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SHAUN SMITH'S SUNDAY SUNDRIES
Submitted by ssmith on February 19, 2012 - 4:44pm
A WEEKLY ROUNDUP OF INTERNET CURIOSITIES FROM THE BOOK WORLD
What if music albums, video games and movies were books?
Emily Dubin does some mighty fine book blogging at Chronicle Books in San Francisco. One of her latest offerings leads us to three designers who have been inspired by retro book-cover design to revision music albums, video games and movies as books.
- The Record Books • by Christophe Gowans
- Video Game Classics • by Oily Moss
- I Can Read Movies • by Spacesick
Lord of the Flies
Of course you will remember that I blogged some aeons ago about The Guardian's contest for young readers to design a new cover for William Golding's Lord of the Flies. Well, here's an interview with the winner, Amy Baxter. And here's a gallery of the shortlist (Amy's is number 3 in the gallery.)
"No, I don't have a television."
"Gripping! Provocative! Riveting!"...Sh*t Book Reviewers Say. (Stick with it, it gets pretty funny.)
Fascinating for its diversity if nothing else
The 50 most influential books of the last 50 (or so) years, according to SuperScholar.org.
Fascinating because the website is just so much fun to play with
The 100 best opening lines from books, according to Stylist.co.uk.
Want to play Angry Birds while appearing to be an intelligent person in a tree?
These folks have just the thing for you.
I have an...
idea!
