I actually like waiting to read books, because then the hoopla has hooped down the street and the buzz has stopped buzzing and it’s just you and the page in front of you, and then the page after that. Still, even I am occasionally immune to my own rules, and accidentally read a book immediately after purchasing it.
Three wonderful Tumblr writers have new books on sale today, and what a diverse group they are:
Dan Wilbur tells you How Not To Read in a funny little guide based on Better Book Titles. The party is tonight!
Emma Straub’s long-awaited debut novel is here. I read it in one sitting and then bought another copy for my mom. You should too.
Allie Hagan channels Suri Cruise in this very important instruction manual for fashion and for life. Based on Suri’s Burn Book. The party is 9/25, with the delightful Emma Koenig of Fuck I’m in My 20s.
This should keep you in reading material until at least next Tuesday…
Behold the power of Tumblr, ye literary mortals!
It’s finally here! And other great new titles are also appearing in bookstores today, like Christopher Hitchens’s Mortality, Emma Straub’s Laura Lamont’s Life in Pictures. More hot new releases right here.
Source: themillions.com
While you’d never know it from following her chipper twitter account, it kind of seems like Emma Straub must really like to cry. First there was her year in what seems like heart wrenching reading, and now she’s gone and compiled a list of some truly tragic tunes for Electric Lit’s blog. I’m thinking in sighs and welling up a little just thinking about a playlist that has Elliot Smith, Morrisey, and The Magnetic Fields belting out melancholia.
The general idea is that customers have started to use the bookstore as a place to handle, but not purchase, merchandise, like a Ferrari dealership, where you don’t actually expect to drive one home off the lot. According to a recent Codex Group survey, 39% of those who purchased a book on Amazon looked at said title in a bricks-and-mortar store first before heading online.
Source: TIME
Most of my favorite books of 2011 were full-on sob-fests, stories that had me reaching for the tissue box as often as I turned the page.
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