It's Freedom to Read Week and to celebrate, I'm going to do a week's worth of posts on the topic. I know a lot of librarians, writers and
Just what the world needs (and what I need too) – another blog!I've set up a blog called The Universal, mainly as a place to link-dump stories and
There are lots of lists of best opening and closing lines/paragraphs of novels. But how about a list of best opening paragraphs from academic titles? (via MetaFilter which,
In my recent blog survey, someone mentioned that one of their favourite parts of this blog is my book recommendations. Having just finished “The Logogryph: A Bibliography of
Partly inspired by the upcoming keynote speaker at the OLA SuperConference, I finally picked up “Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom“, the first novel by SF author,
Most people reading this are probably familiar with LibraryThing, a web site that allows you to easily enter and catalogue your books, see the libraries of others (including
Early in this blog's history, I came up with a little gimmick where I cover a bunch of miscellaneous things I've come across or want to talk about
“For decades, reading studies have repeatedly found that 'heavy readers' not only read more books than light readers and nonreaders but also do more of almost everything else,
“Librarians are extremely liberal and, thanks to our tax dollars, insulated from their consumers' preferences.” The National Post looks at the bias against conservative books in bookstores and
I started this blog in 2006 when I was doing my Master of Library Science degree at the University of Western Ontario.
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