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How do you consume the news? 2008-08-19 20:16:00 Are you a Net-Newser? An Integrator? A Traditionalist? Or are you among the Disengaged?Find your niche in the Pew Research Survey on Audience Segments in a Changing News Environment.Heartening finding:Most Americans say they prefer to get political news with no point of view rather than news that shares their political views. Two-thirds (66%) wants news with no political point of view, which is co
Southern Reading Challenge: Hee Haw! 2008-08-19 09:55:00 I read four books for Maggie's SouthernReadingChallenge
, which ended last week:Truman Capote's The Grass HarpFlannery O'Connor's Everything That Rises Must ConvergeGin Phillips' The Well and the Mine (that cover photo is one taken by Eudora Welty)and Hillary Jordan's Mudboundand they were all enjoyable and well worth reading, particularly the O'Connor.I'd just finished the Capote when Maggie ann
No title 2008-08-19 06:22:00 "It's like a slur in music, leading you to the next thought without making you stop to rest."Be sure to note the Marilyn Monroe illustration that accompanies the "Sex and the Semicolon" article.
It seems like a lifetime ago. . . 2008-08-18 08:43:00 my daughter went to school--first one, and then another--and my son stayed home with me. Or went to preschool, where he majored in Power Rangers, the original crew. And outside the Power Rangers obsession, which got on my nerves, there were plenty of books and dinosaurs, so life, basically, was good.And then my son started kindergarten, and for one glorious year both attended the same school (my d
Latest batch of books 2008-08-16 09:41:00 These are the books that have taken up residency on my shelves over the last couple of months. It's sort of magic how these things find their way here considering I've had exactly two trips to the bookstore this summer and brought home only four books total. If you're out of storage space, they will come, I suppose.David McCullough. John Adams. Finished watching the HBO series earlier in the week. Read more:batch
Gold Medal Reading 2008-08-14 06:24:00 You, um, may have noticed that the Olympics are going on right now, so that’s the genesis of this week’s question, in two parts: First: Do you or have you ever read books about the Olympics? About sports in general? Fictional ones? Or non-fiction? Or both? And, Second: Do you consider yourself a sports fan? Because, of course, if you’re a rabid fan and read about sports constantly, the Read more:Reading
, Medal
No title 2008-08-12 06:59:00 I'd wondered if this would happen:An additional 2,500 copies have been commissioned for “Story of My Life,” according to Vintage Books, a paperback imprint of Random House, Inc. The book, first released in 1988, is narrated by a promiscuous, aspiring actress whom [Jay] McInerney has said was inspired by [Rielle] Hunter — then named Lisa Druck — and a group of friends the author had met
Silent stories 2008-08-11 07:43:00 When I first came to this country, I would tell silent stories. I would tell them to people who had wronged me. If someone cut in front of me in line, ignored me, bumped me or pushed me, I would glare at them, staring silently hissing a story to them. You do not understand, I would tell them. You would not add to my suffering if you knew what I have seen. And until that person left my sight, I wou Read more:Silent
Other Worlds 2008-08-07 07:36:00 Are there any particular worlds in books where you’d like to live?Or where you certainly would NOT want to live?What about authors? If you were a character, who would you trust to write your life?(This came to me when reviewing a Jonathan Carroll book - I’m not sure I’d like to live in the worlds of his books.) Oh, if ever a batch of questions cried out for caveats. . .I spend more time read Read more:Worlds
If we were only the Shakespeares to see it 2008-09-08 07:08:00 'The point is,' he explained to Lawford, standing amid a postitive archipelago of precious 'finds,' with his foot hoisted onto a chair and a patched-up, sea-stained folio on his knee, 'I honestly detest the mere give and take of what we are fools enough to call life. I don't deny Life's there,' he swept his hand towards the open window--'in that frantic Tophet we call London; but there's no focus,
Primary source 2008-09-07 06:06:00 The Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman, Sarah Palin's hometown newspaper, pulls from the archives and reprints in full the Dec. 18, 1996, article that first broke the story about Palin's censorship inquiries. Read more:Primary
No title 2008-09-06 15:10:00 It's been almost 24 hours since I realized something irrefutable about the two males I share a home with, something I still believe--after the requisite cooling down period-- is worthy of public broadcast: between the two of them, they don't have the brains that God gave a billy goat. *You want proof? Your honor, if it pleases the court, Exhibit A: the blister on the bottom of the big toe on my le
No title 2008-09-04 10:30:00 Palin pressured Wasilla librarian during first term--Anchorage Daily News
Blue river of truth 2008-09-03 18:55:00 And in our own reading lives, every day, we come across that blue river of truth, curling somewhere; we encounter scenes and moments and perfectly placed words in fiction and poetry, in film and drama, which strike us with their truth, which move and sustain us, which shake habit's house to its foundations: King Lear asking forgiveness of Cordelia; Lady Macbeth hissing at her husband during the ba
How inappropriate 2008-09-02 12:29:00 As mayor, Sarah Palin "asked the library how she could go about banning books," he says, because some voters thought they had inappropriate language in them. "The librarian was aghast." The librarian, Mary Ellen Baker, couldn't be reached for comment, but news reports from the time show that Palin had threatened to fire her for not giving "full support" to the mayor.--Nathan Thornburgh, Mayor Pali
No title 2008-08-30 09:35:00 Enjoy. If you read a bit of political commentary into the segue midway through, I won't mind.
