Tag: book

A Few Random Book Lists

“What Three Books Should You Read To Better Understand Humanity?”  (via Reddit)“What's the Most Eye-Opening Non-Fiction Book You've Ever Read?” (via Reddit)And if fiction is more to your

The Perfect Present for Everyone This Christmas

The person who designed this display obviously has a good sense of humour! 😀

My Favourite Books to Read Pace at Bedtime

Pace is two and a half now and so I thought it'd be fun to do a list of the books I like to read him at bedtime

Oh-oh: Books of the Decade

Well, the noughties aren't quite over but that hasn't stopped various “Best of the Decade” lists from starting to appear including this one of the Top 50 Books

Five Things I Learned at the Saskatchewan Publishers Group

I attended the Saskatchewan Book Awards last Saturday night and since it was the Saskatchewan Publishers Group that first got me involved with that organization, I thought this

"You Get To Decide What Has Meaning and What Doesn't, You Get To Decide What To Worship" – David Foster Wallace Commencement Address On The True Purpose of a Liberal Arts Education

Lots of good, thought-provoking stuff in this 2005 commencement speech by David Foster Wallace.  The following section especially jumped out at me knowing how Wallace would eventually kill

Friday Fun Link – Wordoid and Readability (Oct 2, 2009)

A double hit for the Friday Fun Link this week…Wordoid is a site that will generate realistic-looking but not-in-the-dictionary words.  (via Christian Bok's Twitter feed) Readability is a

The BBC Big Read

I came across this site from 2003 where the BBC Radio 2 sponsored a contest to pick the UK's 200 best loved novels.  Lots of familiar names on

Happy Banned Book Week

Banned Book Week which is held during the last week of September is the US equivalent of Canada's Freedom to Read Week which is held during the last

A Couple Interesting Ways to Analyse Individual Beatles' Popularity/Contribution Within the Group

Here's a couple very quantitative way to determine which Beatle added more to the group…– assign point values in descending order based on who wrote each of the

About Head Tale

I started this blog in 2006 when I was doing my Master of Library Science degree at the University of Western Ontario.

6,911 posts and 3,356 comments since 2006.

Topics

Categories

Monthly Archives

Archives