Just a few more days left to enter Flavorwire’s Short Fiction contest.
I just choked on my coffee. Where can I purchase this gem of a book?
A Book Lover in a Bookstore
Love his book blinders.
(via imabookglutton)
Ready for some great summer reading? Fantastic! The Kids’ Book Club Card is back!
Get your Official Kids’ Book Club Card at the front desk in the Open Books store, then have it punched every time you visit this summer. On your 5th visit, redeem it for a FREE book …or wait to fill up 2 cards and get THREE free books!
Get your Official Kids’ Book Club Card at the front desk in the Open Books store, then have it punched every time you visit this summer. On your 5th visit, redeem it for a FREE book …or wait to fill up 2 cards and get THREE free books!
No purchase necessary. One punch per day. Cards must be redeemed before 09/2/13 and have no cash value. Incomplete cards may not be redeemed. Complete cards may be redeemed for a used children’s or young adult book priced at $10 or less.
Please help get the Open Books store on the ballot for Chicago Reader’s Best of 2013! Click here to write in your favorite Chicago stores, restaurants, and more!
Hankering for some green eggs and ham? Instructables has the recipe.
(link via mental_floss’s “11 Nerdy Recipes from Books, Movies and TV”)
The article has recipes for SOYLENT GREEN crackers. People, they’re made out of PEOPLE!
This Is Your Brain On Writing — Any Questions?
Umm, pretty amazing! Especially on how cliches don’t evoke sensory responses!
(via booksandpublishing)
Who do you love- Sox or Cubs? Vote here and Open Books will receive $1 from StorageMart Gives for every click that the winning team gets. There’s no catch! ;) More clicks = More $ for our literacy programs. Thanks for voting!
Spots still open for the amazing Publishing Academy at Open Books! Registration closes June 1st.
Great Gatsby tattoos! See all 15 here!
To bring attention to gendered book covers, author Maureen Johnson proposed a little experiment on Twitter. She asked people to take a well-known book, then to imagine the author of that book was of the opposite gender, or was genderqueer, and then imagine what that cover might look like. There were hundreds of replies within 24 hours. Here are just a few of them.
What’s the problem with gendered book covers? See what she has to say here.
