Most people are delighted to see Brie Larson star as Captain Marvel in the latest Hollywood superhero blockbuster, viewing it as a win for diversity. However, reports of antisocial behavior at screenings of the film are surfacing around the US. Sources close to Bookstr have provided an exclusive scoop regarding the trolling of Captain Marvel screenings in theaters. Moviegoer Jenny Lynn Emperador attended a screening the film with her mother, at 3:45pm on Sunday, and described the behavior she witnessed. “So basically I was at a normal screening of Captain Marvel at San Francisco’s AMC Metreon. Toward the end of …
The New York Times has reports that Patricia J. Pistner is the United States’ most prominent collector of small texts. What’s crazy (and fabulous, of course) is that she has 950 tiny books in her possession, now displayed at The Grolier Club, which is the nation’s oldest society of bibliophiles, based in Manhattan. The books range in value from from tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars; the rarest of miniature antiquarian books can sell in the six or even seven figures. IMAGE VIA NEW YORK TIMES (PHOTO: CHARLIE RUBIN) Some books are between one and three inches high, …
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The Independent reports that an ancient text has revealed a surprising connection between medieval Irish doctors and ancient Persia (now Iran) during an important age of Islamic learning. Professor Pádraig Ó Macháin of University College Cork’s Irish Department discovered that doctors in the 1400s were exploiting medical knowledge from Persia. The famous medical text Canon of Medicine by the Persian physician Ibn Sena (980-1037), also known as Avicenna, was used to train doctors in Ireland during the medieval times. Image Via Independent.ie The spine of the book was found to contain an Irish translation based on a Latin translation of Ibn Sena’s work. …
One UK’s most coveted book awards today announced its 2019 longlist. According to Evening Standard, the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2019 this year features some of the biggest titles from the last year including Circe by Madeline Miller and Sally Rooney’s Normal People. And, excitingly, for the first time, a non-binary writer has been long listed for the prize—Akwaeke Emezi, author of Freshwater (check out #6 below). The descriptions below sourced with descriptions from Amazon, and Goodreads, in case you are considering any of these wonderful picks. Image via standard.co.uk (Judges, from left to right, dolly alderton, arifa akbar, professor kate williams and sarah wood, women’s …
