Any second now, MeMe Smith and Larry Thornton will finish the first hour of reading that day’s editions of the Omaha World-Herald and the Lincoln Journal Star on Radio Talking Book Service.“It is time for our star across the glass here, Ryan, to take over the mic because we’re goin...
I checked in at the Booking Through Thursday blog, which is the host for a weekly book meme or blogging prompt. Here is this week’s prompt: Have your reading habits changed since you were a child? (I mean, I’m assuming you have less time to read now, but …) Did you devour and...
Filed under:American Literature,Books,Contemporary Literature,Reading| Tagged:American Literature,Books,Literature,Rona Jaffe,The Best of Everything|Leave a comment » I checked in at the Booking Through Thursday blog, which is the host for a weekly book meme or blogging prompt. Here is this we...
As the projects I tackled got bigger, I had to be more resourceful. One day in history class after reading about early American inventions, I decided to learn how to use a Spinning Jenny. When my parents unsurprisingly refused to waste $500 on an 18th century spinning wheel, I got to w...
“Toryspotting”. It was produced by the Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers Union, he says, the legacy of some bygone industrial action. While Welsh would doubtless have supported the cause, it’s hard to escape the idea thatTrainspottinghas now become a meme: overused to the point of ...
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It’s down time, reading time, and nature time. In Hong Kong and Bangkok, I found my reading haven in a couple bookstores that appeal not only to book lovers. I like the way these bookstores are decked out like a museum, with a touch of scholarly. I enjoy the open layout consider...
She made suggestion of extracurricular reading and encouraged me to scribble down my thoughts. As you see, the effective to make children read is to show them how cool it is to read. Filed under: Blogging, Book Blogging, Books, Meme, Memory Lane, Personal | Tagged: Books, Meme, Musing...
The weekend turns badly awry when the local newspaper editor, Mick Cambrey, was found dead in his cottage—hit in the head and castrated. The cottage rummaged and money taken, evidence points to murder-robbery; but soon it is revealed that Cambrey lived a double life. On the pretext of fu...
An Asian man in his late 20s settled into the table next to mine and started reading his paper. Strangely, I noticed that he covered up the outside of what obviously seemed to be a Chinese newspaper with the San Francisco Chronicle. I kept my surveillance on him through the corner of ...