After my mother finished reading Heidi to me, I wanted her to start all over again. When she said no, I picked the book up and taught myself to…Continue readingYour first book?
Richard Nieva asks at Cnet: Why have we always dissed women in tech? He reports on the countless women whose accomplishments in science, technology, engineering and mathematics have been trivialized,…Continue readingDissing women
Every author gets them – I’ve had a couple myself – but the justifications for the grade are often remarkable.“The only people that maybe could read it, are very old…Continue readingThose one-star reviews
Not any more! Boys like pirates, science and sports. Girls like princesses, fuzzy animals, and cooking. That’s how it was at Scholastic, a major children’s publishing house, until an 8-year-old…Continue readingBoys only?
Languages change. But losing words like “Buttercup” and “Kingfisher” in favor of things like “Broadband” and “chatroom”saddens me. In Orion, Robert Macfarlane talks about an edition of the Oxford Junior…Continue readingDisappearing words
Distractify offers us: 20 Of History’s Most Brilliant Minds And Their Drug Of Choice Lots of famous names here: Vincent van Gogh – Absinthe and Digitalis, Sigmund Freud – cocaine,…Continue readingBrilliant junkies
Facing declining visitors and uncertainty about what to do about it, library administrators in in the Netherlands did something extraordinary, Cat Johnson writes at Dailygood.org.They tossed out traditional methods of…Continue readingLibrary or bookstore?
Blogger Jamie offers her: “Top Ten Books For Readers Who Like Not-So-Easy-To-Like Characters” I see a lot of discussion in book reviews and online about unlikeable characters…so often they are…Continue readingUnlikeable? Really?
When I was a little girl one in my family’s extensive collection of 45 rpm singles — remember those? turntables? vinyl? — was a record of Grieg’s Peer Gynt suite.…Continue readingI will walk with you…
Rivers have always been very important to humankind, I say in the intro to my anthology, River. They’ve been called gods. They’ve been blessed and cursed and venerated and used…Continue readingRIVER