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Even though I’m not doing a week-long series of posts this year, I couldn’t let Banned Books Week pass without at least one. So, I thought it appropriate to mentioned banned books that helped shape the country. Now I’m not the one who designated these books. Rather, earlier this year the Library of Congress came […] Tim October 1st, 2012 | Tags: banned books, Banned Books Week | Category: A Reading Life | 2 comments - (Comments are closed) | | The U.K.’s National Literary Trust today released a report on children’s reading. And while the 21,000 kids who participated in the online survey, conducted late last year, were all from the U.K., there’s some very sad news in it. No one probably would be surprised that it found that more children (54%) prefer watching television […] Tim September 7th, 2012 | Tags: Books, children, literacy, reading | Category: A Reading Life | One comment - (Comments are closed) | | Several years ago I blogged about how I thought some of Amazon’s music recommendations for me were a bit wacky. Now its got me wondering about the general emails it sends out recommending books in various subjects. Yesterday I received an Amazon email suggesting some history books I “might be interested in.” Listed twice — […] Tim August 2nd, 2012 | Tags: Amazon, Books, history | Category: A Reading Life | Comments are closed | | I first started my Bibliolust posts in September 2008. That means this one would be the 48th — and I think four years is enough. It isn’t that I don’t lust after as many books. To the contrary, my use of ebook readers and increasing consumption of ebooks means it is often easier to lust. […] Tim August 1st, 2012 | Tags: bibliolust | Category: A Reading Life | Comments are closed | | An interesting class action lawsuit was filed in Michigan this week. Essentially, it claims the approximately 1,000 students in the Highland Park School District have been denied the right to a basic and adequate education because the school system has failed to ensure that students are reading at grade level as required by state law. […] |
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