'Reading Rainbow' Reaches Its Final Chapter

The story says that NPR is shifting focus to reading basics, rather then encouraging to read books, and no one would renew the grant to fund it. What do you think?

And it seems a bit Odd -- the Complete works of Shakespeare and Hamlet? and so on. I'll look it up in BBC site later.... I believe I did pretty well until we got to foreign, recent authors. Sigh.
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Well, today we discover whether I made it to the Quarterfinals of the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Awards.  As Glee remarked, there's possibly more chance than making it onto a pro basketball team, but not much. ;-)

IF I made it, the excerpt from the novel I wrote in Nano will be available on Amazon -- and I'll be begging people to read and review ( Read more... )

nitnorth fixed the Spam filter on my primary email account, and instead of a couple of hundred messages (up to 350 one day) I'm getting 5 or so that slip through. This enables me to go unsubscribe from lists I don't want any more, and to read the other stuff without exhaustion. Hoorah. He is a god ( Read more... )

This afternoon is the day of my attempted "once a month" potluck and reading group. We had trouble finding a date this month, of course, but Sunday seemed to work this month. We'll eat, and then round-robin read "Twelfth Night ( Read more... )

Well, I put all four against one wall as you folk suggested, and my fear that that side of the room would LOOM over the living room was proved to be unfounded. Getting the Earthquake bolts in the top to help stabilize them vertically has been much harder than stabilizing them horizontally, but it's done. At least as far as I can tell ( Read more... )

I can fill a bookshelf with shelves arranged for paperbacks with 3 boxes of books. Even with a little space left for the rest of the Shakespeare books I know are coming and so on. I have one filled ( Read more... )

It's been an interesting week, and I'm going to try to catch up in fits and starts ( Read more... )

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With thanks to reynard52 and Keith Oberman....

Kurt Vonnegut died today. His Cat's Cradle was one of the first SF books I read, along with Sirens of Titan. I loved the struggle it took to read some of his work and understand them. For what he survived and how he tried to give it to all of us in his literature, even for the "sunscreen" speech he never wrote, I admired him since I bought his ( Read more... )