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Truly Alien

May 27, 2017

I was in Lexington, KY, in May of 1977 with my 2 younger brothers when Grandpa Wetzel dropped us off at the theater to see what he said was “Winnie-the-Pooh.”

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Politics After the Apocalypse

November 11, 2012

If all the libraries in the world were destroyed and you could save only two books of political theory, which would they be?

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Tagged With: Politics, Barack Obama
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This Bloomsday, Ulysses is Free – Yes!

June 16, 2012

Got your Guinness? Then here’s Marcella Riordan as Molly Bloom (from the highly recommended Naxos audiobook), in a final affirmation of love & life.

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What Would C.S. Lewis Read?

June 1, 2012

The books of C.S. Lewis filled me with a sense of wonder & awe, and shaped my youthful vision of what it meant to be a whole, healthy, mature, and virtuous human being. But what books shaped him?

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World Read Aloud Day: March 7, 2012 — Register Now!

February 20, 2012

On March 7, 2012, LitWorld will sponsor the third annual World Read Aloud Day, and they are hoping to reach at least a million people to help support a global literacy movement. How can you participate?

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The Feel of Books

November 1, 2011

It’s been a long time since we’ve asked questions like, “What good are paper & print for communicating ideas & stories?” And rarely, if ever, have we had reason to think of the feel of books (or for that matter, their smell) as something separate from the books themselves.

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Tagged With: Technology, Julian Barnes, embodiment, e-books, Books, Book Publishing, beauty
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So, What Percentage Would Be Appropriate?

September 9, 2011

Cue that music from 2001: A Space Odyssey.

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Seven Books of Fools & Sacred Folly

April 1, 2011

What makes a fool’s day happy? And what — if anything — makes us wise?

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Tagged With: Civility, Shakespeare, Liturgy, Holidays, History, film, Bible, April Fool
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The Kingdom of This World…

November 26, 2010

A little light for Black Friday.

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Every Title the Story of a Reader

June 9, 2010

The true measure of Donalyn Miller’s students’ reading is shown in the challenges they set themselves, the new patterns & experiences they explored, and the richness of the “you had to be there” moments they shared.

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The Play’s the Thing

May 7, 2010

That we can watch such things for free over the internet via PBS is something for which I am immensely grateful. That this is just one more story we share as a family – that’s priceless.

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Tagged With: Shakespeare, web, Stories, film
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ABCDEF GHIJKLM NOPQRS TUVWXYZ

February 27, 2010

Acrostics — lists and songs arranged alphabetically — are of course a venerable tradition, uniting the ancient author of Psalm 119 with the youngest child learning to sing the ABC Song. One could say that the alphabet is the first & primary meme, the source behind every other, a natural fit for the blogosphere.

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Tagged With: World Wide Web, WordPress, Memes, Bookstores, Alphabet, Acrostic
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