Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes
- Banning Books in the 21st Century (“Questions for the parents who want these books banned: Do your kids have cell phones? Access to the internet and social media? Video games? Cable television? If the answer is yes to any of those questions, then your kid is learning about the world already through less tasteful venues.”)
Blog Headline of the Week
Bookish Linkage
- The departure of Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart is a loss for booklovers
- Reading the most controversial books in print today
- Bookish Lists: 20 reasons book nerds lead better lives; 5 must read foreign novels; 2015 Locus Award finalists; 5 geek bibles (I’ve read 4); 12 moving novels of WWII; Best Translated Book Awards finalists
Nonbookish Linkage
- A helpful reminder: there is no “hate speech” exception to the First Amendment
- 82 percent of Russians agree the government should censor films, books, theater productions and art exhibits, although 56 percent believes banning them is unacceptable
- On average, people stop discovering new music at 33
To me bookstores are like brothels of imagination, each book is luring me over going, ‘Read me, read me.’
