Book Magpie: Best of the Web, 2 August 2013
ReadingNot meaning to jargogle you, dear reader but many of these 20 obsolete words that deserve a comeback made me kench this week – I hope you deliciate in them as well.It is well known that magpies...
View ArticleBook Magpie: Best of the Web, 9 August 2013
Reading"Panic is your enemy. You are strong. Through your strength, you shall overcome." Who said that? Freidrich Nietzsche or Spongebob Squarepants? Play the 'Spongebob or Nietzsche game' on Buzzfeed...
View ArticleBook Magpie: Best of the Web, 16 August 2013
ReadingWith some leaves turning brown in the ol' tree, Book Magpie was mourning summer's passing this week. That was until I read about Book Week Scotland’s Big Book Bash. Now I can’t wait for the week...
View ArticleBook Magpie: Best of the Web, 13 September 2013
ReadingYo, yo, yo internet playas! Book Magpie is back in the booklovin' house, Dr Dre style, with a refreshed post-holiday mind and some pret-ty fine book links to help you close out Friday the 13th...
View ArticleBook Magpie: Best of the Web, 18 Oct 2013
ReadingBook Magpie returns with its tail feather firmly between its legs.I wish my absence could be explained by an Odyssian quest. Book Magpie flying above stormy seas, fighting to change the world’s...
View ArticleBook Magpie: Best of the Web, 25 Oct 2013
ReadingHalloween is a tough time of year for magpies. Mainly because humans are crazy and have us down as some kind of wing-ed harbinger of death and misfortune.In Yorkshire, when people see a lone...
View ArticleBook Magpie: Best of the Web, 10 Jan 2014
ReadingBook Magpie enjoyed a low key Hogmanay in one's nest listening to the local owl’s lovely Hootenanny. Without a riotous bang to see out 2013, this bird felt strangely listless on New Year’s Day....
View ArticleBook Magpie: Best of the Web, 17 Jan 2014
ReadingIt's late January and Book Magpie is not exactly flush.In these austere times, with the chill winds of recession still ruffling this Magpie’s feathers, it’s getting harder and harder to find...
View ArticleBook Magpie: Best of the Web, 14 Feb 2014
ReadingEveryone knows what day it is today. That’s right. It’s International Book Giving Day 2014. Hol-la!However, if you’re unable to gift a book to a child today then it might be because you’re busy...
View ArticleBook Magpie: Weblinks for Booklovers April 2014
ReadingSpring is a rebel and so is Book Magpie... that’s why this bird is back for April. Your favourite bookish, web-obsessed Eurasian magpie has been busy scouring the internet for the best links for...
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