Books About Reading
The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World bởi A.J. Jacobs
Just for the heck of it, one ngày A.J. Jacobs decided to read the entire Encyclopedia Britannica, all thirty-two volumes. Surprisingly his details about his adventure is quite amusing and he does share some very interesting tidbits from the EB. hoặc as Jon Stewart says: "The Know-It-All is a hilarious book and quite impressive achievement. I've always said, why doesn't someone put out a less complete version of the encyclopedia? Well done, A.J."
Reading Lolita in Tehran bởi Azar Nafisi
I know I have previously recommended this book in my link soapbox bài viết but besides her memories about living in Iran during the Islamic Revolution, Nafisi offers amazingly insightful analysises on Lolita, The Great Gatsby, and Daisy Miller. I wish I could have had Nafisi as my Western Literature professor!
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Books About nghề viết văn & Grammar
Eats, Shoots, & Leaves bởi Lynne Truss
Would bạn expect an author, while nghề viết văn about punctuation, to bemoan the fact that she never had em bé with Aldus Mantitus the Elder (1450-1515), the man who invented the italic interface and printed the first semicolon? Or, that she has an obsession with Warner Brothers' Two Weeks Notice and how it is missing an apostrophe - and she really wants to add it in? bạn might not have expected it, but that is what bạn get with Lynne Truss's (or is it Truss' ?) Eats, Shoots & Leaves. I certainly didn't expect to snort loudly from laughing so hard while đọc the book. And now for the joke that inspires the title.
A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and proceeds to ngọn lửa, chữa cháy it at the other patrons.
"Why?" asks the confused, surviving waiter amidst the carnage, as the panda makes towards the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wild-life manual and tosses it over his shoulder.
"Well, I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up."
The waiter turns to the relevant entry in the manual and, sure enough, finds an explanation. "Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots, and leaves."
Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who tình yêu sách and for Those Who Want to Write Them bởi Francine Prose
"In this excellent guide, Prose explains exactly what she means bởi close reading, drawing attention to the brick and mortar of outstanding narratives: words, sentences, paragraphs, character, dialogue, details, and more. In the process, she does no less than escort readers to a heightened level of appreciation of great literature. Many will want to go to the shelves to read again, hoặc for the first time, the sách she discusses. And to aid them, she thoughtfully adds a danh sách at the end: sách to Be Read Immediately." -From School thư viện Journal
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Books About Censorship
Killed Cartoons: Casualties from the War on Free Expression, edited bởi David Wallace. I first learnt of this book from NPR (link) and I was instantly interested. A book full of hoạt hình that never ran in newspapers because people (editors) were too afraid that readers and/or advertisers would protest it? What really is fascinating besides seeing hoạt hình that bạn would have never seen otherwise is the accompanying text to each cartoon: either the cartoonist describes the evolution of its creation hoặc the editorial describes why it was killed. Truthfully, some hoạt hình might make bạn think "Yeah, I can see why it didn't make the paper". But others will leave bạn baffled to the problem, which leads to the ultimate difficulty of censorship.
Cartoon subjects included in Killed Cartoons range from sex, violence, 9-11, race, and everything else inbetween. I will now include one such "killed cartoon", an example of a comic that I understand why it wasn't printed (too soon after the attacks) but also find satirically clever.
Places I Never Meant to Be: Original Stories bởi Censored Writers, edited bởi Judy Blume. A collection of original short stories written bởi authors whose works were challenged hoặc banned in the past. Authors include Norma cáo, fox Mazer, Julius Lester, Katherine Paterson, and Jacqueline Woodson. Sales went to benefit the National Coalition Against Censorship.
And in respond to this last recommendation, below is a danh sách of commonly challenged and banned sách from American Libaries, as reported bởi the ALA. The ALA (American thư viện Association) dedicates a week every năm to Banned sách but feel free to check out any of these any time and see what the hullabalu is all about. It truly is amazing to look at the danh sách of Challenged sách and see which ones people have issue with. Titles in bold are the ones that REALLY surprise me (mostly because I have read and enjoyed them).
