I’ve set out my own reading plan for 2017, but if you’d prefer a challenge with specific category descriptions to guide you, here are several. Many of these challenges offer discussion groups either on their own web sites or through Facebook pages, so you’ll be getting a book group as well as book recommendations. Here […]
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Of the 42 books I read in 2016, these are the top 15 (listed alphabetically by author): Cook, Thomas H. The Chatham School Affair du Maurier, Daphne. Rebecca French, Tana. Broken Harbor Haruf, Kent. Our Souls at Night Hawley, Noah. Before the Fall Knowles, John. A Separate Peace Plath, Sylvia The Bell Jar Stedman, M.L.
I challenged myself on Goodreads to read 40 books in 2016, and I exceeded that goal by two. Of those 42 books, some were ebooks and some were unabridged audiobooks. For those books I included in my records the number of pages in the most current print edition, and arrived at the grand total of
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Last Tuesday (12/27/2016), the day Carrie Fisher died, my Facebook feed was filled with lamentations about all the well-known people who had died in 2016. Later that day came the report of the death of Richard Adams, author of Watership Down, on Christmas Eve. And then the following day Carrie’s mother, Debbie Reynolds, died. Have
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LITERARY HUB’S BEST BOOKS OF 2016 The staff of Literary Hub offer their choices of the year’s best books in a list vastly different from typical best-seller lists. The Top 10 Library Stories of 2016 OK, this isn’t a best books list, but it IS a book-related summary of the year’s events. Great Reads An
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Can this infographic help students spot a phony news article? Test it out with your students, kids or friends and let us know in the comments. Source: News you can use: Infographic walks you through 10 questions to detect fake news | The Seattle Times Check out the PDF in this article. This exercise isn’t
She entered popular culture as a princess in peril and endures as something much more complicated and interesting. Many things, really: a rebel commander; a witty internal critic of the celebrity machine; a teller of comic tales, true and embellished; an inspiring and cautionary avatar of excess and resilience; an emblem of the honesty we
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In 2016, we said good-bye to many literary luminaries. These authors have inspired us, challenged us to think deeply, and opened windows into the lives and struggles of others. Here we remember some of the award winners, trailblazers, and creators of beloved classics whose works will stand the test of time. Source: In Memoriam: 12
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15 Incredible Movies That Started As Books How many of these have you heard of or seen? I’ve heard of nine but have only seen five. On the Merits of Annotating There’s no doubt than annotating books makes us active readers. Here’s how Anthony DeFeo writes his notes in the margin: As I read, I
