Banned Books Week on the Blogosphere

Check out Devourer of Books and The Book Lady’s Blog, they’re highlighting and reviewing Banned Books all this week in honour of Banned Books Week.  Well worth visiting their reviews (Book Lady has some great pictures with some big books, too!)
Another great post about book banning on The Drowning Machine.

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Banned Books – An Emotive Issue

I’ve been working on a project library on LibraryThing with some other members, Banned Books Library, which aims to catalogue as many banned publications, past and present, worldwide as possible.  It’s been an educational experience thus far for me.  What has surprised me more than anything is that there seems to be a strong contemporary [...]

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Tuesday Thingers: Banned Books Week

So, latest Tuesday Thingers from Boston Bibliophile is very topical as this week is Banned Books Week.  Below is the list of the most-challenged books of the 1990s straight from the ALA website. I’ve struck through the ones I’ve read and highlighted in bold those I have in my library.

Scary Stories (Series) by Alvin Schwartz
Daddy’s [...]

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LibraryThing is Hiring – Check It Out!

Oh, oh, oh how I wish I lived in Maine – lobsters and LibraryThing, what could be better.  As the UK is a bit too far afield for now (but I’m always keeping my eye out for that European opportunity ), I thought I’d draw others’ attention to the LT Blog post about [...]

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E-Books, E-Readers, Kindles and the like …

So, it being Monday and me having nothing better to occupy my mind … I was considering the whole Kindle issue.  Let’s contextualise this a bit first – I’m an iPod freak.  I never leave home without it and the more songs I can cram onto it the better!  I have bought music online in [...]

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Tuesday Thingers

Today’s Question: Favorite Authors. Who do you have named in your LT account as favorite authors? Why did you choose them? How many people share your choices? Can you share a picture of one of them?
It’s always a toughie when someone asks me to name my favourite authors – so many authors, so little time.  [...]

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Review: Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters

I have seen this book regularly described as a “lesbian classic” and, having read it, would like to take issue with the appending of “lesbian” to that phrase. This book is a big, bawdy, history-soaked classic – to try and put it into a sub-genre of classic lit does it a disservice. It belongs front [...]

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Author Bio: B.B.

B.B. was the pen-name of author and illustrator Denys Watkins-Pitchford, who was born on 25th July 1905 in Lamport, Northamptonshire.  He was home-educated until, aged 15, he left to attend Northampton School of Art.  In 1924, he moved on to attend the Royal College of Art in London and eventually ended up as an assistant [...]

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Review: The Little Grey Men by B.B.

This novel is one of the all-time great river novels – ‘Heart of Darkness’ with little folk. A quest for their long-lost brother, Cloudberry, leads Dodder and his brothers on a journey of great bravery and excitement. Cloudberry travelled upstream years before to find the source of the Folly and never returned…..
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Tuesday Thingers

Awards. Do you follow any particular book awards? Do you ever choose books based on awards? What award-winning books do you have? (Off the top of your head only- no need to look this up- it would take all day!) What’s your favorite award-winning book?
I must admit to being more than a little bit jaded [...]

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