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HOLLYWORDSTuesday, March 11, 2008
Harriett
The Global Language Monitor has announced the top ten HollyWORDIES of 2007. These catchphrases from films often work their way into common language, so if you're wondering where these sayings came from, here's the source. Note the top two are films made from books.
1. “Call it, Friendo.” (No Country for Old Men) – Chigurth’s flip of the coin (Javier Bardem).
2. “I drink your milkshake.” (There Will Be Blood) – “I drink it up!” Daniel Day Lewis.
3. Juno-verse (Juno) -- phraseology includes "doodle that can't be undid,” “Silencio”, and, of course, "Shoulda gone to China, because I hear they give away babies like free iPods." (Ellen Page).
4. “Maddness? This is S-P-A-R-T-A!” (The 300) – Kin Leonardis engages the Persians in Battle (Gerald Butler).
5. “I’m not the guy you kill; I’m the guy you buy off.” (Michael Clayton) – Michael Clayton’s self description (George Clooney)
6. “I think I am beginning to disappear.” (Away From Her) -- (Julie Christie)
7. “Either you're somebody, or you ain't nobody.” (American Gangster) – Frank Lucas (Denzel Washington).
8. “Squeezin' that watch won't stop time.” (3:10 to Yuma ) – Ben Wade (Russell Crowe)
9. “Sometimes birth and death go together.” (Eastern Promises) -- Anna (Naomi Watts)
10. “It was the things you don't choose that makes you who you are.” (Gone Baby Gone) -- Casey Affleck as Patrick Kenzie
BOOKS MAKE THE OSCARSWednesday, January 23, 2008
Movies based on books were among the major Oscar nominations, which were announced yesterday. The awards ceremony is scheduled for Sunday, February 24, but may be slimmed down because of the writers' strike.
No Country for Old Men, based on the Cormac McCarthy book, was nominated for best picture, best director (Ethan and Joel Coen), best supporting actor (Javier Bardem) and best adapted screenplay. Altogether the film garnered eight nominations.
There Will Be Blood, based on Upton Sinclair's novel Oil!, won nominations for best picture, best actor (Daniel Day-Lewis), best director (Paul Thomas Anderson) and best adapted screenplay. There Will Be Blood also had eight nominations.
Atonement, based on Ian McEwan's novel, won nominations for best picture, best supporting actress (Saoirse Ronan) and best adapted screenplay and garnered seven nominations overall.
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, based on the memoir by Jean-Dominique Bauby, was nominated for best director (Julian Schnabel) and best adapted screenplay.
Other movies based on books that had major nominations included Charlie Wilson's War (Philip Seymour Hoffman, best supporting actor); Into the Wild (Hal Holbrook for best supporting actor) and Persepolis (Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud for best animated feature film).
NOBS FORUMS: SHOW AND
TELLThursday, January 17, 2008
Harriett
Usually for NOBS Show and Tell sessions, people bring old books, vintage tomes, and collectible curiosities and treasures. I decided to bring something brand new, something most of us hadn't seen before, and something that redefines the concepts of genre.
The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick just won this year's Caldecott Award, and it's a wonderful and curious thing. This 500+ page book won the highest accolades "to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children." Usually this is interpreted to mean picture books: slim volumes with pictures on every page and some text interspersed, perfect for reading aloud to a 4-year-old. This book does not fit this model. However, if was awarded the Newbery, generally speaking for young adult literature, it would be the writer who was awarded, not the illustrator, even if that is one and the same person, as it is with Hugo Cabret.
Brian Selznick has reinterpreted the relationship of words and pictures in this book. The pictures, pencil skteches with heavy black page borders, are not used to illustrate the words, but are part of the story itself. Like Lynd Ward's God's Man: A Novel in Woodcuts (1929), the pictures tell the story with no words at all. Except that Selznick trades off points of telling the story solely with pictures, and then giving us a couple pages of prose. The reading level might be appropriate for a 10-year-old, but I can't see a 4-year-old sitting through a story this long. I loved it, though, and I marvelled at the balance between words and pictures. The pictures read very quickly: they are sketches full of movement that beg you turn the page and follow the action, not to linger looking for details. The prose slows you down to figure out the finer plot points and plot twists, of which there are many. That doesn't mean all the action is put into pictures however: at one point in Part Two, a chase scene ensues told entirely in pictures, and a little while later, another chase scene is told entirely in words.
It's a wonderful read. It's already been named a finalist for the National Book Award (usually given to adult literature). What's most amazing is that the Caldecott Committee felt strongly enough to warp the boundaries of their award to include it in its prestigious circle. Congratulations to Selznick. Now, forget that someone calls this a children's book, and go read it.
STUMPER MAGICIANS
AWARDS Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Harriett
And, for our own awards, I am pleased to announce that this year we have TWO honorees for the Stumper Magician of the Year! These glorious souls have solved over 3 dozen stumpers in the past year, and continue to frequent the site to try to solve more. In recognition and thanks for their hard work, we are pleased to present them with Loganberry fleece sweatshirts, in purple, of course. Stay tuned for words from the winners themselves, as I've also asked them to write a blog entry...
