Archive: Books category
On Tuesday we had a joint New Play Project workshop with the BYU group Write2Publish (which went really well!), and while there I found out about the upcoming Publishers Fair. It's on April 9 (two weeks from yesterday) from noon to 5 p.m. in the Wilkinson Center Garden Court. ...
A few bookish links:
First, Annegirl's got a lovely post on books she's loved. Which reminds me, I still need to write that Amor Libris book...
Second, I came across BookLamp earlier this week. Here's the blurb:
BookLamp is a book recommendation system that uses the full text of ...
When I dropped out of grad school a month ago, the plan was to go into publishing (specifically typesetting/book design) and write on the side, eventually doing more writing than publishing.
Well, over the past week or two, that plan has shifted its weight, and in doing so it uncovered ...
So, this guy named Ammon Shea just spent a year reading the whole Oxford English Dictionary. The whole thing. He's writing a book about it, but he's also posting to the Oxford University Press blog about it, and a couple days ago he posted Absurd Entries in ...
Being able to check books out for six months has had an unexpected side effect: instead of reading books, I now hoard them.
It's not like I've stopped reading entirely -- I'm in the middle of Shannon Hale's Book of a Thousand Days right now (and really like it) -- but ...
Today we have three quotes from C.S. Lewis's The Problem of Pain, a fabulous book chock-full of thought-provoking hooks like these.
You will certainly carry out God's purpose, however you act, but it makes a difference to you whether you serve like Judas or like John. (p. 111)
Mere time does nothing ...
A few cool things I've come across lately:
1. Melodyne's Direct Note Access, a short video demonstrating their new technology that lets you edit the individual notes of a chord -- from a recording. It's like Photoshop for music. I have to admit that I'm still not completely ...
After seeing a post a few seconds ago on The Finer Things Club about Friday's Billy Collins reading, I realized that I totally forgot to blog about the reading! And so we get a second post today. :)
So, Billy Collins came to BYU on Friday as part of ...
Back in May, I decided to start digitizing the Welsh Book of Mormon (Llyfr Mormon), dubbing the endeavor Project Cymru. It was going along pretty well for a while, but then I got bogged down over the summer and kind of forgot about the project. I did ...
[Cross-posted from Mormon Renaissance. We're trying to get the discussion going over there, so if you do comment, it'd be great if you could post your comments on that blog instead. Or on both blogs, I guess. :)]
I used to think I knew my stuff when it ...
