08.03.2011 News By the Book: Spell check can’t replace a good editor Let us now sing the praises of editors. I am the daughter of two of them, sister to one and friend of several, so I have a personal interest...
07.06.2011 News By the Book: Some savory reads for the summer I finally have an acceptable reason to dislike Philip Roth. I read “Portnoy’s Complaint” when I was a kid, because we all did, snickering at the “dirty” parts. There...
06.05.2011 News By the Book: Light reading? You won’t find it here Events pile up and tend to obliterate each other as time passes. There was a huge earthquake and tsunami in Japan and yet now that Bin Laden has been...
05.09.2011 News By the Book: Weighty books & weighty matters Books may be full of ideas, imagination, metaphors, fantasies and other such metaphysicalities, but they are also physical objects with a certain weight and heft to them. That becomes...
04.08.2011 News By the Book: Two views of the West, a century apart “Go west, young man!” said Horace Greeley, eastern newspaperman. It was the doctrine of Manifest Destiny and supposedly good advice, particularly for young men. So off they went, two...
03.14.2011 News Book Column: An imaginative meeting of minds I am part of “Imaginative Worlds,” a new book group at Floyd Memorial Library that consists of children who are 9 to 11 years old and their grown-ups, usually...
02.15.2011 News Book column: Latest news about books is not so bad Gloom and doom, woe is us, with general wailing and bemoaning (it is winter, after all) the financial difficulties of Borders bookstores. There was gnashing of teeth and groaning...
01.17.2011 News By the Book: Raise your butter beer to J.K. Rowling Start with an image of a single mother on welfare walking around Edinburgh, pushing a pram until her baby daughter falls asleep, then ducking into the nearest café to...
11.15.2010 News Column: Words on a page can provide the perfect getaway As a child, I loved to read and was often praised for being an avid reader, and yet I was also often admonished for reading too much. I was...
09.23.2010 Community Columns Appreciating the gift of reading Reading is actually some kind of miracle. I am watching one of my grandsons in the process of learning how to do it all by himself and I am...