{"id":22792,"date":"2012-12-11T18:25:57","date_gmt":"2012-12-11T18:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2012\/12\/11\/leavingforhogwarts-i-am-a-known-bibliophile\/"},"modified":"2017-07-01T05:48:42","modified_gmt":"2017-07-01T05:48:42","slug":"leavingforhogwarts-i-am-a-known-bibliophile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2012\/12\/11\/leavingforhogwarts-i-am-a-known-bibliophile\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-22792 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2012\/12\/11\/leavingforhogwarts-i-am-a-known-bibliophile\/attachment\/22793\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/tumblr_meuqy9L0R01qzy2ayo1_1280-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/tumblr_meuqy9L0R01qzy2ayo1_1280-150x150.png 150w, http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/tumblr_meuqy9L0R01qzy2ayo1_1280-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/leavingforhogwarts.tumblr.com\/post\/37698510465\/i-am-a-known-bibliophile-i-like-my-favorite-ya\">leavingforhogwarts<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I am a known bibliophile.<\/p>\n<p>I, like my favorite YA novelist John Green, think librarians are superheroes.<\/p>\n<p>Now you can take with a grain of salt what I am about to say, which is:<\/p>\n<p>THE SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY IS A PERFECT PLACE OF MYSTICAL WISHES AND DREAMS.<\/p>\n<p>They have this program called \u201cYour Next Five\u201d where you can send a librarian an email with information about your taste in books\u2014some books you\u2019ve read and enjoyed, some you haven\u2019t, your favorite and least favorite writers, your general stylistic leanings, what you\u2019re interested in reading more of, et cetera, and they will respond with<\/p>\n<p><strong>FIVE BOOKS\u00a0TAILORED\u00a0TO YOUR SPECIFIC TASTES IN LITERATURE.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The above is a screen shot of my (PERSONAL) recommendation. I also received an email that included the following explanation and defense of the recommendations:<\/p>\n<p><span>I selected the Susana Clarke book (Jonathan Strange\u2026 ) because it is brilliantly written, and has a complicated, sinuous plot.\u00a0 I hope you will forgive Clarke\u2019s crotchets about 18th century spelling.\u00a0 Slammerkin is written by someone who focuses on beautiful prose, and the story is an interesting parallel to your book about the Hollywood Seamstress\u2026 Lionel Asbo is Amis\u2019s most recent offering; he is a master of prose style and tells a disconcerting story of the breakup of British society (kind of like the Rowling book on your list)\u00a0 If you want something a little less pungent than Amis, I suggest John Mortimer\u2014his Paradise Postponed and Titmuss Regained are leisured accounts of the same subject, the disintegration of Britain.)\u00a0 Joseph Heller\u2019s book is by now a classic; the\u00a0 slow unfolding of middle-aged disaffection. And Sarah\u2019s Key is the story of a gradual dawning of an awareness of long-ago terror and its consequences\u2014and how they mark a woman long after the event.\u00a0\u00a0 Since you like Erik Larson\u2019s writing, you might want to look at David McCullough whose special interest is American history, or my personal favorite, John Julius Norwich, whose historical writings about Venice and the Byzantine Empire unfold those complicated stories with graceful, engaging prose.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>______________________________<\/span><span>______________________________<\/span><span>_______<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>I don\u2019t think I can accurately describe how jazzed I am about this. Perhaps this gif:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/68.media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_meuql1Mf2l1qzx40p.gif\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>combined with this gif:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/68.media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_meuqlpbPr91qzx40p.gif\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>and a little bit of this gif:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/68.media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_meuqmhNJi91qzx40p.gif\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>I cannot wait to read these books. I wrote a RAVE comment on the response survey, and now I just wanted to tell all of you about this incredible service because:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>1) You perhaps live in Seattle and would like to receive your OWN \u201cNext Five\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u2014OR\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>2) Your own local library might have a similar service that you can and should look into.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Now, if you\u2019ll excuse me, I\u2019m going to be doing nothing but reading for the next few weeks. You will not be able to get ahold of me.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Click on the photo to visit the SPL\u2019s \u201cNext Five Books\u201d site. Happy reading!<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>leavingforhogwarts: I am a known bibliophile. I, like my favorite YA novelist John Green, think librarians are superheroes. Now you can take with a grain of salt what I am about to say, which is: THE SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY IS A PERFECT PLACE OF MYSTICAL WISHES AND DREAMS. They have this program called \u201cYour Next &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2012\/12\/11\/leavingforhogwarts-i-am-a-known-bibliophile\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3399,7900,7901,3894,7902],"class_list":["post-22792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-books","tag-brilliant-service-is-brilliant","tag-i-should-try-this-out","tag-librarians","tag-libraries","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22794,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22792\/revisions\/22794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}