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obviously, neither corneille nor the characters who laugh at excessively bookish speech avoid literary convention .
the category page for bookish podcast by bob johnson of the gutter bookshop. all things book related .
as an archivist, former librarian, kind of a bookish person, my job is to catalog everything .
as for zola, which was founded by literary agents, the acquisition of bookish underscores the founders’ considerable ambitions .
bookish / beauty and the beast inspired / much ado about nothing necklace featuring metal book charm on beaded necklace .
such technology, he said, had cost bookish millions to develop and was worth the price even if the site was not yet making money .
what made you want to look up bookish? please tell us where you read or heard it (including the quote, if possible) .
the bookish young kennedy looked up to these charismatic figures, and a happy childhood with friends in the neighborhood offers a particular lens on his jurisprudence .
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olivia is both bookish and feral, the kind of smart girl whose confusion has led to an adolescence filled with allen ginsberg and full - time pajamas .
i love this tag, mostly because i enjoy getting to know other book bloggers a little better. and how better to learn about them than their bookish history ?
book industry insiders had speculated on how much longer the site would survive in its current form. of bookish’s 22 employees, about half will lose their jobs, a company spokeswoman said .
holden starts as a textbook groff character: neat, bookish, pretty, an f. b. i. choirboy who becomes a teacher and researcher after a hostage situation goes wrong .
“we are very pleased to have found a new owner for the site whose goals and interests are so closely aligned with the bookish mission, ” said michael pietsch, chief executive of hachette .
insiders will recognize real - world touches: the bookish spectacles one defendant dons for court, the feral dogs that roam gang neighborhoods, the civilian police employee who passes tips to her gang - member nephew .
rose city book & paper fair: lovers of all things bookish are invited to the 12th annual rose city book & paper fair, which will feature more than 60 dealers in used, rare and antiquarian books and ephemera .
bookish is a books podcast from dublin, ireland brought to you by bob johnston of the gutter bookshop and margaret madden of the bleach house library book blog via the headstuff podcast network. this month we’re discussing the latest ‘book…
in fact, citkowitz possesses literary bona fides that are not immediately apparent, having worked as a screenwriter and coming from bookish stock: her mother was anglo - irish novelist lady caroline blackwood and her stepfather was poet robert lowell .
bookish, a struggling website started by three large book publishers less than a year ago, has been sold to zola books, a start - up e - book retailer, the parties announced monday. the purchase price was undisclosed .
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connolly, c. (2014)' a bookish history of irish romanticism' in fermanis, p. and regan, j. (eds .) rethinking british romantic history, 1770 - 1845. oxford: oxford university press .
regular listeners to bookish will know that shane always gets away with shoehorning a sports book reference or two into the most unsuitable of conversations. having quickly become accustomed to bob' s glazed - over expression, he' s in his…
joe regal, zola’s chief executive, said he would operate bookish in its current form until he developed a plan for how to integrate it into zola’s own site. he said the site’s chief attraction was the sophisticated “algorithmic software” that offers readers suggestions .
i love bookish first. when i first found you guys i thought, “this sounds too good to be true. ” but no, it’s all true. you guys are like a reader’s dream come true. i never thought i would actually wi
in episode 7 of bookish, shane and bob belatedly usher in the new year with a first podcast of 2016. on the show, philip pullman and his decision to step down as patron of the oxford literary festival over its payment policy; gender…
is there anything like the joy of diving into a novel? if there is, we sure haven’t found it yet. grab your favorite reading chair and get cozy. we’ve got all of the fiction content you’ll need to be your most bookish self .
this is episode 8 of bookish, the irish podcast about books and reading, with bob johnston from the gutter bookshop in temple bar and dalkey and shane breslin of blackbird books in navan. on the show this month: - post - hibernation bears - …
better late than never? well, we' ll let you be the judge of that. on the april edition of bookish with bob johnston of the gutter bookshop and shane breslin of blackbird books. - awards season! again! we take a look at the recently…
that was my feature friday for today! i hope you enjoyed what you read. if you end up checking out these websites or if you’ve used them before i’d love to hear your thoughts about them! also let me know if you have any other fun bookish websites that you know about because i always like to explore new ones .
