tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86769285864209133672024-02-19T00:14:25.156-05:00The Inkwell Bookstore BlogYour second (maybe third?) choice for book news, reviews, praise & slander.Inkwell Bookstorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01609687997535147041noreply@blogger.comBlogger1261125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8676928586420913367.post-86179476043639740912010-01-01T00:01:00.000-05:002010-01-01T00:01:03.144-05:00Hasta la vista, Irregulars!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.littlestuffedbull.com/images/comics/yotsubafun.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 236px;" src="http://www.littlestuffedbull.com/images/comics/yotsubafun.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>Inkwell Bookstorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01609687997535147041noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8676928586420913367.post-8103319365577428992009-12-31T13:33:00.002-05:002009-12-31T13:34:04.994-05:00Happy New Year!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.myemoticons.com/emoticons/images/msn/special-events/happy_new_year1.gif"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 50px; height: 50px;" src="http://www.myemoticons.com/emoticons/images/msn/special-events/happy_new_year1.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.myemoticons.com/emoticons/images/msn/special-events/happy_new_year1.gif"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 50px; height: 50px;" src="http://www.myemoticons.com/emoticons/images/msn/special-events/happy_new_year1.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.myemoticons.com/emoticons/images/msn/special-events/happy_new_year1.gif"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 50px; height: 50px;" src="http://www.myemoticons.com/emoticons/images/msn/special-events/happy_new_year1.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.myemoticons.com/emoticons/images/msn/special-events/happy_new_year1.gif"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 50px; height: 50px;" src="http://www.myemoticons.com/emoticons/images/msn/special-events/happy_new_year1.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.myemoticons.com/emoticons/images/msn/special-events/happy_new_year1.gif"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 50px; height: 50px;" src="http://www.myemoticons.com/emoticons/images/msn/special-events/happy_new_year1.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.myemoticons.com/emoticons/images/msn/special-events/happy_new_year1.gif"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 50px; height: 50px;" src="http://www.myemoticons.com/emoticons/images/msn/special-events/happy_new_year1.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a>Inkwell Bookstorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01609687997535147041noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8676928586420913367.post-90555960105610305522009-12-31T08:00:00.001-05:002009-12-31T08:00:08.445-05:00Book News, In Brief<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.brama.com/sports/thumbs/sp_olympics48.gif"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 48px; height: 48px;" src="http://www.brama.com/sports/thumbs/sp_olympics48.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a>Today's indie bookstore reach-around is brought to you by <a href="http://publishingperspectives.com/?p=9817">Edward Nawotka</a>.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://media.strategywiki.org/images/thumb/2/20/LoZ_TP_slingshot.png/50px-LoZ_TP_slingshot.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 48px; height: 48px;" src="http://media.strategywiki.org/images/thumb/2/20/LoZ_TP_slingshot.png/50px-LoZ_TP_slingshot.png" alt="" border="0" /></a>David vs. Goliath -- <a href="http://www.booktrade.info/index.php/showarticle/24964">part II</a>! (How much do you wanna bet Goliath wins this time?)<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.instantconference.com/images/ic/priceburst-free.gif"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 48px; height: 48px;" src="http://www.instantconference.com/images/ic/priceburst-free.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a>You know those 'bestselling e-books' that Amazon keeps hyping? <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10422538-93.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20">Over 50% of them are giveaways</a>.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://img.excite.co.uk/images/excite/common/elements/horoscope/medium/crystal_ball.gif"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 48px; height: 48px;" src="http://img.excite.co.uk/images/excite/common/elements/horoscope/medium/crystal_ball.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a>American Book Review asked writers to speculate -- in one sentence or less -- on the future of fiction. <a href="http://americanbookreview.org/currentIssue_features.asp?Issue=12&id=2">Here are the responses</a>.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.comixtreme.com/forums/images/avatars/X-Men.gif"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 48px; height: 48px;" src="http://www.comixtreme.com/forums/images/avatars/X-Men.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a>Director Bryan Singer has offered the first concrete quote as to what the hell the next X-Men film is going to be about, and it sounds like a yoai fanfic writer's dream: <a href="http://worldofsuperheroes.com/movie-a-tv-news/33-x-men/585-bryan-singer-talks-about-next-x-men-movie-and-magneto">Professor Xavier and Magneto's tumultuous relationship as twenty-somethings</a>.Inkwell Bookstorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01609687997535147041noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8676928586420913367.post-71859299932647413862009-12-30T12:35:00.003-05:002009-12-30T12:41:08.888-05:00Go, Look: Time's Top 10 Magazine Covers of '09<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.advocate.com/uploadedImages/advocate/editorial/issue_covers/A1026x300.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 414px;" src="http://www.advocate.com/uploadedImages/advocate/editorial/issue_covers/A1026x300.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a href="http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1945379_1943891_1943893,00.html">Click here</a> to begin.Inkwell Bookstorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01609687997535147041noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8676928586420913367.post-78505845772026831372009-12-30T08:00:00.000-05:002009-12-30T10:09:29.966-05:00Book News, In Brief<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.iaddidea.com/pic-post/page1/baby_fat.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 50px; height: 50px;" src="http://www.iaddidea.com/pic-post/page1/baby_fat.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Q: Are Americans are getting fatter because of their <a href="http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/entertainment/cooking-stronger-than-fiction-on-bestseller-list-20091229-livx.html">recent reading habits</a>? A: Of course not, but the link needed a hook.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://thealternativealternativehour.webs.com/smoking%20baby.gif"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 50px; height: 50px;" src="http://thealternativealternativehour.webs.com/smoking%20baby.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a>It's only slightly less depressing than those 'Local Bookstore to Close' articles: <a href="http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-smallbiz-outlook29-2009dec29,0,5285602.story?track=rss">Local Bookstore Taking Painful Steps to Stay Afloat</a>.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://a1.twimg.com/profile_images/185731674/Pregnant_Mummy_1_normal.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 50px; height: 50px;" src="http://a1.twimg.com/profile_images/185731674/Pregnant_Mummy_1_normal.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>The NYTimes asked a handful of authors to explain how they decide <a href="http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/27http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/27/books-you-can-live-without//books-you-can-live-without/">which books to throw away</a> and <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/12/27/opinion/20091222RFD_books.html">which to keep</a>. Needless to say, the trash talk is as tepid as the praise is rhapsodic.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.babble.com/content/articles/columns/the-babble-list/The-Helicopter-Parents-Reading-List-Six-classic-childrens-books-that-get-too-close-for-comfort/images/50x50.gif"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 50px; height: 50px;" src="http://www.babble.com/content/articles/columns/the-babble-list/The-Helicopter-Parents-Reading-List-Six-classic-childrens-books-that-get-too-close-for-comfort/images/50x50.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a>Local lawmaker hopes to make it tougher for pervs checking out kids checking out books. (Or: <a href="http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/22079875/detail.html">Quincy, MA is considering an ordinance that would ban Level 3 sex offenders from libraries</a>.)Inkwell Bookstorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01609687997535147041noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8676928586420913367.post-53257651001318431372009-12-29T10:20:00.004-05:002009-12-29T10:24:07.140-05:00Ouch!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://images.businessweek.com/ss/06/06/new_tech_leaders/image/jeffbezos.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 440px; height: 308px;" src="http://images.businessweek.com/ss/06/06/new_tech_leaders/image/jeffbezos.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">"If Mr. Bezos wanted to do his part to avert layoffs of schoolteachers and firefighters and, yes, professors at state universities, he should start collecting the sales tax."</span><br />To read the rest of the NYTimes' assault on Amazon, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/27/business/27digi.html?_r=1">click here</a>.Inkwell Bookstorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01609687997535147041noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8676928586420913367.post-28080586209951619142009-12-29T08:00:00.001-05:002009-12-29T09:37:00.819-05:00Tuesday's Tips for Flailing Writers,<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bluwiki.com/images/thumb/c/c5/IconBeatnikPoet.png/50px-IconBeatnikPoet.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 48px; height: 48px;" src="http://bluwiki.com/images/thumb/c/c5/IconBeatnikPoet.png/50px-IconBeatnikPoet.png" alt="" border="0" /></a>Voilà -- Voltaire! Philip Larkin explains the '<a href="http://www.advicetowriters.com/home/2009/12/26/the-process-of-poetry.html">The Process of Poetry</a>' in three simple steps.