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The Invisible Library Blog -- Contest!October 20, 2008 Just when I think there's nothing to blog about, I find something new that leads me down a delightful rabbit hole. Via ArtsJournal I came upon this Guardian Books Blog post about the best books that never existed. As is usual when I read The Guardian's Books Blog, I find the comments to be more interesting than the actual posts -- and one commenter contributed a link to The Invisible Library, a blog that collects fictional works of fiction.Wouldn't you like to read D. Awdrey-Gore's The Toastrack Dilemma? What about Udo Conrad's Memoirs f a Forgetful Man? And oh, Leila J. Pinckney's entire body of work...what larks! This is going to be my last week blogging here at Publishers Weekly; I'll tell you more about what I'm doing next and where you'll be able to find me online later in the week, but because it's my last week and because I've had so much fun over the last 18 months writing my posts and reading your comments, I want to offer a few fun contests over the next few days. The first: anyone who can call out a fictional book that's not listed in The Invisible Library wins a grab-bag of five new books (mix of hardcover and softcover, just-released and slightly older). I'll do this for up to ten winners. Let's see if we have that many! Posted by Bethanne Patrick on October 20, 2008 | Comments (15)
October 20, 2008
In response to: The Invisible Library Blog -- Contest! S. Krishna commented: Ooh, I have two! Thirteen Tales of Change and Desperation by Vida Winter (The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield) and The Shadow of the Wind by Julian Caraz (The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruis Zafon)
October 20, 2008
In response to: The Invisible Library Blog -- Contest! Terri commented: Izzy Bickerstaff Goes To War by Juleit Ashton (The Gurnsey Lieterary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows)
October 20, 2008
In response to: The Invisible Library Blog -- Contest! writeloudly commented: Fifty Handfuls by Michael Aloisi
October 20, 2008
In response to: The Invisible Library Blog -- Contest! Meg Waite Clayton commented: I have two, both from my own novel so perhaps I don't deserve free books, but..
October 20, 2008
In response to: The Invisible Library Blog -- Contest! Meg Waite Clayton commented: Sigh. I see that when I post, line breaks get deleted. So I'll try this again: I have two, both from my own novel so perhaps I don't deserve free books, but... The Mrs. Americas by Brett Tyler, and Michaelangelo's Ghost by M.F. O'Mara - both from The Wednesday Sisters by Meg Waite Clayton, published by Ballantine Books.
October 20, 2008
In response to: The Invisible Library Blog -- Contest! Christine commented: "The Book of Counted Sorrows" in a number of Dean Koontz's books, no author given. And of course, the Necronomicron in HP Lovecraft.
October 20, 2008
In response to: The Invisible Library Blog -- Contest! LaurenBaratzLogsted commented: The Rubber Slipper, by Mona Shakespeare, from my own book The Thin Pink Line.
October 20, 2008
In response to: The Invisible Library Blog -- Contest! Mary commented: "The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch" by Agnes Nutter, from Good Omens.
October 20, 2008
In response to: The Invisible Library Blog -- Contest! Mary Louise commented: How about Aristotle's lost book on comedy from THE NAME OF THE ROSE?
October 20, 2008
In response to: The Invisible Library Blog -- Contest! Paul M commented: "Withering Looks" - Emily Bronte's other novel... Paul Maurice Martin
October 21, 2008
In response to: The Invisible Library Blog -- Contest! David Nilsen commented: How about "Sea Miss" by Eddie Renfros, "Bailiff" by Henry Baffler, or any of the other books by characters from Elise Blackwell's "Grub"?
October 21, 2008
In response to: The Invisible Library Blog -- Contest! Bethanne commented: Oh, these are such fun! I'll have to sort through them later today, but we obviously have winners...and Terri wins a special mention for the latest/freshest pick with her "Izzy Bickerstaff" from "Guernsey!" Thanks, everyone, for playing. I'll be doing more of these games and giveaways in my new location, so stay tuned...
October 22, 2008
In response to: The Invisible Library Blog -- Contest! Jazz commented: Tiger, Tiger by Ash Night from Demon in My View by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes.
January 16, 2009
In response to: The Invisible Library Blog -- Contest! Hermester Barrington commented: I’m so pleased to see that the idea of a catalogue of books that exist only in other books continues to spread throughout the human memepool. My first encounter with this concept took the form of Mr. Brian Quinette’s catalogue, now defunct, alas. Fortunately, however, an archived copy does exist. A link to that archive, and to several other collections of invisible books, are available at the Malibu Lake Branch of The Invisible Library, co-curated by my wife Fayaway and me. It can be found by searching in Google. Thank you for documenting this highly entertaining and increasingly useful information—doubt not, o archivists, but persist!
September 29, 2009
In response to: The Invisible Library Blog -- Contest! ralph commented: you missed an impressive book about an impressive fictious book:
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