Newsweek, to which I haven’t subscribed for more than a year, must feel its books coverage is lacking. First there was the Fifty Books for Our Time. Now it’s got a “meta-list” of The Top 100 Books. It’s a meta-list because it is compiled from 10 separate lists of best books, including not only its […]
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Now that we’ve come to the middle of the year, what do you think of your 2009 reading so far? Read anything interesting that you’d like to share? Any outstanding favourites? My reading so far this year indicates my translated literature fixation continues. Not surprisingly, then, it accounts for one of my favorites this […] Sense of place is not just a combination of geography and culture, it is a synergy of the two. Swedish author Kerstin Ekman doesn’t seek to describe sense of place in her novel God’s Mercy. She does something far more difficult. Sense of place so permeates the novel it moves from being a setting to […] Self-promotion The blogosphere was all aflutter this week with word the FTC wants to regulate blogs. Remember, you read it here first more than two months ago. My review of Masterpiece Comics was the featured item Monday in the Blogcritics Books section. SD Blogosphere Goings On The ACLU of South Dakota has launched its […] |
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