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2594/buddyicons/1278453@N21.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 48px; height: 48px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2594/buddyicons/1278453@N21.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Oy vey, the chutzpah! Daily Writing Tips has <a href="http://www.dailywritingtips.com/the-yiddish-handbook-40-words-you-should-know/">The 40 Yiddish Words You Should Know</a>.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://a1.twimg.com/profile_images/557728754/peanuts_lucy_normal.gif"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 48px; height: 48px;" src="http://a1.twimg.com/profile_images/557728754/peanuts_lucy_normal.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a>Plot to Punctuation echoes what I've been telling my probation officer for years: <a href="http://www.plottopunctuation.com/blog/show/54">Villains are heroes too</a>.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.reviewedringtones.com/wallpapers/eminem.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 48px; height: 48px;" src="http://www.reviewedringtones.com/wallpapers/eminem.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>You tell me. Is CopyBlooger's '<a href="http://www.copyblogger.com/eminem/">The Eminem Guide to Becoming a Writing and Marketing Machine</a>' the best titled tip of the day or what?<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://a3.twimg.com/profile_images/291033269/PJ_Square_259_normal.gif"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 48px; height: 48px;" src="http://a3.twimg.com/profile_images/291033269/PJ_Square_259_normal.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a>Three different approaches to dealing with writer's block, all from the same source. Swati Nitin Gupta's <a href="http://ezinearticles.com/?Avoiding-Writers-Block-With-Four-Easy-Steps&id=3477138">How to Avoid</a>, <a href="http://ezinearticles.com/?How-to-Cure-Writers-Block-Eleven-Tips&id=3477130">How to Cure</a>, and <a href="http://ezinearticles.com/?How-to-Take-Advantage-of-Writers-Block&id=3479060">How to Take Advantage of</a> Writer's Block. (Homegirl seems a li'l obsessed, no?)Inkwell Bookstorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01609687997535147041noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8676928586420913367.post-44044716189559457612009-12-28T12:00:00.004-05:002009-12-28T12:33:45.751-05:00These Are The Comics I Gave My Kinfolk For ChristmasI'd originally intended to post this pre-X-mas, but on the off chance that one of my family members somehow happened upon this blog (yeah, right!), I figured I'd better wait. Fast forward four days, and now that all of the gifts have been distributed and the fill-in-the-name thank-you cards emailed en masse, I figured it was safe to share. So now, without further intro, a brief list of the comic books I gave to my comics-curious family.<br /><br />To the 6th grade nephew who likes <span style="font-style: italic;">Bone</span>, <span style="font-style: italic;">Monty Python & The Holy Grail</span>, and monster movies:<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinmh9qV8XJcl0ZisvK0shIAYpigBxbC91ZOqJnQBOZAD0PPwvPg51R7YeJ6rmP4gzmYb1sUWcKgNtX7fvMVYOC3aaN_caKzu1Fb4_6i8_PuFG7bTloCMrTiqEToz_r1LtIfXwudnADS7yD/s320/Dungeon.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 190px; height: 250px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinmh9qV8XJcl0ZisvK0shIAYpigBxbC91ZOqJnQBOZAD0PPwvPg51R7YeJ6rmP4gzmYb1sUWcKgNtX7fvMVYOC3aaN_caKzu1Fb4_6i8_PuFG7bTloCMrTiqEToz_r1LtIfXwudnADS7yD/s320/Dungeon.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8tcQnkKntFweFLK4eWD1sIB2Dpu7Ls9kxYMtyA-x6656OzmVMXnHEn3Ge4g2pH_U2HKcLfXeCxD7-KP8-I5lBP0rBEJUc6WIB2mNsrIRZ5avw-E-HjcVs4Fvx4_NHvIFS1R91KOoq1neA/s320/Essential+Godzilla_1.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 190px; height: 280px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8tcQnkKntFweFLK4eWD1sIB2Dpu7Ls9kxYMtyA-x6656OzmVMXnHEn3Ge4g2pH_U2HKcLfXeCxD7-KP8-I5lBP0rBEJUc6WIB2mNsrIRZ5avw-E-HjcVs4Fvx4_NHvIFS1R91KOoq1neA/s320/Essential+Godzilla_1.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5361472234397432930" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />The first two </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Dungeon</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> books by Lewis Trondheim and Joann Sfar.</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">The Essential Godzilla</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> by Doug Moench, Herb Trimpe, et al.</span><br /><br />To the 9th grade niece who likes emo music, shopping at Hot Topic, and the <span style="font-style: italic;">Death Note</span> anime:<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.strangehorizons.com/2009/20090518/bestof2008/umbrella_academy_TPB.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 190px; height: 280px;" src="http://www.strangehorizons.com/2009/20090518/bestof2008/umbrella_academy_TPB.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ee/XxxHolic_vol1_Cover.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 190px; height: 270px;" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ee/XxxHolic_vol1_Cover.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5361472234397432930" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><br />The Umbrella Academy</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> by Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">The first three </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">xxxHOLIC</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> books by Clamp.</span><br /><br />To the 11th grade nephew who likes death metal, skinny jeans, and zombie movies:<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJZNSYZdyyD1xVJwFsOdoxGEOkp2vB9ZTMF7VyXU9IIPOE29rVF5l6boqmGB_7-G6S_i1OimkUBOwQu8CWCazTtr2u8LMJvMA_a5g-1kxT5eblR6chegEBfWYDOLCOQqcwHBdhYIR7xEk/s400/DetroitMetalCityV1-web.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 190px; height: 270px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJZNSYZdyyD1xVJwFsOdoxGEOkp2vB9ZTMF7VyXU9IIPOE29rVF5l6boqmGB_7-G6S_i1OimkUBOwQu8CWCazTtr2u8LMJvMA_a5g-1kxT5eblR6chegEBfWYDOLCOQqcwHBdhYIR7xEk/s400/DetroitMetalCityV1-web.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.hillcity-comics.com/graphic_novels/new_graphic_novel5780.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 190px; height: 280px;" src="http://www.hillcity-comics.com/graphic_novels/new_graphic_novel5780.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5361472234397432930" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br />The first three <span style="font-style: italic;">Detroit Metal City</span> books by Kiminori Wakasugi.<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">The Walking Dead Omnibus </span>volume 1 by Robert Kirkman, et al.</span><br /><br />To the 40-something sister who loves sappy BBC costume melodramas and reads almost as many comics as me:<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a6/Emma_manga_vol01.jpg/200px-Emma_manga_vol01.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 190px; height: 270px;" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a6/Emma_manga_vol01.jpg/200px-Emma_manga_vol01.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZCozqgBcJvZffT7d5cLpJQoe4lpKAsbjt__4ky8Zv_jsDyXVa8B4_LkAUyiSC7tKy03GZ438qYuue2huV273Utqlb05eO3f0byu4jN6EBtnHbiI628rwftpHP7InJP8-lF1fIN3-ooDm2/s320/Future+Lovers+1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 190px; height: 270px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZCozqgBcJvZffT7d5cLpJQoe4lpKAsbjt__4ky8Zv_jsDyXVa8B4_LkAUyiSC7tKy03GZ438qYuue2huV273Utqlb05eO3f0byu4jN6EBtnHbiI628rwftpHP7InJP8-lF1fIN3-ooDm2/s320/Future+Lovers+1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5361472234397432930" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />The first three <span style="font-style: italic;">Emma </span>books by Kaoru Mori.<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Future Lovers</span> volume 1 and 2 by Saika Kunieda.</span><br /><br />To the 40-something British brother-in-law who likes beer, wine, and looong conversations fueled by beer and wine:<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://wpcontent.answers.com/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/2b/Alec.jpg/200px-Alec.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 190px; height: 250px;" src="http://wpcontent.answers.com/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/2b/Alec.jpg/200px-Alec.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.popcultureshock.com/wp-content/uploads/manga/Disappearance_Diary1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 190px; height: 270px;" src="http://www.popcultureshock.com/wp-content/uploads/manga/Disappearance_Diary1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5361472234397432930" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><br />Alec and The King Canute Crowd</span> by Eddie Campbell.<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">The Disappearance Diary</span> by Hideo Azuma.</span><br /><br />What about you? I want to to know what books you got for your friends and family. More importantly, I want to know what books they gave you. Feel free to list, critique and offer public praise for gifts received in our comments section.Inkwell Bookstorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01609687997535147041noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8676928586420913367.post-64354167335197181382009-12-28T08:00:00.002-05:002009-12-28T09:50:36.321-05:00Book News, In Brief<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.howtolearnenglish.co.uk/images/25141x50.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 50px; height: 50px;" src="http://www.howtolearnenglish.co.uk/images/25141x50.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>"A brilliantly ambitious article, this is, without a doubt, <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2009/dec/24/whats-the-point-of-blurbs">the editorial of the day</a>...and possibly the decade."<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.sda-indo.com/sda/features/pspic/pics/82/now_hiring43cc66f055ee5.bmp"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 50px; height: 50px;" src="http://www.sda-indo.com/sda/features/pspic/pics/82/now_hiring43cc66f055ee5.bmp" alt="" border="0" /></a>Wanna-be writers of limited skill have reason to rejoice: Publishers are now begrudgingly accepting submissions from the merely "<a href="http://www.alanrinzler.com/blog/2009/12/17/publishers-desperately-seeking-insanely-great-debut-novelists/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AlanRinzler+%28Alan+Rinzler%29">insanely great</a>."<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.enagri.info/images/constructs/Google_G.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 50px; height: 50px;" src="http://www.enagri.info/images/constructs/Google_G.