new orleans is absolutely drenched in old literary history, and over the summer, i was lucky enough to visit for a few days with a friend of mine and get a taste of this history for myself. a few years ago, cassandra neace highlighted her favorite bookish spots and book stores around the city, but if you’re itching for more literary awesomeness, check out some of these historical locations :
three of the five top publishers — the hachette book group, simon & schuster and penguin usa — conceived of bookish in 2011 as a book recommendation site to compete with amazon. but it had unsure footing from the start, churning through a handful of chief executives before a belated debut in early 2013. over the last year, the site has grown to a respectable but unremarkable 300, 000 unique visitors a month .
lonestar literary life, a website for texas books and texas readers that is committed to
connecting texas books and texas writers with those who most want to discover them ,
has named angelina and nacogdoches counties as one of their top ten texas bookish destinations in 2017. the article, which includes a description of the authors' visit to the history center, can be found here. they highlighted several other locations in the area including absolutely fiction bookstore, kurth memorial library, t. l. l. temple memorial library, and stephen f. austin state university .
declaration of michael r. bromwich (with exhibits) (december 30, 2013 )
plaintiff' s memorandum of law in opposition to apple inc.' s motion to show cause for a stay of the injunction pending appeal (december 30, 2013 )
declaration of lawrence e. buterman in support of plaintiffs' revised proposed injunction (august 23, 2013 )
plaintiffs' reply memorandum in support of their motion in limine to preclude dr. michelle burtis from offering at trial any opinion on competitive effects (submitted: may 8, 2013 | filed: may 14, 2013 )
plaintiffs' reply memorandum in support of their motion in limine to preclude dr. kevin murphy from offering at trial testimony on his opinions # 1 - # 3 (submitted: may 8, 2013 | filed: may 14, 2013 )
united states' opposition to apple inc.' s motion in limine to exclude certain expert testimony of professor richard gilbert (submitted: may 3, 2013 | filed: may 14, 2013 )
plaintiffs' motion in limine to preclude dr. michelle burtis from offering at trial any opinion on competitive effects (submitted: april 26, 2013 | filed: may 14, 2013 )
plaintiffs' motion in limine to preclude dr. kevin murphy from offering at trial testimony on his opinions # 1 - # 3 (submitted: april 26, 2013 | filed: may 14, 2013 )
final judgment as to defendants the penguin group, a division of pearson plc, and penguin group (usa), inc. (may 17, 2013 )
[ proposed ] final judgment as to defendants the penguin group, a division of pearson plc, and penguin group (usa), inc. (april 18, 2013 )
[ proposed ] final judgment as to defendants the penguin group, a division of pearson plc, and penguin group (usa), inc. (december 18, 2012 )
declaration of stephanie a. fleming in support of motion for entry of final judgment (august 3, 2012 )
notice: in the matter of u. s. v. apple, inc. , et al. , the u. s. department of justice invited public comment regarding settlement of defendants hachette book group, inc. , harpercollins publishers l. l. c. , and simon & schuster, inc. (see federal register notice at urltoken), defendants the penguin group, a division of pearson plc, penguin group (usa), inc. (see federal register notice at urltoken), and defendants verlagsgruppe georg von holtzbrink gmbh and holtzbrink publishers, llc d / b / a macmillan (see federal register notice at urltoken .) pursuant to 15 u. s. c. § 16, comments and responses thereto will be filed with the court and may be published in the federal register and / or on the u. s. department of justice internet website .
u. s. v. apple, inc. ; hachette book group, inc. ; harpercollins publishers llc; verlagsgruppe georg von holtzbrinck gmbh; holtzbrinck publishers, llc d / b / a macmillan; the penguin group, a division of pearson plc; penguin group (usa), inc. ; and simon & schuster, inc .
plaintiff' s memorandum of law in opposition to apple inc.' s motion to show cause for a stay of the injunction pending appeal
plaintiffs' reply memorandum in support of their motion in limine to preclude dr. michelle burtis from offering at trial any opinion on competitive effects
plaintiffs' reply memorandum in support of their motion in limine to preclude dr. kevin murphy from offering at trial testimony on his opinions # 1 - # 3
united states' opposition to apple inc.' s motion in limine to exclude certain expert testimony of professor richard gilbert
plaintiffs' motion in limine to preclude dr. michelle burtis from offering at trial any opinion on competitive effects
plaintiffs' motion in limine to preclude dr. kevin murphy from offering at trial testimony on his opinions # 1 - # 3
final judgment as to defendants the penguin group, a division of pearson plc, and penguin group (usa), inc .
