"20 Celebrities with Stunning Home Libraries"

http://www.accreditedonlinecolleges.com/blog/2011/20-celebrities-with-stunning-home-libraries

Including Rod Stewart? Really?

Bookstore Quotes

"What I say is a town isn't a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it's got a bookstore it knows it's not fooling a soul."
---Neil Gaiman

"I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the self-help section.' She said if she told me it would defeat the purpose."
--George Carlin

"A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking."
--Jerry Seinfeld

"A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book on loneliness and the store clears out."
--Doug Coupland

From Book Love: A Celebration of Writers, Readers, and the Printed and Bound Book. Edited by James Charlton and Bill Henderson and published by Bill Henderson's Pushcart Press.

And Bill Henderson, by the way, has another marvelous new book out, All My Dogs: A Life. A a memoir told through the lens of the dogs he has had over the years. Highly recommended!

Tom Campbell

28 Views of Durham?

27 Views of Chapel Hill has just arrived, and it looks like a great collection. http://www.regulatorbookshop.com/book/9780982077191


It's a fine companion to 27 Views of Hillsborough, which came out last year. http://www.regulatorbookshop.com/book/9780982077122 Lots of excellent writers in both of these books.

Now somebody needs to do one of these for Durham. But in all modesty, I think it will have to be called "28 Views of Durham." Durham being, of course, bigger and better..!

Howls of outrage from Hillsborough and Chapel Hill folks to: tom@regbook.com. Appreciations from Durham to the same.

"Awesome People Reading"

Photos: http://awesomepeoplereading.tumblr.com/page/3

Calling All Punsters!

Contestants Needed for the Great Durham Pun Championship!
Saturday, July 9th at 7:00 p.m.

If you feel that every morning is the dawn of a new error; if, for you, a day without puns is like a day without sunshine--there’s always gloom for improvement--this event is for you! Pairs of punsters will be given a subject and the first punster will have 10 seconds to come up with a relevant pun. Then punster number two gets 10 seconds. If they succeed it’s back to punster number one. On it goes! We’ll start the evening with about 20 contestants, and a couple of hours later the last pun person standing will be crowned The Pun Master of Durham!

Think you can stand up to the punishment? Sign up at the bookshop, call, or email to be a contestant! Or just come on by to enjoy an evening of fabulous word play and beer featured from Fullsteam brewery. (Rules will be based on The O. Henry Pun-Off World Championships, held each year in Austin, Texas. See www.punpunpun.com for details).

The 100 Greatest Non-Fiction Books?

According to the U.K.'s Guardian newspaper:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/jun/14/100-greatest-non-fiction-books

Winter weather tonight!

A bit of the freezing cold wild Wyoming winter blows into the bookshop tonight! Come get some chill! http://www.regulatorbookshop.com/event/craig-johnson