Book Nerd Tweets of the Week: Occupy the Library!
Lives remembered, libraries preserved, and a question about coloring in this week’s roundup of the best, wisest, weirdest, and wittiest book-related stuff on Twitter.
First up: #carnegieoccupation was trending this week. An austerity budget in the UK included plans to close the Carnegie Library in Herne Hill, a district in South London. The plan is to turn the library into a gym run by a private company with an unattended room housing some books. Forty protesters, including students and children, have been holed up in the building since March 31st.
Godspeed you #carnegieoccupation-eers! Saving libraries is a serious business and a public service.
— @mrchrisaddison@dizl.de (@mrchrisaddison) April 4, 2016
April 21 will mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charlotte, the eldest of the Brontë sisters. On a more somber note, this past week also marked the anniversary of the author’s death, at the age of 38 in 1855. Tracy Chevalier (The Edge of the Orchard) is a fan:
“I am neither a man nor a woman but an author.” #weeklyCharlotteBronte
— Tracy Chevalier (@Tracy_Chevalier) March 29, 2016
True:
Remember when people used to freak out about like, "anyone can say anything on the internet!!"? Apparently books have always worked this way
— Zinnia Jones 🐍🔆 (@ZJemptv) April 4, 2016
Does this apply to anyone here?
https://twitter.com/misspaisleyxo/status/717108613416927233
Ta-Nehisi Coates (Between the World and Me, and the writer of Marvel’s forthcoming Black Panther series) spent some time on Twitter this week talking about the unexpected trajectory of his career.
https://twitter.com/tanehisicoates/status/716758908975579136
Kate Beaton (Hark! A Vagrant) should know better with this next one. Always a bad idea. I mean, unless you’re here. Then it’s probably fine.
https://twitter.com/beatonna/status/717098500521992193
John Scalzi (Old Man’s War) is never not right:
Seriously: If you're a writer, and a man, and can't think of one woman writer who inspired/inspires you, you clearly have reading to do.
— John Scalzi (@scalzi) April 4, 2016
Gareth L. Powell (Ack-Ack Macaque) says WRITE OR DIE:
Every story written, every book completed, feels like a small victory over entropy and death.
— Gareth L. Powell (@garethlpowell) April 4, 2016
Finally, a quote from the late, great Maya Angelou, who would have been 88 this past week:
“Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.” – Maya Angelou, born 88 years ago today. pic.twitter.com/TE81oylHbb
— Barnes & Noble (@BNBuzz) April 4, 2016
Who’s rocking your Twitter world?