April 2011
95 posts
“A book should be a garden that fits in the hands. Word-petals of color. Stems of strength. Roots of truth. Turn a page and turn the seasons. Read the sentence and enjoy the roses. ”
— Max Lucado (via thesearepeopleyouknow)
“Her soul swims in her eyes.”
—David Mitchell (Cloud Atlas)
“Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic.”
—Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady (via libraryland)
“Sometimes,’ said Pooh, ‘the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.”
—A.A. Milne (via kari-shma)
“Love doesn’t hurt so I know that I’m not falling in love. I’m just falling to pieces.”
—Anna Nalick (via quote-book)
Hello, I'm a Librarian! Are You?: Library Personnel Quotas →
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Affirmative Action does not exist in the library world. Maybe it should, there are definitely groups that are underrepresented, but there are a few “quotas” in place.
All of the libraries I’ve worked, and probably many of the others have, had a few simple requirements.
- 1 Linda and 1 Pat - 2…
“Though books were potentially harmful, novels were all the more dangerous. The path of fiction could easily mislead you to the cosmos of stories where everything was fluid, quixotic, and as open to surprises as a moonless night in the desert. Before you knew it you could be so carried away that you could lose touch with reality — that stringent and stolid truth from which no minority should ever veer too far from in order not to end up unguarded when the winds shifted and bad times arrived.”
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The Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak (via tumbledbookshelf)
This novel awaits me on my To Be Read shelf… As soon as I graduate.
American Literary Awards →
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American literature
- Aga Khan Prize for Fiction
- Ambassador Book Award
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medals in Belles Lettres, Criticism and Essays
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal in Drama
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Fiction, Novels, Short Stories
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal in Poetry
- American Book Awards
- Anisfield-Wolf Book Award
- Arab American Book Award
- Arthur Rense Prize
- Asian American Literary Awards
- Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature
- Autumn House Press Poetry Prize for a full-length book manuscript
- Autumn House Press Fiction Prize for a full-length book manuscript
- Bancroft Prize
- The Best American Poetry series
- Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry
- Bollingen Prize
- The Dana Award
- Donna J. Stone National Literary Awards
- Edgar Allan Poe Award
- Edward Lewis Wallant Award
- Fabri Literary Prize
- Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction
- Frost Medal
- Goldsmith Book Prize
- Harold Morton Landon Translation Award
- Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award
- Hispanic Heritage Award for Literature
- Hopwood Award
- Hugo Award
- James Duval Phelan Award
- James Laughlin Award
- Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize
- Joseph Henry Jackson Award
- Kate Tufts Discovery Award
- Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award
- Lambda Literary Award
- Lannan Literary Awards
- Mary Tanenbaum Award for Nonfiction
- Michael Braude Award for Light Verse
- Micro Award for Flash Fiction
- National Book Award
- National Book Critics Circle Award
- National Hispanic Cultural Center Literary Award
- National Jewish Book Award, Jewish Book Council
- National Poetry Series
- Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas
- Nebula Award for Science Fiction
- Newbery Medal
- The New Criterion Poetry Prize
- O. Henry Awards (for short stories)
- Outstanding Latino/a Cultural Award in Literary Arts or Publications
- Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award
- PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
- PEN/Malamud Award (for short stories)
- PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award (for diversity and multi-cultural work)
- PEN/Open Book Award (formerly PEN/Beyond Margins, for writers of color)
- Poets’ Prize
- Premio Aztlán Literary Prize – emerging Chicana/o writers
- Pulitzer Prize for
- Pushcart Prize
- Quill Awards
- Raiziss/de Palchi Translation Awards
- Robert Olen Butler Prize
- Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize
- Sherwood Anderson Foundation Award
- Short Story Award
- Spur Award
- St. Francis College Literary Prize
- St. Louis Literary Award
- Stonewall Book Award
- The Story Prize
- Tomás Rivera Mexican American Children’s Book Award
- Wallace Stevens Award
- Walt Whitman Award
- William Faulkner - William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition
- Whiting Writers’ Award
“I don’t want a broken heart because I’ll lose the pieces.”
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Lil’ Wayne (via heardmsay)
As weird as it was for me to see Lil’ Wayne at the bottom of this, I love it just the same.
“We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving. And we all have some power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.”
—Louisa May Alcott (via quote-book)