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Librarians, like everyone else with even an infinitesimal investment in the written word, <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5BG5AY20091217?type=artsNews">are nervous about what's gonna happen when Google scans the world</a>.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://img.brothersoft.com/icon/softimage/0/3d_ebook_shot-34120.jpeg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 50px; height: 50px;" src="http://img.brothersoft.com/icon/softimage/0/3d_ebook_shot-34120.jpeg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Inspired by the publishing industry's recent ebook release announcements (and using the film industry's many missteps as a measuring stick), Booksquare has put together <a href="http://booksquare.com/a-long-detailed-look-at-distribution-windows/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+booksquare+%28Booksquare%29">A Long, Detailed Look at Distribution Windows</a>.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://a3.twimg.com/profile_images/360827523/iconW_normal.gif"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 50px; height: 50px;" src="http://a3.twimg.com/profile_images/360827523/iconW_normal.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a>After initially announcing that they would be closing close to 200 Waldenbooks locations in the first few weeks of January, <a href="http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/bookselling/borders_to_keep_20_waldenbooks_stores_146990.asp">Borders now promises to save twenty of those stores</a>. Question: Is this the big box bookstore's attempt at spinning themselves some positive PR? Cuz it still sounds grim.Inkwell Bookstorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01609687997535147041noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8676928586420913367.post-4719062455070717852009-12-24T06:00:00.005-05:002009-12-24T11:42:51.820-05:00Merry Christmas!To all our <a href="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/signin/home?st=e%3DAOG8GaD6wxY0P1%252Fa90SPhYfzP8YKVKDJ%252BdT1BnNTlJQ5Mhd0yoo3RM%252BC5jC3dGjG7EnLdzqIXFBq01eZdAno6O0Z3NzlHg4MfjYFo4LT3v%252Bk59uEOKHT5Va67xO9HOWi3NcYQ9v0IZb%252B9AZ6LdWyz9zZuVJYGUPN12cZ1M0IrHwdMeK20DGujzwL5P%252FWOAeYE2G5vKoWxk7UIk38LJ%252BCNA%252FyXFDfOr7bGxt0P7vdY3JA6H7a26iPk4fv2%252BtPLwpV31hGObRE9yMY%26c%3Dpeoplesense&psinvite=" target="_blank">faithful Irregulars</a> and anonymous passersby:<br />If I were a much richer and more generous man, I'd give each and every one of you a copy of each and every one of these books. But since I'm not, the covers will have to suffice.<div>Happy Holiday! See you next week!<div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoNtND9NtXiSVMTjwHtOaz5HSN0y4K-ESphSJk-Pw-9pQ4E-IIe0ErfigSVfkPEb1ES0GsC5vi5W1zaw7MjfgOldm8V0lC3mj9aIR1vxlRwLQdVrB_e9l__VHVf3LtVOmtnaqN3p_P0u4/s1600-h/n242624.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 202px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoNtND9NtXiSVMTjwHtOaz5HSN0y4K-ESphSJk-Pw-9pQ4E-IIe0ErfigSVfkPEb1ES0GsC5vi5W1zaw7MjfgOldm8V0lC3mj9aIR1vxlRwLQdVrB_e9l__VHVf3LtVOmtnaqN3p_P0u4/s320/n242624.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5418582577767448274" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://thegirlfromtheghetto.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/augusten-book.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 250px; height: 375px;" src="http://thegirlfromtheghetto.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/augusten-book.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6hDZt1e0ofY/SUNVWRrGtuI/AAAAAAAACnQ/KxB4NXviYgo/s320/reddfoxxmas.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 273px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6hDZt1e0ofY/SUNVWRrGtuI/AAAAAAAACnQ/KxB4NXviYgo/s320/reddfoxxmas.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.comicsbulletin.com/effect/images/VOH24.jpeg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 290px; height: 450px;" src="http://www.comicsbulletin.com/effect/images/VOH24.jpeg" border="0" alt="" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLbYChce-GrrZFus7hifNrZxddDiV-srql3hQiqWGsOnYR7L34yt-C5-Kp0cwKu__Uq29sUehTPHpv4tkp5UIoe5iKkGaS09DzVjE6w9MqDoUxJR4OZbmiQfGFT11EDvwDe13YglZwRtQc/s1600/war-on-christmas.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 350px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLbYChce-GrrZFus7hifNrZxddDiV-srql3hQiqWGsOnYR7L34yt-C5-Kp0cwKu__Uq29sUehTPHpv4tkp5UIoe5iKkGaS09DzVjE6w9MqDoUxJR4OZbmiQfGFT11EDvwDe13YglZwRtQc/s1600/war-on-christmas.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.cleavelin.net/archives001/xmascovers/santathebarbarian01.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 440px; height: 700px;" src="http://www.cleavelin.net/archives001/xmascovers/santathebarbarian01.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a></div></div>Inkwell Bookstorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01609687997535147041noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8676928586420913367.post-8838665517267349202009-12-23T11:57:00.003-05:002009-12-23T12:15:18.910-05:00Last Minute Gift Tips for the Bookish: Papercraft<a onblur="image location: http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5229/1976/1600/Jules-Verne-02.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 190px; height: 280px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5229/1976/1600/Jules-Verne-02.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwWsWEXgoMnQHUIw4AW4Gk1JyOnxnEZVM-Lsh0_ItZGxgfbu6litIPIwKwzRyKx-4lqKgZHgN4UKZu2BfuZKNDMjFKdoa60Z9fveWUosta-XBjv_l6JNXwlELELMfO6wxEgaEwH2CzGW5q/s400/cthulhubox.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 190px; height: 280px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwWsWEXgoMnQHUIw4AW4Gk1JyOnxnEZVM-Lsh0_ItZGxgfbu6litIPIwKwzRyKx-4lqKgZHgN4UKZu2BfuZKNDMjFKdoa60Z9fveWUosta-XBjv_l6JNXwlELELMfO6wxEgaEwH2CzGW5q/s400/cthulhubox.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Jules Verne Bust</span> is available for download <a href="http://papercraft-world.blogspot.com/2006/09/jules-verne-papercraft-bust.html">here</a>.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Lovecraft's Cthulhu</span> is available for download <a href="http://jerom-bd.blogspot.com/2007_07_01_archive.html" target="_blank">here</a>.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://kobico.vndv.com/images_series4/NewMoon.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 440px; height: 270px;" src="http://kobico.vndv.com/images_series4/NewMoon.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><i><b>Twilight: New Moon</b></i> characters are available for download <a href="http://kobico.vndv.com/series4.html">here</a>.Inkwell Bookstorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01609687997535147041noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8676928586420913367.post-49841029204909545272009-12-22T08:00:00.001-05:002009-12-22T08:00:07.826-05:00Tuesday's Tips for Flailing Toast Writers<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/25240637/The+Three+Degrees.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 440px; height: 360px;" src="http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/25240637/The+Three+Degrees.png" alt="" border="0" /></a>We're three short days away from Christmas. It's time to put down that NaNoWriMo novel you're secretly rewriting and get to work on your non-denominational, safe for alkies, seasonal toast. The fact is, your friends and family already 'jokingly' refer to you as a 'wannabe' writer. If you can't come up with a memorable pre-martini mantra, they're really gonna start talking sh*t about you. That's why, in an effort to save what's left of your writerly rep, we've put together a short list of toast writing tips. If you use these and your toast still sucks...well, maybe your family's right.<br /><br />eHow's <a href="http://www.ehow.com/how_1616_write-great-toast.html">How to Write a Great Toast</a><br /><br />Toastmasters <a href="http://www.foxbusiness.com/story/toastmasters-tips-holiday-toasts/">Tips on Holiday Toasts</a><br /><br />How To Do Things' <a href="http://www.howtodothings.com/hobbies/a4330-how-to-write-a-toast.html">How to write a toast</a><br /><br />Emily Posts' <a href="http://www.emilypost.com/everyday/tips_on_toasts.htm">Toasting Tips and Sample Toasts</a><br /><br />Life123's <a href="http://www.life123.com/holidays/etiquette/toasts-speeches/holiday-toasts.shtml">Great Tips for Making The Best Holiday Toasts</a><br /><br />Purple Trails Party Ideas' <a href="http://www.purpletrail.com/partytrail/party_planning/etiquette/toasts-tips-for-giving-a-great-toast">Toasts – Tips For Giving A Great Toast</a><br /><br />Ezine @rticles' <a href="http://ezinearticles.com/?Holiday-Toasts---Setting-the-Tone-For-the-Holiday-Break&id=3278599">Holiday Toasts - Setting the Tone For the Holiday Break</a>Inkwell Bookstorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01609687997535147041noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8676928586420913367.post-70408653714719613472009-12-21T09:27:00.004-05:002009-12-21T10:03:04.584-05:00Book News, In Brief<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.wakefieldsoft.com/giftbox/images/icon50x50.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 50px; height: 50px;" src="http://www.wakefieldsoft.com/giftbox/images/icon50x50.JPG" alt="" border="0" /></a>Timely topic! While I giftwrap this copy of <span style="font-style: italic;">Nanny Returns: A Novel</span> that I'm giving to my stepmother, please entertain yourselves with EW's <a href="http://shelf-life.ew.com/2009/12/16/book-gifts-etiquette/">Would you buy a book that makes you cringe as a gift if you know the recipient will love it?</a><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://msn.mess.be/data/media/57/SlitWrist.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 50px; height: 50px;" src="http://msn.mess.be/data/media/57/SlitWrist.png" alt="" border="0" /></a>A year-end list to make you slit your wrists! The LA Times momentarily forgets that they cut out the Books Section of their newspaper to make room for more film premiere photos, then asks, <a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2009/12/the-decade-in-reading.html">The decade in reading: How bad is it? </a><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.superfuture.com/images/customavatars/avatar20328_2.gif"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 50px; height: 50px;" src="http://www.superfuture.com/images/customavatars/avatar20328_2.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a>Don't go getting any ideas! Now that movies and music are available for free download online, arts & entertainment obsessed shoplifters have found a new favorite thing to steal: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/20/books/review/Rabb-t.html?