“No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”
— Virginia Woolf
Writing
TED Talk – What Makes a Bestseller?
Crank the volume on your computer! The sound on this video is very low, but Jonny Geller, literary agent and joint CEO of Curtis Brown, brings up some interesting points.
The Shelter Buddies Reading Program
This is such a great idea.
“The Shelter Buddies Reading Program at the Humane Society of Missouri was designed to help our shelter dogs become more adoptable. Participants sit outside of the dogs kennel and read to them, which helps shy dogs learn to relax around people, while teaching high-energy dogs that calm behavior is desirable. When children read stories to the dogs, it also helps them develop their own reading skills.”
For more information visit http://www.hsmo.org/education
See also:
http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/shelter-buddies-reading-program?context=featured
Happy trails, Angus!
I love reading obituaries. The good ones make me wish I’d known the deceased.
Angus Brian MacDonald wrote his own. It is funny and honest, one of the best I’ve ever read.
“My little dog Scarlett died Sept. 2013, and there really are no words to describe what a total destresser Scarlett was for me. So I guess if there’s a place in the after-life where little dogs and old dawgs go, then that’s where you’ll find me and Scarlett. Maybe I’ll see you all there sometime.”
Rest in peace Mr. MacDonald.
http://www.inmemoriam.ca/view-announcement-549326-angus-brian-macdonald.html
Harper Lee
“Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”
–Harper Lee (b. 1926 – d. 2016)
Alan Rickman
“I do take my work seriously and the way to do that is not to take yourself too seriously.”
–Alan Rickman (b. 1946 – d. 2016)
First Bowie, then Rickman. What a brutal week!
Some talent cannot be replaced.
RIP
Trigger Warning
“Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn’t.”
—Neil Gaiman
I am halfway through Neil Gaiman’s Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances and I am spellbound. I haven’t read anything of Gaiman’s in a while and I’m so glad I rediscovered him. With apologies to the dozens of books in my must-read pile (some of which have been there for years), I may have to indulge in more of his work.
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