[ proposed ] final judgment as to defendants the penguin group, a division of pearson plc, and penguin group (usa), inc .
[ proposed ] final judgment as to defendants the penguin group, a division of pearson plc, and penguin group (usa), inc .
declaration of stephanie a. fleming in support of motion for entry of final judgment
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i have yet to receive my first free book. i don’t like to give a negative review and i have loved to books on the site so far. it’s a good concept but i don’t believe there is a lot of organizati
i have spoken with two people and it took them a while to get back to me. the book i was supposed to receive is due out next week and i know it’s not bookishfir
company, but i wish there was a tracking number to confirm the books are being shipped out rather then hope it gets to me. i got another book coming so lets hope it gets here. �
n a book but there’s hardly a week goes by that i don’t win at least one i choose from. and most of the time, it’s a real book, paperback and some times hardback! and it’s all free! of course, i leave a review when the book is released but that’s not a hardship. i’m in heaven. i appreciate
and it’s not really a complaint but a wish, i wish you offered more than one or two books a week and a wider variety of genres like you did in the beginning .
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, pius xi (achille ratti) spent years as a vatican librarian before becoming a diplomat and cardinal .
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this chapter argues that authors of irish romantic novels and national tales, such as maria edgeworth and john and michael banim, are not only concerned with the extent to which their novels sought to copy from irish culture but are also worried about the slightness of the novel form in relation to the copiousness of that culture. such concerns led to attempts by thomas crofton croker and others to add texture and tactility to their depictions of the irish past, through antiquarian methodologies but also facsimiles, lithography, and other developments in print culture. the chapter demonstrates the ways in which irish literary texts were concerned not only to accurately and minutely detail the past, but also to adduce evidence of such historical and cultural authenticity, working against teleological accounts of the birth of the modern historical method, which see romantic history as unconcerned with the evidentiary foundations of the past .
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hello dears! i’ve not been posting much more than tags, and i apologise. i’ve been doing quite a bit of reading and also writing! i finally know where my story is going and i’m quite excited about that. i swear i’ll write a review soon, and do other normal posts, but for now, it’s tags !
i was tagged for this by aralyn. thank you so much! she actually started this tag, and it’s a very cool tag which i cannot wait to begin !
let’s take a moment to appreciate how easy and low - pressure these rules are! i’m going to go ahead and use her questions because i happen to think she’s better at creating questions than she gives herself credit for .
the more i thought about this, the more favourites i remembered. my mother used to read me freckle juice and little house on the prairie. i loved anne of green gables, the secret garden, black beauty, hoot, and little women. i loved bridge to terabithia, holes, treasure island, and sarah, plain and tall. i loved reading about mischievous little girls like me, so i adored ramona and junie b. jones. i adored (and read almost all of) the babysitter’s club books. i loved historical fiction from a very young age (all those little house books, i expect) and discovered the dear america series and the royal diaries series by the time they were a bit below my reading level. i liked them for that reason, however, because it meant i could devour them in an afternoon. i may have read all of them; i certainly read every one i could hunt down .
hmm, that’s a good question. i think it was mostly just the books mentioned above. i don’t know if there was a specific one that i could definitively say got me nto loving reading. i just loved reading. always .
i don’t think so, because i always liked a variety of genres. i just have never really been tied to any particular genre .
i think every book i’ve read does? even books i’ve almost forgotten about—i’ll see a book in a bookstore and all the memories of it will come flooding back to me. books—good ones, anyway—really stick with you. so if i started listing all the ones i felt special about, we would be here all night .
