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Not a e-book worm

A friend passed along a recent study that looks at electronic bookworms. As if I didn’t know it already, I ain’t one. “Today’s e-book power buyer, someone who buys an e-book at least once a week, is a 44-year-old woman who loves romance and is spending more on buying books now than in the past.” […]

Tim June 15th, 2011 | Tags: , , , | Category: A Reading Life | One comment - (Comments are closed) | |

Explaining why I’m an illiterati

In 2009, David L. Ulin, then book editor of the LA Times, wrote a column called “The Lost Art of Reading,” a piece I noted at the time. Ulin, still a book critic with the paper, was encouraged to expand the column into a longer essay, which was published late last year as The Lost […]

Tim May 11th, 2011 | Tags: , , | Category: A Reading Life | Comments are closed | |

A library story about an old, influential friend

It’s National Library Week so I would feel remiss if I didn’t do more than simply take note of it. The theme this year is “Create Your Own Story @ Your Library” but I’m actually going to go back to an old (and increasingly older) one.

This picture is of a place where a deep […]

Tim April 14th, 2011 | Tags: , , | Category: A Reading Life | One comment - (Comments are closed) | |

Augie’s 150 Books to Read in Your Lifetime

Not sure how I missed this but, fortunately, I came across a small sign mentioning it while roaming the local B&N Sunday evening. Seems that in celebration of its sesquicentennial (150 years) last year, faculty and staff at local Augustana College came up with a list of 150 books they recommend.

Although the list […]

Tim March 15th, 2011 | Tags: , , | Category: A Reading Life | One comment - (Comments are closed) | |

A reader’s-eye view of gender in publishing decisions

There’s been quite a bit in the book blogosphere last month about statistics showing a low percentage of women being published in major literary magazines and books by women being reviewed less frequently than men. I have no reason to doubt or dispute the statistics but at the same time wonder how much of this […]

Tim March 7th, 2011 | Tags: , , , | Category: A Reading Life | 2 comments - (Comments are closed) | |
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