Deals at Amazon vs. Barnes & Noble, on Black Friday. [...]
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Letters are such an important documentation of the human experience, however, from a very, very personal point of view. Thomas Mallon, author of “Yours Ever: People and Their Letters”, wants us to understand that they are also a common human experience we all share. In writing a letter, we’re deciding to communicate our thoughts to one other person, and in doing so, we leave a record of those thoughts. The letter as written is a private communication, and the letter as published (even in excerpt) is an unforeseen public display of those intimacies. [...] I always was a DC girl — DC Comics, that is. Yeah, I know that with X-Men and all, the past decade or so, it’s been somewhat “cooler” to be Team Marvel instead of Team DC . But I grew up on Superman, on The Justice League, The Legion of Super Heroes and The New Teen Titans. As a kid I read them for fun, as a teen I went to comic book shops — completely changing their demographic statistics every time I walked in the door. [...] When you read The Secret Life of Bees, just make sure you’ve got a jar of honey somewhere in the house. [...] Scientists have created a way to test the degradation level of paper books and documents, based on that “old book smell” we’re all familiar with. [...] A lot of librarians hate cataloging. I love it. That’s why I’m such a nerd, I’ve even cataloged my entire personal book collection over at LibraryThing. It’s a terrific site, btw, even if you’re not up to such bibliographic devotion. You can find excellent reviews, take part in discussions, find recommendations. And why not [...] Gay characters make problems for Scholastic | csmonitor.com Will they or won’t they? That had been the question. Would a book with a pair of gay characters appear at Scholastic’s book fairs? If not, there was angry talk of a boycott. And if so, well, there is also angry talk of a boycott. The [...] The Internet never forgets. The Internet remembers that you once spent hours every day on an X-Files forum, or that you once posted photos from your brother’s graduation party to your AOL account. You can delete all you want, but it’s still out there, forever and ever. There for your friends to find. Your potential boyfriends and girlfriends. And most importantly, your potential employers. [...] Reading A Walk in the Woods was an unusual experience. I loved it, I hated it, and then I liked it. That was the progression of the book for me, and I can’t help but wonder if, on some level, that parallels Bryson’s own feelings about the Appalachian Trail. [...] |
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