A school librarian wrote an open letter to book publishers with her top 10 list of suggestions for them, including “Better editing,” “Give that cover a makeover,” and “Stop changing the title in different countries.” more » » »
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- Steve Hely needed to know how to write very well in order to write as miserably as he does in “How I Became a Famous Novelist.” In a satirical novel that is a gag-packed assault on fictitious best-selling fiction, Mr. Hely, who has been a writer for David Letterman and “American Dad,” takes aim at genre after genre and manages to savage them all. You are invited to trawl the mass-market fiction in your local bookstore if you think Mr. Hely is making much up.
"When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world."
-- George Washington Carver
" The meta-analysis found that, on average, students in online learning conditions performed better than those receiving face-to-face instruction."
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In a column about the importance of keeping children interested in reading over the summer, Nick Kristof listed what he called the 10 "Best Kids' Books Ever."
His column generated more than 2000 comments, which can be viewed on Kristof's blog; many readers wanted to add their own favorites, while others, as Kristof wrote in a followup blog post, "pointed out that New York Times readers are probably the last people who need the advice to get their kids reading. And the kind of books that I and others mentioned (classics, white middle class protagonists, or animals that behave like middle class white families) may not resonate quite as much among poor kids who need to read." more » » »
Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall
by Kazuo Ishiguro
In this sublime story cycle, Kazuo Ishiguro explores love, music and the passage of time. This quintet ranges from Italian piazzas to the Malvern Hills, a London flat to the “hush-hush floor” of an exclusive Hollywood hotel. Along the way we meet young dreamers, café musicians and faded stars, all at some moment of reckoning.
Gentle, intimate and witty, Nocturnes is underscored by a haunting theme: the struggle to restoke life’s romance, even as relationships flounder and youthful hopes recede.
Kazuo Ishiguro
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For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.
SunTzu
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Guys Lit Wire reports that 600 books have been sent to boys in the L.A. County juvenile justice system through their Book Fair for Boys.
Online classes coupled with classroom instruction may be more effective than traditional face-to-face teaching alone, according to an analysis of 46 studies of student performance recently released by the U.S. Department of Education (DOE).
The results were most stark at the college level, but DOE officials are looking at how to apply the findings in K-12 classrooms, potentially emphasizing e-learning over teacher-led classes.
“A computer can do as well as a professor and [is] a heck of a lot cheaper and a heck of a lot more reliable,” says Marshall Smith, senior counselor to Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. “At the post-secondary level this is a pretty powerful thing.” more » » »
