St. Patrick's Day

 

 

Tomorrow? Well, Tomorrow 'Tis A Great Day for the Irish' - Jerry's House of Everything

To prepare for St. Patrick's Day Panzer was tootling around in the Catosphere. 

 

He stopped in at the Jerry's House of Everything site and found a post that has a whole list of Irish songs for St. Patrick's Day with links. There's happy songs, sad songs, and all the songs in between.

 

 Have fun listening.

 

To read the post tootle over to St. Patrick's Day 

Free to Listen Mystery Audiobook: Murder in an Irish Village

It's been a long noisy week.

Panzer found this murder mystery on the Deadly Tales Audio channel on Youtube.

 

Murder in an Irish Village is writtern by Carlene O'Conner. It's narrated by Caroline Lennon and 10 hours 6 minutes long.

 

This audiobook might need two days to listen to it in full.

 

Note: I didn't see any ads, but that doesn't mean you won't. 

 

To listen to the audiobook tootle over to Murder Mystery Audiobook 

Commending Irish and Adventure Fiction - The Rap Sheet

Interesting books on the list.

Today, Panzer found the announcement of the An Post Irish Book Awards shortlist at The Rap Sheet site.

 

J. Kingston Pierce's post lists the categories and the crime fiction section of the shortlist. The post includes links to the voting rules, history of the awards and the full shortlist.

 

Panzer says, "Read the voting rules. Only one vote per email address."

Note: This is a short-medium length post; but, if you plan to read the rules and vote, it will be a long post. Depending on what you do, you'll need to decide what to bring to snack on.

To read the post tootle over to Irish and Adventure

'Unaffordable, unsustainable and extremely unfair': Libraries battle publishers for equal access to ebooks - Irish Examiner

Today as Panzer was tootling around in the Catosphere the Panzermobile was suddenly shaken by crying and the gnashing of teeth. Following all the ruckus, took our brave kitty boy to the Irish Examiner site. There he found a post about the financial problems of Irish libraries.

 

Big 5? Sounds like big bullies to me.

According to the post by Jess Casey, libraries in Ireland are facing funding issues due to the Big Five publishers ebook library policies. The Big Five publishers are Penguin/Random House, Hachette, HarperCollins, Simon and Schuster, and Macmillan. The publishers library policies for ebooks include charging libraries license fees, restrictions on the number of library patron loans an ebook can have before re-licensing, time limits before an ebook can become available in the library, and Hachette won't even license ebooks to libraries. The Library Association of Ireland wants legislation enacted so libraries have access to ebooks with reasonable terms and conditions and without embargo.

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Panzer says, "Hmm ... This little kitty thinks this is familiar to what's happening to libraries in the U.S."

 

Note: This is a very, very long post. Bring a cup of tea, a muffin and two chocolate chip cookies (biscuits) for today's reading selection.

 

To read the post tootle over to Irish libraries

British and Irish Writers Condemn No-Deal Brexit - Publishers Weekly

Panzer was tootling around in the Catosphere when he heard crying and gnashing of teeth. Following all the noise took our brave kitty boy to the Publishers Weekly site. There he found a post about British and Irish writers and Brexit.

According to Neill Denny, British and Irish writers' organizations, The Society of Authors and The Irish Writers' Union, have sent a statement about negotiations for Brexit. The joint statement stresses an agreement about how publishing and books will be distributed between the two countries needs to be negotiated before Brexit is finalized between the UK and the EU. According to the groups if this isn't achieved the consequences will be disastrous for England and Ireland. Both would see consequences in the sale and trade of books between the two countries in the form of tariffs and border control problems.

This is a mess for everybody.

Panzer says, "There's a lot more to the exit negotiations than a pat on the head and a don't let the door hit your backside on the way out."

Note: This is a long-medium length post. Bring a cup of tea and a muffin for today's reading selection.

To read the post tootle over to Brexit