Books, Books, Books

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 [...]

Thrillers With Deaf Characters

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 [...]

Banned Book Week is Over

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 [...]

That Doggone Sound

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 [...]

Good Deaf Reads

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 [...]