_r=1&ref=books">Books</a>. (Don't worry, booksellers: With the rampant rise of e-books, the thieves will soon be downloading these, too.)Inkwell Bookstorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01609687997535147041noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8676928586420913367.post-37440993678007921402009-12-18T13:00:00.004-05:002009-12-18T17:07:25.829-05:00Gift Tips for the Bookish: T-shirts<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.giantrobot.com/blogs/martin/uploaded_images/newsletter092209_4-712519.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 190px; height: 190px;" src="http://www.giantrobot.com/blogs/martin/uploaded_images/newsletter092209_4-712519.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://store.nakatomiinc.com/images/products/display/popeshirtgreen.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 190px; height: 190px;" src="http://store.nakatomiinc.com/images/products/display/popeshirtgreen.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://loveandmaggie.blogspot.com/2009/10/jaime-hernandez-stussy-t-shirts-now.html" target="_blank">Jaime Hernandez 'Stussy' Tee</a>: $28.00<br /><a href="http://store.nakatomiinc.com/paulpopecrepaxmintshirt.aspx" target="_blank">Paul Pope 'Crepax' Tee</a>: $20.00<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://ny-image0.etsy.com/il_430xN.50263768.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 190px; height: 190px;" src="http://ny-image0.etsy.com/il_430xN.50263768.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.polyvore.com/cgi/img-thing?.out=jpg&size=l&tid=406024"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 190px; height: 190px;" src="http://www.polyvore.com/cgi/img-thing?.out=jpg&size=l&tid=406024" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=35312632&ref=sr_gallery_5&&ga_search_query=camus+shirt&ga_search_type=handmade&ga_page=&includes[]=tags&includes[]=title" target="_blank">Albert Camus Tee</a>: $25.00<br /><a href="http://typetees.threadless.com/product/548/Shakespeare_hates_your_emo_poems" target="_blank">Shakespeare hates your emo poems Tee</a>: $10.00<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.robwilliams.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/movies-ruining-the-book.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 190px; height: 190px;" src="http://www.robwilliams.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/movies-ruining-the-book.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://ny-image3.etsy.com/il_430xN.83829007.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 190px; height: 190px;" src="http://ny-image3.etsy.com/il_430xN.83829007.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://typetees.threadless.com/product/1046/Movies_Ruining_the_book_since_1920" target="_blank">Movies: Ruining the book since 1920 Tee</a>: $10.00<br /><a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=28957135&ref=sr_gallery_4&&ga_search_query=author+shirt&ga_search_type=handmade&ga_page=&order=date_desc&includes%5B%5D=tags&includes%5B%5D=title" target="_blank">E.E. 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Burroughs Tee</a>: $17.00<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.mindjacket.com/img/models/4leaf.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 190px; height: 250px;" src="http://www.mindjacket.com/img/models/4leaf.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://ny-image2.etsy.com//il_430xN.74681442.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 190px; height: 240px;" src="http://ny-image2.etsy.com//il_430xN.74681442.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=26227596&ref=sr_gallery_2&&ga_search_query=CHARLOTTE+BRONTE+Hand+Stenciled+Shirt&ga_search_type=handmade&ga_page=&includes[]=tags&includes[]=title" target="_blank">Charlotte Bronte Tee</a>: $25.00<br /><a href="http://www.mindjacket.com/guys/4leaf.html" target="_blank">Yotsuba&! Tee</a>: $15.00Inkwell Bookstorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01609687997535147041noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8676928586420913367.post-37354936837742625082009-12-18T12:00:00.003-05:002009-12-18T12:00:03.436-05:00Over-Priced Auction Results(or: some of the gifts you won't be getting this Christmas)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.poems.md/images/users/small/lewis-carroll-thumbnail.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 50px; height: 50px;" src="http://www.poems.md/images/users/small/lewis-carroll-thumbnail.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Reuters puts a pillow to the face of your absinthe soaked sense of entitlement, reporting:<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">A first edition of Lewis Carroll's classic book </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> -- dedicated to the real life Alice who inspired the story -- was sold at a U.S. auction for $115,000, auctioneers said on Thursday.</span><br /><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091218/stage_nm/us_books_alice" target="_blank">Click here</a> to read the rest.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://img.poemhunter.com/p/94/3094_k_2785.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 50px; height: 50px;" src="http://img.poemhunter.com/p/94/3094_k_2785.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Get ready to see some eyeliner streak. Amoeblog dashes your inner goth's gimmie-gimmie fantasies, announcing:<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">At Chris</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">tie's Auction House today in New York, an 1827 first edition copy of an Edgar Allan Poe poetry collection, <span style="font-style: italic;">Tamerlane and Other Poems</span>, was sold for $662,500 -- the most ever for a 19th century book of poetry. The 40-page collection, and Poe’s very first publication, was inspired by the work of British poet Lord Byron.</span><br /><a href="http://www.amoeba.com/blog/2009/12/the-thing-of-a-thing-of-a-thing-/edgar-allan-poe-auction-goes-stratospheric-.html%27" target="_blank">Click here</a> to read the rest.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://img.poemhunter.com/p/72/6572_k_4417.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 50px; height: 50px;" src="http://img.poemhunter.com/p/72/6572_k_4417.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;">Anne</span> fans, put down your outstretched hands. The Canadian Press reports:<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">A first edition of </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Anne of Green Gables</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> has sold for a record $37,500 at auction. The sale was made Friday at Sotheby's in New York and eclipses the previous record of $24,000 for the same title, which was set in June 2005. Sotheby's says only eight first edition copies of the Lucy Maud Montgomery book have appeared at auction over the last 35 years.</span><br /><a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5jRSC1xiFlAhahsribjyKL0Ebacsw" target="_blank">Click here</a> to read the rest.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.consciousape.com/assets/399/charles_darwin_icon.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 50px; height: 50px;" src="http://www.consciousape.com/assets/399/charles_darwin_icon.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>The AFP casts out the demons responsible for your unbridled lust over heathen texts, testifying:<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">A first edition of Charles Darwin's seminal <span style="font-style: italic;">On the Origin of Species</span> found in a family's toilet in southern Britain sold for more than 100,000 pounds Tuesday, Christie's auction house said. The book, which was first printed in 1859, was bought for just a few shillings in a shop about 40 years ago, and kept in a bookcase in the guest toilet at the family's home in the Oxford area.</span><br /><a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iW5Q6oq3wcjyEn2SZgYVrlcZ70ZQ" target="_blank">Click here</a> to read the rest.<br /><br />Happy holidays!Inkwell Bookstorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01609687997535147041noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8676928586420913367.post-622058607603382642009-12-18T08:00:00.003-05:002009-12-18T10:45:24.718-05:00Book News, All Bad<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.lunchbreakcomics.com/she-hulk_thumb.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 50px; height: 50px;" src="http://www.lunchbreakcomics.com/she-hulk_thumb.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Marvel Comics has announced a new superhero series written and drawn solely by women. Its name? <span style="font-style: italic;">Girl Comics</span>. <a href="http://comicsworthreading.com/2009/12/15/marvels-girl-comics-announced/">Johanna Draper Carlson rightly rails against this</a>.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://hostedmedia.reimanpub.com/rrmag/easyEntertaining/outside/Cowboy-Cookout_50.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 50px; height: 50px;" src="http://hostedmedia.reimanpub.com/rrmag/easyEntertaining/outside/Cowboy-Cookout_50.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>The city of Laredo, TX is about to become <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091216/ap_on_bi_ge/us_last_bookstore">the largest city in the U.S.A. to have no bookstores.</a> Boot shops, gun shops, and liquor stores, on the other hand, remain as plentiful as unpaid border guards.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://cdn.7static.com/static/img/sleeveart/00/001/836/0000183654_50.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 50px; height: 50px;" src="http://cdn.7static.com/static/img/sleeveart/00/001/836/0000183654_50.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Author Philip Pullman has <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/dec/16/philippullman-christianity">copped to his disappointment</a> over the failure of Hollywood to complete the film trilogy of his series of fantasy novels, <span style="font-style: italic;">His Dark Materials</span>. Um, has he seen the first one? Cuz it sucked.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.interestingfacts.org/thumbs/1168331879-Monopoly-Monopoly_Twisted_Screenshot.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 50px; height: 50px;" src="http://www.interestingfacts.org/thumbs/1168331879-Monopoly-Monopoly_Twisted_Screenshot.png" alt="" border="0" /></a><a href="http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6712123.html">PW reports</a>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">"Bob LiVolsi, founder of independent e-book retailer Books On Board, grabbed the spotlight at the MediaBistro eBook Summit, charging Amazon.com with 'predatory Pricing' and lamented the lack of antitrust enforcement in today's marketplace."