World Book Night: Distribute One Million Books In March

thebookseller.com:

A mixture of fiction, poetry and memoir has been chosen for the inaugural World Book Night promotion, which will see one million free books given away by 20,000 volunteers.

The event, on 5th March, is likely to have an "enormously positive" impact on books, according to chairman of the campaign, Canongate m.d. Jamie Byng. It will be supported by BBC2.

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[Beatitudes]

08:40 AM on 12/06/2010

get this one


Gran Met: intermedia­ry between the living and the dead. Priestess. I'd gone to St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 and watched as tourists with cameras hanging from their necks scratched three Xs on Marie Laveau’s crumbling tomb. Mold and soot attached to the stucco encasement no matter how often it was cleaned. Admirers and sycophants cluttered the area with tokens, most of them trinkets that symbolized appeals for a better life. I heard children laughing, a sonorous but faraway tinkling, like a bewitched wind chime. There are times when we scoff at what we perceive as the irrational­, brushing away stentorian alarms; and we pay dearly for that foolish act. I'd done that most of my life; hushing the voices that begged for validation­, closing my eyes to the pulsating shapes that followed me. I surveyed the gaggle of tourists on that now far away day; no children. Gran Met with two souls, one the gros bon ange which gives her the will to live and survive and connects her to the living and should she wish, if good works are done, she may return, I guess be reincarnat­ed, for a better life. Soul number two: Our personalit­y, the face we see in the mirror, our earthly essence: ti bon ange. I walked away shaking my head and thinking perhaps it was time I paid another visit to the department­’s psychiatri­st. Better a voodoo princess than the Madwoman of New Orleans.



The Beatitudes­, amazon.com­, Lyn LeJeune,

[TheWM]

01:23 PM on 12/05/2010

John Le Carré STILL gets tossed into lists of "serious" authors. Why?! I'm reading the list of authors of the books to be given away, and I'm all: Seamus Heaney, Nobel laureate, good, Margaret Atwood, ought to be on a very short Nobel shortlist, good -- John Le Carré?! pffft, D'oh! No!

No.

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