heh well usually i’m writing blog posts at my desk, where my bookshelf is right behind me, but this weekend i’m hanging with some sweet pups while their owners are out of town .
i also talked about my history as a reader in this post and this post, if you’re interested in knowing more for some reason .
i feel the same way about the condition of my books. i’d rather get the most out of a reading experience by annotating and highlighting then try to keep all of my books pristine. where’s the fun in that? 🙂
i like this tag. i also can’t think of any one book or series that started my love of reading. i’ve always loved reading .
ah, i’m so glad you did it! love the answers, too! especially the love of books for what kind of bookworm you are. and your first question’s answer gave me a good idea for another question i thought would fit well… i may have to add it to mine… * mumbles * you read quite a few books in your childhood! i remember read anne of green gables, but it wasn’t one of my favorites. i have a terrible memory x )
haha, well i’m a bit of a rebel. plus i just think if i was an author and saw someone’s copy of my book and they had written in it and read the heck out of it, i would be really, really touched. so i don’t feel like i’m disrespecting the book, i feel like i’m getting the most out of it. but everyone feels differently about it and guess what? if you own it, it’s yours! if you want to keep it pristine that is 100% ok. 🙂
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on our first full day in new orleans, my friend and i wandered around the french quarter and decided that 3: 30 on a monday afternoon was the perfect time to get tipsy. we stopped in the old absinthe house on bourbon street, which was a favorite haunt for authors like mark twain and oscar wilde, and which also served as the legendary secret meeting place between andrew jackson and the pirate jean lafitte as they planned the military strategy for the battle of new orleans. the bar top is actually the original bar from the early 1800’s, and if you look past the football memorabilia hanging from the ceiling, it’s easy to imagine mark twain sitting at the bar with that spectacular mustache and a glass of absinthe in hand .
we also ventured up to the second and third floors, which are fully functioning restaurants in the evenings, but were still closed when we got there. on the third floor, we bumped into one of the head chefs (“just call me chef q”), who thankfully did not scold us for wandering around the empty restaurant, but instead gave us an impromptu mini tour and shared a few of his favorite ghost stories from working there. so for those of you keeping score at home, the old absinthe house is literary and haunted! bonus points !
the carousel bar & lounge is exactly what its name implies: a bar set around a rotating merry - go - round. the bar / lounge is located inside the famous hotel monteleone, which has seen its fair share of literary guests, including ernest hemingway, william faulkner, john grisham, and anne rice. truman capote was also a frequent guest of both the hotel and the carousel bar, and he (erroneously) claimed that he had actually been born in the hotel itself .
the hotel was designated as an official literary landmark by the friends of the library association, one of only three hotels in the country to receive that distinction. and although we didn’t stay in the hotel itself, you can tell it’s well worth a visit. it’s also one of the city’s most well - known haunted locations. (that’s two haunted places on this list, if you’re keeping track, and yes, i totally plan to spend a night there one day. )
by day, jackson square and the place d’armes is a popular shopping and entertainment attraction in the heart of the french quarter. but by night, it’s overrun with dozens of stray cats that congregate behind the iron bars in the square. seriously. it’s like a kitty convention center. italian writer italo calvino described the feline occupants of jackson square in his story, “ the garden of stubborn cats, ” saying “there were striped cats, black cats, white cats, spotted cats, tabbies, angoras, persians, family cats and stray cats, perfumed cats and stinky cats. marcovaldo understood that he finally reached the heart of the kingdom of cats, their secret island. ”
sadly, i did not see any cats when we walked by, but if you read the comments from other nighttime tourists, it sounds like the cats really do make frequent appearances in the square. i’ll just have to plan another visit and wait for the kitties to come out .
when i first signed up to write this article, my first thought was “i totally have to stalk anne rice’s house. ” i’ve only read the first two books in the vampire chronicles, but to me, anne rice is the living embodiment of new orleans. her house even made its way into the witching hour, the first book in the mayfair witches trilogy – address and all !
