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Illiterati status confirmed once twice again

The news this week serves as further confirmatino of my illiterati status despite how much I read.

Case in point 1: Doris Lessing wins the 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature. Nope, never read a thing by her.

Case in point 2: The finalists for the 2007 National Book Awards have been announced. I’ve read none […]

Tim October 11th, 2007 | Tags: | Category: A Reading Life | Comments are closed | |

The wacko reading interests surface again

I know I’ve posted on this before, but over the last couple days I once again began to wonder just how bizarre my reading habits might be. What brought this on is the last several books I’ve read.

In the last five books, I’ve gone from a Hugo-nominated SF novel (Eifelheim) to The End of […]

Tim October 10th, 2007 | Tags: | Category: A Reading Life | Comments are closed | |

Unread books meme

It’s sometimes good to see you aren’t alone in the number of books in your house that you just haven’t gotten around to yet. This meme started this week as is based on the top 100 (105 counting ties) books carrying an “unread” tag by LibraryThing users who use such a tag. The list is […]

Tim October 9th, 2007 | Tags: | Category: A Reading Life | One comment - (Comments are closed) | |

Celebrate Banned Books Week

Banned Books Week starts today. You shouldn’t spend it celebrating the banning of books. Celebrate the books that have been banned or the subject of banning efforts. The American Library Association has plenty of good suggestions on how to mark the week (such as putting a badge on your blog like the one at the […]

Tim September 29th, 2007 | Tags: , | Category: A Reading Life | One comment - (Comments are closed) | |

Book marginalia

The NYT asks the recurring question if technology renders books passé but I think the article answers the question. It references Amazon’s forthcoming wireless e-book reader that “will be priced at $400 to $500” and Google planning to charge for full access to digital copies of some books in its database. Throw in that […]

Tim September 6th, 2007 | Tags: | Category: A Reading Life, Miscellany/Linkage | One comment - (Comments are closed) | |
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