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- The interwebs are full of tributes to Ray Bradbury. I will offer just a remembrance. Of the hundreds of books I’ve read in my life, I can still remember sitting and reading The Illustrated Man in a particular room in my long since razed junior high school.
Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes
- Is there any reason to read? (“Since the beginning of time … we have known that words are dangerous creatures.”)
Blog Headline of the Week
Blog Line of the Week
- If Google Translate and other online translation programs got their start in the Cold War era for spy purposes, then by god it is amazing our world still exists at all.
Bookish Linkage
- Sister Farley’s revenge
- A reviewer’s rant
- But is there a race issue in book reviews?
- How Texas inflicts bad textbooks on us
Nonbookish Linkage
- How the internet killed porn
- Do comics rot the brain?
You can’t have a civilization without [reading], can you? If you can’t read and write you can’t think.
Ray Bradbury, Salon.com
