#March 2023 Books

[bargainsleuthbooks]

Strangers in the Night: A Novel of Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner by Heather Webb #NetGalley #ARCReview #Hollywood

Nothing was hotter for a time than the love affair between #FrankSinatra and #AvaGardner. An upcoming book fictionalizes their affair and I found it pretty spot-on. #StrangersintheNight #Anoveloffranksinatraandavagardner #heatherwebb #netgalley #arcreview

In the golden age of Hollywood, two of the brightest stars would define–and defy–an era… She was the small-town southern beauty transformed into a Hollywood love goddess. He was the legendary crooner whose voice transfixed the world. They were Ava Gardner and Frank Sinatra. Separately they were irresistible; together they were an explosive combination. Ava’s star is rising just as Frank’s…

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I went to a library. The person at the front desk was unusually tall and thin like the guy from Little Nightmares 2. I asked them where I can find the books on anatomy. They stopped typing on a type-writer, lowered their glasses to look me over and then said, “God gave you two eyeballs. You can’t see your own, but you sure can see everybody else’s.”

[godbirdart]

today is the first day in a very very long time that i woke up on one of my scheduled days off and didn't feel the Work Panic set in and it's... very surreal. things are quiet. i feel like i could actually read the books i bought months ago or work on the personal projects that got sidelined last year.

not going to elaborate more beyond "working a bit too much overtime and now a year's gone by somehow" but wow,,, maybe i will do an activity for me today ?? the possibilities ...

[why-the-heck-not]

25.03.23, saturday

cats & coding

[benzgarfield]

The way Garfield looks at Benz

(and the way Benz looks at Garfield)

Source: x, x, x, x

[probablyasocialecologist]

In effect, the Internet Archive is fighting to prevent the devolution of ebooks into Netflix-like, un-ownable licensed products. An “authorized” licensed book that can’t be owned outright isn’t fundamentally a book at all; books that can only be licensed are impermanent object that can disappear from the virtual shelves of libraries for any number of reasons.

The stakes in this lawsuit have become clearer in the years since it was filed, as attacks against the freedom of individuals to read, write, teach, and learn have escalated—shading, not infrequently now, into threats of violence: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis taking aim at academic freedom on multiple fronts; literal book bannings and library closings; open aggression against school board members and librarians. Do we want to live in a world where books can disappear with one click of DeSantis’s mouse?

Jennie Rose Halperin, the director of Library Futures, a digital library policy and advocacy organization, told me: “If libraries do not maintain the right to purchase and lend materials digitally as well as physically on terms that are equitable and fair to the public, we risk further exacerbating divides in our democracy and society, as well as the continued privatization of information access. Just because a book is digital does not make it licensed software—a book is a book, in whatever form it takes.”

Libraries, it’s clear, need their traditional statutory protections now more than ever. The right of first sale, which allows libraries to own and loan the books in their own collections, in particular, must be preserved for digital books as well as print ones.

[...]

The future of digital culture must not be left in the hands of commercial interests, because corporations don’t protect or develop culture: They sell it. Which is fine, and healthy, so long as businesses stay in their lane—but they don’t. Again and again, corporate overreach like the lawsuit against the Internet Archive has shown that where there is more money to be made, business will all too happily interfere with schools, universities, and libraries—no matter the cost to the quality or utility or posterity of education, or art, or literature.

[frogeyedape]

I can't find my og boucle planning post because of course not, but!!! I have finally finished a bobbin of last year's Spinner's Book of Yarn Designs Spin Along boucle!!

Well..."finished" for a certain definition of finished XD

I still have another bobbin of angora singles that I have to decide whether to make *better* boucle with vs do something else....

[samireads]

March wrap up. I was coming off the SKZ high from last month and I went to Japan… this was the result 🫣

[deadandphilgames]

oversharing in the tags time :)

[bribliography]

books read in 2023

— icebreaker.

by hannah grace.

‪‪★ ★ ★‬ ½

“There isn’t a version of me that is better without you by my side.”

goodreads review | books read in 2022

[bargainsleuthbooks]

Intrigue in Istanbul (Jane Wunderly #4) by Erica Ruth Neubauer #NetGalley #ARC #BookReview

The newest volume of the Jane Wunderly mysteries is coming out soon. Jane's off to Istanbul to find her father in time to save their home from the banker. #JaneWunderly #IntrigueinIstanbul #EricaRuthNeubauer #NetGalley #ARC #BookReview #kensingtonbooks

Istanbul, 1926. After her archeologist father makes a clandestine journey abroad, Jane and the dapper Mr. Redvers trace his footsteps while signs of danger loom back home in the United States. They’re greeted at their destination by Aunt Millie and unsettling news: Professor Wunderly was on a mission to locate the lost heart of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent–a legendary relic from the Ottoman…

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I was a wealthy author and fostering my cousins (who were now primary school-aged children?) and their tennis coach was Bollywood star Hrithik Roshan.

After they spent ages on a plastic playground slide, Hrithik got all up in my face about them being terrible students then angrily asked me to give him all my best books. I told him I only had ten books out and he got frustrated and told me to make more.

[slaughter-books]

Day 30: JOMPBPC: Read In March

My March, 2023 reading wrap-up! ❤️

[why-the-heck-not]

31.03.23, friday

perfectly good sofa right there but noo, let’s sit on the floor in front of it with the shrimp posture. this is me working:  💻🦐 “hmmm why does my back hurt ??”

[richardarmitagefanpage]

New photos of Richard with Harlan Coben at St James’s Church in London, UK. (March 23, 2023)

📸: centurybooksuk / charlottebush2 / JodiePortugal / WaterstonesPicc / JaneeBurgess53 / traveladdictuk

[elennemigo]

2nd ✦ Sony has just dated Jeymes Samuel’s biblical-times feature The Book of Clarence (starred by  LaKeith Stanfield,  Benedict Cumberbatch, James McAvoy and more) for September 22 this year.

9th ✦ Justin Kurzel’s ‘Morning’ starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Laura Dern receives €2m from FFF Bayern.

10th ✦ Benedict recording Arctic: Our Frozen Planet - Behind The Scenes.

28th ✦ Benedict donated another pair of his shoes for Small Steps Projects and its Celebrety Shoe Auction. 

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