Top 5 favourite NextReads eNewsletters for November 2010

List by Tosca

"Wear the old coat and buy the new book."
- Austin Phelps

I agree with the quote wholeheartedly. If it's a choice between anything and a new book, the book is always going to win :) People always look at me rather strangely when I tell them that the reason I work in libraries is because I heart books - little books, big books, bad books, brilliant books, fiction, nonfiction - if it's got words I'll read 'em! I have to guiltily admit that wherever I am I recommend titles for people to try *shamefaced look* As a result of this I find myself promoting books, and our library services, in the most unusual places: buses, Twitter, trains, standing in queues, with the checkout operator at Countdown Manukau, occasionally on Bebo, at the bus stop, on Facebook, over the counter and, last but not least, in our NextReads eNewsletters. Which, not-coincidentally, is the subject of today's post - a slightly long-winded list (I did *try* to keep it short and simple) of the top 5 November eNewsletters I enjoyed the most. Am I playing favourites? Yes. However, my favourites do change from month to month for various reasons. And my #1 choice might just surprise you :)

Top 5 movie opening earnings

List by Tosca

"Life is a B Movie: it's stupid and it's strange, it's a directionless story, the dialogue is lame, but in the 'he said she said' sometimes there's some poetry, if you turn your back long enough and let it happen naturally."
- Ani Difranco

Sometimes, life is a B movie but, you know, sometimes B movies are B movies, too. I'm guessing, though, that films that earn oodles of money in their first opening day are not B movies. Or are they...? 'Harry Potter and the deathly hallows : part 1' opened worldwide at cinemas last week and, when I last checked, had earned something like $61.2 million for its opening day (including midnight screenings)...which got me thinking, what are the top 5 movie opening day earnings? After some serious Google-Fu, I now know the answer. And so do you :)