Daily Archives: August 9, 2012

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New Title: Wreck This Journal

Title:Wreck This Journal: To Create is to Destroy

Author: Keri Smith

  • Paperback: 192 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin (14 Oct 2010)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1846144450
  • ISBN-13: 978-1846144455
  • Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 13 x 1.6 cm

Think of Wreck This Journal as the anarchist’s Artist’s Way — the book for those who’ve always wanted to draw outside the lines but were afraid to do it.

 

For anyone who’s ever wished to, but had trouble starting, keeping, or finishing a journal or sketchbook comes Wreck This Journal, an illustrated book featuring a subversive collection of suggestions, asking readers to muster up their best mistake – and mess-making abilities to fill the pages of the book (and destroy them).

 

Through a series of creatively and quirkily illustrated prompts, acclaimed artist Keri Smith encourages journalers to engage in “destructive” acts – poking holes through pages, adding photos and defacing them, painting with coffee, colouring outside the lines, and more – in order to experience the true creative process. With Keri Smith’s unique sensibility, readers are introduced to a new way of art and journal making, discovering novel ways to escape the fear of the blank page and fully engage in the creative process.

About the Author

Bestselling author Keri Smith is a freelance illustrator by trade, and has illustrated for the Washington Post, The New York Times, Ford Motor Company, People, The Body Shop and Hallmark. She is the author of Wreck This Journal, How To Be An Explorer of the World and Mess. She lives in Canada.

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Book Recommendation: A Question Of Identity

Title:A Question of Identity (Simon Serrailler 7)

Author: Susan Hill

  • Hardcover: 368 pages
  • Publisher: Chatto & Windus (25 Oct 2012)
  • ISBN-10: 0701186569
  • ISBN-13: 978-0701186562

The new Simon Serrailler crime novel. How do you find a killer who doesn’t exist? – no passport, no family, no address, no job. Nothing .

 

Duchess of Cornwall Close: sheltered accommodation, a mix of bungalows and flats, newly built and not quite finished.Despite the bitterly cold weather, elderly residents are moving in. They don’t notice the figure in the shadows. Someone who doesn’t mind the cold.

 

Then, one snowy night, an old lady is murdered – dragged from her bed and strangled with a length of flex.

 

DCS Simon Serrailler and his team are aware of bizarre circumstances surrounding her death – but they keep some of these details secret, while they desperately search for a match. All they know is that the killer will strike again, and will once more leave the same tell-tale signature.

 

The break comes when Simon’s former sergeant, the ever cheerful Nathan Coates, tracks down a name: Alan Keyes. But Alan Keyes has no birth certificate, no address, no job,no family, no passport, no dental records. Nothing.Alan Keyes does not exist.

 

A Question of Identity continues the enjoyable saga of Simon’s family life – his widowed sister Cat, his step-mother Judith, Rachel the girl he loves but can’t have.It also introduces a new and chilling element:it takes the reader inside the mind of a deranged killer.This is Susan Hill’s most thrillingly imagined crime novel to date.

About the Author

Susan Hill’s novels and short stories have won the Whitbread, Somerset Maugham and John Lewellyn Rhys awards and been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. She is the author of over fifty books, including the six previous Serrailler crime novels, The Various Haunts of Men, The Pure in Heart, The Risk of Darkness, The Vows of Silence, The Shadows in the Street and The Betrayal of Trust. The play adapted from her famous ghost story, The Woman in Black, has been running in the West End since 1989; it is also a hugely successful film starring Daniel Radcliffe.

 

Susan Hill was born in Scarborough and educated at King’s College London. She is married to the Shakespeare scholar Stanley Wells and they have two daughters. She lives in Gloucestershire, where she runs her own publishing firm, Long Barn Books.

 

http://www.susan-hill.com

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Medals Day 13 @ Olympics 2012

Medals

 

Country  Gold  Silver  Bronze Total
USA 38 25 26 89
China 37 23 19 79
Great Britain 24 13 14 51
Russia 12 21 23 56
South Korea 12 7 6 25
Germany 9 15 10 34
France 8 9 12 29
Hungary 8 4 3 15
Italy 7 6 6 19
Australia 6 13 10 29
Kazakhstan 6 0 3 9
Japan 5 13 14 32
Netherlands 5 5 6 16
Iran 4 3 1 8
North Korea 4 0 1 5
Belarus 3 3 4 10
Jamaica 3 3 3 9
Cuba 3 3 2 8
New Zealand 3 2 5 10
Ukraine 3 1 6 10
South Africa 3 1 1 5
Spain 2 7 2 11
Romania 2 5 2 9
Denmark 2 4 3 9
Kenya 2 2 3 7
Brazil 2 1 7 10
Poland 2 1 6 9
Croatia 2 1 1 4
Switzerland 2 1 0 3
Ethiopia 2 0 2 4
Canada 1 5 10 16
Czech Republic 1 3 3 7
Sweden 1 3 3 7
Slovenia 1 1 2 4
Norway 1 1 1 3
Georgia 1 1 1 3
Dominican Rep. 1 1 0 2
Lithuania 1 0 1 2
Ireland 1 0 1 2
Granada 1 0 0 1
Algeria 1 0 0 1
Venezuela 1 0 0 1
Colombia 0 3 3 6
Mexico 0 3 2 5
Azerbaijan 0 2 3 5
Egypt 0 2 0 2
India 0 1 3 4
Slovakia 0 1 3 4
Armenia 0 1 2 3
Mongolia 0 1 2 3
Belgium 0 1 2 3
Serbia 0 1 1 2
Thailand 0 1 1 2
Tunisia 0 1 1 2
Indonesia 0 1 1 2
Estonia 0 1 1 2
Malaysia 0 1 1 2
Taiwan 0 1 1 2
Portugal 0 1 0 1
Cyprus 0 1 0 1
Bulgaria 0 1 0 1
Botswana 0 1 0 1
Finland 0 1 0 1
Guatemala 0 1 0 1
Greece 0 0 2 2
Singapore 0 0 2 2
Moldova 0 0 2 2
Qatar 0 0 2 2
Morocco 0 0 1 1
Argentina 0 0 1 1
Kuwait 0 0 1 1
Puerto Rico 0 0 1 1
Hong Kong 0 0 1 1
Tajikistan 0 0 1 1
Saudi Arabia 0 0 1 1
Uzbekistan 0 0 1 1
Trinidad and Tobago 0 0 1 1
Turkey 0 0 1 1
Latvia 0 0 1 1