Banned Books Week 2010: Which books drew the most fire last year? – CSMonitor.com: The Christian Science Monitor reports on the past year’s book-banning efforts: In total, there were 460 challenges reported to the ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom in 2009, 410 of them books. The rest are videos, speeches, magazines, and other forms of […]
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I hate to have to do this, but the number of spam comments posted here has risen to nearly 400 a week. I am therefore disabling comments indefinitely because I just can’t afford the amount of time necessary to process this amount of stupidity.
The “reframing” power of literature comes from the story’s not being exactly the same as the reader’s story. In fitting the two together, the reader has to shift his point of view and so moves out of what seemed like an immovable and rigid framework. In this way, reading breeds tolerance and sympathy for people
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Books | Who buys books? 40-year-old women and others | Seattle Times Newspaper: Bowker, a global firm that tracks people’s book-buying habits, reports some interesting statistics about book-buying in the U.S. And, in what is no surprise at all, women make 64% of all book purchases. Article link updated 9/3/2025.
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Publishers Weekly is reporting that publisher Random House doubled its profits in the first half of 2010 because of two main factors: Stieg Larsson’s massively successful trilogy (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest): “Random has sold a combined 6.5 copies in the
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Another Weak Quarter from Borders; Expands Non-book Offerings: Watch for changes as Borders scrambles to reposition itself in the consumer world: Capital expenditures in the quarter increased to $7.7 million from $1.2 million as the company invested in digital programs and Borders said its ‘Area-e’ digital section will be opened in all stores by
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Audience Picks: Top 100 ‘Killer Thrillers’ : NPR: The results are in! The NPR audience nominated some 600 novels to our ‘Killer Thrillers’ poll and cast more than 17,000 ballots. The final roster of winners is a diverse one to say the least, ranging in style and period from Dracula to The Da Vinci Code,
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Booksellers Urged to Participate in Banned Books Week: There were 460 incidents of people attempting to ban books from libraries last year, according to the American Library Association, including a recent one where a group of parents succeeded in banning an anthology of writings by gay youth from the library of a New Jersey high
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Kindle Cost Cut to $139 as Price War Begins – NYTimes.com: Amazon is hoping to convince even casual readers that they need a digital reading device. By firing another shot in an e-reader price war leading up to the year-end holiday shopping season, the e-commerce giant turned consumer electronics manufacturer is also signaling it intends
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“The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”: casting the new film version Marjorie Kehe is reporting on The Christian Science Monitor‘s book blog that Daniel Craig has signed to portray Mikael Blomkvist, the male protagonist, in the Hollywood version of Swedish author Stieg Larsson’s book The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Meanwhile, the search continues for
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