Another week, and no newly acquired books. This week I’ve been too focused on studying to do much book buying or reading, but once all my assignments are done I’m sure I’ll get back into it again. I’m about halfway through my assignments, the last couple should be fairly straight-forward. Hopefully I’ll be back in the swing of things by the end of the week. Until then; STRESS! ANGST! PREMATURE HAIR LOSS! CAFFEINE! HARVARD STYLE BIBLIOGRAPHIES! ARGH!
I do, however, also tend to always waste a lot of time online scouring and discovering all sorts of fascinating bookish links.
- What do Thomas Pynchon’s Inherent Vice (review) and Grand Theft Auto have in common? A lot more than you would suspect according to Matt Selman.
- A veteran soldier returns books to Germany, 64 years after having taken them as an 18 year old in World War 2.
- After another blogger questioned the use of a snippet from one of his blog reviews on the cover of a book, Mark Sarvas asks, do blog reviews belong on the covers and blurbs of books?
- Word Lily took a trip to Willa Cather‘s hometown – Red Cloud, Nebraska – and posted a beautiful set of photos of the area.
- Gus Van Sant and Bret Easton Ellis are working together on a film about Theresa Duncan and Jeremy Blake.
- A look at the use of visual literacy and reading comics.
- A multi-perspective article about the differences between reading electronic and paper texts.
Book Loot, Bret Easton Ellis, Inherent Vice, October 2009, Thomas Pynchon, Willa Cather