they differ, so focus on those and the emotions they arouse in your heroine.
How e-books made reading sexy again:
E-books are skewing the book ratings. As digital sales are not collated anywhere, the true picture of what the British public is reading is becoming increasingly unclear ' and hiding a rare success story. Last week, for example, my e-book sales totalled roughly 50 per cent of my paperback sales ' 6,000 'invisible' sales on top of 11,500 visible ones. And I am not alone.
Hunger Games'film watered down for a kid-friendly classification in the UK?
These cuts, which were implemented by digitally removing sight of blood splashes and sight of blood on wounds and weapons, were made in accordance with BBFC Guidelines and policy. An uncut 15 classification was available. These cuts were made in addition to reductions already made following an earlier advice viewing of an incomplete version.
Movie critics struggle to compete against some bozo on the internet:
These days, says one studio exec, some bozo on the Net with a generic website who calls a comedy the laugh riot of the decade is much more likely to get quoted than some more knowledgeable critic who writes, The films wit brings to mind Preston Sturges.?
Former News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks arrested
Free comics from Dark Horse
Dostoevsky's The Double: Soon to Star Jesse Eisenberg and Mia Wasikowska'
The Enders Game'cast has been announced
A commissioning editor on her motivations for publishing the Jinny at Finmory series
Pretty books:
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