Yahoo! News had this interesting story -
LONDON (Reuters) - “Greek Rural Postmen and Their Cancellation Numbers” benefited from a late surge in public support to win the title on Friday of oddest book title of the past 30 years, The Bookseller magazine said.
The book — a comprehensive record of Greek postal routes by Derek […]
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The ‘Online Edition of India’s National Magazine’, The Hindu (Hindu.com): has an interesting article about two very different libraries. Here is an excerpt:
“One was set up in 1898 and the other in 2004. One was established in the context of the freedom movement and the other started to preserve its memoirs. Both were started by […]
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John Hechinger wrote an article for Wall Street Journal.com entitled, “Problem: Boys Don’t Like to Read. Solution: Books That Are Really Gross”. Not everyone is happy about it! What do you think?
Mr. Hechinger writes:
“Publishers are hawking more gory and gross books to appeal to an elusive market: boys — many of whom would […]
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Randy Pausch, co-author of The Last Lecture, which became a bestseller after being published by Hyperion in April, died last Friday. He was 47 and had been battling pancreatic cancer.
A computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon, Pausch gave a talk last September modeled on the kind where professors are asked to pretend they are dying […]
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An interesting article appeared in the InsideHigherEd.com newsletter. It was the title caught my attention! FISH TO PROFS: STICK TO TEACHING. I could just visualize one of those mounted ’singing catfish’ talking to a group of professors! The article, of course, was more serious. The premise - “Should we […]
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Goosebumps HorrorLand #1: Revenge of the Living Dummy
Do your kids or students enjoy the Goosebumps books? If so, they will LOVE the new Website that Scholastic has created for his new ‘HorrorLand’ series. The first two books are now available.
Karen MacPherson of Scripps Howard News Service published a good article about […]
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An interesting article appeared in The Washington Post entitled, ‘Question for the Ages: What Books When?‘ The article was written by Valerie Strauss of the ‘Post’. After giving a few examples of parents being upset about books their children were reading or being read to at school she says,
‘The episodes illustrate […]
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Steve Weber of WeberBooks.com had a posting about libraries ‘Throwing good books into the dumpster‘. This IS a problem and often goes against the wishes of the librarian or media specialist. Some public library systems and school systems have policies against giving away or selling discarded books. Any experience with […]
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As I was reading Newsweek and enjoying my breakfast of ‘Chicken Fried Rice’ (seriously) I ran across an article entitled, ‘Lo Mein Street, U.S.A.‘. The heading said, ‘Americans love Chinese food. The problem is, most of what we’re eating doesn’t really come from China.’ Examples were listed:
‘Chop Suey […]
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Sara Rimer of the New York Times wrote a column entitled, Gatsby’s Green Light Beckons a New Set of Strivers. In the article she says that ‘Urban students see glimmers of their own evolving identities and dreams in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel’. The article was published on February 17, 2008.
Great Gatsby books, etc. […]
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