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It has to be their reputation that makes me hesitate to say publicly that I registered for my first sci-fi convention this past week. It’s Readercon 18, held each July near Boston.
Now I haven’t gone off the deep end. I am told this isn’t one of those conventions where people show up dressed as […]
The shortlist for the National Book Critics Circle awards — which Amazon’s blog calls one of the “three big U.S. book awards” and in which I actually participate — were announced yesterday. The impact of my votes is about as I suspected.
None of my votes in nonfiction, autobiography or biography made the shortlist. In […]
I’m not quite sure the source of the trend, but I have started and then put down more books in the two weeks of this year than I did all of last year. And to top it off, of the two books I have read, one of them took me far longer than it normally […]
I’m a tad behind on this but the South Dakota Center for the Book has again received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts for The Big Read. The program seeks to encourage communities to read and discuss one book. This year’s selected book for South Dakota is Willa Cather’s My Antonia.
Last […]
While I don’t generally follow the blogs of conservatives, there are exceptions. The latest is the addition of Jon Swift’s blog to the blogroll.
Although I’d come across it before, the addition stems largely because Jon e-mailed and reminded me I had not mentioned a recent news item. Specifically, libraries in Fairfax County, Virginia, are […]
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