Archive for 'Books'
The Women’s Crusade – NYTimes.com
“The world is awakening to a powerful truth: Women and girls aren’t the problem; they’re the solution.”
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF and SHERYL WuDUNN
via The Women’s Crusade – NYTimes.com.
Parenting Tips: Praise Can Be Bad; Lying Is Normal : NPR
“Talwar has a variety of experiments where she tempts children to cheat in a game, which puts them in a position to offer real lies about their cheating. She videotapes these, too, and when she shows those videotapes to the child’s own parent — and asks, “Is your child telling the truth?” — the parents [...]
Full StoryWhy Vampires Never Die – NYTime
Great article on the history of vampires in literature and an analysis of why they never die (pun intended).
Op-Ed Contributors – Why Vampires Never Die – NYTimes.com.
I also saved it as a PDF in case the above link expires:
Why Vampires Never Die – NYTimes.com PDF
Just sayin’ …
Some E-Books Are More Equal Than Others – Pogue’s Posts Blog – NYTimes.com
The New York Time’s David Pogue, my favorite tech writer, penned this editorial regarding the Amazon’s recent “take-back” of George Orwell’s 1984 and Animal Farm.
Some E-Books Are More Equal Than Others – Pogue’s Posts Blog – NYTimes.com.
Amazon Secretly Removes “1984″ From the Kindle – Books – io9
Brave new world? Hmmm . . . I would be pissed if Apple “took back,” say, my Michael Jackson songs and videos. I was tipped to this story by my friend, Alex Crocket. Thanks, Alex!
Full StoryOn reading, from Facebook
I’d like to share a quote which I believe encapsulates the value of reading:
“In books lies the soul of the whole past time, the audible and articulate voice of the past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream.”
- New South Wales State Library, Australia.
Anty Wells (Australia) wrote
at 10:30pm [...]
Why we read what we read
Why we read what we read
This book had some interesting insights. I don’t read romance novels, with the exception of one written by a friend, a Ph.D psychologist here in Reno. It was steamy, to say the least. Lots of “aching loins,” “arching members,” etc. However, she did nail a certain feeling: lust toward a [...]
Gift of Rice
The essence of the sutras preached before the Lotus Sutra is that all phenomena arise from the mind. To illustrate, they say that the mind is like the great earth, while the grasses and trees are like all phenomena. But it is not so with the Lotus Sutra. It teaches that the mind itself is [...]
Full StoryMotel Life—Willy Vlautin
Reading Willy Vlautin’s novel, The Motel Life, was a singular experience in that I have never read anything that spoke so clearly to the underbelly of life here in Reno—a life I have experienced, albeit a couple of decades earlier than Willy, and perhaps not quite as extremely as is depicted in the novel. I [...]
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