INTERESTING BOOK BLOG AND EXCITING FORTHCOMING BOOKS
The Millions, an online magazine offering coverage on books, arts, and culture since 2003, recently posted a list of
the most anticipated summer reading (and beyond). An interesting site for booklovers.
JAMES JOYCE AND LANGUAGE
Hear a fascinating & entertaining example of Joycean brilliance
Partial Text of Audio (1st 6 minutes of 8:49):
Well, you know or don't you kennet or haven't I told you
every telling has a taling and that's the he and the she of
it. Look, look, the dusk is growing! My branches lofty are
taking root. And my cold cher's gone ashley. Fieluhr?
Filou! What age is at? It saon is late. 'Tis endless now
senne eye or erewone last saw Waterhouse's clogh. They took
it asunder, I hurd thum sigh. When will they reassemble it?
O, my back, my back, my bach! I'd want to go to Aches-les-
Pains. Pingpong! There's the Belle for Sexaloitez! And
Concepta de Send-us-pray! Pang! Wring out the clothes!
Wring in the dew! Godavari, vert the showers! And grant
thaya grace! Aman. Will we spread them here now? Ay, we
will. Flip! Spread on your bank and I'll spread mine on
mine. Flep! It's what I'm doing. Spread! It's churning
chill. Der went is rising. I'll lay a few stones on the
hostel sheets. A man and his bride embraced between them.
Else I'd have folded and sprinkled them only. And I'll tie
my butcher's apron here. It's suety yet. The strollers will
pass it by. Six shifts, ten kerchiefs, nine to hold to the
fire and one for the code, the convent napkins, twelve,
one baby's shawl. Good mother Jossiph knows, she said.
Whose head? Mutter snores? Deataceas! Wharnow are alle her
childer, say? In kingdome gone or power to come or gloria
be to them farther? Allalivial, allalluvial! Some here,
more no more, more again lost alla stranger. I've heard
tell that same brooch of the Shannons was married into a
family in Spain. And all the Dunders de Dunnes in
Markland's Vineland beyond Brendan's herring pool takes
number nine in yangsee's hats. And one of Biddy's beads
went bobbing till she rounded up lost histereve with a
marigold and a cobbler's candle in a side strain of a main
drain of a manzinahurries off Bachelor's Walk. But all
that's left to the last of the Meaghers in the loup of the
years prefixed and between is one kneebuckle and two hooks
in the front. Do you tell me that now? I do in troth. Orara
por Orbe and poor Las Animas! Ussa, Ulla, we're umbas all!
Mezha, didn't you hear it a deluge of times, ufer and ufer,
respund to spond? You deed, you deed! I need, I need! It's
that irrawaddyng I've stoke in my aars. It all but husheth
the lethest zswound. Oronoko! What's your trouble? Is that
the great Finnleader himself in his joakimono on his statue
riding the high horse there forehengist? Father of Otters,
it is himself! Yonne there! Isset that? On Fallareen
Common? You're thinking of Astley's Amphitheayter where the
bobby restrained you making sugarstuck pouts to the
ghostwhite horse of the Peppers. Throw the cobwebs from
your eyes, woman, and spread your washing proper! It's well
I know your sort of slop. Flap! Ireland sober is Ireland
stiff. Lord help you, Maria, full of grease, the load is
with me! Your prayers. I sonht zo! Madammangut! Were you
lifting your elbow, tell us, glazy cheeks, in Conway's
Carrigacurra canteen? Was I what, hobbledyhips? Flop! Your
rere gait's creakorheuman bitts your butts disagrees. Amn't
I up since the damp tawn, marthared mary allacook, with
Corrigan's pulse and varicoarse veins, my pramaxle smashed,
Alice Jane in decline and my oneeyed mongrel twice run
over, soaking and bleaching boiler rags, and sweating cold,
a widow like me, for to deck my tennis champion son, the
laundryman with the lavandier flannels? You won your
limpopo limp fron the husky hussars when Collars and Cuffs
was heir to the town and your slur gave the stink to
Carlow. Holy Scamander, I sar it again! Near the golden
falls. Icis on us! Seints of light! Zezere! Subdue your
noise, you hamble creature! What is it but a blackburry
growth or the dwyergray ass them four old codgers owns. Are
you meanam Tarpey and Lyons and Gregory? I meyne now, thank
all, the four of them, and the roar of them, that draves
that stray in the mist and old Johnny MacDougal along with
them. Is that the Poolbeg flasher beyant, pharphar, or a
fireboat coasting nyar the Kishtna or a glow I behold
within a hedge or my Garry come back from the Indes? Wait
till the honeying of the lune, love! Die eve, little eve,
die! We see that wonder in your eye. We'll meet again,
we'll part once more. The spot I'll seek if the hour you'll
find. My chart shines high where the blue milk's upset.