Congratulations to:
Mary Lou of Dunning, Nebraska
Kelly of Weston, Massachuetts
ALA AWARDS! Monday, January 14, 2008
Harriett
The American Library Association (ALA) has announced the winners of its Caldecott, Newbery and Coretta Scott King awards today! Congratulations to the winners:
JOHN NEWBERY MEDAL
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices From a Medieval Village
by Laura Amy Schlitz
(Candlewick)
NEWBERY HONOR BOOKS
Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis (Scholastic)
The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt (Clarion)
Feathers by Jacqueline Woodson (Putnam)
RANDOLPH CALDECOTT MEDAL
The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick (Scholastic)
CALDECOTT HONOR BOOKS
Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story From the Underground Railroad,
illustrated by Kadir Nelson, written by Ellen Levine (Scholastic)
First the Egg by Laura Vaccaro Seeger (Roaring Brook)
The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain by Peter
Sís
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity by Mo
Willems
(Hyperion)
CORETTA SCOTT KING AWARDS
Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis (Scholastic)
November Blues by Sharon M. Draper (Atheneum)
Twelve Rounds to Glory: The Story of Muhammad Ali by Charles R. Smith Jr. (Candlewick)
STUMPER
MAGICIANS Wednesday, December 5, 2007
Harriett
It's that time again! For all you wonderful Stumper Magicians out there, it's thanksgiving time -- I mean, Solstice, Christmas, Chanukah, Kwanzaa - or just plain holiday -- thanks time. And of course that means free books. Just fill in the form, choose what interests you, and we'll mail you a present. Many thanks for helping out with the endless stream of Stump the Bookseller entries and from people seeking their childhood memories everywhere. Paz.
WORD
OF THE YEAR: LOCAVORE Monday, November 26, 2007
Harriett
Oxford University Press has announced its Word of the Year for 2007: locavore.
The word was intentionally coined (as opposed to folk origins or collolquial slang) by Jessica Prentice of San Francisco to help promote consumers to buy and eat local products. The word has since taken off (in part thanks to Barbara Kingsolver), as have buy local campaigns across the country.
Such a simple concept it is: support your community by consuming local goods sold by local people. Goes for books too -- so if you consume books and purchase them from an independent bookseller near you, that makes you a biblio-locavore, right?
NATIONAL
BOOK AWARD
Friday, November 16, 2007
Harriett
It's a fun game trying to predict what books might win the major awards: National Book Awards, Caldecott, Newbery, Pulitzer, Hugo, etc. It's also fun to buy the anticipated winners, hoping to get a true first edition before it becomes a collectible book. I'm not very good at this game.
But I did it this time, and I'll admit that I have not read the book. Denis Johnson's Tree of Smoke just won the National Book Award for fiction. Perhaps it was the Publishers Weekly review that convinced me: "Is this our last Vietnam novel? One has to wonder. What serious writer, after tuning in to Johnson's terrifying, dissonant opera, can return with a fresh ear? ... When the book ends ... you feel that America's Vietnam experience has been brought to a closure that's as good as we'll ever get."
PIMP
MY BOOKCART
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Harriett
The results are in! This is the second year our buddies at Unshelved (a fantastic comic strip about a library -- anyone who likes books or who works with the general public will love this strip) has sponsored a contest called Pimp My Bookcart. There are prizes for the most creative, and they are all featured online. Check it out, it's wonderful. Maybe next year I'll get around to this project...
DORIS
LESSING WINS NOBEL
Thursday, October 11, 2007
Harriett
Doris Lessing just won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Two weeks shy of her 88th birthday, Lessing says she has won all the major European awards, and now she has "a royal flush."
The Nobel Board reports that Lessing is "that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny". Congratulations!
BEST
OF ALL TIME
Wednesday, October 3, 2007
Harriett
We made the Free Times' Best Of Cleveland issue! Yea! Here's what they say about us:
This used book store is a maze of comfortable rooms with the well-worn feeling of an old library and plenty of nooks and furniture to just sit and browse. It's packed with books both popular and obscure, and you're bound to discover at least one essential book you never knew you needed. It's especially strong in the arts, and features lots of art on display, and for sale, as well.
As this is a reader's poll, we thank everyone who took the time to vote for us! And thanks to the Free Times for supporting local businesses.
IN
THE NEWS
Friday, September 21, 2007
Harriett
Hey, we got some press! I knew the Plain Dealer Friday Magazine was working on a composite piece on area bookstores, but I wasn't here when the writer came to visit. Nonetheless, we made the cut and there's a glorious photo too (alas, no photos available in the online version). Best quote: "If Northeast Ohio bookstores were movie stars, Loganberry Books would be Lauren Bacall in the 1940s." Okay, we can do that.
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