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Read A Koran Day
"Where they burn books, they will also ultimately burn people." -- Heinrich Heine ( Read more... ) -
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The Tea Party is none too secret about its tactics. This billboard in Mason, Iowa, says:
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Poem for Marian
Marian Walke, a dear friend, died on Thursday. This has rattled around my head since then. Sorry it's still rough. She was a librarian, so that's why the "book" stuff ( Read more... ) -
This LJ entry is sponsored by the letter...
Holy Comic Sans MS!! While recovering from minor surgery (just feels like major), I get this email from a friend ( Read more... ) -
books I'm reading
I'd been looking for a way to show some cool books I've been reading, and I think the Shelfari feature is cool enough way to do this, so I've signed up an will be using it. I'll try and get it to post daily in the sidebar, but it seems to want to go in its own posting just now. If I can't get it to work differently, I'll post a new version each ( Read more... ) -
indenture: slavery by other means
Word is going around about a new book, "Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II," by Douglas A. Blackmon (New York: Anchor Books, 2009). Blackmon is bureau chief in Atlanta for the Wall Street Journal, and won the Pulitzer Prize for this book. It came into the library recently, and I had a ( Read more... ) -
nestbeschmutzer
I've begun reading the work of Herta Müller, Romanian-born German author and recent Nobel Prize winner. She's known for her rather bleak stories about growing up in a small town under Ceauşescu. One short work, "Christina und ihre Attrappe" (Christina and her Dummy), recently published, describes her experiences in Romania after having refused to ( Read more... ) -
Life among the Microfiche
I work at a library, and at the library I spend a good deal of my work time reviewing the titles of U.S Government books and reports. Now and then the titles will be so funky I am curious enough to imagine more in them. I love it when this happens ( Read more... ) -
truth in book covers
The cover of Justine Larbalestier's new book "Liar" is generating a good deal of comment. The heroine of the book is black; the cover girl is white. Last July, Publishers Weekly's Children's Bookshelf section ran an article on the white cover girl ( Read more... )
