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Do you feel compelled to read prize-winning (Giller/Booker/Pulitzer etc) books? Why, or why not? Is there, perhaps, one particular award that you favour? I don’t know that compelled is the right term, although I have become somewhat more attentive to them in the past couple years. I still make sure I have a copy […] Bookish Notes The American Library Association has announced its 2009 Notable Books for Adults. I’ve read two books each in the fiction and nonfiction categories, in which 11 and 12 books, respectively, earned the honor. The finalists for the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, given for the best SF book of the year, have been […] There go those activist judges again! “The prolonged honking of your car’s horn in front of your neighbor’s house in the wee hours of the morning isn’t a constitutionally protected First Amendment right.” (Via.) It isn’t enough to want to ban it, a group in Milwaukee not only wants to publicly burn a library book […] One of the most famous phrases in the Declaration of Independence is that our “unalienable” rights include “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” In today’s technological age, France’s Constitutional Council may have come up with a new take on the concept. “The internet is a fundamental human right that cannot be taken away by […] You could summarize Tim Winton’s Breath by saying it’s a novel about a two Australian teenagers who perfect their surfing skills under the tutelage of a reclusive mentor. Of course, that would be like saying Fight Club is a novel about young men in an illicit fighting club. Breath may be built around surfing […] |
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