</span> Amazon, unsurprisingly, has yet to respond, choosing instead to wait the year or two it takes for Books On Board to go bust. The bastards.Inkwell Bookstorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01609687997535147041noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8676928586420913367.post-9218318933112575342009-12-17T17:48:00.004-05:002009-12-17T17:57:54.871-05:00One Last Bit of Adaptation News<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/images/x-men-bryan-singer.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 440px; height: 200px;" src="http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/images/x-men-bryan-singer.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>MovieWeb reports:<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">On the Official Avatar Myspace Site, director Bryan Singer (</span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">X-Men</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">) dropped a major announcement about one of his next projects. It appears that the director is headed back to the franchise he pioneered...</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">"I just yesterday signed a deal to do an </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">X-Men: First Class</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> origins picture, which is kind of cool. I'm very excited."</span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">X-Men: First Class</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> is expected to inject a next-gen sensibility into the superhero series. - The studio has been leaning toward using the younger characters introduced in the previous films in future installments -- teenagers with powers taught at the Xavier Institute for Higher Learning.</span><br />To read the rest, <a href="http://www.movieweb.com/news/NEltQplodm3Uoq">click here</a>.Inkwell Bookstorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01609687997535147041noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8676928586420913367.post-4459627397051849612009-12-17T08:00:00.004-05:002009-12-17T09:47:45.261-05:00Adaptation News<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.sideshowtoy.com/mas_assets/thumb/2957.gif"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 50px; height: 50px;" src="http://www.sideshowtoy.com/mas_assets/thumb/2957.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a>Reason #23433 I'm glad that Robert Downey Jr. never OD'd: <a href="http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/ironman/" target="_blank">The trailer to <span style="font-style: italic;">Iron Man 2</span></a>.<br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3238/buddyicons/32695581@N08.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 50px; height: 50px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3238/buddyicons/32695581@N08.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>The LATimes proclaims, "<a href="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-ca-greek13-2009dec13,0,1214238.story" target="_blank">Greek mythology makes movie and TV comeback!</a>" Here's hoping Homer has hired himself a good agent.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/object2/814/22/q20167429328_8307.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 50px; height: 50px;" src="http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/object2/814/22/q20167429328_8307.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Wanna know exactly how J.D. Salinger feels about a <span style="font-style: italic;">Catcher in the Rye</span> film? Letters of Note has a copy of <a href="http://www.lettersofnote.com/2009/12/holden-caulfield-is-unactable.html" target="_blank">an anti-adaptation screed</a> handwritten by the reclusive author.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bestuff.com/images/images_of_stuff/64x64crop/sherlock-holmes-178499.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 50px; height: 50px;" src="http://bestuff.com/images/images_of_stuff/64x64crop/sherlock-holmes-178499.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>The Independent UK has put together a slide show featuring "the changing faces of Sherlock Holmes." Dilettante detectives can search for it themselves, everyone else can <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/the-changing-face-of-sherlock-holmes-1841549.html?action=Popup" target="_blank">click here</a>.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/3/32309/630729-cheshire_cat_3_small.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 50px; height: 50px;" src="http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/3/32309/630729-cheshire_cat_3_small.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>My favorite type of adaptation can't be seen on the big screen or the little screen, but in the small glass window on the oven. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/obliviousfire/tags/aliceinwonderland/" target="_blank">Click here</a> to salivate over <span style="font-style: italic;">Through the Looking Glass</span> cupcakes.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/object3/1525/52/q47394528284_5290.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 50px; height: 50px;" src="http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/object3/1525/52/q47394528284_5290.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Natalie Portman <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/movies/2009/12/11/2009-12-11_natalie_portman_to_star_in_produce_pride_and_prejudice_and_zombies_movie_of_best.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter" target="_blank">has signed on to star in and produce</a> a film based on the best-selling, sub-genre-creating book, <span style="font-style: italic;">Pride and Prejudice and Zombies</span>. My note to Ms. Portman: Before they rip your flesh off, please have them gratuitously tear away your bodice.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://images.funadvice.com/photo/image/old/13352/tiny/dollar.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 50px; height: 50px;" src="http://images.funadvice.com/photo/image/old/13352/tiny/dollar.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a href="http://chud.com/articles/articles/21813/1/ANOTHER-TEEN-ROMANCE-WRITER-HITS-THE-TWILIGHT-LOTTERY/Page1.html" target="_blank">CHUD's take</a> on Disney's plans to adapt all four <span style="font-style: italic;">Fallen</span> books seems pretty spot-on: <span style="font-weight: bold;">"Well why the fuck not? Swap out retarded but lofty sounding vampiric and lycanthropic mythology for epic and highly-simplified biblical babble and voila, you've got some coattails to ride!"</span>Inkwell Bookstorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01609687997535147041noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8676928586420913367.post-1492751351098821892009-12-16T12:00:00.011-05:002009-12-16T12:17:07.239-05:00My Favorite Comic Book Covers of 2009<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://heavyink.com/images/covers/JUL09/MJUL090573.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 190px; height: 280px;" src="http://heavyink.com/images/covers/JUL09/MJUL090573.JPG" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.aintitcool.com/images2009/anime/STALES001_cov.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 190px; height: 280px;" src="http://www.aintitcool.com/images2009/anime/STALES001_cov.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5361472234397432930" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Wolverine: First Class</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> #19</span><br />Cover by Skottie Young<br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Strange Tales</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> #1</span><br />Cover by Paul Pope<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://heavyink.com/images/covers/MAR09/MMAR092613.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 190px; height: 280px;" src="http://heavyink.com/images/covers/MAR09/MMAR092613.JPG" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://images.tfaw.com/covers_tfaw/200/ma/may090556d.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 190px; height: 280px;" src="http://images.tfaw.com/covers_tfaw/200/ma/may090556d.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5361472234397432930" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Punisher: Frank Castle Max</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> #70</span><br />Cover by Dave Johnson<br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Punisher: Frank Castle Max </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> #72</span><br />Cover by Dave Johnson<br /><br /><a onblur="http://heavyink.com/images/covers/APR09/MAPR090152.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 190px; height: 280px;" src="http://heavyink.com/images/covers/APR09/MAPR090152.JPG" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://heavyink.com/images/covers/MAY09/MMAY090134.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 190px; height: 280px;" src="http://heavyink.com/images/covers/MAY09/MMAY090134.JPG" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Detective Comics</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> #854</span><br />Cover by J.H. Williams III<br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Detective Comics</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> #855</span><br />Cover by J.H. Williams III<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://heavyink.com/images/covers/SEP08/MSEP082317.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 190px; height: 280px;" src="http://heavyink.com/images/covers/SEP08/MSEP082317.JPG" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.marvelfamily.com/thumbnails/thumbnail.ashx?imgFilePath=/images/solicits/DCComics/JSABAAIHC/JSABAAIHC001.jpg&width=200"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 190px; height: 280px;" src="http://www.marvelfamily.com/thumbnails/thumbnail.ashx?imgFilePath=/images/solicits/DCComics/JSABAAIHC/JSABAAIHC001.jpg&width=200" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Amazing Spider Man</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> #578</span><br />Cover by John Romita Jr.<br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Justice Society of America: Black Adam & Isis</span><br />Cover by Alex Ross<br /><br /><a onblur="http://heavyink.com/images/covers/JUL09/MJUL090488.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 190px; height: 280px;" src="http://heavyink.com/images/covers/JUL09/MJUL090488.JPG" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://heavyink.com/images/covers/APR09/MAPR090485.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 190px; height: 280px;" src="http://heavyink.com/images/covers/APR09/MAPR090485.JPG" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Amazing Spider Man</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> #605</span><br />Cover by Mike Mayhew<br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Deadpool </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">#11</span><br />Cover by Jason Pearson<br /><br /><a onblur="http://heavyink.com/images/covers/APR09/MAPR090504.