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The Irish Literary Revival offers free downloads of out-of-print Irish books. They need to meet up with the folks from the New Canadian Library.
Frank Sennett details his travails in self-publishing on the Kindle. His novel, Finding Juliet, is described as “a modern Shakespeare in Love.” How much more removed from the Bard can you get?
The Royal Canadian Navy’s Instructional Manual of Naval Cookery from 1961 is full of fun tips. Apparently knowing how to make sandwich pinwheels was part of the gig?
I want to buy the friendship of Vanessa Brown, avid rare LM Montgomery book collector, thanks to this NP profile. Hello Kilmeny of the Orchard 1910 edition! Invite me over, Vanessa, and I will try not to commit armed robbery.
Ian McDonald’s sci-fi homage to Mars, Desolation Road, is ‘brilliant’ and ‘epic’ according to this rabid BoingBoing writer, and now handily back in print.
Bypass the Emily Dickinson myth-making and get informed by the best sources.
Books don’t just enable the growth of ideas anymore, they also make darn good planters.
Today is the last day to vote for the 2009 Hugo Awards!
Charles Willeford’s trashy 1956 novella Wild Wives is now free to read online. For those ready to move on from lesbian pulp novels.
This blog about awful library books has been waiting to be made for quite some time. A book about leeches? With photos?? Yeeeewwwwww.

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Pete says:
July 3rd, 2009 at 12:47 pm
Why in the world would anyone even WANT to move on from lesbian pulp novels?
Rachel says:
July 3rd, 2009 at 10:53 pm
Vanessa Brown let me touch one of her first editions! (And that isn’t a euphemism for anything, besides pure awesome.) She came into my bookshop after doing that interview, and she was just carrying it around with her – I assume because of the interview, not because she just happens to keep LM Montgomery first editions in her satchel.

Thanks, Vanessa! You’ve made me want to reread all my LM Montgomery again! … except maybe not Akin To Anne.
B.Kienapple says:
July 6th, 2009 at 3:19 pm
Pure awesome indeed! I have an edition of Kilmeny of the Orchard from the first half of the century and the book itself is so lovely and old and the story within is so sweet and simple, it takes me back every time. Though I have to agree with Vanessa, The Blue Castle is the richest of Montgomery’s works. I think we should start a contingent to work with the Austen lovers for greater recognition of Montgomery’s other tales (than Anne).

July 3, 2009