I first started my Bibliolust posts in September 2008. That means this one would be the 48th — and I think four years is enough. It isn’t that I don’t lust after as many books. To the contrary, my use of ebook readers and increasing consumption of ebooks means it is often easier to lust. […]
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Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes We Are Alive (“…you cannot underestimate the fine power of self-loathing in all of this.”) Bookish Linkage Literacy gap between rich and poor studies widens in the summer (via) How reading makes you more human Ten books to put hair on your chest Clifford the Big […] As David Hadju documents in his excellent examination of comic books in the 1940s and 1950s, The Ten-Cent Plague, adults saw the genre as contributing to juvenile delinquency and even subverting American values. This uproar, which included U.S. Senate hearings, led to the creation of the Comic Codes Authority in 1954. Yet even before the […] Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes The Bookless Library (“Clinging to an outdated vision of libraries is in fact the best recipe for making them look hopelessly obsolescent to the men and women who control their budgets[.]”) Worthwhile Reading about Aurora One More Massacre (“The truth is made worse by the reality that no one—really […] |
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