Booking Through Thursday « A Progressive on the Prairie

Current books:

Seth Bullock: Black Hills Lawman by David A. Wolff

Recent books:

The Twin by Gerbrand Bakker
The Virgin Warrior: The Life and Death of Joan of Arc by Larissa Juliet Taylor
Eternity Soup: Inside the Quest to End Aging by Greg Critser
Everything Matters! by Ron Currie Jr.
God’s Brain by Lionel Tiger and Michael McGuire

Booking Through Thursday: Grammar

In honor of National Grammar Day … it IS “March Fourth” after all … do you have any grammar books? Punctuation? Writing guidelines? Style books?

More importantly, have you read them?

How do you feel about grammar in general? Important? Vital? Unnecessary? Fussy?

I admit it upfront. The main — if not the only — reason I’m [...]

Booking Through Thursday: An author you should read

Who’s your favorite author that other people are NOT reading? The one you want to evangelize for, the one you would run popularity campaigns for? The author that, so far as you’re concerned, everyone should be reading–but that nobody seems to have heard of. You know, not JK Rowling, not Jane Austen, not Hemingway–everybody’s heard [...]

Booking Through Thursday: To flap or not to flap

Do you read the inside flaps that describe a book before or while reading it?

Since I suggested the question, I suppose I have somewhat of an obligation to answer it.

I probably should have been more clear but I’m referring to the flaps on the dust jackets of books. And, as a general rule, I [...]

Booking Through Thursday: One question

If you could ask your favorite author (alive or dead) one question … who would you ask, and what would the question be?

Sorry, but I can’t resist making this like asking the genie from the bottle for more wishes with your one wish. So, I’d say to Kurt Vonnegut, “Why don’t we chat over [...]

Booking Through Thursday: Weeding

When’s the last time you weeded out your library? Do you regularly keep it pared down to your reading essentials? Or does it blossom into something out of control the minute you turn your back, like a garden after a Spring rain?

Or do you simply not get rid of books? At all? (This would have [...]

Booking Through Thursday: Recently serious

What’s the most serious book you’ve read recently?

Again, I’m too picky with words as my response depends on the definition of “serious.”

I consider the just-reviewed The Challenge a serious book because it deals with serious issues. If the term is meant in a more cerebral context, then it would probably be Society [...]