Edible Book Festival. The International Edible Book Festival is an annual event usually held on or around April 1, which is also known as Edible Book Day.[1] The global event has been celebrated since 2000 in various parts of the world, where "edible books" are created, displayed, and small events are held. The creations are photographed and then consumed.[1] Regular contributors to the site are groups from Australia, Brazil, India, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Mexico, Morocco, The Netherlands, Russia, and Hong Kong. The event was initiated by Judith A. Hoffberg and Béatrice Coron in 2000.[1] Title page of "Physiologie du Goût" ("Physiology of Taste") by French gastronome Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755-1826) with a portrait of the author. 1848 edition. Rules[edit] The Participation rules per the official site are:[2] The event must be held on April 1 or around it"All edible books must be 'bookish' through the integration of text, literary inspiration or, quite simply, the form.
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'Life In Five Seconds:' Read 7 Classic Books In 35 Seconds. "Life in Five Seconds: Over 200 Stories For Those With No Time to Waste," put together by the design and advertising firm H-57, came out earlier this month. It is a series of pictographs that takes on over 200 important events, inventions great lives, and cultural icons and condenses them to the essential moments. In other words, it's hilarious.
We took an excerpt of some of the book-themed infographics that the book offered. Enjoy! "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley "The Metamorphosis" by Kafka "Moby-Dick" by Herman Melville "The Odyssey" by Homer "Robinson Crusoe" by Daniel Defoe "Romeo and Juliet" by Shakespeare "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Brontë. Robert Louis Stevenson Edinburgh statue unveiled. IT HAS taken more than a century, but finally one of Scotland’s most celebrated authors has been honoured on the streets of his home city with his own statue. A long campaign to have Edinburgh-born Robert Louis Stevenson properly recognised has finally been realised with the unveiling of a bronze sculpture of him as a book-loving youngster.
Crime writer Ian Rankin, a life-long fan of Stevenson, unveiled the bronze sculpture in a garden in the heart of Colinton village, where the young Stevenson regularly headed to visit his grandfather, a church minister there. Almost 300 local people and Stevenson enthusiasts turned out for street party to celebrate the completion of the four feet tall statue, created by Midlothian-based sculptor Allan Herriot. The Kidnapped and Treasure Island author wrote how he would spent much of his summer holidays in Colinton at his grandfather, Dr Lewis Balfour’s house. “I don’t think it’s that odd that there is not a statue of Stevenson in Edinburgh already. 9 Books to Drop Everything and Read.
The curious tale of the stolen books. 24 April 2013Last updated at 19:48 ET By Martin Vennard BBC World Service London's Lambeth Palace, home to the Archbishop of Canterbury, also has a leading historic book collection. The palace's library was the scene of a major crime that stayed undiscovered for decades. A sealed letter that arrived at one of Britain's most historic libraries in February 2011 was to leave its staff stunned. The letter had been written before his death by a former employee of Lambeth Palace Library. Forwarded shortly after he died by the man's solicitor, it revealed the whereabouts of many of the library's precious books. Staff had known since the mid-1970s that dozens of its valuable books had been stolen.
Continue reading the main story Lambeth's recovered books Key works now back at the Palace include: "We were staggered," says Declan Kelly, director of libraries and archives for the Church of England. It was roughly estimated that up to 10,000 books were destroyed or badly damaged. Infamous book thefts. English teacher at London school leaves £250,000 library of rare books - London. I am very real. In October of 1973, Bruce Severy — a 26-year-old English teacher at Drake High School, North Dakota — decided to use Kurt Vonnegut's novel, Slaughterhouse-Five, as a teaching aid in his classroom.
The next month, on November 7th, the head of the school board, Charles McCarthy, demanded that all 32 copies be burned in the school's furnace as a result of its "obscene language. " Other books soon met with the same fate. On the 16th of November, Kurt Vonnegut sent McCarthy the following letter. He didn't receive a reply. (Source: Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage; Image: Kurt Vonnegut, via Everything was Vonnegut.) November 16, 1973Dear Mr. 25 Things I'm Learning From Closing a Bookstore. - jlsathre. A while back I wrote "25 Things I Learned From Opening a Bookstore. " This is the other bookend. 1. When people ask why you're closing, you can tell them that the economy's poor and people are buying Nooks.
But it's more fun to tell them that it's time to move on because you've read everything in the store. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. "You mean the ones that are worth a lot of money? " Yes they do. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. And, once again, that pesky fifth grader shows his face. 24. 25. More Scientific Evidence That Reading Is Good for You - Arit John. A growing body of research in the sciences is discovering what bookworms, 9th-grade English teachers and underemployed liberal arts majors have known for ages: reading is really, really good for you.
