The books I bought this week are to clearly be labelled “childhood nostalgia.” Tintin was one of my first crushes (along with Commander Keen and Mouth from the Goonies – I’m sure we can psychoanalyze this a bit, something about a penchant for adventurous, daring, FICTIONAL, boys?) I think I need to start building a collection of the Tintin books, definitely something I’d be interested in reading over and over in the future.
Banned Books Week 2009
Coming at you again with a handful of bookish links gathered during the week, here’s a gallery of the 10 best secondhand bookstores in Britain. Some of them look really gorgeous. I wish I had the time, patience, resources and willpower to compile a similar Melbourne based list. I liked this piece on “Lessons Learned From Banned Books“, as someone who is a little obsessive about copying/marking out favourite passages or phrases from books, I love the idea that that somehow contributes to the person I’ve become. (In case you missed in on every other book blog in the universe, Banned Books Week was this week.) This article about hybrid books just makes me think that we must suffer from an extreme form of attention deficit that we have to resort to adding videos and such to make reading a really engaging and involving experience. Or, I could just be an old-fashioned book snob. But, look! Here’s a heartwarming story about a librarian who put in the effort to change a young boy’s life – no multimedia hybrid necessary.