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By the time you read this, it’s likely I will have finished the novel I’m reading. And that leaves me with a bit of trepidation. That’s because I currently have three nonfiction books sitting around the house with bookmarks in various places. I can read one for a bit but then I get distracted from […] I think the fact I couldn’t get settled in with a number of books just before and after Memorial Day contributed to the abandonment of one of this month’s missteps. The other I had actually started once before and, while I made it much further this time, still couldn’t see my way to the end […] Nonfiction works constituted both the good and the abandoned this month. Abandoned: I Got a Name: The Jim Croce Story, Ingrid Croce and Jimmy Rock — Perhaps I’m too much off a stickler when it comes to nonfiction. Recreating conversations between people is somewhat acceptable in my view but when the only participants are dead, […] Tim May 1st, 2013 | Tags: Books, Hitler, Nazi Germany, nonfiction, reading, World War II | Category: A Reading Life | Comments are closed | | Each year during National Library Week, the American Library Association releases a State of America’s Libraries report. One of the highlights (or lowlights) is that it contains the Top Ten List of Most Frequently Challenged Books, compiled annually by the organization’s Office for Intellectual Freedom. So here’s this year’s “winners”, in order, and the reasons […] Tim April 16th, 2013 | Tags: banned books, Books, censorship, libraries | Category: A Reading Life, Libraries | Comments are closed | | I am a bit disappointed in myself with this month’s misstep. Enough so that I feel some need to make amends. Therefore, rather than simply identify the books that fail me in a month, I will add those that surprise me or are better than anticipated. Why am I disappointed about the one book I […] Tim April 1st, 2013 | Tags: Books, fiction, history, illiterati, reading | Category: A Reading Life | Comments are closed | | |
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