Excuses with a side order of links
Things have been quiet around here due to a litany of excuses: old computer finally exhausted my patience (die!), work travel, home construction project, and back out of town for a wedding. Enjoy these links while the slacking continues:
- An 11 year old girl tries to check out a library book, adults behave badly – and weirdly: “People prayed over me while I was reading it because I did not want those images in my head…”
- The Rory Gilmore Reading Project is a blog centered around the challenge of reading all of the books mentioned by Rory Gilmore. (See how you measure up with the handy Google Docs spreadsheet)
- Please think of the children and keep them away from these excerpts of the titles nominated for the Bad Sex Award
- Back to the wholesome: 50 Best Books for Boys and Young Men
- Dave Eggers haters, The Guardian says you are so last decade. ”Eggers is now mining a vein of American oral storytelling that makes him a worthy successor to the late Studs Terkel.”
- Sarah Plain’s book doesn’t have an index. So Slate made one: ”dialogue, implausibly recreated, 2, 53, 74, 151, 161, 179, 188, 217, 235, 318, 358, 375…evolution, skeptical views of, 217, use of word “Neanderthal” despite, 30, 172″
- And now I need to see New Moon.
November 20, 2009 12:08 am 2 Comments
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By Pete, November 20, 2009 @ 1:18 pm
MAYBE if Eggers keeps up his current pace for the next 40 years, then he can be mentioned in the same breath as Studs Terkel. But I’m guessing he’ll lose interest long before then.
By Dr J, November 20, 2009 @ 1:51 pm
Dave and Studs are an apple and an orange, respectively. Or maybe vice versa. But they do/did different things.