Book clubs and the Internets
The Economist reports on book clubs and the Internets.
FSRC: annual report
The Four Seasons Reading Club, our household’s two-person adventure in reading, just finished its third year.
For complete works
An anthology is, almost always, a textbook. And it is much easier to fall in love with a (whole) work of literature or philosophy than to fall in love with a textbook.
Isaac Barrow on bookishness
“He that loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter.”
FSRC: annual report
Our two-person adventure in reading, in its second year.
Nat Hentoff (1925–2017)
“I was addicted to books.”
Reaching for a book
“‘When I hear the word “Trump,”’ he said, ‘I reach for a book.’”
“Brr-r”
Nancy is right.
One or more night stands
“What night stand? I don’t have a night stand. What’s with ‘night stand’? Why do you assume that that’s where everyone keeps their books?”
Not reading
Arthur Schopenhauer: “A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short.”
FSRC: annual report
Reading together: seventeen books so far.
Reading, before and after
An excerpt from Andrew Piper’s Book Was There.
Reading surveilled
The act of reading itself is becoming data.
Donald J. Sobol (1924–2012)
Donald J. Sobol, the creator of Encyclopedia Brown, has died at the age of eighty-seven.
“In March read”
“In March read the books you’ve always meant to read”: a WPA poster.
Blue October
WPA poster: “A good time to Read!”
Banned Books Week
Celebrating the freedom to read.
“Share Curiosity. Read Together.”
With apologies to H.A. Rey, Margret Ray, and the gummint.
Most frequently challenged books
“The logic of book-banners would seem to dictate that the Penguin House itself be closed to children, no?”
Amazon Kindle with Euphemism
Amazon has introduced a cheaper Kindle with Euphemism.
For dummies
A Google search that led someone to Orange Crate Art: the mixed up files of Mrs basil e. Frankweiler for dummies.
On One Morning in Maine
Elaine Fine's favorite book from childhood
BUCK TO READING: DROP DEAD
No books in this principal's school!
Students and books
The appeal of paper
"[T]he social value of reading"
Verlyn Klinkenborg on what the iPad and Kindle do to the social value of reading
Jay Bennett (1912–2009)
He wrote one of the best books of my youth
The Streak
A father and daughter reading
Children, “best readers in the world”
Novelist Katherine Paterson on her readers
Walt Mossberg reviews the Nook
“It's not fully baked yet.”
David Pogue reviews the Nook
A “bad case of Ship-at-All-Costs-itis”