A few bookish links from across the Web:
- To help you with the holiday shopping season, The Inkwell Bookstore Blog compiles a selection of gifts for the Jane Austenite on your list, including the Pride and Prejudice board game
- Margaret Atwood picks the top ten gifts to give a budding novelist
- The New Yorker has compiled the top ten books of 1709. The most colourful title? Cotton Mather’s The Golden Curb for the Mouth, a sermon against swearing
- The Brontë sisters get a little help from the Twilight phenomenon: The Guardian reports that new films of Emily’s Wuthering Heights and Charlotte’s Jane Eyre are being cast with younger, hotter stars to appeal to Twihards
- You’ve heard of the proposed Harry Potter theme park. How about a theme park dedicated to Gulliver’s Travels?
- Bask in “the soft periwinkle glow of the Alaskan morning,” because the results of Slate’s “Write like Sarah Palin” contest are in
- The blogosphere has been buzzing with the best books of the decade lately, so what about the decade’s worst books?
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- » Bookmarks: Blackberry-hating, Harry Potterland, and flying a kite with Khaled Hosseini
- » Bookmarks: Birthday wishes for Margaret Atwood, and more
- » Bookmarks: Margaret Atwood on friendship, Stephen King in Toronto, and more
- » Bookmarks: more praise for Margaret Atwood, Ted Kennedy, and David Mitchell
