Today’s advent discovery on StumbleUpon is more than 100 literary masterpieces bound in the finest electronic leather.
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Mark Grambau’s poster series celebrates the form, dynamism, and unique aesthetics of superheroes. Each characters is represented with their iconic color palette, silhouette, and catchphrase or slogan.
See more posters here: http://www.behance.net/Gallery/Superherovillain-posters/194362/?_nospa=true
How Kindle’s Paperwhite Technology Works
The Kindle Paperwhite uses a unique lighting system to illuminate its electronic ink display. Rather than using a backlight as on LCD-based tablets, the Paperwhite uses a transparent light guide that directs light from four edge-mounted LEDs down toward the surface of the display. See how it all works!
Source: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/12/26/technology/light-reading.html?ref=technology
Today’s StumbleUpon Advent find is 13 “Top 100 Books” lists combined and condensed into one master list. That’s 623 books in all!
Source: http://www.alistofbooks.com/?_nospa=true
Notables reads for me within in the top 100:
Catch-22
The Catcher in the Rye
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Mrs Dalloway
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
Day 2 of my StumbleUpon advent calendar. This one is beautiful!
照片 189 by Ginger Garden
Source:
The Christmas spirit has captured me this year so each day I’m going to play with StumbleUpon as a little digital advent calendar. Instead of a paper calendar I’m going to push the StumbleUpon button and see what I get. One a day, leading up to Christmas. I’ll post the reveal here for you to also enjoy.
Source: http://kevron2001.deviantart.com/art/Night-light-345379702
Todd Babiak’s latest novel about a Canadian family accidentally caught up with mobsters in the south of France needs to be read with the lights on and the doors locked!
This is not earnest Canadiana. Babiak has written a spine-tingling, torture-ridden, political drama about the Kruse family who end up hunted by a Corsican crime family hired by a political party with connections throughout the country and in the gendarmerie.
Christopher and Evelyn Kruse bring their 4-year-old daughter Lily to South France in an attempt to rekindle their love. Instead they are driven apart when their daughter is hit and killed by a drunk driver who happens to be their landlord and the poster-boy candidate for the Front National party, Jean-Francois de Musset. The next morning Jean-Francois and his wife are found brutally murdered, Evelyn is on the run, and Christopher discovers Russian goons hired by a Corsican crime family are hunting his wife. He must draw on his security forces training and own investigative skills to find her before they do.
Come Barbarians is a fantastic thriller where South France is as much a character as Christopher himself; dark, mysterious and desperately seeking some form of stasis.
If you like The Wire tv series, you’ll like Come Barbarians.
I think I also enjoyed this novel because we were in South France last year and visited many of the towns mentioned in the book, including Vaison-la-romaine where the book opens.
Come Barbarians by Todd Babiak
Published by HarperCollins
My little jailbird is out at a halloween party today.
No problem getting the cuffs off.
WANTED!
For Milk Rustlin’
Also wanted for stealing candy from monkeys.
Third Generation Bookseller BLACK BOND BOOKS Celebrates 50 Years! (CNW Group/Black Bond Books)
Oh hooray for Black Bond Books! Canada’s largest independent bookselling group‚ based in BC‚ is celebrating their Golden Anniversary this October. Black Bond Books was founded in Brandon, Manitoba in 1963, by Madeline Neill, now retired. She moved to BC in 1972, and with the help of her children, Cathy, Vicky and Michael, the company grew to 10 locations over the years. A true, family business, Madeline’s daughter Cathy Jesson is President, granddaughter, and third generation bookseller Caitlin Jesson manages the Vancouver location, and Mel Jesson, business partner, keeps the financials in order. (Source: Press Release)
Calling All Historians & Journalists! Do you know about the Michael Fellman Award? This $1000 award was co-established by the SFU History Department and The Tyee to honour a piece of publicly accessible writing that offers a bold, erudite political analysis tied to history.
The inaugural prize honours this historian’s skill at unpacking complex issues and providing context to current day and historical events. Fellman passed away in 2012 and the Michael Fellman Award was created to reflect his spirit of public engagement, bold thought, clear analysis, and writing that rests on well-researched historical understanding.
The submission deadline is fast approaching! Entries are due before November 1.
Deadline: Nov 1
2,500 words
Email doc to editor@thetyee.ca; Subject Line: Submission for Michael Fellman Award
Full details are available here:
http://thetyee.ca/Mediacheck/2013/09/12/Fellman-Award-Deadline/
More about Michael Fellman, professor emeritus of history at SFU and historian of the 19th Century, the Civil War, and American Violence: Michael Fellman in Memoriam: an essay by Christopher Phelps