All Posts Tagged With: "Books"
Fun With Lists
How many of these 100 books have you read?
9Jun2011 | Unstable Isotope | 32 comments | Continued
I’m Glad I’m Raising A Buffy And Not A Bella
Given the Twilight series rage I purchased the books for my preteen daughter. I mean, everyone was reading them. Everyone was raving. But…
My daughter doesn’t like Twilight. She likes the Vampire Diaries and the Vampire Academy, so it isn’t the genre… It’s Twilight specifically. Which I found perplexing, since the back covers all read pretty [...]
‘Bulo Remembers 2009 (And the Noughts): Book It, Bulo
These likely won’t be the last Best-of book lists that you see from me this year. And, like with music, there are no definitive ‘ best-of’ lists anyway. My lists today feature books I’ve read and would recommend, and/or books that I’d like to read based on the lists. After all, the purpose of lists [...]
7Dec2009 | El Somnambulo | 2 comments | Continued
How Obama Won — Exerpts from David Plouffe’s Book
Both Time Mag and ABC have put up excerpts from David Plouffe’s forthcoming memoir about the Obama campaign:
1Nov2009 | cassandra_m | 3 comments | Continued
Banned Books Week
This past week has been Banned Books Week, the week the ALA and American booklovers shine a light on the effort to censor or remove books from public libraries or classrooms and to celebrate the freedom to read.
The ALA has provided an interesting map of the books banned and removed from public facilities.
A resource from [...]
Calls for Book Banning and Book Burning in Wisconsin
Another fight started by more folks who want the government to control the media available to you. This is Wisconsin, not the Swot Valley, mind you:
25Jul2009 | cassandra_m | 9 comments | Continued
Happy Banned Books Week!
With everything that is going on this week, it would be a real shame not to remind ourselves that intellectual freedom must always be defended and to reminded ourselves of the great pleasures and solace of reading.
I am a voracious reader. It is not often when I don’t have reading material close by and [...]
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