No title 2008-08-27 08:48:00 The wood is all flicker and murmur and illusion. Its silence is a pointillist conspiracy of a million tiny noises--rustles, flurries, nameless truncated shrieks; its emptiness teems with secret life, scurrying just beyond the corner of your eye. Careful: bees zip in and out of cracks in the leaning oak; stop to turn any stone and strange larvae will wriggle irritably, while an earnest thread of an
An FYI 2008-08-26 19:57:00 It is now possible to get a Kindle for $259--$100 off the regular price--by signing up for anAmazon.com Rewards Visa card before Sept. 8.You particularly want an Amazon.com Rewards Visa card if you have a college student in your family--you receive double rewards points for school payments. That's on top of triple rewards points for books or other items purchased through Amazon.
Ah, the challenge of it all 2008-08-25 06:21:00 I know I overcommitted to reading challenges this year and that's cramped my Read at Whim! mantra to a certain extent, but there's no way I would let Carl's third R.eaders I.mbibing P.eril Challenge pass me by. I'll try for Peril the First, reading four books from the pool of potentialities below:Elizabeth Gaskell's Gothic Tales (on the Kindle)Walter de la Mare's The Return (on the Kindle)Daphne d
No title 2008-08-23 13:10:00 If you need me, I'll be at Shatley Springs, listening to bluegrass and eating country-style.
Well, that was different! 2008-09-25 06:44:00 What was the most unusual (for you) book you ever read? Either because the book itself was completely from out in left field somewhere, or was a genre you never read, or was the only book available on a long flight… whatever? What (not counting school textbooks, though literature read for classes counts) was furthest outside your usual comfort zone/familiar territory?And, did you like it? Did it Read more:different
This is the library I want! 2008-09-24 06:33:00 Walker shuns the sort of bibliomania that covets first editions for their own sake—many of the volumes that decorate the library's walls are leather-bound Franklin Press reprints. What gets him excited are things that changed the way people think, like Robert Hooke's Micrographia. Published in 1665, it was the first book to contain illustrations made possible by the microscope. He's also drawn t
House of All Nations 2008-09-19 06:00:00 I think I ought to forget all other reading obligations long enough this fall to make my way through Christina Stead's out-of-print House
of All Nations
.From the dust jacket:"For money, wrote Balzac, "people fight and devour one another like spiders in a pot." In House of All Nations, the pot is an exclusive private European bank, and the spiders are a rich mixture of high-stakes gamblers, tax eva
No title 2008-09-17 17:47:00 Nobody knows where the readers are, or how to connect with them. Fifteen years ago, Philip Roth guessed there were at most 120,000 serious American readers—those who read every night—and that the number was dropping by half every decade. Others vehemently disagree. But who really knows? Focused consumer research is almost nonexistent in publishing. What readers want—and whether it’s better
New books 2008-09-16 06:23:00 I've been returning unread books to the library, calculating how many books remain on the various challenges I've committed to, making list after list of books I'd really like to complete by the end of the year and swearing to myself repeatedly that I'm going to cut way back on the number of new purchases so that I can devote more time to the ones I already own (memo to self: isn't it about time f
Mistaken Philanthropy 2008-09-15 07:08:00 There's an old-fashioned, verdant peice of wisdom, altogether unsuited for the enlightened age we live in; fished up, probably, from some musty old newspaper, edited by some eccentric man troubled with that inconvenient appendage called a heart! Don't pay any attention to it. If a poor wretch--male of female--comes to you for charity, whether allied to you by your own mother, or mother Eve, put on
No title 2008-09-14 12:14:00 5 Myths About Those Civic-Minded, Deeply Informed Voters
"She scares the bejeebers out of me" 2008-09-13 16:44:00 From Jo Becker, Peter S. Goodman and Michael Powell's In Office, Palin Hired Friends and Hit Critics:The new mayor also tended carefully to her evangelical base. She appointed apastor to the town planning board. And she began to eye the library. For years,social conservatives had pressed the library director to remove books they considered immoral.“People would bring books back censored,” rec
No title 2008-10-15 10:50:00 Literature is inescapably political. . . . It is in the act of reading that we define our notions about the world, what we judge to be right or wrong, important or unimportant, acceptable or unacceptable; literature is the testing ground of the imagination, where we decide who we are and what sort of society we live in or should be living in. You tell me your favorite novelists and I'll tell you w
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