Tomorrow
One of my new favorite books is “5“, by Dan Zadra. It’s a great book for any dreamer who hasn’t yet gotten around to doing. The book isn’t just meant to be read, it’s filled with questions and activities designed Continue reading
Category Archives: Books
Blast from the Past: 100 Olin Novels
Sometime during my freshman year at Olin, the library called for submissions to create a list of 100 novels. In retrospect, I can’t recall why we felt we needed this list: lit readership was alive and well at Olin (thanks Continue reading
Google = The Ultimate Copy Protection
NEW YORK—A popular romance novelist alleged to have lifted work from other texts acknowledged that she sometimes “takes” her material “from reference books,” but added that she didn’t know she was supposed to credit her sources. “When you write historical Continue reading
The Birthday of Comon Sense
Common Sense, the pamphlet by Thomas Paine, was published this day in that most weighty of American years, 1776. IN the following pages I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense; and have no other preliminaries Continue reading
Sweetness of the Day – Swaptree
At the end of last semester, I had a giant tub of books I’d read through my four years at Olin. I didn’t want to schlep them anymore: they weren’t going to fit in my new apartment, they weighed about Continue reading
PotterMania 2007 now approaching froth-at-the-mouth levels
Pulled up the good ol’ GReader this morning, and the first three links were about Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Two were from National Public Radio, and the third from the venerable Gray Lady herself.I’m going to guess that Continue reading
Can you put a book down?
Right now, I’m struggling to finish Washington’s Spies, the topic of which (espionage in the times of the Revolutionary War) has been on my mind since I toured the International Spy Museum in DC last summer. The book is well Continue reading
A Zero-Book Balance: Part 1
Everyone’s always giving me books. And if they’re not, they’re recommending them to me. Have you read ‘The Bridge of San Luis Rey’? No, I reply. You Must! It’s a classic. What about ‘The Grapes of Wrath’? No, it’s on Continue reading