anne rice doesn’t live in the house anymore, so to the average pedestrian, it just looks like another stately historic home in the garden district, save for a bronze plaque on the front gate with her name. there aren’t any tours inside the house, so i only got to look at it from behind the iron fence. but with the gorgeous columns and massive moss - covered trees in the front yard, i almost felt like i could see lestat peering out from one of the second story windows. and the fact that she doesn’t live there anymore made me feel less guilty about fan - girling in full view of the street with my mouth agape .
just a few blocks away from the rice house is lafayette cemetery no. 1, one of new orleans’ most famous above - ground cemeteries. and not surprisingly, the cemetery has ties to anne rice. she supposedly used one of its most famous tombs, the jefferson fire company # 22 tomb, as inspiration for the tomb of the mayfair witches, and one of the cast iron tombs was apparently used to create lestat’s tomb in the film version of interview with the vampire. anne rice even staged her own mock funeral in the lafayette cemetery to promote the release of her novel, memnoch the devil .
when i actually visited the cemetery, it started to pour the moment my friend and i stepped out of the car, so we knew our visit was going to be cut short. the cemetery is absolutely huge – about the size of a square city block – and we could easily have spent hours exploring the pathways and marveling at the creepy history in front of us, but it started to storm in earnest and we hightailed it back to the car in a hurry lest we be turned into human lightning rods .
there is so much literary history to appreciate in this city, and i know i haven’t even begun to scratch the surface of what new orleans has to offer. all this means, though, is that i have to start planning my next visit asap, and this time, i’ll make sure to carve out enough time to wait for the kitties in jackson square .
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questions of election tampering and voter fraud abounded in american politics last year and will continue to do so this year. the specter of voter fraud was repeatedly raised (primarily by republican - leaning voices) over the course of the 2016 election, and elections in general — though recent elections have indicated that actual instances of voter fraud are hard to find. a washington post article from september bore the headline “no, voter fraud actually isn’t a persistent problem, ” and an august new york times primer on the subject argued that voter fraud was unlikely to ever swing the vote on a meaningful level: “experts also say that the risk of widespread, decisive misconduct in a national election is extremely slim, in part because of the number of regulators from both parties and the constitutional structure of presidential balloting. ” and for all of the president - elect’s charges of voter fraud this year, there’s little evidence to back him up .
local races are potentially more vulnerable, but even there, supposed cases of voter fraud are frequently more complicated than they look. recently, the new republic published an essay by brooks skerritt in which he describes his own experience of being accused of voter fraud in this year’s election. in short, skerritt is a north carolina voter pursuing a doctorate out of state who has regularly voted via absentee ballot; this year, his ballot was challenged. his description of his own experiences, and the gray areas around finding proof of residency, suggest some of the hurdles that those in this position must overcome .
that doesn’t mean that voting can’t be swayed in untoward ways: the involvement of russian intelligence and hacked data in the 2016 presidential election (along with several house races) remains an urgent news story. those looking for a primer on vladimir putin’s intelligence background and its implications for contemporary russia may find steven levine’s putin ’ s labyrinth or masha gessen’s the man without a face both useful and terrifying .
and while voter fraud may no longer be a contemporary political concern, there are a number of instances where it has played a part in the elections of decades and centuries past. while modern elections, be they general or primary, seem like relatively restrained (even scientific) occasions, american history has featured irregularities, political machinations, and violence around the ballot box. here’s a look at five .
rigged elections played a significant role in the return of white supremacist policies to the american south following reconstruction. in an article for vox exploring this period in history, dara lind wrote that the american political group with a history of having rigged elections in favor of their preferred candidate was “white supremacists trying to maintain white power in the face of a diverse electorate. ” over the course of this harrowing article, she details the many ways in which this played out in the late 19th century, from multiple ballots being simultaneously submitted to acts of violence, including murder. eric foner’s forever free: the story of emancipation and reconstruction offers a history of this period for readers seeking a more in - depth look.
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urltoken is a content discovery and ecommerce website devoted to books which launched in february 2013. the site allows users to browse an extensive database of books and authors, add books to user-created digital " shelves ", get custom book recommendations, read editorial content and purchase physical books, ebooks, and audiobooks.
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