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First off, a big tip of the hat to Chris at his new Western College Hockey II blog for leading me to Hockey: Canada’s Royal Winter Game. Published in 1899, it is thought to be the first book ever written about the sport. And the author, Arthur Farrell, came with pretty good credentials for time. […]
Kudos to the Sioux Falls School District for the way it is handling a recent request that the book Give a Boy a Gun be removed from a middle school library. The book, published in 2000, tells the story of two high school sophomores who are tired of being bullied, bring an arsenal of weapons […]
It doesn’t happen all that often but I’m deep in one now. It’s the kind of rut where I just don’t get things read.
Observant visitors will notice that the same two books have been listed as “Now Reading” in the sidebar for quite a while now. Trust me. There is nothing wrong with either […]
For whatever reason, I’m in one of those funks where I can read about 5 pages of any book I pick up and realize I am paying absolutely no attention. Thus, recreational reading and book reviews are at a crawl. That leads to this post, which is something I held off on but then thought, […]
Looks like I wasn’t the only one impressed by Nobel Prize laureate Orhan Pamuk’s lecture at the awards ceremony Thursday. Encyclopedia Britannica’s Britannica Blog calls it “a rich, engaging, and moving text.” From the sublime to the borderline ridiculous or else from Turkey and literature to America and popular culture. What is this year’s […]
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