Posted on April 16, 2009 by kim
Jelly’s
book meme got me thinking about Nancy Pearl’s ’doorways’ to reading. Some of you might remember I went a workshop given by Pearl last week. The way she classified books was an interesting departure from the usual dewey decimal system. And I’m not kidding you when I say that a week later I’m still waking [...]
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Posted on April 9, 2008 by kim
I read A Maiden’s Grave by Jeffrey Deaver, years ago, and I couldn’t put it down. This is the book that turned me into a Jeffrey Deaver fan long before he became popular. Though it’s one of his earliest novels I believe maybe it is his best. This is about a bus full of Deaf [...]
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Posted on October 9, 2007 by kim
I meant to blog about banned books last week. Since I work in a library there’s probably nothing I’m more passionate about than our right to read whatever we please. Book challenging/burning/banning just . . . really. . . rubs me the wrong way. The only countries I know of that legally allow book censorship [...]
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Posted on September 26, 2007 by kim
In the book This Is Your Brain On Music, author Daniel J. Levitin brought up an intriguing philosophical line of thought. He said the flavor vanilla doesn’t exist in a bowl of pudding until your tongue touches it.
Then he went on to elaborate about light. Darkness doesn’t exist. It’s simply the absence of light, which [...]
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Posted on August 27, 2007 by kim
Last week while digging through a pile of old books I came across a great mystery I’d read long ago called A Maiden’s Grave by Jeffrey Deaver. It was about two kidnappers who held a school bus full of young girls and their teachers hostage in an abandoned meat factory. The twist; the captives turned [...]
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