Bookishgal

I’m going to okay every single spam comment on this post. Partly to show you what every blogger in the world has to endure from these parasites and vultures, but also just for the sheer entertainment factor.

Got this off of Twitter this morning. Flavorwire has a great list of songs connected to libraries and librarians: Mixtape: 10 Best Songs About Libraries and Librarians.
I’m already starting a collection of URLs for videos about fonts. (Three so far. Three!) Do you have a list of favourite songs or videos that relate to books [...]

The challenge involves just six books, but there has to be one from each of the following categories: food, body of water, title, plant, place name, music term.

A new crossword puzzle is up at the Minds Alive on the Shelves blog today, following Lisa’s promise that she’d have a new puzzle there every Friday.
This week’s topic is Book Terms and Titles. I’m halfway through and am stuck on a few of them (love the challenge!), but I’m not going to check for [...]

Lisa at Minds Alive on the Shelves has begun to post puzzles that, as far as I know, she has created herself. Every Friday at her new blog location, there will be a new puzzle, in the category Friday Puzzler.

This is absolutely hilarious. If you know the Halleluia Chorus from Handel’s Messiah, you will laugh.
Silent Monks Sink Halleluia Chorus
[P.S. - My apologies if this isn't showing up as an embedded video for you. I follow the WordPress instructions over and over, and most of the time the videos I'm trying to post don't show [...]

I am positively squeeing with delight at this video. Best bookish geekish video ever.

This is kind of cute. You enter the name of a book you’ve read and liked, and the name of the author, and the Book Seer recommends other books you might like.
The choices are generated by Amazon, Library Thing, and Book Army, so they’re obviously based on the formula of “people who read [insert book [...]

I have absolutely no idea if I’ll manage to do it this year, but I’m sure going to start out trying! For those who are contemplating it, here are some tips from headquarters itself. And good luck!

As I posted when I linked this on Facebook, some things just make you glad to be alive.