There are new essays and arguments out about why people read 'bad books' instead of Franzen, Proloux, Hemingway, Proust, etc for pleasure. Some people think its because people don't have 'access' to good books (which I disagree with, how could you be conscious in the last 12 months and not know that The Corrections was coming out?) Some people are ( Read more... )

So, the library at my school has a bookcase full of like, galleys and paperbacks that you can read in the lounge or take with you. Mostly there are a lot of thirllers and mysteries, mixed in with other odd stuff. I am going to love this bookshelf, I think ( Read more... )