Yes, it is time once again for the RA for All Links Roundup:
- It's Banned Books Week. Read a "dangerous book." You know like Harry Potter or To Kill a Mockingbird.
- The odds makers have begun handicapping the race for the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature. The Syrian poet Adonis is in the lead, but my money is on Haruki Murakami. If you are the betting type, click here.
- Book Browse posted this list summarizing author's Orhan Pamuk's lecture on the 9 things that happen to your brain when you read.
- Know your Dickens heroes and villains.
- Click here to see Stephen King accepting a prize and reading from his sequel to The Shining, Doctor Sleep, due to come out sometime soon.
- Summer is barely in the rear view mirror, but RA Online is ready with their Notable Fall Book Lists Archive. The list will be updated frequently. FYI, fall is the busiest time in book publishing.
- A librarian's report on the Brooklyn Book Festival
- Jeopardy Champion extraordinaire Ken Jennings wrote a book, and it is not a memoir; it is all about his love of maps. Looks good.
- Even The Dead Sea Scrolls are now available in eBook form.
- And finally, come to Book Lover's Club tonight!
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