Sometime recently (probably over the U.S. Memorial Day weekend) Notes in the Margin went over 1,000,000 views. Since I have no idea who the 1,000,000th viewer was, I’ll thank everybody who has visited over the years since this Web site was born. Send all your friends. . .
I have now enabled comments for new posts. When I created this blog I did not enable comments because I did not have the time to moderate them. I still don’t really have the time, but I’m interested in the conversation. Since comments are moderated, it may be a (short) while before you see your
Even more than the blooming crocus, the regoldening goldfinches always mean spring to me. © 2008 by Mary Daniels Brown
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To Read or Not To Read: A Question of National Consequence [pdf] Click to access ToRead.pdf In 2004, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) published their groundbreaking report, “Reading at Risk,” which took a critical look at voluntary reading patterns and test scores, and revealed some rather dire trends along the way. November 2007
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Couples turn reading into a joint venture | csmonitor.com For most people, reading is a solitary, silent act. But some couples also turn it into a joint venture by reading aloud. Their literary equation is: 2 people 1 book = shared pleasure. Whatever the season, whatever the subject, it’s their personal version of an audiobook.No
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Back in late December I reported on the most literate cities in the U.S. Here’s some more news from the Central Connecticut State University’s report The bad news: One of the most disturbing trends is that while Americans are becoming more and more educated in terms of their time spent in school and their education
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Mailer, Paley, Vonnegut: same era, different voices – Los Angeles Times In a piece in the Los Angeles Times Morris Dickstein discusses three literary icons who died in 2007: American fiction lost three of its most warmly admired figures this year, all dead at the age of 84 after long careers. Critics love the idea
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Pew Internet: Information Searches That Solve Problems There’s good news for libraries in a report issued yesterday of a joint project by the Pew Internet and American Life Project and the University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign. The topic of the study was how Americans approach problems that might be linked to government: The problems covered in the
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Minneapolis Ousts Seattle as Most Literate City The folks at The Seattle Times are lamenting their city’s fall from the top spot of the annual list of most literate cities in the U.S. The rankings, originated and authored by CCSU’s [Central Connecticut State University] president John W. Miller, compare the country’s 69 biggest cities in
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I have just taken a drastic action: I deleted all previous Notes in the Margin Weblog entries in order to install and use WordPress from now on. It was quite a nostalgic moment for me. My earliest entries were from January 2002. Yes, that’s right–almost six years ago. I’m sure that just as much has
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