You Can Stay in a Hidden Library in St. Paul’s Cathedral

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You Can Stay in a Hidden Library in St. Paul’s Cathedral

For one evening solely, a “hidden” library in St. Paul’s Cathedral in London will likely be accessible to e-book for 2 company for 7 kilos. You can signal as much as attempt to seize the March fifteenth date on March twelfth (I suppose some kind of lottery system picks who will get it?). This additionally seems to be some kind of sponsored take care of PRH, however you realize what, it labored on me.

First New Haruki Murakami Novel in Six Years Lands This Fall

Looks like that is the UK road date, however I’m certain The City and Its Uncertain Walls received’t tarry too lengthy to reach stateside. From the writer’s description: “a love story, a quest, an ode to books and to the libraries that house them, and a parable for these strange post-pandemic times… a singular and towering achievement by one of modern literature’s most important writers.” Let’s gooooooooo.

Character Limit to Chronicle The Mess That Was (Is) Elon Musk’s Takeover of Twitter

Now we’re speaking. Investigative reporters from one of many final bastions of investigative reporting (the NYT) moving into the precise acquisition (awkwardly finished), takeover (extraordinarily messy), and on-going operation (look awayyyyyy) of Twitter by one Elon Musk. The tales are going to be wild.

In the Beginning, There Was Marilynne Robinson

Ok, so this one is for me. Briallen Hopper goes lengthy on Marilynne Robinson’s new e-book, Reading Genesis. I’m going to be studying all the Reading Genesis stuff popping out over the following couple of weeks.

A Small Delight

I linked yesterday to the information of an upcoming stage manufacturing of Othello, startting Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal. The web did its factor and surfaced for me this clip of Denzel and Colbert buying and selling Shakespeare off the dome. Worth three minutes of your display screen time.

The State of EReaders

On the latest episode of First Edition, Jason Snell of sixcolors.com, and ereader connoisseur, joined me to speak in regards to the state of ereaders, what makes a good ereader, a couple of attention-grabbing, oddball new gadgets, and extra.