Looking for Tara: The 'Gone with the Wind' Guide to Margaret Mitchell's Atlanta
Pete's 'Today In History' Quiz (Free subscription) | 22 hours ago
No, this isn't about "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"! I've only just discovered this , but an Australian study has shown that being grumpy is good for you, mainly by allowing clearer thinking! Bah Humbug!! Your Sunday questions are: - What were discovered by Wilhelm Röntgen today in 1895? Author Margaret Mitchell (right) was born today in 1900 and won the 1937 Pulitzer Prize for which...
The Big Blog (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
Who else but Kathy Gill teaches both Twitter and motorcycle safety? The professor, writer, bike chick and all around tech superstar is seattlepi.com's Geek of the Week.
At Home With Books (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
Please visit the sign-up page if you would like to join this challenge. The Rules: The challenge starts January 1, 2010 and ends December 31, 2010. Crossover from other challenges is allowed. Choose the level at which you would like to participate, post about it and come back and leave a link to your post in Mister Linky. Titles and authors do not have to be predetermined, and can change at any time....
Mostly Media (Free subscription) | 24/10/2009
This past summer I drove several times from downtown Atlanta south to Luthersville, GA to drop/pickup my kid at a Girl Scout camp just a mile outside of that sleepy little Georgia town. The drive took about an hour or so, down I-85 south a’ways. Along the entire car ride, I followed an existing rail [...]
Bookninja (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
Would Milne mind? Would Adams? How about Stoker? Should we care? Should we throw petulant tantrums every time someone makes a buck off our nostalgia? Can this Bookninja dude get away with another rhetorical question or is this really the upper limit? The literary creations of authors stopped being sacred territory roughly 20 years ago, when [...]
Beattie's Book Blog (Free subscription) | 16/10/2009
Press Release from University of Otago DO NOT READ - BANNED ‘ Instruct watch for new novel entitled ‘Butchers Shop’ by Jean Devanny Wellington lady Publishers Duckworth, London, alleged depiction station life New Zealand disgusting indecent communistic’ – Bert (London ). A telegram received from London, 1 March 1926, addressed to Frank David Thomson, the Prime Minister’s...
The Horizon Online (Free subscription) | 12/10/2009
Banned Books Week was celebrated from Sept. 28 to Oct. 2.
over the cliff, onto the rocks. (Free subscription) | 08/10/2009
Friendly bet, lazily monitored, you got it.Two years? We can make it easier than that [maybe; if they close my library it could take me a couple of years]. Of the top 100 books of all time, only 42 have been banned or challenged [I was a tad confused in my earlier post], which means we can cross Rand and Wolfe [and a host of others] off the list without even batting an eye.The Revised Listbold =
the irresistible fleet of bicycles (Free subscription) | 06/10/2009
The 6th Annual Food on Your Plate Food and Sustainable Living Conference is happening this Friday and Saturday, Oct 9 & 10. It will take place at Daemon College in Amherst, NY, and feature as keynote speakers Howard Lyman, the “mad vegan cowboy,” Dr. Margaret Mitchell of Healthy Transitions and Diane Picard of the Massachusetts [...]
Boundless Line (Free subscription) | 01/10/2009
When the pains of life leave a mark, the natural reaction is to try and cover those scars. But are we ignoring something potentially beautiful by doing that?
Jacket Copy (Free subscription) | 30/09/2009
Out this week, just in time for Octoberfest, is "Drunk: the Definitive Drinkers Dictionary." A sleek, gray hardcover of manageable size, the book contains no less than 2,964 synonyms for drunk. "The English language includes more synonyms for the word...
rashbre central (Free subscription) | 29/09/2009
I accidentally strayed onto Facebook a couple of days ago, mainly because I was clearing down some of the applications that seem to create repeats of my messages. I think I deleted around forty so-called applications that had somehow installed in my Facebook. How careless of me. Anyway, I also stumbled onto this little quiz from the BBC about books. Apparently the average person has read six of these....
Writing and Ruminating (Free subscription) | 28/09/2009
As most of you already know, I no longer do memes. That way, I don't have to worry about tagging people, etc. But I have taken the time to look at the Radcliffe Publishing Course Top 100 novels, and to put the ones I've read in italics. The ones in bold? Yeah - they've all been banned or challenged at one point or another, according to the ALA. 42% of them have been banned or challenged over the years....
Texas Oasis (Free subscription) | 27/09/2009
Read a banned book, or just be aware of the reasons that books are challenged for their right to be in libraries or classrooms. Top three reasons for targeting a book: 1. the material was considered to be "sexually explicit" 2. the material contained "offensive language" 3. the materials was "unsuited to any age group" Reasons for challenges from 2001 through 2008 (24%...
The Fill in the Gaps 100 Project (Free subscription) | 26/09/2009
For my 100 list, I'm not really going for anything specific - this is a list of books I've had recommended to me NUMEROUS times, and then others that have been gathering dust on my TBR list, and then a few new ones that I'm looking forward to. This is my semi-final list - it may change a little as I iron out the kinks, or maybe it'll stay pretty much the same. I'm open to recommendations on books,...
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