I found this list on a friend’s blog: It is a list created by the National Endowment for the Arts, and she writes that they claim most American adults have read only six of these hundred books. SIX! That is almost nothing. I tried to find evidence for this claim on the internets, but my [...]
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Have you read more than six of these books?
Posted in books on July 3, 2008 | 7 Comments »
The Baby-Sitters Club
Posted in books on June 27, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I stopped at a thrift store today, and started perusing the books, as I am wont to do. And much to my delighted surprise, I found a copy old copies of Baby-sitters Club books. The series was my absolute favorite when I was a kid, and when I found out a few years ago they [...]
Everything is Miscellaneous
Posted in books, cataloging, education, technology on June 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I picked up Everything is Miscellaneous to read while on vacation, and was promptly made fun of by my library school colleagues, because, apparently, it’s an assigned text in one of the cataloging classes. Well, I commend the person who’s assigning this book, because it’s really excellent. David Weinberger does a great job talking about [...]
The Phantom Tollbooth
Posted in books on April 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Ok, so this has nothing to do with libraries and the massive amount of finals work I’m doing now, but I just discovered that The Phantom Tollbooth, one of the greatest movies ever made (no, I don’t love hyperbole at all), is NOT available on DVD. This is a travesty, people. Thankfully, someone else agrees [...]
Yes, yes, time to talk about Harry Potter
Posted in books on August 1, 2007 | No Comments »
Oh man, I have been totally crap about updating this site. June, you say? No, no, I didn’t go an entire month without an update, did I? Well, I certainly didn’t go an entire month without reading. And I’m sure you’re not surprised to hear about the crazy Harry Potter obsession that was happening in [...]
Would this be an annotated bibliography?
Posted in books on June 29, 2007 | No Comments »
Last night Eunice asked me to come up with a list of books I think she should read, with brief synopses. I was instantly excited–this is exactly the kind of project I need to keep me busy this summer, as my job starts to wind down and I get ready to go back to school. [...]
Summer by Edith Wharton
Posted in books on June 27, 2007 | No Comments »
When I finished Edith Wharton’s Summer, I slammed the book shut and turned to the boy in a huff: “This ending sucks!” I’m not one of those types who always wants a happy ending, but this heroine seemed to deserve so much better. Wharton created a truly unique character, one who so perfectly reflects the [...]
Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina
Posted in books on May 29, 2007 | No Comments »
I brought Anna Karenina with me on our flight to San Francisco last weekend, thinking that only being in a confined space with no other options would bring me to read more Tolstoy. Even though a course in nineteenth-century Russian literature had completely convinced me I liked none of it, I still felt obligated to [...]
Library Thing is my new friend
Posted in books, library stuff, technology on May 11, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I’ve discovered a new toy which I’m sure I’ll spend way too much time on. I’ve always wanted to create a database of all my books, and now someone has taken all the work out of the thing for me. I love that it populates the LC data for you, and that you can also [...]
The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi
Posted in books on May 11, 2007 | No Comments »
I got The Buddha of Suburbia a few years ago, when I was taking a class in British Fiction at U Mass, but we didn’t actually get far enough in the syllabus to read it. I tried to read it a few months ago, but couldn’t get past the opening page. This week, while I [...]