Forgivemequick, I'm going! Bubye! And you, pluck your
watch, forgetmenot. Your evenlode. So save to jurna's end!
My sights are swimming thicker on me by the shadows to this
place. I sow home slowly now by own way, moyvalley way.
Towy I too, rathmine.
Details on Joyce Recording Molly Bloom's Soliloquy - Read and Hear Search entire text of "Ulysses"
Words, Images, Text and Print
On an electronic screen, she said, "the words pass as an image before you. If you want to turn back, it is something you have to manage. With a book, you are flipping back and your eye may be caught indeed by other passages.
Reading the image is different from reading the text in a book."Food for thought from Nadine Gordimer in, according to the Guardian, "a passionate defence of the printed book against the onslaught of technology."
INDIA THROUGH MAHRI'S EYES
Mahri Kerley, owner of Chaucer's Bookstore, spent several weeks taking photographs in India in the fall of 2008. India is a magnificent country, saturated with color and completely overwhelming for all of the senses. Mahri has chosen a dozen of her most vivid images for this exhibition.
The exhibition and sale was open for the month of May at Indigo Interiors (1323 State Street).
Two Worlds - Two Views: Two photographic journeys by Mahri Kerley and David Hancock. Mahri Kerley captures the rich texture of life in India through her colorful portraits. David Hancock evokes the graphic beauty of streetscapes and botanicals from Europe and Taos.
After almost 30 years, Karl Marlantes' captivating and riveting book "Matterhorn" has arrived. The book is a literary tour de force - and is a fine example of the power and importance of literature to a culture.
Karl will visit Chaucer's to sign the book on Wednesday April 14th at 7pm. It is a great opportunity to meet the author of one of the finest books of the year.
Columbia University has announced the 2010 Bancroft Prize Winners.
Santa Barbara local Pekka Hamalainen - Comanche Empire - was one of the 2009 winners of this prestigious prize for exceptional merit in the fields of American history, biography and diplomacy.
Los Angeles Times Book Prize Nominees Announced
The Los Angeles Times has announced the Book Prize Finalists for 2009. The Prize Winners will be announced on April 23rd in conjunction with the LA Times Festival of Books.
Hunger Games 3 due this summer!
Scholastic announced that the title of the third and final Hunger Games book is "Mockingjay" and the on sale date is August 24, 2010.
Updated: Amazon Tantrum with Macmillan Ends
Amazon has restored the buy buttons to Macmillan titles after 7 days of suspending sales to demonstrate their objection to any challenge to their autocratic power over the bookselling and publishing market. Amazon had stopped selling apparently all of Macmillan's titles since Macmillan did not accede to its demand that they sell ebooks at whatever price they wish. Amazon has demonstrated that, when it comes to its own interests, it will deny the "consumer" at will, and attempt to force compliance. Hopefully nobody will be fooled into thinking that this was a "consumer" or "market" friendly move, and it reminds us of the value of independent business.
Chaucer's has lots of Macmillan titles on its shelves, and encourages everybody to buy Macmillan from us.
Macmillan in the US is a group of publishing companies held by Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck, which is based in Stuttgart, Germany. American publishers include Farrar Straus and Giroux, Henry Holt & Company, W.H. Freeman and Worth Publishers, Palgrave Macmillan, Bedford/St. Martin's, Picador, Roaring Brook Press, St. Martin's Press, Tor Books, and Bedford Freeman & Worth Publishing Group.
