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4
Jun

ya book recs
- Ostrich Boys by Keith Gray
- Fever Crumb by Philip Reeve
- The Body Finder by Kimberly Derting
Ostrich Boys is a sweet, British novel about three boys who must learn to deal with their friend’s death. It sounds morbid, but it’s not. Fever Crumb is an interesting dystopian novel that I believe will be part of a series. It’s clever and doesn’t hold back, which makes it exciting as well. The Body Finder is a strong mystery, with enough suspense that I read it in one sitting because I had to know what happened. The ending was a bit too perfect, but after all the stress the main character goes through, it is rather nice.
25
May

I never really thought a nonfiction book would keep me up late reading, but this one is so good I’m having trouble putting it down.
- helen thomas
- books
22
Apr

Publish or Perish: Can the iPad topple the Kindle, and save the book business?
21
Apr

And so when you sometimes feel strange, when a pang tugs at your heart or it seems like the moment has already happened — or when you look up in the sky and are surprised by the sight of bright Jupiter between the clouds, and everything suddenly seems stuffed with a vast significance — consider that some other person somewhere is entangled with you in time, and is trying to give some push to the situation, some little help to make things better. Then put your shoulder to whatever wheel you have at hand, whatever moment you’re in, and push too! Push like Galileo pushed! And together we may crab sideways toward the good.

- Galileo’s Dream, Kim Stanley Robinson
21
Apr

Yes,” he confirmed. “The world works by mathematical rules. This is much more amazing than people usually seem to realize. Consider it — numbers are ideas, they are qualities in our minds that we abstract by looking at the world. So we see that we have two hands, and that there are two sheep in the meadow, but we never see a two anywhere. It’s not a thing but an idea, and therefore intangible.

- Galileo’s Dream, Kim Stanley Robins
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20
Apr

Any event in history that gets more crowded the longer you look at it — that’s the sign of a contested moment, a crux that will never stop changing under your gaze. The gaze itself entangles you, and you too are one of the changes in that moment.

- Galileo’s Dream, Kim Stanley Robinson
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20
Apr

Will Grayson was recently a trending topic on Twitter. How does that make you feel?

DL: John had to explain to me what that meant.

JG: Yeah, I was really excited about it, so I wrote David and he was like, ‘Is Trending Topic a store?’ A lot of people seem to believe that the Internet is killing the book, but I couldn’t disagree more, and so I was delighted to see ‘Will Grayson’ there on Twitter among the Biebers, the Gagas, and the #YoureSoUglys.

- Q&A: ‘Will Grayson, Will Grayson’ authors John Green and David Levithan | EW.com
20
Apr

We all have secret lives. The life of excretion; the world of inappropriate sexual fantasies; our real hopes, our terror of death; our experience of shame; the world of pain; and our dreams. No one else knows these lives. Consciousness is solitary. Each person lives in that bubble universe that rests under the skull, alone.

Galileo struggled on with his new sickness, his ability that was a disability, alone.

- Galileo’s Dream, Kim Stanley Robinson
19
Feb

ANDRE NORTON AWARD (young adult)
- Hotel Under the Sand, Kage Baker (Tachyon, Jul 09)
- Ice, Sarah Beth Durst (Simon and Schuster, Oct 09)
- Ash, Malinda Lo (Little, Brown and Company, Sep 09)
- Eyes Like Stars, Lisa Mantchev (Feiwel and Friends, Jul 09)
- Zoe’s Tale, John Scalzi (Tor Aug 08)
- When You Reach Me, by Rebecca Stead (Wendy Lamb Books, 2009)
- The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland In A Ship Of Her Own Making, Catherynne M. Valente (Catherynne M. Valente, Jun 09)
- Leviathan, Scott Westerfeld (Simon, Oct 09)
via John Scalzi

I need to read these, obviously.
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17
Feb

Just finished reading News from the Dead and it was extremely well done. If you’re in need of a good historical fiction book and Flygirl is checked out, look no further.