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A personal challenge to read the world

I gave up on book challenges a year or so ago. Part of it stemmed from the fact that, as I’ve said earlier this year, I want to read what I want to read when I feel like reading it. While I still let a few book reviews impact that, I’ve stuck pretty close to […]

July Bibliolust

My lust is getting ahead of me. I realized this week that I already have five books on my Amazon wish list that are coming out in October and November. Since that’s more than are on this month’s list, I am hoping it reflects that the publishers are trying to make their fall/winter catalogs as […]

E-books, libraries and instant gratification

In its latest look at libraries in the digital age, the Pew Internet Project last week released a report on libraries, library users and e-books. The study confirms some of what I’ve been thinking about e-books lately and the continuing technological draw of instant gratification.

Perhaps the lead item in the study was that 58% […]

June Bibliolust

It’s a very short list this month, largely because I read a couple books that might have made the list between now and last month’s list. I am also speculating that the release of summer “beach reads” is reducing the number of books piquing my curiosity.

Assignment to Hell: The War Against Nazi Germany with […]

A fever changes in kind but not intensity

For the last month or so, in fact, for much of the year, I’ve been in kind of a reading frenzy. I must be averaging around three a week. But over the last week or so it kind of burned itself out — and got replaced with a new one.

A number of the last […]