History: Authors Guild position on ebook royalties and Macmillan letter to their authors and illustrators. Amazon lamented the "monopoly" Macmillan has on its own books and
speaks of its "mission." The New York Times suggests that Amazon blinked.
The financial mess of the past few years has been a boon for books and below is a sampling of what is currently on our shelves.
Andrew Ross Sorkin's"Too Big to Fail" provides a blow-by-blow account of the crisis and reads like a thriller. Nomi Prins, a former managing director at Goldman Sachs, presents a fascinating look at the culture and practices of Wall Street and the consequences that we now live with. The book, "It Takes a Pillage", coupled with the ongoing prodigious research posted on her website, are critical to understanding and deciphering the mess.John Lanchester, a novelist, lends his talents to understanding the crisis in "IOU: Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay". Dwight Garner handsells the book in the New York Times.
Charles Geisst writes about the marketing of consumer debt in "Collateral Damaged". Alistair Milne takes a scholarly and instructive approach in "Fall of the House of Credit: What went wrong in banking and what can be done to repair the damage". John Gillespie and David Zweig's "Money for Nothing" focuses on corporate boards and their role in the mess.
"This Time is Different": Eight Centuries of Financial Folly (Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff) is a comprehensive historical look at financial crises, and reminds us that short memories can wreak heavy damage.
We will begin the process of reviewing and ordering the 2010 books and be sharing some of the excitement here. The new Don Deliilo is due in early February and you may want to visit the "Point Omega Media Watch" site for more information.
A first novel - "Matterhorn" by Karl Marlantes - is a literary tour de force (late April or early May) and is copublished by El Leon Literary Arts and Grove Atlantic. It is a riveting novel and a fantastic read. Watch for it!!
Posted on 4 January 2010 at 6:03am
Brand New!
Our Children's Department has its own page. We will feature weekly updates, our favorite new books and classics we love for every age level. We encourage you to not only visit the site, but to participate by leaving your own comments.
The bestselling author of "The Limits of Power" critically examines the Washington consensus on national security and discusses why it must change. In a vivid, incisive analysis, Bacevich succinctly presents the origins of this consensus, forged at a moment when American power was at its height. Andrew Bacevich on "Democracy Now"
One of the nation's leading political writers offers a provocative and strikingly original account of American hubris throughout history--and how we learn from the tragedies that result.
Hear Peter discuss his book Bonus Audio: Beinart NY Review controversy concerning contemporary Jewish-American community
Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy
Raghuram Rajan was one of the few economists who warned of the global financial crisis before it hit. Now, as the world struggles to recover, it's tempting to blame what happened on just a few greedy bankers who took irrational risks and left the rest of us to foot the bill. In Fault Lines, Rajan argues that serious flaws in the economy are also to blame, and warns that a potentially more devastating crisis awaits us if they aren't fixed.
Rajan's prescient 2005 warning Visit Rajan's blog
MOCKINGJAY IS HERE 
Amazon has restored the buy buttons to Macmillan titles after 7 days of suspending sales to demonstrate their objection to any challenge to their autocratic power over the bookselling and publishing market. Amazon had stopped selling apparently all of Macmillan's titles since Macmillan did not accede to its demand that they sell ebooks at whatever price they wish. Amazon has demonstrated that, when it comes to its own interests, it will deny the "consumer" at will, and attempt to force compliance. Hopefully nobody will be fooled into thinking that this was a "consumer" or "market" friendly move, and it reminds us of the value of independent business.
Chaucer's has lots of Macmillan titles on its shelves, and encourages everybody to buy Macmillan from us.
Macmillan in the US is a group of publishing companies held by Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck, which is based in Stuttgart, Germany. American publishers include Farrar Straus and Giroux, Henry Holt & Company, W.H. Freeman and Worth Publishers, Palgrave Macmillan, Bedford/St. Martin's, Picador, Roaring Brook Press, St. Martin's Press, Tor Books, and Bedford Freeman & Worth Publishing Group.
History: Authors Guild position on ebook royalties and Macmillan letter to their authors and illustrators. Amazon lamented the "monopoly" Macmillan has on its own books and
speaks of its "mission." The New York Times suggests that Amazon blinked.
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