The Great Gatsby for NES (8bit!)

http://greatgatsbygame.com/

Love Fitzgerald, and who doesn’t love NES games?
Full-screen mode is an option.

“I’ve been drunk for about a week now, and
I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.”

Let me know when you beat it?

Russian artist’s illustrated version of The Hobbit published decades ago.

The characters have a unique look and feel, from an older looking Bilbo with awesome body-fur, to good ole Tom, Bert, and Bill Huggins.

“A burrahobbit?
 What’s a burrahobbit got to do with my pocket, anyways?”

Felicia Day + bookshelf porn

Felicia Day is one of my not-so-secret crushes. From Dr. Horrible to The Guild to Dragon Age, she stole my heart long ago.

Photo Source: Flickr

How can you not love her?

prettybooks:
Review: The Giver by Lois Lowry

I always see this book being mentioned as the original, and the young-adult dystopian book that you should read … Despite the fact that I am not its target demographic, I really enjoyed it.

… I particularly found the message that control of language is a very powerful thing very enlightening … it’s easy to forget that control of language, knowledge and ideas is much [more damaging than physical control].

… It’s a very short read but still manages to be powerful, realistically imaginative and emotional.

It ends on an annoying cliffhanger and so I understand how people (who didn’t know there were other books in the series) thought it had a bad ending… but it just makes me want to find out even more.

prettybooks:
My Rating: 5/5

Enjoyed your review and glad you liked the book. I wanted to shed some light on the ending and perhaps highlight the author’s intention. Plus add a great link to Lowry’s Newbery Acceptance Speech.

It’s an ambiguous ending, open to interpretation and allowing the reader to resolve it themselves.

To preface, I don’t really like an ecocritical reading of this text, but this is in response to a post by Parliament Books.

[If I had to read allegory into this, it wouldn’t be environmental, and the Ents would be isolationists. It would be more about them trying to sit passive in what has become a World War: realizing they can’t stay isolated, or that it’s morally wrong, or that they would normally stay isolated but not when it’s actually come to their turf (however you want to read it. Some say Saruman’s power play here was the Ents’ Pearl Harbor, etc)].

Anyway back to ecocriticism.

Your question: is the audience supposed to think 1) rampant cutting of trees and destruction of nature is a bad thing or 2) “trees” stand for “books” and banning / burning them is the bad thing?

I think you’ve only hit the smaller part of reading the text this way.

Don’t you wish your downtown had this street?

The book spines are built out of mylar and measure ~25 feet by ~9 feet. Constructed in 2006, books were voted in by community and patrons.

The 22 choices include Tolkien, Joseph Heller, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Ray Bradbury, Mark Twain, Harper Lee, and more!

More photos, links after the break -> ->

In honor of National Library Workers Day
(part of National Library Week) …

Librarian Avengers Gear!

Run at CafePress by Erica Firment, this store brings you gear to buy your favorite librarian, be they friend or family - mugs, shirts, bags, etc.

Pick up something today:
Librarian Avengers Gear

National Library Week began as an idea in 1957. With the cooperation of ALA and help from the Advertising Council, the first National Library Week was observed in 1958 with the theme “Wake Up and Read!”

NLWD, in particular, is a day for library staff, users, administrators and Friends groups to recognize the valuable contributions made by all library workers.

That store link again:
CafePress Librarian Avengers eStore
What are you waiting for?

lyonaria: from marrypotter: Book Staircase

Wow this is awesome.

Check out all the pictures in the set here:
http://www.fubiz.net/2009/11/04/book-staircase/

(Source: curiositykilledthecurator)

TheOtherCanary speaks out:
What about guys who read? Do they deserve the same devotion?

Date a Guy Who Reads

Date that guy because he’ll care enough to avoid peanut butter while reading because it gums the pages — even if he can’t quite abstain from the Cheetos that leave those orange smears along the edges of the book. But at least he is adding color to your life.

Date a guy who reads because every opened book shows a desire to keep learning, growing, stretching the imagination and the soul. He burns when you discuss those new discoveries and trips.

Date a guy who reads because when you admit — voice low so only he can hear — that you had loved the Lord of the Rings movies but hated the books, he’ll try to persuade you of your error. He’ll list all the positives of Tolkien, with diagrams and charts and waving hands. And that … shows the  passion of the man who holds your heart.

Date a guy who reads because, come evening, he appreciates the pleasure of silence, of sitting in the same room reading.

But don’t date the guy because he reads.
The reading bit is just a bonus.

Lot of people got worked up into a fit about the way the original pushed the mentality “Girl + Reading = only dating requirement.” And that’s fine, and understandable, but if the implied alternative is “Your girl reading is just a bonus” it’s just as silly (to some people, of which I’m in the group!)

Let’s face it. The ‘because they read’ part, regardless of gender, is not just a bonus. It’s speaks a lot about the person, their creativity / curiosity / passion, and their mind. A lifelong hobby you aren’t giving up and they are going to understand and share.

I’m not saying to date someone just because they read, in the same way I won’t tell you to date someone just because they respect you as a person, or marry someone just because they also believe in monogamy and want children like you do (if you do - example).

There’s just some basic things that make a lot of sense to have in common, and you don’t need to beat yourself up about admitting that this is true.

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PS -

If you smear Cheetohs along the edges of my books, I will kill you.

If you loved those movies but hated the books, I will cry for you.

If you read AND we are compatible in various other ways, have a physical and romantic spark, then maybe we can give it a shot.