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It’s Banned Book Week – Celebrating the Freedom to Read! September 26−October 3, 2009 Banned Books Week (BBW) is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read and the importance of the First Amendment. Held during the last week of September, Banned Books Week highlights the benefits of free and open access to information while drawing attention to [...] At the museum, I’m the resident proofreader. Exhibit labels, brochures, what have you, I’m the one who goes through it with a red pen and gets rid of the sentences without verbs, the misspellings, the commas that are everywhere except where they should be, and the apostrophes, oh the apostrophes, misused all over. I [...] I’ve been trying to keep up with the Google Books story because I think whatever happens will have a huge impact on both the publishing industry and on libraries. It’s not easy to do, though — every day there’s something in the news about it, but nothing huge has happened, really; these things are [...] (AP) The National Book Awards would like your vote. Organizers of the prestigious literary prize are asking the public to choose the best fiction winner in the awards’ 60-year history. The six finalists, announced Monday by the National Book Foundation, are: “The Stories of John Cheever,” Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man,” William Faulkner’s “Collected Stories,” [...] As you know I read Twilight — every single page of all four books. I saw the movie and will probably end up seeing New Moon at some point. All for the joy of mocking, because it was all pretty much the most abysmal dreck I’d ever read/seen. But lots of fun to mock. [...] Review of: The World Without Us by Alan Weisman Picador (2008), Edition: Reprint, Paperback, 432 pages I’m sorry to say, I didn’t care for this at all. The concept was very intriguing — I love reading fictional stories set in a post-apocalyptic world, so I was curious what the world would *really* be like [...] Personally, I find genealogy pretty boring. But the key word there is personally. What I mean is, I don’t care about researching my ancestry; and what I do know of it isn’t very interesting. So outside of work, I’ve never been bitten by the genealogy bug (and a highly virulent bug it is, believe [...] Dan Brown’s latest, The Lost Symbol, was released yesterday; booksellers have been counting on it to reinvigorate book sales in 2009. I’m sure I’ll read it eventually, but the waiting list at the public library is a mile long. I’m considering shelling out the $$ for it here and then giving it away, so [...] Congratulations! SandyM of Lil’Maddie’s MeeMaw is the winner of the copy of Indignation. Review of: The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman HarperCollins (2008), Hardcover, 320 pages This Newbery Award-winning book for young adults begins with a knife in the dark, a family murdered, and a toddler escaping to a nearby cemetery. Found by ghosts and raised by them, Nobody Owens (the name given to the toddler; he’s [...] |
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