Last week in my post about Banned Books Week I mentioned a developing story regarding a London bombing associated with The Jewel of Medina, a book about Muhammad and his youngest, favorite, child-wife Aisha. I’ve been getting Google Alerts and reading as much about the controversy as I can, and am going to try to [...]
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September 29 – October 3 is the 26th annual celebration of Banned Books Week, sponsored by the American Library Association. Started in 1982, Banned Books Week was started as a response to more and more books being challenged across the country. Since then, more than 1,000 books have been challenged. As a book-lover, it’s easy [...]
I started classes for my masters last week, and from what I can tell the reading load is going to be prohibitive of me actually getting to read books and do reviews for my blog. I’ve been reading a lot of interesting things — Democracy in America by Alexis de Toqueville, and The Good Citizen [...]
For those of you that are interested, my last two stories from my summer internship at The Citizen in Hugo, MN are posted on The Citizen website. The first is “A Night Out On The Town” which is about my ride-along with the Lino Lakes Police Department for National Night Out. The second is called [...]
After reading and reviewing Blankets by Craig Thompson, I got started thinking about the differences between the genres of memoir and autobiography. I was discussing Blankets as a memoir, but a lot of the other things I’ve read call it an “autobiographical graphic novel.” Both genres have really similar qualities, but I wondered if there [...]
I missed Monday Tally last week, but hopefully some interesting articles this week will make up for that. Fat-E: The new Pixar movie goes out of its way to equate obesity with environmental collapse by Daniel Engber at Slate.com — I haven’t seen Wall-E yet, so I don’t know how accurate this critique is. Basically, [...]
Entertainment Weekly has a feature called the EW 1000: Celebrating The New Classics. One list is the EW 1000 New Classics: The 100 best reads from 1983 to 2008. Joanna at Lost in a good story is hosting a challenge related to this list — read and review six of the books on the list [...]
I just realized the title for last week’s Monday Tally was June 30, which is silly because June 30 is today. Apparently I was ahead of myself :) I don’t really have any good article this week; it was hectic with a friends wedding festivities, and I didn’t get the chance to randomly surf the [...]
This weeks Monday Tally is pretty heavy on articles from MSN, which is probably a good indication that I didn’t have as much time to randomly surf the internet as I usually do. Instead, most of the things I read came from links off my homepage, a vicious cycle of being spoon-fed articles from a [...]
Hooray, the second Monday Tally! Since I was paying attention, I have quite a few more articles and things to think about for this week. “Question of the Week: Going to journalism school – yes or no?” by Robert Niles at the Online Journalism Review — I subscribe to OJR, and read it once in [...]
