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The Chicago Tribune is reporting a story about one of our suburbs in a tizzy over the freshman reading list. Apparently, a whole seven parents found the language in The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian to be “vulgar”. Here is the… Continue Reading “More About School Reading Lists”
A guy at work e-mails me one day, asking if we might set up a Book Swap shelf at the office. He regularly contributes book recommendations to our employee newsletter. I like the idea, so I pursue it. I write some guidelines that are… Continue Reading “Book Swap Shelf”
Various libraries have various used used book sales all the time – you can find one almost every weekend. None come close (in suburban Chicago) to the Book Sale Formerly Known as Brandeis. It runs for over a week in a tent, in the… Continue Reading “Little City Book Sale 2009”
I have no idea what to get, or rather, send, to my father for Father’s Day. He and I had a great system for several years. For birthdays and Christmas I would send him stuff for his dog and he would send me stuff… Continue Reading “Public Service Announcement – Father’s Day Gifts”
I was reading an article not long ago about the high school reading lists. It was one of those great debates of the value of the “classic” versus something to which the kids might better relate. Or for which there is a modern message.… Continue Reading “Required School Reading”
After struggling for a bit, I decided to bring Jodi two books in New Orleans. The first was A Confederacy of Dunces, by John Kennedy Toole. It is set in New Orleans and I loved it. But because it is rather…weird, with a rat-crazy… Continue Reading “The End of the "Bring Me a Book" Story”
Last night, while I was at the library, my mother sent me an e-mail saying that my friend Jodi called and asked me to call her back when I got home. I am flying to New Orleans to meet Jodi and her husband, Rich,… Continue Reading “Too Much Responsibility”
I can’t tell you when I last put a book down for real. So as not to finish it and start something else. Wait..ok, I can. Bill Clinton’s autobiography. And the Alison Weir about Mary Queen of Scots. And that other one about Queen… Continue Reading “Dropping Books”
I was going to take a picture of the snow and give you a “Mother Nature always saves one last snowstorm for April” speech. But that bored even me. The school news today is that I turned in my first paper yesterday. It was… Continue Reading “End of the Weekend Blathering”
Finishing up Week Three. Four more until the end of the semester. One paper. One group project. One final exam. My To Be Read bookcase is officially overflowing and I am reading library books for school. Doesn’t stop me from going to Half Price… Continue Reading “I Want this Semester to Be Over”
The Next Dark Age 