Crazy Cozy Murders (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
... I'll do another vlog or not , I think. So tell me what you think! So, I really don't know why my summer reading is always so different from my other reading. I long for quick reads in summer, books that are entertaining and - if possible - can be read within a day or less. Maybe that's because I read some rather hefty books for university?...
The Thinking Mother (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
... I realized I wanted more ideas to start implementing them in the fall of 2008. I spent that summer reading writings by other people about right-brained learners. One thing I learned was that some experts feel that ADD and ADHD kids as well as highly creative children and dyslexic labeled people often have the traits associated with the right-brained learner. This does not mean that...
Neamhspleach (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
"Unless their readers bring them back to life, books are indeed dead things." -Lawrence Clark Powell I mentioned in my update post that I want to start an e-book club. The plan so far is this: Announce what book we'll be reading (I'm taking suggestions). Give everyone a month to read it. On the last Friday of the month, I'll post my "review" of the book and...
NYU Local (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
... Facebook wall after the awkward round of pokes, or resisting the urge to hurl the required summer reading—Peter Singer’s How Are We To Live? —at the nearest household pet when you got to the chapter concerning speciesism, a theory that equates eating meat with being a Nazi, among other things. Singer was back at NYU, and considerably more down to earth, yesterday for the Sharp Lecture...
westerblog (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
... Symphony Space series is aimed at young writers. There will be a discussion, a few slides, a short reading, and a creative writing prompt. Then lots of Q&A. I’ve never done one of these, but it sounds like a cool format. Go here to buy tickets. Then I’m doing a mega-event with five other authors at Books of Wonder, here in NYC. Check this out: Tuesday, November 10 6:00PM Books of Wonder...
Below The Beltway (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
On Wednesday evening, I was fortunate to attend a forum at The Cato Institute featuring the authors of two new biographies of Ayn Rand — Jennifer Burns, author of Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right and Anne C. Heller, author of Ayn Rand and the World She Made. It was a very interesting presentation and I’m looking forward to reading both books in the near future with reviews...
