The Best Book Nerd Tweets of the Week
It hardly seems possible that we book nerds would find inspiration in a scant 140 characters, but a teeny-tiny tweet can pack in a surprising amount of wisdom, shine a light onto someone’s life, or (just as worthwhile) offer up a pretty good joke. Here are our picks for the best book-flavored tweets of the past week, from readers and writers alike.
First up: any Iggy Azalea fans out there? Let her know what you’re reading, wouldja? I’ll bet all of us can beat two books a year, no sweat.
https://twitter.com/iggyazalea/status/711096568363900929?refsrc=email&s=11
Emma Roberts, star of Fox’s Scream Queens, is having a Marie Kondo problem to which many of us can relate. (Mine wound up in the back seat of my car, if that helps anyone.)
You know you're doing a bad job tidying up when you can't even find the book #TheLifeChangingMagicOfTidyingUp @MarieKondo #help
— Emma Roberts (@RobertsEmma) March 17, 2016
Great ideas in the middle of the night don’t always last until morning. You don’t have to be a writer to relate to this tweet from the author of Soulless.
Midnight notes that I can't read the next morning. It's like knowing I forgot something genius, then taunting myself with it.
— Gail Carriger (@gailcarriger) March 15, 2016
Stephen King states clearly a truth that we all already knew.
Few things are better than an engrossing, well-written story that doesn't try too hard to impress you.
— Stephen King (@StephenKing) March 17, 2016
Controversial, I know, but it has to be said:
WRITERS: ONE SPACE AFTER A PERIOD. ONE. SPACE. AFTER. A PERIOD. DASSIT. NOT TWO. UNO. ICHI. ONE.
— Daniel José Older (@djolder) March 15, 2016
In apocalypse-related news, we’re all hoping John Scalzi (Old Man’s War) makes it out OK. Doesn’t sound good.
Power just went out. Now the zombies come.
— John Scalzi (@scalzi) March 19, 2016
Neil Gaiman (American Gods) asked his followers about women-friendly comics shops. The results were mixed. Hey, Neil: try your local Barnes & Noble!
I was sort of hoping that my feed would fill with women telling me that the last woman-not-friendly comic store closed down in 2005. #nope
— Neil Gaiman (@neilhimself) March 19, 2016
Ninety-five-year-old Watership Down author Richard Adams was in the news this week with the announcement of a forthcoming book for children, The Egg-box Dragon.
Richard Adams's achievement in Watership Down is such that 16 yrs. after I last read it, I think of it, in detail, every time I see rabbits.
— Levi Stahl (@levistahl) March 19, 2016
Author and screenwriter Barry Hines, most famous for his novel A Kestrel for a Knave (which became the film Kes), passed away this week, and fans expressed admiration and sadness on Twitter. Among them: Joanne Harris, writer of Chocolat.
RIP, Barry Hines: I hated and loved him at the same time – for writing the world I saw every day, and for giving me hope to escape it…
— Joanne Harris (@Joannechocolat) March 20, 2016
Speaking of Joanne Harris, she has advice for aspiring writers, as does screenwriter Scott Myers.
#AdviceToYoungWriters Never trust an author who claims to know "the tricks of the trade."
— Joanne Harris (@Joannechocolat) March 20, 2016
Voices in your mind may say, “Your story is no good. Writing is too hard. You suck.” Here’s how you fight them: Write the next sentence.
— Scott Myers (@GoIntoTheStory) March 19, 2016
Finally, the author of the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series leaves us with a question that reminds of the power of good stories.
And injustice, unhappiness, is hard to overcome unless one has belief in an alternative – an idea of the shining, just city. Where is that?
— A. McCall Smith (@McCallSmith) March 13, 2016
Who has been rocking your Twitter world?