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Lights have been out here for a bit due to a major change. In mid-May my wife and I moved from the home we built 23 years ago into a townhome with about half the space. As you would expect, you accumulate a lot of stuff over such a stretch, meaning you have to dispose […] Tim May 26th, 2015 | Tags: Books, life, reading | Category: A Reading Life, Personal/Family | One comment - (Comments are closed) | | “Banned book” brings to mind censorship, repression. But a different facet intrigued Helen Gurley Brown 43 years ago when she wrote her publicist about her forthcoming book, Sex and The Single Girl — publicity. Sex and The Single Girl was on the cutting edge of the cultural revolution in the 1960s and feminism. Some 40-plus […] Books Hubert Wolf’s The Nuns of Sant’Ambrogio: The True Story of a Convent in Scandal epitomizes how history should be written for the general public. Although the PR around the book promises a look at “sex, poison, and lesbian initiation rites in a nineteenth-century convent,” this is in no way a lurid read. Sure, […] Tim March 2nd, 2015 | Tags: best of the month, Books, history, nonfiction, technology, video | Category: A Reading Life, Film | Comments are closed | | In the hopes of some more consistent posting, I’m going to try (“try” being the operative word) to do a monthly post on the books, movies, etc., that grabbed me the month before. Books Surprisingly, the best book I’ve read this year will be 75 years old in September. But there’s a somber timelessness to […] Tim February 6th, 2015 | Tags: best of the month, Books, Johnny Got His Gun, video | Category: A Reading Life, Film | Comments are closed | | Around 1930, Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote an autobiography about her and her family’s pioneer experience. No one would publish it. Wilder ended up using it as a source for her wildly successful Little House series. Turn the clock ahead 80 some years and things have changed dramatically. The autobiography was finally published late last year […] Tim January 23rd, 2015 | Tags: authors, autobiography, Books, publishers, South Dakota, South Dakota history | Category: A Reading Life | Comments are closed | | |
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