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 190px; height: 280px;" src="http://heavyink.com/images/covers/APR09/MAPR090504.JPG" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://www.dynamicforces.com/images/C112464.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 190px; height: 280px;" src="https://www.dynamicforces.com/images/C112464.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Lockjaw and the Pet Avenvers</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> #2</span><br />Cover by <span class="plain_text">Niko Henrichon</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Runaways: Teenage Wasteland </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Vol. 2</span><br />Cover by Jo Chen<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://heavyink.com/images/covers/MAY09/MMAY090051.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 190px; height: 280px;" src="http://heavyink.com/images/covers/MAY09/MMAY090051.JPG" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3031/3593081235_7171143849_m.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 190px; height: 280px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3031/3593081235_7171143849_m.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Creepy</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> #1</span><br />Cover by Eric Powell<br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Uptight</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> #3</span><br />Cover by Jordan Crane<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZKzYsF4VmAtHiOkMcWklvY6ZptaylQ5-IvWfW0Eq8wM4C7B6eUn-99irVgaQ5wh84NkgYqddEOV10sJBw3CrV-ZkvTG468wOth_aTOACTaFThCwm-z1e_L5EH-mC4zgG8H_jP6_Tum9Hs/s320/bc_cover.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 190px; height: 280px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZKzYsF4VmAtHiOkMcWklvY6ZptaylQ5-IvWfW0Eq8wM4C7B6eUn-99irVgaQ5wh84NkgYqddEOV10sJBw3CrV-ZkvTG468wOth_aTOACTaFThCwm-z1e_L5EH-mC4zgG8H_jP6_Tum9Hs/s320/bc_cover.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://heavyink.com/images/covers/MAY09/MMAY090461.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 190px; height: 280px;" src="http://heavyink.com/images/covers/MAY09/MMAY090461.JPG" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />If'n Oof </span><br />Cover by Brian Chippendale<br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"> Dark Reign: Sinister Spider Man</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> #2</span><br />Cover by Chris Bachalo<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://heavyink.com/images/covers/NOV08/MNOV083948.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 190px; height: 280px;" src="http://heavyink.com/images/covers/NOV08/MNOV083948.JPG" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://heavyink.com/images/covers/SEP09/MSEP090191.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 190px; height: 280px;" src="http://heavyink.com/images/covers/SEP09/MSEP090191.JPG" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /><br /><br />Lone Ranger and Tonto</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">#2</span><br />Cover by John Cassaday<br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Looney Tunes </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">#180</span><br />Cover by Scott Gross<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">See also: <a href="http://inkwellbookstore.blogspot.com/2009/12/best-comics-i-read-in-2009.html" target="_blank">The Best Comics I Read in 2009</a></span>Inkwell Bookstorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01609687997535147041noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8676928586420913367.post-43025340041810743512009-12-16T08:00:00.002-05:002009-12-16T10:34:05.104-05:00Book News, In Brief<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.peoplejam.com/files/imagecache/user_avatars_small/images/canfield_jackchickensoupforthesould.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 50px; height: 50px;" src="http://www.peoplejam.com/files/imagecache/user_avatars_small/images/canfield_jackchickensoupforthesould.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>A shout-out to the sell-out who spoke out about selling her soul to <span style="font-style: italic;">Chicken Soup For The Soul</span>. Or: <a href="http://www.thenervousbreakdown.com/vpatterson/2009/12/on-selling-out/" target="_blank">Victoria Patterson talks turkey about '<span style="font-style: italic;">Chick Soup</span>-ing' her story, <span style="font-style: italic;">The Kindness of Strangers</span></a>.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/object3/1701/43/q22279807607_876.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 50px; height: 50px;" src="http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/object3/1701/43/q22279807607_876.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Congratulations to one of my all-time favorite cartoonists, Gilbert Hernandez, on being awarded <a href="http://www.comicsreporter.com/index.php/gilbert_hernandez_named_usa_rasmuson_fellow_for_2009_wins_grant/" target="_blank">a 2009 Rasmuson Fellowship in the category of literature</a>. If you haven't read any of Beto's <span style="font-style: italic;">Palomar </span>stories yet, get to it!<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.foxnews.com/images/572756/0_41_Shroud_turin_face.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 50px; height: 50px;" src="http://www.foxnews.com/images/572756/0_41_Shroud_turin_face.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>A "microanalytical examination" of an "illustrated miniature manuscript" of <span style="font-style: italic;">The Gospel of Mark</span> <a href="http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/miniature-manuscript-of-the-gospel,1087164.shtml" target="_blank">found the kid-sized codex to be a fraud</a>. That said, the faithful don't give a f*ck what scientists are able to disprove, so who cares?<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.barefootbooks.com/files/7212/4451/8924/PublishersWeekly-logo.gif"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 50px; height: 50px;" src="http://www.barefootbooks.com/files/7212/4451/8924/PublishersWeekly-logo.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a>First Publishers Weekly made a Best Books of 2009 list <a href="http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2009/11/05/pw_10_best/print.html" target="_blank">that didn't have any women</a>, now they've come under fire for their <a href="http://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/12/15/afro-themed-image-on-a-magazine-cover-shocks-industry-ignites-f/" target="_blank">unintentionally offensive 'Afro Picks' cover</a>. Quick, before Hanukkah's over, can they pull off The Whoopi Goldberg Trifecta?<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/object2/814/22/q20167429328_8307.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 50px; height: 50px;" src="http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/object2/814/22/q20167429328_8307.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Do you obsess over J.D. Salinger's copyright and speak fluent legalese? Then head on over to the law offices of Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz's website, where they've posted the transcripts to the entire <a href="http://www.fkkslaw.com/jdsalinger.asp" target="_blank">Salinger vs. that guy who wrote the unlicensed sequel</a> court case.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://s12.bdbphotos.com/images/50x50/c/s/cswkdgowa65jag5d.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 50px; height: 50px;" src="http://s12.bdbphotos.com/images/50x50/c/s/cswkdgowa65jag5d.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>A gold and ivory retractable toothpick belonging to Charles Dickens <a href="http://www.brandonsun.com/story.php?story_id=174743" target="_blank">is going up for auction in NYC next week</a>. A word to my Secret Santa: Although I enjoyed <span style="font-style: italic;">A Muppets Christmas Carol</span> as much as the next guy, please remember, I want a case of Sugar-Free Red Bull, <span style="font-style: italic;">not</span> this bit of bacteria-laden memorabilia.Inkwell Bookstorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01609687997535147041noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8676928586420913367.post-37569833229823563472009-12-15T13:00:00.002-05:002009-12-15T16:28:01.778-05:00Gift Tips for the Bookish: Book Lights<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/common/images/4114434909043188.JPG?0.2435057579591533"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 190px; height: 190px;" src="http://www.weblogsinc.com/common/images/4114434909043188.JPG?0.2435057579591533" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://booklightsandgifts.com/images/hydra.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 190px; height: 190px;" src="https://booklightsandgifts.com/images/hydra.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.shopwiki.com/detail/d=Zelco_Hydra_Two-Headed_LED_Book_Light/" target="_blank">The Hydra Two Headed Book Light</a>: $14.96<br /><a href="http://www.lightwedge.com/" target="_blank">The LightWedge</a>: $24.95-$34.95<br /><br />Both the LightWedge and the Hydra come highly recommended from multiple members of our staff. Then again, multiple members of our staff also pushed me to read Stephenie Meyer, so caveat emptor.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.newdavincis.com/images/closed-paperback.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 190px; height: 190px;" src="http://www.newdavincis.com/images/closed-paperback.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.shop4patents.com/newdavincis/images/dan_pic/BookLight/paperback-big.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 190px; height: 190px;" src="http://www.shop4patents.com/newdavincis/images/dan_pic/BookLight/paperback-big.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.newdavincis.com/booklightinabookcoverpaperback-p-267.html" target="_blank">Book Light In A Book Cover</a>: $31.45<br /><br />The Book Light In A Book Cover is just that: a pleather slip cover with a book light built into its spine. I can't vouch for it personally, but I sort of dig the robo-Bible aesthetic of the second picture. Mecha-Messiah would approve.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.notempire.com/images/uploads/black-n-blum-bug-light.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 190px; height: 190px;" src="http://www.notempire.com/images/uploads/black-n-blum-bug-light.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v287/dailycrush/light_book.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 190px; height: 190px;" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v287/dailycrush/light_book.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.black-blum.com/products_0.html" target="_blank">The Reading Light</a>: Currently Unavailable<br /><a href="http://www.lightupyourworld.nl/" target="_blank">The Enlightenment</a>: $125<br /><br />I know, I know. What sort of a**hole teases his readership with an adorable little creation like The Reading Light, only to then say, 'Whoops! Currently unavailable'? I'm sorry. I've got no excuses for you. And as for The Enlightenment...um...lemme guess...<span style="font-style: italic;">too literal</span>?Inkwell Bookstorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01609687997535147041noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8676928586420913367.post-47942522845904438932009-12-15T12:00:00.002-05:002009-12-15T15:20:13.774-05:00Listmania: Best of 2009s -- Updated!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/lists/2009/06/19/best_of_2009_so_far.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 160px; height: 160px;" src="http://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/lists/2009/06/19/best_of_2009_so_far.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>NPR's <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121337672" target="_blank">Year's Best Memoirs</a><br /><br />NPR's <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120683356" target="_blank">Best Cookbooks of 2009</a><br /><br />The L.A. Times' <a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2009/12/latimes-fiction-favorites-2009.html" target="_blank">Favorite fiction of 2009</a><br /><br />The NYTimes' <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/gift-guide/holiday-2009/100-notable-books-of-2009-gift-guide/list.html?ref=books" target="_blank">100 Notable Books of '09</a><br /><br />ALA's <a href="http://ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/yalsa/booklistsawards/bestbooksya/09bbya.cfm" target="_blank">2009 Best Books for Young Adults</a><br /><br />Entertainment Weekly's <a href="http://www.ew.com/ew/gallery/0,,20317203_20320219,00.html" target="_blank">10 Beautiful Books</a><br /><br />Blackwell's <a href="http://www.thebookseller.com/news/104192-blackwell-names-top-10-titles-of-the-decade.html.rss" target="_blank">10 Favourite Books of the Decade</a><br /><br />The NYTimes' <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/06/books/review/Crime-t.html?ref=books" target="_blank">Notable Crime Books of 2009</a><br /><br />Booklist's <a href="http://www.booklistonline.com/default.aspx?page=show_product&pid=3369237" target="_blank">Best Books for Young Adults: 2009</a><br /><br />Lifehack's <a href="http://www.lifehack.org/articles/productivity/10-best-productivity-books-of-2009.html" target="_blank">10 Best Productivity Books of 2009</a><br /><br />The National Book Awards' <a href="http://www.usabooknews.com/2009bestbooksawards.html" target="_blank">Best Books of 2009</a><br /><br />NPR's <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120685579">Big and Beautiful: Best Gift Books of 2009</a><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/gift-guide/holiday-2009/20091108_best-illustrated_gg/list.html" target="_blank"><br /></a><br />Examiner.com's <a href="http://www.examiner.com/x-562-Book-Examiner%7Ey2009m10d21-10-best-book-club-books-of-2009" target="_blank">10 Best Book Club books of 2009</a><br /><br />Drawn!'s <a href="http://drawn.ca/2009/12/12/best-comics-art-books-2009/" target="_blank">Favourite Comics and Art Books of 2009</a><br /><br />Publishers Weekly's <a href="http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6704595.html" target="_blank">8 Different(!) Best of 2009 lists</a><br /><br />The Globe & Mail's <a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/books/the-best-reviewed-buzziest-books-of-2009/article1380032/" target="_blank">11 Different(!!) Best of 2009 lists</a><br /><br />The Millions' <a href="http://www.themillions.com/2009/09/the-best-fiction-of-the-millennium-so-far-an-introduction.html" target="_blank">Best Fiction of the Millennium (So Far)</a><br /><br />The NYTimes' <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/gift-guide/holiday-2009/20091108_best-illustrated_gg/list.html" target="_blank">Best Illustrated Children’s Books of 2009</a><br /><br />Politics & Prose's <a href="http://www.politics-prose.com/graphic-novels" target="_blank">Favorite Graphic Literature of the Year</a><br /><br />Small Business Trends' <a href="http://smallbiztrends.com/2009/11/vote-small-business-book-awards-2009-readers-choice.html" target="_blank">Best Small Business Books of 2009</a><br /><br />The Christian Science Monitor's <a href="http://features.csmonitor.com/books/2009/12/03/best-books-of-2009-fiction/" target="_blank">Best Books of 2009: Fiction</a><br /><br />The Christchurch City Libraries Blog's <a href="http://cclblog.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/best-and-worst-books-of-2009/" target="_blank">Best and Worst of 2009</a><br /><br />Human Events' <a href="http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=34148" target="_blank">Top 10 Best-Selling Conservative Books in 2009</a><br /><br />Paul Gravett's <a href="http://www.paulgravett.com/index.php/articles/article/angouleme_2010/" target="_blank">Angoulême 2010: The Best French Comics Of 2009</a><br /><br />The Washington Post's <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/artsandliving/features/2008/holiday-guide/gifts/best-books-of-2009/" target="_blank">Best Fiction, Nonfiction, and Top 10 of 2009</a><br /><br />The Daily Cross Hatch's <a href="http://thedailycrosshatch.com/2009/12/14/the-best-damned-comics-of-2009-chosen-by-the-artists/" target="_blank">The Best Damned Comics of 2009 Chosen by the Artists</a><br /><br />The Comics Reporter's <a href="http://www.comicsreporter.com/index.php/building_a_list_top_superhero_copmics/" target="_blank">The Best Superhero Comics of the 00s</a>, and his <a href="http://www.comicsreporter.com/index.php/cr_review112309/" target="_blank">readers' picks</a>Inkwell Bookstorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01609687997535147041noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8676928586420913367.post-47324775817717235622009-12-15T08:00:00.001-05:002009-12-15T10:01:39.705-05:00Tuesday's Tips for Flailing Writers<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.compuxellence.com/images/Network-Internet-Connection-icon.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 50px; height: 50px;" src="http://www.compuxellence.com/images/Network-Internet-Connection-icon.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>I'm listing it first, yet hoping you'll click on it last: <a href="http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/web_tech/how_to_turn_off_the_internet_while_writing_on_your_computer_145625.asp">How to turn off the internet while writing</a>.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.businesszone.co.uk/files/siftmedia-businesszone/u11778/Starting_Line_50_50.gif"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 50px; height: 50px;" src="http://www.businesszone.co.uk/files/siftmedia-businesszone/u11778/Starting_Line_50_50.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a>You see what I did there? I followed C.W.C.'s sage-like advice to <a href="http://www.blairhurley.com/2009/12/start-with-the-unexpected.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blair+%28Creative+Writing+Corner%29">Start with the Unexpected</a>.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bestuff.com/images/images_of_stuff/64x64crop/white-rabbit-10780.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 50px; height: 50px;" src="http://bestuff.com/images/images_of_stuff/64x64crop/white-rabbit-10780.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>C.S. Lewis proffers a niggle of admonition regarding the utilization of voluminous words...<a href="http://www.advicetowriters.com/home/2009/12/14/dont-use-words-too-big-for-the-subject.html">hither</a>.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://n1.cdn.spikedhumor.com/1/703000/181547_terminator_salvation_5_1_sm.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 50px; height: 50px;" src="http://n1.cdn.spikedhumor.com/1/703000/181547_terminator_salvation_5_1_sm.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Hilarious: The Rejectionist has assembled <a href="http://www.therejectionist.com/2009/12/terminator-offers-some-lessons-for.html">seven true-life writing tips</a> gleaned from his/her viewing of <span style="font-style: italic;">Terminator: Salvation</span>.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.phaseonesurf.com/images/icons/spotlight_man.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 50px; height: 50px;" src="http://www.phaseonesurf.com/images/icons/spotlight_man.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Yet another online article sure to appeal to aspiring authors looking for a secret shortcut to success: Publishing Perspectives' <a href="http://publishingperspectives.com/?p=9028">Inside the Secret World of Literary Scouts</a>.Inkwell Bookstorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01609687997535147041noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8676928586420913367.post-50668506932661665502009-12-14T12:00:00.005-05:002009-12-14T16:38:35.675-05:00The Best Comics I Read in 2009Puh-<span style="font-style: italic;">leeze</span> do not mistake this for one of those scientifically produced, computer algorithm-culled, 'Best Of 2009' lists that you see in comics curious magazines like <span style="font-style: italic;">Newsweek </span>and <span style="font-style: italic;">Wizard</span>. This is purely the product of one seriously scatterbrained blogger who has been obsessing over funnybooks for far too long, yet still feels woefully behind in his reading. (Hell, truth be told, most of these books came out pre-2009!) The only criteria for inclusion in this list was this: Out of every comic I curled up with, huddled over, and ate my favorite meals with in the past twelve months, which ones do I still think of most?<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.copaceticcomics.com/catalog/comics/ColdHeat2Big.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 289px; height: 440px;" src="http://www.copaceticcomics.com/catalog/comics/ColdHeat2Big.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Cold Heat</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> issues 1-8</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">by BJ and Frank Santoro</span><br /><a href="http://www.comixology.com/articles/224/coldheatfranksantorogo" target="_blank">Click here</a> to read the review that made me shell out $50+ on single issues when I <span style="font-style: italic;">know </span>that there's inevitably gonna be a trade paperback stuffed with extras...for under $30.