bookshelves of doom

Davy Jones, 1945-2012.

Man. It's been a bad week for childhood icons.

 

At mental_floss:

Davy Jones, whom every girl in my third grade class crushed on back in 1967, who nicknamed the profile-less Micky Dolenz “Skillet Face” upon first meeting him, who cheerfully reprised his role as Marcia Brady’s prom date in Real Live Brady Bunch stage shows, and whose rabid female fans cheesed Jimi Hendrix off by yelling “Foxy Davy!” during “Foxy Lady” when the guitar legend opened for the Prefab Four, has gone on to that Groovy Crash Pad in the Sky after suffering a heart attack.

Newly-found Charlotte Brontë story to be published.

From the Guardian:

The tale, written in grammatically erratic French and entitled L'Ingratitude, is the first-known piece of homework set for Brontë by Constantin Heger, a Belgian tutor who taught both her and her sister Emily, and is believed to have inspired such ardour in the elder sibling that she drew on their relationship for her novel Villette.

Villette, AKA A Story So Depressing It'll Make You Want to Stab Yourself with a Fork.

Traveling the (official) Fairy-Tale Road.

From Traveler:

The route, often dismissed as the gooey epicenter of Teutonic kitsch, is worth reconsidering. Twisting approximately 370 pastoral miles north of Frankfurt, mostly through the back roads of Hesse and Lower Saxony, before petering out in Bremen, it reveals one of the most underrated pockets of a German dreamscape.

Imperial Yoga.

More (including Boba Yoga!) at Nerd Approved.

The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore.

Just in case you haven't seen the Oscar winner for animated short:

 

Son of a...

THERE'S* GOING TO BE A HUNGER GAMES BARBIE.

*head explodes*

I got so shrill while going on and on and on about The Nerve of Creating a Hunger Games Barbie that Josh threatened to buy me one if I didn't simmer down.

Harumph.

________________________

*Supposedly.

Fashion inspired by YA fiction...

...at Lucky.

I didn't even make it all the way through the slideshow (OMG, BORING), but I figured I should pass along the link just in case you're having a slow, slow evening.

Jan Berenstain, 1923-2012.

From the Washington Post:

Before their family of bear books was born, the young couple had already built a successful career in periodicals. A cartoon series they produced called “All in the Family” ran in McCall’s and Good Housekeeping magazines for 35 years, and their art appeared in magazines including Collier’s and The Saturday Evening Post.

SQUEEEEEEE!

OMG, I just got an ARC of Bitterblue in the mail!

You know what that means!

I CAN FINALLY READ FIRE!!!!

*faints*

Thank you, all.

Thank you for recommending Cath Crowley's Graffiti Moon, as it was exactly what I was craving.

EXACTLY.

Divergent fan?

Here's a (totally above board) excerpt from the sequel:

Insurgent Excerpt

Via EW.

New additions to my Etsy shop.

Pendants based on last year's awesome Shakespeare stamps:

As well as some Edward Lear (squee!):

And Pooh:

There are others as well. And there will (hopefully) be more tomorrow.

Old phone booths converted to guerrilla libraries.

From the Atlantic:

Does the city know what you're doing? If not, why not?

(Locke declined to comment, so you can probably take that as a big "No, the city has not approved this project.")

After reading four articles about the new JK Rowling book...

...all I really know is that it's for the adult market, and that Little, Brown is handling it in both the UK and the US. Oh, and that JKR hopes for new readers, and more details will be released later this year, and it will be "very different to the Harry Potter" books.

Seriously. That's it.

If you don't believe me, feel free to see if you can mine more info from Publishers Weekly, HuffPo, GalleyCat, or the NYT.

A new vision of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.