#video

Oct 16, 2013
2 min

Guest Post by Author Anna Staniszewski: Top Five Favorite Fairy Tales

Today on the blog, I’m excited to have a guest post by Anna Staniszewski, author of the hilarious My Very Unfairy Tale Life series. The last book in the series, My Sort of Fairy Tale Ending, comes out on November 5th, so pre-order your copy now! Take it away, Anna! — Top Five Favorite Fairy Tales 1. East of the Sun, West of the Moon This has been my favorite fairy tale for years. At first it seems like it’s going to be similar to Beauty and the Beast, but then it evolves into

May 10, 2010
1 min

Brontë sisters action figures!

This is just too cool not to share. Make sure to watch towards the end to see the Brontësaurus in action! #charlottebronte #emilybronte #video

Apr 26, 2010
1 min

A sneak peek at some new e-ink gadgets

Redferret.net has an interesting blogpost about some new e-ink prototypes, including one with a flexible screen: #eink #ereader #video

Mar 22, 2010
2 min

Monkey Week at Monkey Poop!

I’ve decided to declare this week Monkey Week here at Monkey Poop in honor of my two year blogaversary! Okay, so the anniversary was actually about a month and a half ago, but whatever. Close enough! (This blog post is to be read to the tune of “Monkey” by Harry Belafonte from “Jump Up Calypso”–see the Animaniacs version below) First things first—why monkeys? I’m not really sure why. If I ever figure out the answer to that, I’ll probably have to let my family know first. One

Mar 16, 2010
1 min

Ray Bradbury on Writing and Rejection

In junior high (aka middle school to some) I did a project on Ray Bradbury and ended up reading all of his short stories that we had in our school library. I was a big fan, but somehow I haven’t read anything by him in a while. I should change that. (why are so many of my posts and tweets about things I *should* read?) #raybradbury #video

Mar 11, 2010
1 min

Making a Book Cover

(via @bookninja #video

Feb 27, 2010
1 min

How to make a book (1947)

(via The Book Bench and via Book Patrol) #link #video

Feb 18, 2010
1 min

Three of My Favorite Disney Lullabies

Okay this is a bit off-topic but in the spirit of my new motherhood I thought I’d share a few of my favorite Disney lullabies with you. These are songs I enjoyed as a kid and my baby daughter seems to like them too: “La La Lu” from Lady and the Tramp And here’s a non-Disney related one that I really like (and only recently discovered on a world lullaby CD called Dreamland that I got for Xmas on year): “Dreamland I also like Numi Numi from this same CD, but since it’s in Hebre

Jan 20, 2010
1 min

Lebowitz: Jane Austen is popular because she is misread and misunderstood

I seem to be in (yet another) Jane Austen kick these days. Author and Vanity Fair contributing editor Fran Lebowitz on Jane Austen (via Survival of the Book): [vimeo id=8100960] One thing Lebowitz says is that most people who enjoy Jane Austen are misreading her. What do you think about this? Some of the points she makes are pretty valid–I would agree that most people like the romance aspect of her works–but I’m not sure that reading it this way is “misreading” or “misunderst

Oct 8, 2009
1 min

Boston Globe Horn-Book Award Speeches

Here is Neil Gaiman’s Acceptance speech for The Graveyard Book: You can see the rest of the videos here (including MT Anderson’s speech): http://www.hbook.com/bghb/video09.asp (via ReadRoger blog) #hornbook #mtanderson #neilgaiman #video

Oct 3, 2009
1 min

Mad Men–Sesame Street Style

(as seen on bookshelves of doom) #AMC #MadMen #sesamestreet #video

Sep 18, 2009
1 min

Harvard Book Store to offer Espresso…

…book machine that is! Check out http://www.harvard.com/bookmachine/ for more info. They’re also having a machine naming contest so email your ideas to them by Sept. 24th. As previously posted, here is a video of the machine in action: #contest #espresso #harvardbookstore #video

Sep 11, 2009
1 min

still don’t want to read the book, but i might want to see the made for TV movie…

(via bookshelves of doom) PS I’m going on vacay for a week or so. I’ll be responding to emails, but won’t be posting to the blog. See you when I get back! #funny #mashup #video

Aug 14, 2009
1 min

E-reader with a flexible screen

this e-reader (called the Readius) looks really cool to me, but I guess they’ve been having trouble finding investors. I wish I could get a closer look at it. I wonder how durable the flexible screen is, but then, I’m sure my Kindle isn’t as durable as Amazon claims (and I’m not willing to test it out). #amazon #ereader #kindle #video

Jun 29, 2009
1 min

espresso book machine

I’ve been hearing about this automatic book machine for a while now but this is the first time I’ve actually seen a video of the machine in action. Pretty neat. #espresso #video

May 20, 2009
1 min

Sherlock is that you? Are you sure?

(As blogged by bookshelves of doom) I’m pretty sure Sherlock wasn’t like this in the stories I read but it might still be entertaining: #video

May 15, 2009
1 min

A Conversation With Jeffrey Eugenides

An interview with one of my favorite authors: A Conversation With Jeffrey Eugenides – Video Library – The New York Times #links #video

Oct 1, 2008
2 min

Neal Stephenson’s Anathem and made up words

So this morning, my husband showed me this XKCD comic making fun of Neal Stephenson’s new book Anathem (Disclaimer: I have not actually read this book): Then, later today, I read (okay skimmed) an interview with Neal Stephenson on Goodreads.com where he points out that even Harry Potter has loads of made up words. How fun would it have been if J.K. Rowling had called “quidditch” the “flying hockey-like game” instead? Or if Tolkein had called hobbits the “little furry-footed g

May 2, 2008
1 min

“The Writing of Fantasy” lecture online

I recently discovered this lecture online and wish I could have gone to it. The speakers were Gregory Maguire, Susan Cooper, and Roger Sutton and they discussed writing fantasy novels. It’s about 1.5 hours long, so get comfortable! #fantasy #susancooper #video

Apr 29, 2008
1 min

Amy Tan on Creativity

Peta had this on her journal and I really enjoyed it. It is a lecture by Amy Tan on creativity from Ted.com #amytan #video