News & Notes – 2/16/2018

February 16, 2019 News & Notes 2

News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff

 

Book News

 

Worth Reading/Listening To

 

For Writers & Bloggers

 

Book & Movie Announcements

 

Awesome Lists

 

Really Cool / Just for Fun

Colonial Williamsburg posted this video of Thomas Jefferson employing the Konmari method on their Facebook page. Incidentally, the Konmari method has apparently given birth to a verb: “to kondo.” Who’s planning to kondo their bookshelves this weekend?

 

113 Museums Transformed Illustrations From Their Collections Into Free Coloring Pages. (Smithsonian) You can find many of the participating libraries and their coloring pages at the NY Academy of Medicine’s #ColorOurCollections website, including the British Museum’s 2019 collection featuring this Tenniel illustration from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.

 

That’s it for this week!

 

2 Responses to “News & Notes – 2/16/2018”

  1. Nicole @ BookWyrmKnits

    Fun set of links this week, thank you for sharing!

    I’m curious about the Potter game in a way that I wasn’t about Pokemon, but I’m still not sure I’ll play much. I’ll probably try it out, though. Especially since my niece will almost certainly be playing it.
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