“Books should go where they will be most appreciated, not sit around unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don’t you agree?”
-Joe’s, Brisinger by Christopher Paolini
Have you read The Angel's Game?
No I haven’t read The Angel’s Game but it does look interesting, at the moment I’m still attempting to finish the Eragon books, I’m almost through the third one but you know how life gets in the way of finishing things. =)
1. Keeping it in the family, the three talented Brontë sisters published their writing under the surname Bell. Emily published Wuthering Heights as Ellis Bell, Charlotte brought out Jane Eyre as Currer Bell and Anne used Acton Bell to release The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, as well as their joint poetry collections and other works.
2. A. S. Byatt was born Dame Antonia Susan Duffy, but has been publishing writing under her androgynous pseudonym since 1964. Her novelist sister uses her birth name professionally.
3. Vita Sackville-West’s gender-confusing pen name is a shortened version of the far flouncier The Hon Victoria Mary Sackville-West, Lady Nicolson, which she was born with. Famously the lover and muse of Virginia Woolf, Sackville-West published novels and poetry under her pen name, including The Edwardians and All Passion Spent.
4. Despite bringing out the best-selling book series in history (Harry Potter, if you hadn’t heard) in 1997, J.K. Rowling was advised by her publisher to swap her full name for two initials. Born Joanne Rowling, she chose ‘K’ from her grandmother Kathleen, which she adopted again during the Leveson Inquiry when she gave evidence.
5. Jane Austen published her debut novel Sense and Sensibility using merely ‘A Lady’ in 1811. The fact that she was happy to show herself as a woman, but not identify herself further, has mystified academics ever since.
6. Harper Lee dropped the ‘Nelle’ at the beginning of her name to publish her only novel, the autobiographical To Kill A Mockingbird.
7. George Eliot was born Mary Ann Evans, and went on to author seven hugely successful novels, including Mill on the Floss and Middlemarch - which has been deemed the greatest novel in the English language by authors Martin Amis and Julian Barnes. She wanted to be taken seriously, and thus used her male pseudonym, and is still known as such today.
8. An author used to both different languages and pen names, Karen Blixen has published under Isak Dinesen, Osceola and Pierre Andrézel and is famous for her novel Out Of Africa.
9. Despite being deemed the “first modern writer for children” by biographer Julia Briggs, Edith ‘E.’ Nesbit published over 40 children’s books using her first initial, rather than her full name.
By Alice E. Vincent
How To Spot A Reader
(image via Pinterest)
1.) They know more than you do… about everything.
2.) They often use words that you secretly have to look up later.
3.) They have magical cards that get them books for free.
4.) They speak the names of people whom you’ve never met; who live in different countries, who lived in other centuries.
5.) Their purse/bag/briefcase is always a bit heavier than yours (which you later find out is equivalent to the weight of a book).
6.) They know the endings to many of the newest movies before they’ve even seen them.
7.) They give you a sympathetic smile when you mention that the last book you read was two summers ago… and it had a half naked man (or woman) on the front.
8.) Their bookshelves are covered in books instead of pictures of them.
9.) They have bookshelves.
10.) They do things that you wouldn’t do, such as reading lists about how to spot a reader.
“You can do nothing about your condition, and you’ll only make yourself feel worse. Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn’t exist and never shall. There is only now.”
-Eldest, Christopher Paolini
“Too many problems in this world are caused by men with noble dispositions and clouded minds.”
-Eldest, Christopher Paolini
“Eragon turned to the elf. Her face was the last thing he saw before falling asleep.”
Eldest, Christopher Paolini
Dear Readers,
I have recently acquired more time, yay!! So I will be catching up on my tumbling seeing as I haven’t posted squat about the book I’m reading. A lot has happened lately but things will be slowing down now very soon. So expect lots of awesome quotes from the Dragon books :-) I just started the third one which makes me excited cuz I’ll soon get to read the final installment in the series.
Hope all is well with everyone.
Peace,
bookworm158
