Daily Thoughts 5/8/2011 (the crippled god)

Cover of the pulp magazine Weird Tales (December 1935, vol. 26, no. 6) featuring the Conan novel The Hour of the Dragon by Robert E. Howard

Daily Thoughts 5/8/2011


I have been reading The Crippled God this morning by Steven Erikson. The chatpers beginnings have poetry.  He also separates the lands of the gods and heros which have a dreamy quality to them from the every day world in his fantasy by using ornate writing with the quality of lucid dreams.  I could read the sections with the character Karsa Orlong by themselves.

I also read some more of A Portrait of the Artist at a Young Man by James Joyce.  I am beginning to understand why there are book clubs that are solely focused on Joyce.  I like the themes of sin and forgiveness in the novel.

Web Bits

Publishers Plan A Joint One Stop Book Site
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/07/books/publishers-plan-a-joint-one-stop-book-site.html?_r=1&ref=technology

Daily Thoughts 5/4/2011 (the crippled god)

The Yongzheng-Emperor while reading a book.National Palace Museum Taibei, 18th Century Artist, Artist Unknown

Daily Thoughts 5/4/2011

I put some of the art books from the Distribution to Underserved Communities in the display cases in the rotunda.  I particularly like The Portraits speak: Chuck Close in conversation with 27 of his subjects and Street Art Street Life from the 1950s to Now put together by the Bronx Museum.

This morning, I also updated the Twitter account and checked the displays.  I am still going over the Publishers Weekly issue on Book Expo America which lists all the different booths and companies on the floor.  I like to write a list of which vendors I am going to visit. 

The book, The Crippled God by Steven Erikson has come in for me to read today. At the beginning of many of the chapters, Steven Erikson writes a bit of poetry to go with the chapters.  It is fantasy.

I put the book In The Plex How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives by Steven Levy on reserve.

Web Bits

Know The Past, Find The Future New York PUblic Library at 100 is
going to be given away at New York Library branches starting May 19, 2011

http://exhibitions.nypl.org/100/digital_fun/read_the_book?utm_source=eNewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=NYPLNews201105&utm_campaign=NYPLNews