Book-Themed Button du Jour

Found at Reading-as-Breathing via Kid at Heart via Windup Cat

Book-Themed Sampler du Jour

Found at Reading-as-Breathing via loves2write via books-on-the-floor via ministry of books via Books Direct

Book Poster du Jour

Found via HowNovelistic via ImaBookGlutton

Bookish Quotation du Jour

From the keyboard of Canada-based bookblogger “Cipriano“:

God grant me the serenity to accept that I can’t read all the books.
The courage to read the ones I can.
And the wisdom to quit buying more.

A Booklover’s Christmas Tree

Source: Imgur

Contributed by alert Ponce librarian Anne Vagts

“Confessions of a Book Fiend”

A poster by Grant Snider.

Found at Book Patrol

“Organizing the Bookcase”

Nope, not quite a how-to video – just for fun, really:

Found at Survival of the Book

Graphic du Jour

Found at dylanrocksss via theslowinsignificance

To Participate in a Social Network for Readers, or Not? This is a Question…

Are you an avid reader who’s joined, or considered joining – or at least heard about – LibraryThing, GoodReads, Shelfari, or one of the many other Internet-based websites where readers share their reading lists and recommendations?

If so, you might find interesting – and you will certainly find amusing – Minneapolis-baed blogger Dylan Hicks’ reflections on his love/hate relationship with GoodReads. His screed is entitled Bats in the Bookshelves: The Perils of Literary Social Networking.

For hyperlinks to over two dozen Internet-based social networks for readers, see the heading Social Networks in the Atlanta Booklover’s Blog’s Booklover’s Toolbox.

Found via The Millions

Bookish Humor: “Better Book Titles”

Comedian Dan Wilbur takes the art of writing plot summaries to a new level: he’s dreamed up some sarcastic alternative titles to Classics and Bestsellers You Meant to Read But Somehow Never Did. (Actually, you probably did read some of these books – but wondered later Why You Bothered.)

Wilbur’s send-up of the herd aspect of popular reading tastes and over-the-top book publicity is called  Better Book Titles.

Found via the New Yorker’s Book Bench