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Too often supposed moral outrage deprives both individuals and government bodies of common sense. The latest case in point? First, a California school district removed a dictionary from all all school shelves after a parent complained about a student finding a definition of “oral sex” in it. Now, the Menifee Union School District is forming […] Tim January 26th, 2010 | Tags: banned books, Books, schools | Category: A Reading Life, Culture | Comments are closed | | You would think I would automatically hail the advent of a new interweb book review site, especially one created by a well-respected national magazine. But I can’t say The New Republic did much to entice me when it announced its new online book review, The Book. In an online letter to “Friends of Books and […] Tim January 14th, 2010 | Tags: blog, Books, Internet, journalism, Media | Category: A Reading Life, Blog/Internet | One comment - (Comments are closed) | | I was so intrigued by Daniel Immerwahr’s creation, The Books of the Century website, that I decided to launch a reading challenge based on it. Immerwhar has compiled a list for each year of the 20th Century based on The top ten bestsellers in fiction, as recorded by Publishers Weekly; The top ten bestsellers in […] Tim January 11th, 2010 | Tags: Books of the Century challenge, reading challenges | Category: A Reading Life | One comment - (Comments are closed) | | The numbers will finish off the end of the year book-related posts. I’ve been keeping a book diary since the beginning of 1976. This year I reached a record number of books read, 111. That figure is tempered by the reverse of what affected last year’s numbers. Just as my 2008 reading included a few […] Tim January 1st, 2010 | Tags: bibliolust, biography, Books, history, memoir, nonfiction, world literature | Category: A Reading Life | One comment - (Comments are closed) | | It just seems appropriate that the first post of the new year should be about my bibliolust. I should note, though, that while I don’t make New Year’s resolutions (other than to resolve not to make them), my goal this year is to read 50 percent more than the number of books I buy. I […] Tim January 1st, 2010 | Tags: bibliolust, Books | Category: A Reading Life | Comments are closed | | |
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