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIQzs4M6NvGi16w3Up6XlFjLlc7LQtMGXJPehIKKj06tN_Aeh1ZaiZr6J91zJRCTFpe8U3sbErl0IzhOCtq8yc6nPybw2I2vyRiEYD3qgGJdX3PY_atkoENT9jy9QIp06LF6sw1T3auFk/s400/two+fisted+tales1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 289px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIQzs4M6NvGi16w3Up6XlFjLlc7LQtMGXJPehIKKj06tN_Aeh1ZaiZr6J91zJRCTFpe8U3sbErl0IzhOCtq8yc6nPybw2I2vyRiEYD3qgGJdX3PY_atkoENT9jy9QIp06LF6sw1T3auFk/s400/two+fisted+tales1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Two-Fisted Tales</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> vol. 1</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> by the EC Comics crew</span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRt99cPIUtraseCPosRgg6z2gr77GEDXRGSnN9d-zaj6Ii0aWHqxSucIiY18or_qgS9lq5UkMOaswVk6JNN-LvQCstzm8GxktyCXmlrMhp3rHkPbzyGDF9ugQKeidh5YM2bv4gGqxjCFA0/s1600-h/FC08-405.jpg%20target=" target="_blank">Click here</a> for the black & white excerpt that made me a convert.<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh27hBu-Y2U8ay51iuNWlTRGJAto2VpB28VnuyOIApxRVrK6MplDLdkSuWJR2wnh8V0lL4GFz4yGkwHgzAExRpWg4C8nWHOeTSOAKUICvd6ys56wqwsgrbq1pV5yBQCzxH1jxYsLKPwGio/s400/DDiary_500.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 289px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh27hBu-Y2U8ay51iuNWlTRGJAto2VpB28VnuyOIApxRVrK6MplDLdkSuWJR2wnh8V0lL4GFz4yGkwHgzAExRpWg4C8nWHOeTSOAKUICvd6ys56wqwsgrbq1pV5yBQCzxH1jxYsLKPwGio/s400/DDiary_500.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">The Disappearance Diary</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> by Hideo Azuma</span><br /><a href="http://inkwellbookstore.blogspot.com/2009/01/comic-book-review-disappearance-diary_19.html" target="_blank">Click here</a> to read my review.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/wp-content/2009/01/200901301258.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 289px; height: 400px;" src="http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/wp-content/2009/01/200901301258.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Pluto</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> by Naoki Urasawa</span><br /><a href="http://www.onemanga.com/Pluto/1/01/" target="_blank">Click here</a> to read the first five chapters.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/thumb/c/c5/Soldier_X_Vol_1_1.jpg/300px-Soldier_X_Vol_1_1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 289px; height: 400px;" src="http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/thumb/c/c5/Soldier_X_Vol_1_1.jpg/300px-Soldier_X_Vol_1_1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Soldier X</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">issues </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">1-8 by Macan & Kordey</span><br />Click <a href="http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2009/09/collect-this-now-soldier-x/" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="http://savagecritic.com/2007/08/my-life-is-choked-with-comics-6-soldier.html" target="_blank">here</a> to read two reviews that will make you feel like you've missed out on one of the best superhero comics in years.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/519QM1MR9PL.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 480px;" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/519QM1MR9PL.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck</span> by Don Rosa</span><br /><a href="http://comicsworthreading.com/2009/02/19/the-life-and-times-of-scrooge-mcduck-recommended/" target="_blank">Click here</a> to read the review that convinced me to stop being such a Carl Barks snob.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://a32.idata.over-blog.com/300x360/1/22/11/05//Gus-1-copie-1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 299px; height: 360px;" src="http://a32.idata.over-blog.com/300x360/1/22/11/05//Gus-1-copie-1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Gus</span> by Christophe Blain</span><br /><a href="http://inkwellbookstore.blogspot.com/2009/04/comic-book-review-gus-his-gang-by.html" target="_blank">Click here</a> to read my review.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/articles/blog/540000654/20090430/black%20jack%201.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 299px; height: 399px;" src="http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/articles/blog/540000654/20090430/black%20jack%201.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Black Jack</span> vol. 1-4 by Osamu Tezuka</span><br /><a href="http://inkwellbookstore.blogspot.com/2009/01/comic-book-review-black-jack-volume-1.html" target="_blank">Click here</a> to read my review of volume 1.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://yenpress.us/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/yotsuba_1.gif"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 299px; height: 450px;" src="http://yenpress.us/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/yotsuba_1.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Yotsuba&!</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> vol. 1-6 by Kiyohiko Azuma</span><br /><a href="http://www.japanator.com/the-best-thing-ever-yotsuba--12155.phtml" target="_blank">Click here</a> to a review that's as infectiously light-hearted as the series itself.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.comicsreporter.com/images/uploads/trondheimnothingtop.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 299px; height: 450px;" src="http://www.comicsreporter.com/images/uploads/trondheimnothingtop.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Little Nothings</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> 1 & 2 by Lewis Trondheim</span><br /><a href="http://www.comicsreporter.com/index.php/briefings/cr_reviews/12830/" target="_blank">Click here</a> and <a href="http://www.comicsreporter.com/index.php/briefings/cr_reviews/19993/" target="_blank">here</a> to read The Comics Reporter's reviews.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/0/4/20665-3092-23051-1-uncanny-x-men-the_super.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 299px; height: 450px;" src="http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/0/4/20665-3092-23051-1-uncanny-x-men-the_super.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Uncanny X-Men</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">issues </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">94-279 by Chris Claremont</span><br /><a href="http://geoffklock.blogspot.com/search/label/Claremont" target="_blank">Click here</a> to read an issue by issue analysis, or <a href="http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2009/04/six-by-6-my-six-favorite-issues-of-claremont-and-byrnes-uncanny-x-men-run/" target="_blank">here</a> for some highlights.Inkwell Bookstorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01609687997535147041noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8676928586420913367.post-17478715741362461572009-12-14T08:00:00.004-05:002009-12-14T08:00:00.327-05:00Book News, In Brief<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://media.gdgt.com/img/product/dgj/nook-s7g-50.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 50px; height: 50px;" src="http://media.gdgt.com/img/product/dgj/nook-s7g-50.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>According to <a href="http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091213/BIZ/912130305" target="_blank">The Wall Street Journal's review</a> of Barnes & Noble's e-book, the Nook, old fashioned books have nothing to worry about.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Trivialpursuit_Token.jpg/50px-Trivialpursuit_Token.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 50px; height: 50px;" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Trivialpursuit_Token.jpg/50px-Trivialpursuit_Token.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>The Chicago Tribune has compiled the perfect time-waster for literary trivia nerds: <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/chi-091113-10-things-books-bestsellers-pictures,0,1344373.photogallery" target="_blank">10 Things You Didn't Know About The Biggest Bestsellers</a>.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/v228/1987/101/q1386502687_313.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 50px; height: 50px;" src="http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/v228/1987/101/q1386502687_313.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Boston.com asked some "prominent Bostonians" to <a href="http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/gallery/celebcomics/" target="_blank">name their favorite comics from childhood</a>. The results prove the old cliche -- New Englanders are a tasteful, educated lot.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.churcharmy.mobi/content/wallpaperfiles/cache_type_1_baby-jesus-opt.gif"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 50px; height: 50px;" src="http://www.churcharmy.mobi/content/wallpaperfiles/cache_type_1_baby-jesus-opt.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a>The Guardian UK looks into a new trend in kids lit that's so controversial it's already been a 'Hot Topic' on FOX News and <span style="font-style: italic;">The View</span>: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/dec/13/nativity-bible-christmas-jeanette-winterson" target="_blank">Holiday books that intentionally take the Christ out of Christmas</a>.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.yankeepotroast.org/image/castro/castroex.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 50px; height: 50px;" src="http://www.yankeepotroast.org/image/castro/castroex.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>A new documentary about Fidel Castro, <span style="font-style: italic;">Fidel Anecdotes</span>, contains a nice anecdote about the homophobic dictator's unexpected reaction to the copy of Bram Stoker's <span style="font-style: italic;">Dracula </span>given to him by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. To read it, <a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2009/12/castro-was-kept-up-all-night-by-dracula.html" target="_blank">click here</a>.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.family-friendly-fun.com/images/make-money.gif"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 50px; height: 50px;" src="http://www.family-friendly-fun.com/images/make-money.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a>The New York Times tattles on US booksellers <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/08/books/08girl.html?ref=books" target="_blank">importing UK copies of <span style="font-style: italic;">The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest</span></a>. While this is in direct violation of the hood's staunch, '<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Snitchin%27" target="_blank">Stop Snitchin'</a>' credo, it's kinda refreshing to see us portrayed as money-hungry hustlers instead of mild-mannered librarians. 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