Bookmark This! June 19 - 25th, 2007

Check out what's happening this week...

http://www.blogto.com/books_lit/2007/06/bookmark_this_june_19_25th_2007/

Bookmark This! June 12 - 18th, 2007

Literary events going on this week, listed over at blogTO:

http://www.blogto.com/books_lit/2007/06/bookmark_this_june_12_18th_2007/

The Two Best Quotes From Timequake So Far

"At the time of their invention, books were devices as crassly practical for storing or transmitting language, albeit fabricated from scarcely modified substances found in forest and field and animals, as the latest Silicon Valley miracles. But by accident, not by cunning calculation, books, because of their weight and texture, and because of their sweetly token resistance to manipulation, involve our hands and eyes, and then our minds and souls, in a spiritual adventure I would be very sorry for my grandchildren not to know about."

"They [colons] don't do anything, don't suggest anything. They are transvestite hermaphrodites."

LOLOLOL... only Vonnegut could write these two sentences in one book, four pages apart.

Madness, I Say!

Take a look at this:
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/05/28/book.burning.ap/index.html

A book store owner in Missouri is burning his unwanted books!

Tom Wayne, with the eloquence of an American book store owner, explains himself:
"After slogging through the tens of thousands of books we've slogged through and to accumulate that many and to have people turn you away when you take them somewhere, it's just kind of a knee-jerk reaction," he said. "And it's a good excuse for fun."

Yep. That's what I do for fun... burn some books. I find it extremely hard to believe he couldn't find anywhere to donate these books. What a waste. Not to mention the smoke being released into the atmosphere probably isn't good for the neighbours.