July 2010
I have decided that reading is a sport for any weather. This week the temperatures in New York spiked somewhere around 103, and thus turning pages indoors won out over a lot of outdoor activities, though floating in an oversized tube in the pool was pretty nice, too. I still want someone to calculate how many pages one needs to turn to shed one pound --- and how fast one needs to turn them. I do think reading is my favorite sport --- think of the exercise that my mind gets from it!
Do you ever re-read classic titles on your own or with your group?
July 1, 2010, 521 voters
In today's guest post, author Christopher Nicholson shares his love elephants. If you loved WATER FOR ELEPHANTS (and who didn't) you'll want to read THE ELEPHANT KEEPER and get to know these incredible animals the way Christopher has.
In today's guest post, African-born poet and author Lola Shoneyin talks about her fiction debut, THE SECRET LIVES OF BABI SEGI’S WIVES. The book is an eye-opening novel of polygamy in modern-day Nigeria and Lola shares her views here about the importance of women's friendships and how survival and distrust can deprive women of this vital support.
I am in the process of downsizing and am having to think long and hard about my books. I mean after all, I'm sure you can understand, I love my books. And I have a lot of them.
I have been collecting books since college which was longer ago than I'd care to admit and I even have some from before that. And now I'm having to evaluate my collection and try to narrow it down to the most important ones to keep.
In today's post regular contributor Jamie Layton shares her choices for the beach this year.
Click here to read Carol's op-ed piece "Libraries and Librarians Are Endangered Species: What You Can Do to Help" from The Huffington Post...
