https://t.co/BZle2qQbSU Pleased to announce our Comic Ethnographies online event next week with @PetroglyphComi1 and other comic artists and researchers
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The award-winning Dawn of the Unread turns our literary heritage into a series of unique graphic novels; an epic reimagining bringing literature, technology, art and good ol' fashioned zombies together.... https://t.co/VAXfPIxboY
"The rise of crowdfunding sites such as Kickstarter has made it much easier for independent creators to produce professional books and get them in the hands of readers without the need for the backing of a big commercial publisher."
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"It's my belief that a rich, spontaneous joy lies at the root of all creative expression. What is originality, after all, but the shape that results from the natural impulse to communicate to others that feeling of freedom, that unconstrained joy" Murakami
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"A new report has recommended that the government support and modernise libraries because they are “an important part of a community’s infrastructure”, especially for those who “are digitally excluded or who live in deprived neighbourhoods”.
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Great name for a bookshop and bonus points for the hand-painted sign. The ever-so-lovely 'Worm Books' in Schull, Co. Cork. The nearby 'Little Way Shop' is full of many things you never realised you wanted...
BBC News - Coventry library book returned 84 years late: "If the library's current fine rate of 25p per day had been applied, the fee for the late return would have been £7,673."
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"Can’t believe I’m writing this, but I wonder if this winter we’ll need ‘warm banks’, the equivalent of food banks where people who can’t afford heating are invited to spend their days, at no cost, with heating eg in libraries..."
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"If we're talking agoraphobia, we're talking books. I slip between their covers, lose myself in the turn of one page... Reading is a game of hide-and-seek....Ask me how I am and the answer will depend on the book I am reading. On the sentence I am being fed." Graham Caveney.
Now open! Audiences are loving Adrian Scarborough and Sophie Thompson in The Clothes They Stood up In, an adaptation of Alan Bennett’s hilarious story. ‘We’ve never laughed so much at the theatreNow open! Audiences are loving Adrian Scarborough and Sophie Thompson in The Clothes They Stood up In, an adaptation of Alan Bennett’s hilarious story. ‘We’ve never laughed so much at the theatreNow open! Audiences are loving Adrian Scarborough and Sophie Thompson in The Clothes They Stood up In, an adaptation of Alan Bennett’s hilarious story. ‘We’ve never laughed so much at the theatreNow open! Audiences are loving Adrian Scarborough and Sophie Thompson in The Clothes They Stood up In, an adaptation of Alan Bennett’s hilarious story. ‘We’ve never laughed so much at the theatreNow open! Audiences are loving Adrian Scarborough and Sophie Thompson in The Clothes They Stood up In, an adaptation of Alan Bennett’s hilarious story. ‘We’ve never laughed so much at the theatreNow open! Audiences are loving Adrian Scarborough and Sophie Thompson in The Clothes They Stood up In, an adaptation of Alan Bennett’s hilarious story. ‘We’ve never laughed so much at the theatre’
'East Midlands Pitmen Poets: Past and Present.' Mansfield Library , Sat 24 Sept. 1.30pm to 3pm. Part of the 2022 Inspire Libraries Poetry Festival. Readings will be given by former miners with music supplied by Al Rate aka the Misk Hills Mountain Rambler. See @MuBuMiner fmi