The Book Aisle

Every book deserves its space. This a setting for all things related to books, authors, writing and libraries. No shelf is too small, unless it has no books.

[nerdymomstuff]

‘creative captions for old-timey books’ by SnideOctopus

[weneeddiversebooks]

Rep. John Lewis: I hope my book inspires people to ‘speak up and speak out’

Upon winning the Walter prize for his graphic memoir, the civil rights legend speaks up about the power of the pen.

[icebearwillprotectyou]

[itsnotlogicitsameanstoanend-dea]

Don’t we all, Icebear? Don’t we all

[powells]

Books about Girls who Rescue Themselves

May B by Caroline Rose

Pennyroyal Academy by M.A. Larson

Nooks & Crannies by Jessica Lawson

Igraine the Brave by Cornelia Funke

Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan

The Dark Hills Divide by Patrick Carman

The Wolf Wilder by Katherine Rundell

Night on Fire by Ronald Kidd

Stella by Starlight by Sharon M. Draper

Umbrella Summer by Lisa Graff

Inkheart by Cornelia Funke

Wildwood by Colin Meloy, illustrated by Carson Ellis

The Woman Who Rides Like a Man by Tamora Pierce

The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly

[bookwormshaven]

Stuff for the Book Lovers

Here are some awesome sites / apps for my awesome book lover followers:

Social Networking Sites

Goodreads

Booklikes

Shelfari

LibraryThing

Book Digits

ReadUps

Free Ebooks

Open Library

ManyBooks.net

The Project Gutenberg

Feedbooks

Smashwords

Epubbud

Amazon

The Library of Congress

Page by Page Books

Planet Ebook

Calibre

Bartleby

Free Audiobooks

Loyal Books

Librivox

Open Culture List

Free Printables

The Readables

Somewhat Simple

Suzy Cucumber

I Heart Naptime

Atop Serenity Hill

Podcasts

Book Riot - The Podcats

Dear Book Nerd

All the Books!

Reading Lives

Riot Read

Websites / Blogs

Epic Reads

Nancy Pearl’s Website

The Book Insider

I Love Libraries

Book Riot

Flavorwire Books

Huffingtonpost Books

NY Daily News Pageviews

The Daily Beast Books

Book Cover Archive

Literary Starbucks

Book Mania!

Poetry Archive

BookBub

Olmenta

Bookbed

Go Book Yourself

Bookshelf Porn

Writers No One Reads

Apps

Booktrack for Android

Booktrack for iOS

Bookviser (Windows 8, Windows Phone)

Kobo (iOS, Android, Blackberry 10, Windows 8, Windows Phone)

Coffitivity (Andriod, iOS, Web)

Calibre Ebook Management (Windows, OS X, Linux)

Aldiko (Android)

Free Literature Online Courses

Class Central List

Open Culture List

Open MIT

Academic Earth

Open Yale

Open New Jersey Institute of Technology

Open Oxford

Open Education NYU

Alison

edX

1001 Books Spreadsheet

Arukiyomi

Kirk Kittell

Personal Favorites

BetterWorldBooks (For every book you buy, BWB will donate a book to its beneficiaries)

We Give Books (For Children; For every book you read, the foundation will donate to a child in need)

Book Depository (Free shipping worldwide!)

[micdotcom]

12 invaluable life lessons we learned from children’s books

Follow micdotcom 

[brokenquill]

I love some of the great prices that Amazon resellers charge. This Roald Dahl collection was drastically reduced in price because the cardboard box was some wear. The books themselves have never been read.

[theubergrump]

I keep seeing stuff about Lord of the Flies going around

Obviously, the individual experiences of the people making the posts - re: teachers, lessons, the way they were forced to study the book - aren’t up for debate

but like, I feel that people might not have the whole...

[booklikes-blog]

Are you? I am. 

[thebookaisle]

hehehe

[neil-gaiman]

In which Daniel Handler and I tell you everything you will ever really need to know about being a writer, and about writing for the market, in 2 minutes and 11 seconds.

[slightlyignorant]

I love The Rumpus.

[thebookaisle]

Chewbacca.

[brokenquill]

Sitting at Starbucks with allergies/cold in full effect - I just needed to be out. I brought my laptop to work on homework and “Ready Player One” for pleasure reading. I opted for pleasure reading. #books #coffee #Starbucks #reading

[johnnylists]

10 Captivating Short Stories Everyone Should Read

1. The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell – The story of a big game hunter finding himself stranded on an island and becoming the hunted.

2. The Last Question by Isaac Asimov – A question is posed to a supercomputer that does not get answered until the end days of man.

3. The Last Answer by Isaac Asimov – A man passes away and has a conversation with the Voice in the afterlife.

4. The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman – A collection of journal entries written by a woman whose physician husband has confined her to the upstairs bedroom of the house.

5. The Lottery by Shirley Jackson – The story of one small town’s ritual know only as “the lottery.”

6. Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway – A couple has a tension-filled conversation at a train station in Spain.

7. All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury – A group of schoolchildren live on Venus where the Sun is visible for only two hours every seven years.

8. Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut – It is the year 2081, and all Americans are equal in every possible way.

9. The Monkey by Stephen King – The story of a cymbal-banging monkey toy that controls the lives around it.

10. We Can Get Them For You Wholesale by Neil Gaiman – A man named Peter searches the phone book for an assassin to kill his unfaithful fiancée.

[itsnotlogicitsameanstoanend-dea]

No Raymond Carver?!

“All Summer in a Day” has been a favorite since I was in grade school and we were shown a film adaptation of the text.

[odious]

one of the things the harry potter franchise did right:

not put the movie poster on the cover of the book(s)

[dukeofbookingham-deactivated202]

WHEN A BOOK GETS MY HOPES UP AND THEN RUTHLESSLY CRUSHES THEM

It’s like:

[ultrafacts]

Shortly before starting the illustrations, Sendak realized he did not know how to draw horses and, at the suggestion of his editor, changed the wild horses to the more ambiguous “Wild Things”, a term inspired by the Yiddish expression “vilde chaya” (“wild animals”), used to indicate boisterous children. [x]

He once said: “At first the book was to be called Where the Wild Horses Are, but when it became apparent to my editor I could not draw horses, she kindly changed the title to ‘Wild Things,’ with the idea that I could at the very least draw ‘a thing’! [x]

(Fact Source) For more facts, follow Ultrafacts

[csneal]

My second book with author Kate Messner hits stores today!

Have a peek inside here: http://csneal.com/books/

Buy it: http://www.chroniclebooks.com/titles/up-in-the-garden-and-down-in-the-dirt.html