31-Day Blog Challenge — THE END People take to blogging for different reasons at different times in their cyberlives. Sometimes the blog evolves with the person; sometimes the blog stops…Continue readingWhy do I blog?
Libraries are seen as fortresses protecting us from ignorance. In Doctor Who there ia a planet-sized library, a whole world devoted to the storage of ideas and history, which seems…Continue readingOf what use is a library?
31-Day Blog Challenge, #30 WHERE HAVE YOU TRAVELED Oh, it’s almost a Roy Batty moment, this. “I’ve… seen things you people wouldn’t believe… All those… moments… will be lost in…Continue readingMy Roy Batty moment
Some books are slightly more ‘guilty pleasure’ than ‘classic literature’, Buzzfeed says, and offers 30 examples. Well, a lot more actually since so many of them are series. The Princess…Continue readingCan ‘Guilty Pleasure’ books be awesome?
…and Still Couldn’t Get Any Respect In 1881, Edward Charles Pickering, director of the Harvard Observatory…fired his male assistant and replaced him with his maid, Williamina Fleming. So began an…Continue readingThe Women Who Mapped the Universe…
Author James Patterson plans to give a million dollars to independent bookstores and Shelf Awareness asked him why. “I’ve become very concerned about the reading habit in America. I think…Continue readingWhy is he giving $1 million to Indies?
Books can transport readers to faraway lands simply through the power of language, Mail-Oline says, and some novels can transport their fans in reality, too. A survey found that we…Continue readingTraveled to any good books lately?
Nearly a century after the Hindenburg exploded in flames, ending the dirigible era, one company may have finally figured out how to build one suitable for the 21st century. Their…Continue readingA dragon takes to the air