Bookish links for Saturday, September 1, 2012

Author news:

~ Maeve Binchy’s final book will be released around Christmas.

~ Sheila has a message for John Green: Write, John, write!

Discussion starters:

~ Bookarama – Behold! The Fake Review-inator! And here’s the New York Times article she was referring to.

Blogging events:

~ Book Blogger Appreciate Week is coming up September 10-14. Check that link for news of changes, then go here to register and here to sign up for an interview swap.

~ Aarti and some friends are hosting A More Diverse Universe Blog Tour, encouraging people to read speculative fiction by authors of color. Click over to sign up!

Book to movie news:

~ Cameron Crowe will make a film adaptation of David Sheff’s memoir Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Addiction.

~ James Franco will direct a film adaptation of William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying.

~ The second and third Hobbit movies have titles and release dates.

Non-bookish links of interest:

~ If you saw my Film Club discussion of Another Earth, you saw that my favorite scene in the movie involved the playing of a musical saw. The woman who played the saw for the movie left a comment, and I followed her links to discover her story and some videos of her playing. The sounds made by a musical saw are fascinating and other-worldly and eerily human. Check it out:

And here is the Saw Lady, whose name is Natalia Paruz, telling her story: