Prior Post Update
- The Leawood, Kan., City Council Monday approved a moratorium until Oct. 20 that exempts little lending libraries from an ordinance that prohibits structures in front yards
Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes
- Quitting the Cancer Battle (“Cancer patients are betrayed by our culture’s dishonesty.”
- Hell-bent (“…one thing’s for certain: in the US, hell isn’t going up in flames anytime soon.”)
Blog Headline of the Week
Least Surprising Blog Headlines of the Week
- Donald Sterling Calls Lawyer A ‘Smartass’ During Testimony
- Donald Sterling shouts at his wife in court, calls her a pig
Most Pain-Inducing Blog Headline of the Week
Week’s Best Blog Post by a Federal Judge
- “Next term is the time for the supreme court to go quiescent – this term and several past terms have proven that the Court is now causing more harm (division) to our democracy than good by deciding hot button cases that the Court has the power to avoid. As the kids say, it is time for the Court to stfu.” (and with a link to “stfu” on Urban Dictionary)
Diagram Best Describing Me and Bookstores
Bookish Links
- How school boards are failing when books are challenged
- Shelving display as a means to save a book
- The most abandoned books of 2014
- Bookish stained glass
- George R.R. Martin has a simple message for fans who fear he will die before finishing the A Song of Fire and Ice series: f.u.
- Bookish Lists: 50 essential cult novels (I’ve read 7); 15 funny reads to keep boredom at bay.
Nonbookish Links
- The weaponization of the First Amendment
- How coffee fueled the Civil War
- Eight revolutionary events in television history
- Some of history’s worst typos
- Classic rock changes depending on where you live
Every book teaches a lesson, even if the lesson is only that one has chosen the wrong book.
Mason Cooley, City Aphorisms, Sixth Selection
I’ve read nine of them but several were way back during college days when I was especially looking for that type of literature. I recently tried to reread Stranger in a Strange Land but somehow it wasn’t as good as I thought it was many years ago. I happen to be reading now I Capture the Castle which is excellent. I also liked Stoner which I recently read for the first time.
A list of “funny reads” with no P.G. Wodehouse. How can that be!?
Oh–as a suggestion for an addition to the “cult” novels, I would submit The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey.