This week’s Top Ten list from The Broke and the Bookish is my Top Ten Favorite New-To-Me Authors I Read In 2012. James Geary- I love books about language, and The World in a Phrase: A History of Aphorisms clued me in to other books by this author. Alice Ozma- I highly recommend The Reading Promise: My Father and … Continue reading »
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This week’s TBR stack- 12/10/2012
A new regular feature on Shelf Discoveries is This Week’s TBR (To Be Read) Stack. This is usually composed of books I need to read for homeschool or education related purposes, those I pick up on impulse or because I’m on a ‘bend’, sometimes I get the urge to re-read a book for some reason, … Continue reading »
Book spine poetry
I think I first heard about book spine poetry listening to a Books on the Nightstand podcast. Every time I looked at my shelves after that, I’d see if I could put something together from books that were in the same area. I finally got around to taking pictures of the ones I liked best. … Continue reading »
“Crater” by Homer Hickam
If while reading this novel you think to yourself, “I believe this author knows a thing or two about the mining industry”, you’d be right. He also knows a thing or two about the moon, having been a NASA engineer responsible for training astronauts for various missions. He’s Homer Hickam, author of Rocket Boys, known … Continue reading »
What lies between your child and the mass media?
There was a time when there were a few layers between a child and the books they chose. There was the teacher, the school librarian and/or the local librarian, and parents. Most families had one, maybe two radios in the house, as well as the one in the car, which Dad controlled without question. The … Continue reading »
Top Ten Books in My Fall TBR Pile
There are books on my To Be Read list in nearly every room of the house- on tables, shelves, or an ottoman. A newly released cookbook from the library rests on the kitchen counter, homeschool reading is on the table in the downstairs schoolroom, there’s fiction on the nightstand, and nonfiction in my office area. … Continue reading »
If it was a movie, it would be rated “R”
During my extended venture into YA territory, I’ve noticed how many obscenities, profanities, and sexual situations are present in books marketed to the age 9+ demographic. I must concur with this article in TIME magazine that many YA novels would be rated R if they were movies instead of books. Brigham Young University professor Sarah … Continue reading »
