Blogroll

Musing Mondays: Bookstores

How do you choose what to buy from your local bookstore? Do you have a list, or just browse? What is the selection in your book store like? Do you find what you’re looking for? Do you feel pressured to buy the kind of books the store makes prominent?

I do both, although I […]

February Bibliolust

Since February has Valentine’s Day and the birthdays of two of my three daughters, I’m going to switch from lust to love this month. Rather than list the books I am lusting after, I’m going to list a few of those I loved enough to now have waiting on the headboard of the bed or […]

Weekend Edition: 1-31

Bulletin Board

I’ve started posting at the KELOLAND blogs, which will have both original material and items cross-posted here.

I posted a review of the DVD 2012: Science Or Superstition at Blogcritics.

Bookish Linkage

The short list for Best Translated Book of 2008 has been announced at three percent. I’ve read two of the 10 […]

Book Review: This Republic of Suffering by Drew Gilpin Faust

Mind-numbing. That’s the only way to describe the casualties from America’s Civil War. For example:

An estimated 620,000 soldiers died between 1861 and 1865, roughly the same number as in the Revolution, the War of 1812, the Mexican War, the Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II, and the Korean War combined.

While […]

Booking Through Thursday: The Digital Age

First. Go read this great article from Time Magazine: Books Gone Wild: The Digital Age Reshapes Literature. (Well worth reading.)

Second. Stop and think about it for moment. Computers and digital media are changing everything we do these days, whether we realize it or not, and that includes our beloved books.

Third. DISCUSS! Tell […]