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Musing Mondays: Assigned reading

How did you react to assigned reading when you were in school/university/college/etc? How do you think on these books now? What book were you ‘forced’ to read when you where in school that you’ve since reread and loved?

I still blame/credit high school English for the fact I can’t tolerate Shakespeare. Of course, at […]

Tim January 12th, 2009 | Tags: , | Category: A Reading Life | 2 comments - (Comments are closed) | |

Fiction reading increases but we’re still a nation divided

There’s some great news in the latest reading study by the National Endowment for the Arts. “For the first time in the history of the survey — conducted five times since 1982 — the overall adult literary reading rate has risen (from 46.7 percent in 2002 to 50.2 percent in 2008).” It isn’t all necessarily […]

Tim January 12th, 2009 | Tags: | Category: A Reading Life | One comment - (Comments are closed) | |

Weekend Edition: 1-10

Random Observations

Kudos to Esquire magazine for picking Gerard Baker as the “headliner” from South Dakota when it sought “wisdom and advice” from someone in each state. Who is Gerard Baker? He is the first Native American superintendent of Mt. Rushmore National Memorial.

Further displaying my ignorance in economics, why is reduction in consumer […]

Tim January 10th, 2009 | Tags: , | Category: Weekend Edition | Comments are closed | |

Booking Through Thursday: Favorites of 2008 (redux)

It’s a week or two later than you’d expect, and it may be almost a trite question, but … what were your favorite books from 2008?

I’ve already posted my “best of” list but I’m going to interpret this to be the favorite books I read during 2008, regardless of when published or “best” […]

Tim January 8th, 2009 | Category: Book Memes | Comments are closed | |

Those pesky technicalities

One thing that drives me nuts is hearing someone say a person avoided criminal charges or a conviction because of a “technicality.” That concept ignores the fact that, in most cases, the “technicality” is a legal right, usually found in something called the Constitution. So it really drives me nuts when people who should know […]

Tim January 7th, 2009 | Tags: , | Category: Law, State and local matters | One comment - (Comments are closed) | |
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