Friday, June 29, 2007

This guy is good . . .

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Minh Le has a blog Bottom Shelf Books giving an alternative view of many of the classics of children's literature. I suspect he will be...
Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Well the things you learn. . .

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Evaline Ness was the illustrator of Sam, Bangs, and Moonshine for which she won the 1967 Caldecott Medal. It was a popular story with our ...
Thursday, June 21, 2007

The Chronicles of Narnia

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Having read the C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia as a child and enjoyed them immensely (one of those stories that take you away from y...
Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Lines from Dashiell Hammett

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The Big Knockover ". . . no more warmth in him than a hangman's rope." "The room was as black as an honest politician...

Clive James

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As he describes his site "At the moment, the contraption, built in a garden shed and first tested off the tops of small hills, is more ...
Monday, June 18, 2007

Nothing like having the wind taken out of your imperial sails

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from King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard Having just survived crossing a desert, then climbing and descending a mountain range into...

As a non-fiction reader I'm not so sympathetic to this research

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Reading Novels Linked with Increased Empathy
Sunday, June 17, 2007

RG Herge

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There is a good article on Herge, the author/illustrator of the long running Tintin stories. Unfortunately available only in abstract on-li...
Saturday, June 9, 2007

They're creepy and they're kooky

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Years ago, at Georgetown's Lauinger Library, while avoiding some study assignment or another by trawling the stacks, I stumbled across...
Friday, June 1, 2007

Words, words, words

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This caught my eye in an otherwise also interesting article, Marriage in America , in the The Economist magazine from the May 31st issue. R...