Book Nerd Tweets of the Week: Books Before Boys Edition
https://twitter.com/AngTanongKoSayo/status/771702204759543808
You kidding me with that?
This week saw the passing of a great actor and, lesser known to some, a very talented writer of novels and one strikingly good memoir.
“I like writing books. I can come out, have a glass of tea, give my wife a kiss, go back in and write some more.” pic.twitter.com/WXLS4mRklS
— Barnes & Noble (@BNBuzz) August 29, 2016
Love ya, Gene.
Meanwhile: solid advice:
#LiveBetterIn4Words Read more diverse books
— Dr. Bailey (@the_author_) September 2, 2016
An empty bookshelf. #DealBreakerIn3Words
— Barnes & Noble (@BNBuzz) August 31, 2016
You may have seen some talk on social media this week about women wearing headphones. It began with some rather silly (to be polite) advice about how to talk to (meaning hit on) them, followed by a great deal of discussion around the shocking and original notion that, hey, she might be wearing headphones because she doesn’t care to stop and chat with you. Author John Scalzi (from whom we’ll hear again later) has a novel (*ahem*) solution:
The way I get women to listen to me when they're wearing headphones is to write a book and then have it read on audio. WORKS GREAT, DUDES
— John Scalzi (@scalzi) August 29, 2016
You may recall that N.K. Jemisin took home the Hugo for best novel last week. SHE CAN ABSOLUTELY BE SOMEBODY’S FAVORITE AUTHOR STOP IT EVERYBODY.
I said @nkjemisin was my favorite author the other day and some white boy tried to cup check my SFF knowledge. No thank you.
— Maika never made it past Jugyo. (@Blacksentai) August 30, 2016
Notoriously wordy (in a good way!) writer Alan Moore has a new novel out this week, and it is unsurprisingly dense. In a world of quick and disposable entertainment, this strikes me as a good thing. Still: it’s a big book.
Well there's a turn-up for the books. #squeeee pic.twitter.com/Eut81s0OiX
— Simon "Si Spurrier" Spurrier (@sispurrier) September 2, 2016
https://twitter.com/devincf/status/769595216902758400
https://twitter.com/rickeyainsworth/status/768230229303300096
I like big books. Cannot lie.
Tempting fate by skipping a cat picture this week, but National Dog Day (any excuse to pet a puppy, I say) fell during the past week. So here’s an extra-fluffy doggo with some highly lick-able books.
Chilling w/ Dale and some great #FridayReads on #NationalDogDay! Tag a dog lover and tell us about your fave pups! pic.twitter.com/OWYOVkuuqX
— Barnes & Noble (@BNBuzz) August 26, 2016
Finally: this week’s #shelfie comes from author John Scalzi. You might find it wanting for lack of actual shelves; for the rest of us, who go through life surrounded by piles of books in a manner both glorious and oh-so-stressful, perversely making little shrines to chaos from the very substance of civilization, gleefully defying poor Marie Kondo while secretly bemoaning this cursed laziness…
Well, let’s just call it a shelfie for the rest of us.
I keep stubbing my toes on the piles of books in my office. #BookWorldProblems pic.twitter.com/AYxqWN4e1X
— John Scalzi (@scalzi) September 2, 2016
Who’s your Twitter fave?