Music is something I profess to know nothing about, but I couldn’t let April, which is National Poetry Month, slip by without mentioning this wonderful new CD by Natalie Merchant. Leave Your Sleep, Merchant’s first album since 2003, is ‘literally’ poems set to music. The CD’s official website reads
I chose works by both well-known and [...]
It’s National Poetry month people. So get out there and celebrate. Not sure how? Poets.org lists 30 ways that you can slip poetry into your daily activities. I’ve posted before about the heart healthy benefits of reading poetry. Other studies suggest that reading poetry can boost the immune system and also reduce the severity of [...]
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Unbridled Books P.S.A. from Unbridled Books on Vimeo.
What the heck is a Vook you might ask? According to a recent Washington Post article on the subject, a Vook is
– a video/book hybrid produced in part by Simon & Schuster’s Atria Books. Interspersed throughout the text are videos and links that supplement the narrative.
It’s a dizzying experience, reading Vooks. But they represent just [...]
Jeremy Gutsche of Trendhunter.com and Wired Editor Nick Thompson sat down with CNN’s Campbell Brown to discuss the future of technology and how it will affect our lives over the next 20 years. One of the trends discussed was the way in which we will read books, newspapers and magazines in the not so distant future. See my post Read A Good [...]
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Seattle has once again topped the list of America’s most literate cities, but this year Washington, D.C., edged traditional literate city powerhouse Minneapolis as a surprise runner-up. The annual study by Jack Miller, president of Central Connecticut State University, “focuses on six indicators: newspaper circulation, number of bookstores, library resources, periodical publishing resources, educational attainment [...]
In celebration of Banned Book Week…here is the link to 50 Banned Books That Everyone Should Read. A lot of my favorite books are on the list.
I’m taking off to spend some time in central Oregon with the family. Golf, bike rides, dips in the pool, long walks through the ranch…plus some book reading time in the old hammock are a few of the activities I am looking forward to. Before I leave, some follow ups to a few of my [...]
I grew up working in my dad’s grocery store so I love this newsy, back story Book Beast tidbit from best selling British thriller writer Lee Child (whose real name is Jim Grant by the way). On his promo tour for the book Gone Tomorrow, Child reveals how he came up with the name Jack [...]
Random House is celebrating the trade paperback release of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by sponsoring a Take Your Book Club To Guernsey contest. The deadline is July 31st. According to contest details, one lucky winner will travel to Guernsey with five friends from Friday October 2nd through Monday October 5th, [...]
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