You may have heard some of the kerfuffle this week as Publishers Weekly announced their top 10 books of 2009, and there was not a female writer among the bunch.
There’s been a lot of response to this, most of it said better than I ever could. (Take that last sentence as your proof right there.) [...]
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10 Great Books by Female Authors
Posted in Uncategorized on November 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In which I think about ebooks, libraries, paper, the next generation and magic
Posted in Uncategorized on October 24, 2009 | 5 Comments »
You may have seen this summer that a highly regarded boarding school decided to dismantle its physical library in favor of a digital one. (You can read the article here.)
You may have read a piece on the NYRBlog about the lost art of browsing. (You can read the post here.)
You may have heard we are [...]
I Know We’ve Been Quiet
Posted in Uncategorized on August 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Hi. I just want to send out a quick note. I know the blog’s been sparse lately, but you know how it is in the summer on the Vineyard and the real life store has to take priority. Labor Day’s in just a couple weeks and we should be able to get back to regular [...]
100 Years of Association
Posted in Uncategorized on August 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
About a month back, I saw a blogpost about books that ought to be ejected from the canon. http://thesecondpass.com/?p=1663 They included One Hundred Years of Solitude, with the following explanation:
“I can’t decide whether I was bored when I picked up García Márquez or whether García Márquez bored me. Either way, it was the wrong moment [...]
Actually, I’d say it costs more
Posted in Uncategorized on July 17, 2009 | 14 Comments »
Every so often there’s something we hear at the bookstore. Someone asks whether we have a book, we track it down, they obviously want the book. Then there’s a whispered comment from a friend, “That book costs less at (you fill in the blank with another retailer)”. The book is put back on the shelf. [...]
A Random Post with Random Thoughts
Posted in Uncategorized on July 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »
A ways back I promised a video of the new store for those of you not on the Island. It does not do the space justice, and there’s obviously a reason I sell books and don’t make movies, but here you go:
Next… up in the kiddie corner, we (and our readers) [...]
What a difference a year makes.
Posted in Uncategorized on July 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Last year on July 4th, I was supposed to sleep in. I didn’t have to work until 1:30 and had a lazy day planned. I was shot straight from sleep to sitting bolt upright when I heard the upstairs neighbor to my basement apartment say, “Cafe Moxie’s on fire!”
I probably scared the heck out of [...]
What did we ever do to offend independence?
Posted in Uncategorized on July 3, 2009 | 2 Comments »
So, everybody knows we had a fire last year on July 4th. What you may not know: Yesterday, the start of the long July 4th weekend, we were hit by lightning. Hail the size of golf balls came down on the Vineyard. And the lightning fried some of our wiring and blew some of our [...]
You Should Have Been Here
Posted in Uncategorized on July 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever.”
– William Styron
As we’ve compiled our list of Island authors who will join us for signings to celebrate our reopening, we’ve been continually amazed [...]
Security Blanket Books
Posted in Uncategorized on June 26, 2009 | 4 Comments »
My sister just asked me whether a raccoon ate me since my net presence hasvanished in the past week. That means that no matter how busy it is, it’s time to blog. So here’s to finally putting in writing something I was thinking about a few weeks back (I’m actually finishing a draft post that [...]