Besides making you an empathetic, sexy, cultured and all around more interesting human being, reading apparently provides definite benefits to your mental health, sharpening the mind as it ages. A study released in Neurology found that reading and similar activities reduced the rate of cognitive decline in dementia patients. Researchers examined the brains of 294 patients post-mortem and found a slower rate of decline in patients who reported more early-life and late-life cognitive activity, such as reading, writing and playing games. "The study showed that mentally active patients — ones who read and wrote regularly — declined at a significantly slower rate than those who had an average amount of activity," notes NPR's Annalisa Quinn.
With all that in mind, go forth and read freely. Google Is Even Mapping The Fictional World Of Harry Potter. Didn't get into Hogwarts when you turned 11? Don't worry. You can still visit the Wizarding World's main drag, Diagon Alley, from the comfort of your desk. Google added the set of Diagon Alley to Google Street View. Diagon Alley is the main shopping district in the Harry Potter universe, where wizarding students from the book series go to buy schoolbooks, wands, candy, flying brooms and more.
What you can see now on Google Maps is the Diagon Alley set from the eight "Harry Potter" films, housed at the Warner Bros. Studio in London. It may not be as useful as the Marauder's Map, but Google Street View did an excellent job capturing a big piece of the film franchise's set. To see Diagon Alley and much more Harry Potter paraphernalia in person, head out to London and take the Warner Bros. studio tour. [h/t Mashable] Earlier on HuffPost: Pride and Prejudice - Display news. The first edition in 'publishers' boards'. A near-perfect first edition of one of the most popular novels in the English language has gone on display in Edinburgh.
Published in 1813, 'Pride and Prejudice' was Jane Austen's second novel. The author herself was the first to fall in love with it, describing it as 'my darling child'. Since then the book has hardly been out of print, with film and television dramatisations bringing the story to the attention of millions during the 20th century alone. Zombies have even found a place in modern retellings of Austen's Regency romantic comedy. In immaculate condition The first edition in the National Library of Scotland's collections is the centrepiece of a display celebrating 200 years of this literary and popular classic.
It is believed that the first print run was between 1,000 and 1,500 copies, and few have survived in such immaculate condition. Read more in our treasures display press release. A new and accurate description of all the direc...
Neil deGrasse Tyson Lists 8 (Free) Books Every Intelligent Person Should Read. A Reddit.com user posed the question to Neil deGrasse Tyson: "Which books should be read by every single intelligent person on the planet? " Below, you will find the book list offered up by the astrophysicist, director of the Hayden Planetarium, and popularizer of science. Where possible, we have included links to free versions of the books, all taken from our Free Audio Books and Free eBooks collections. Or you can always download a professionally-narrated book for free from Audible.com.
Details here. If you're looking for a more extensive list of essential works, don't miss The Harvard Classics, a 51 volume series that you can now download online. 1.) The Bible (eBook) - "to learn that it's easier to be told by others what to think and believe than it is to think for yourself. " 2.) 3.) 4.) 5.) 6.) 7.) 8.) Tyson concludes by saying: "If you read all of the above works you will glean profound insight into most of what has driven the history of the western world. " Related Content: Alice Munro wins Nobel Prize for Literature. 10 October 2013Last updated at 08:51 ET Munro won the Man Booker International Prize for her entire body of work in 2009 Canadian author Alice Munro has won the 2013 Nobel Prize for Literature. Making the announcement, Peter Englund, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, called her a "master of the contemporary short story".
The 82-year-old, whose books include Dear Life and Dance of the Happy Shades, is only the 13th woman to win the prize since its inception in 1901. "I knew I was in the running, yes, but I never thought I would win," Munro told Canadian media. Alice Munro: "I would really hope that this would make people see the short story as an important art" Presented by the Nobel Foundation, the award - which is presented to a living writer - is worth eight million kronor (£770,000).
Previous winners include literary giants such as Rudyard Kipling, Toni Morrison and Ernest Hemingway. She had been studying English at the University of Western Ontario at the time. Chekov “Start Quote. Palaeography tutorial & competition - Rediscovering Rycote. 6 Books Every Smart, Sexy Woman Needs To Read. Fear of Flying author Erica Jong reveals the inspiring titles that need a place on every woman's bookshelf. As told to Leigh Haber Before Sex and the City, before Girls, there was Fear of Flying, the now-classic novel that encouraged women not just to enjoy their sexuality but to feel downright exhilarated by it.
The book was revolutionary for its time, and, four decades later, what still makes it so relevant (and compulsively readable) is narrator Isadora Wing's decision to finally take charge of her own mind, body and freedom. In celebration of the Fear of Flying's 40th anniversary, author Erica Jong has come up with six inspiring books that every woman, of any generation needs to read -- or reread! -- if only to invoke her own inner powerhouse. 1) The Golden Notebook By Doris Lessing 688 pages; Harper Perennial Modern Classics The story: One woman's struggle to write a notebook that contains all the compartmentalized facets of her life -- her childhood, her politics and her lovers.