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There’s some great news in the latest reading study by the National Endowment for the Arts. “For the first time in the history of the survey — conducted five times since 1982 — the overall adult literary reading rate has risen (from 46.7 percent in 2002 to 50.2 percent in 2008).” It isn’t all necessarily […]
I’ve been in a somewhat different reading block the last few weeks. It isn’t that I don’t like the books I’m currently reading, I just can’t hold my concentration. I think that is also reflected by the shortness of last month’s and this moth’s bibliolust. Right now, there’s really only two things on my list:
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While I’d like to say I hit the century mark in books for the second year in a row, technically I can’t. The year’s total? 96, not counting the book I finished this morning, most of which I read in the waning two days of 2008. But there are ways around technicalities.
Among the […]
For the second year in a row, I regret my tradition of limiting my list of books of the year to those actually published during the year. As a result, I’ve modified a once or twice used category to lead off this year’s list. Otherwise, my list wouldn’t include the best book I read this […]
What are the most “wintery” books you can think of? The ones that almost embody Winter?
The two books that come to mind are about as diametrical as you can get.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s description of the conditions in which the gulag prisoners work in One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich has stayed […]
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