Plans are ramping up for the ninth annual National Book Festival in Washington, D.C., which will take place on September 26. For 2009, the Library of Congress and the National Children’s Book and Literary Alliance have teamed up with 18 children’s book authors and illustrators for a special presentation entitled The Exquisite Corpse Adventure, an […]
Books for Dudes: Dog Day Bildungsromans It is late summer, and my dude’s mind naturally turned to that beloved (and just as often maligned) category of coming-of-age novels. Turns out there’s a special term for them: Bildungsroman, which I ran across in Saul Bellow’s The Adventures of Augie March. According to the Modern Oracle, Wikipedia, […]
From David Feith at the Wall Street Journal Speaking Truth to PowerPoint Dunkin’ Donuts insists that “America runs on Dunkin’.” Actually, America runs on PowerPoint. Slide, by slide, by slide. But maybe we shouldn’t. Maybe—while we reconsider how we bank, manufacture cars, emit carbon and visit the doctor—we should also rethink how we PowerPoint. Maybe […]
[Via Joanne Jacobs] The high unemployment rate has provided an unexpected boon for the nation's public schools: legions of career-switchers eager to become teachers. ... read the whole article
By Nickolove Lovemore Some people spend most of their lives within their comfort zone and so limit the success they achieve. For whatever reason they're afraid to go beyond their personal edge. A friend recently admitted that although they didn't like their job, they stuck at it because "it paid the bills". Now while paying […]
"Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they will not be here tomorrow. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again." - Og Mandino
Winner of the Red House Children's Book Awards A Kid's Review fab book u can't put the book down, i have read all her other books and this is the best so far... Read a synopsis here Buy the book here
THE official number of languages spoken around the world has been boosted by the work of two Melbourne researchers, who have added 30 ‘‘new’’ languages — the most for any single country — to a list of living languages. ... more
"Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to." -- Alan Keightley …………………………………………………………………“How To Run Your Business On Auto-Pilot Toolkit” Do you want to turn your business into a cash cow that works without you? Then this powerful business pack […]
Wild Mary: The Life of Mary Wesley by Patrick Marnham Mary Wesley famously began writing at the age of 70. Her ten best-selling novels won her thousands of fans, and described a world that she had known in her youth - the world of war-time London, with its fear and high-spirits and casual sex. They created […]