The 100 Most Frequently Challenged sách of 1990–2000
1. Scary Stories (Series) bởi Alvin Schwartz
2. Daddy’s Roommate bởi Michael Willhoite
3. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings bởi Maya Angelou
4. The Sô cô la War bởi Robert Cormier
5. The Adventures of huckleberry Finn bởi Mark Twain
6. Of Mice and Men bởi John Steinbeck
7. Forever bởi Judy Blume
8. Bridge to Terabithia bởi Katherine Paterson
9. Heather Has Two Mommies bởi Leslea Newman
10. The Catcher in the Rye bởi J.D. Salinger
11. The Giver bởi Lois Lowry
12. My Brother Sam is Dead bởi James lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
13. It’s Perfectly Normal bởi Robie Harris
14. Alice (Series) bởi Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
15. Goosebumps (Series) bởi R.L. Stine
16. A ngày No Pigs Would Die bởi Robert Newton Peck
17. The Color Purple bởi Alice Walker
18. Sex bởi Madonna
19. Earth’s Children (Series) bởi Jean M. Auel
20. The Great Gilly Hopkins bởi Katherine Paterson
21. In the Night phòng bếp, nhà bếp bởi Maurice Sendak
22. The Witches bởi Roald Dahl
23. A Wrinkle in Time bởi Madeleine L’Engle
24. The New Joy of Gay Sex bởi Charles Silverstein
25. Go Ask Alice bởi Anonymous
26. The Goats bởi Brock Cole
27. The Stupids (Series) bởi Harry Allard
28. Công chúa Anastasia Krupnik (Series) bởi Lois Lowry
29. Final Exit bởi Derek Humphry
30. Blubber bởi Judy Blume
31. Halloween ABC bởi Eve Merriam
32. Julie of the Người sói bởi Jean Craighead George
33. Kaffir Boy bởi Mark Mathabane
34. The Bluest Eye bởi Toni Morrison
35. What’s Happening to my Body? Book for Girls: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Daughters bởi Lynda Madaras
36. Fallen thiên thần bởi Walter Dean Myers
37. The Handmaid’s Tale bởi Margaret Atwood
38. The Outsiders bởi S.E. Hinton
39. The Pigman bởi Paul Zindel
40. To Kill a Mockingbird bởi Harper Lee
41. We All Fall Down bởi Robert Cormier
42. Deenie bởi Judy Blume
43. Flowers for Algernon bởi Daniel Keyes
44. Annie on my Mind bởi Nancy Garden
45. Beloved bởi Toni Morrison
46. The Boy Who Mất tích His Face bởi Louis Sachar
47. vượt qua, cross Your Fingers, Spit in Your Hat bởi Alvin Schwartz
48. Harry Potter (Series) bởi J.K. Rowling
49. Cujo bởi Stephen King
50. James and the Giant đào bởi Roald Dahl
51. A Light in the Attic bởi Shel Silverstein
52. Ordinary People bởi Judith Guest
53. American Psycho bởi Bret Easton Ellis
54. Công chúa tóc xù New World bởi Aldous Huxley
55. Sleeping Beauty Trilogy bởi A.N. Roquelaure (Anne Rice)
56. Bumps in the Night bởi Harry Allard
57. Asking About Sex and Growing Up bởi Joanna Cole
58. What’s Happening to my Body? Book for Boys: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Sons bởi Lynda Madaras
59. The Anarchist Cookbook bởi William Powell
60. Are bạn There, God? It’s Me, Margaret bởi Judy Blume
61. Boys and Sex bởi Wardell Pomeroy
62. Crazy Lady bởi Jane Conly
63. Athletic Shorts bởi Chris Crutcher
64. Killing Mr. Griffin bởi Lois Duncan
65. Fade bởi Robert Cormier
66. Guess What? bởi Mem cáo, fox
67. Slaughterhouse-Five bởi Kurt Vonnegut
68. Lord of the Flies bởi William Golding
69. Native Son bởi Richard Wright
70. Women on Top: How Real Life Has Changed Women’s Fantasies bởi Nancy Friday
71. Curses, Hexes and Spells bởi Daniel Cohen
72. On My Honor bởi Marion Dane Bauer
73. The House of Spirits bởi Isabel Allende
74. Jack bởi A.M. Homes
75. Arizona Kid bởi Ron Koertge
76. Family Secrets bởi Norma Klein
77. Mommy Laid An Egg bởi Babette Cole
78. Bless Me, Ultima bởi Rudolfo A. Anaya
79. Where Did I Come From? bởi Peter Mayle
80. The Face on the sữa Carton bởi Caroline Cooney
81. Carrie bởi Stephen King
82. The Dead Zone bởi Stephen King
83. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer bởi Mark Twain
84. Song of Solomon bởi Toni Morrison
85. Always Running bởi Luis Rodriguez
86. Private Parts bởi Howard Stern
87. Where’s Waldo? bởi Martin Hanford
88. Summer of My German Soldier bởi Bette Greene
89. Tiger Eyes bởi Judy Blume
90. Little Black Sambo bởi Helen Bannerman
91. Pillars of the Earth bởi Ken Follett
92. Running Loose bởi Chris Crutcher
93. Sex Education bởi Jenny Davis
94. Jumper bởi Steven Gould
95. Christine bởi Stephen King
96. The Drowning of Stephen Jones bởi Bette Greene
97. That Was Then, This is Now bởi S.E. Hinton
98. Girls and Sex bởi Wardell Pomeroy
99. The Wish Giver bởi Bill Brittain
100. Jump Ship to Freedom bởi James lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World bởi A.J. Jacobs
Just for the heck of it, one ngày A.J. Jacobs decided to read the entire Encyclopedia Britannica, all thirty-two volumes. Surprisingly his details about his adventure is quite amusing and he does share some very interesting tidbits from the EB. hoặc as Jon Stewart says: "The Know-It-All is a hilarious book and quite impressive achievement. I've always said, why doesn't someone put out a less complete version of the encyclopedia? Well done, A.J."
Reading Lolita in Tehran bởi Azar Nafisi
I know I have previously recommended this book in my link soapbox bài viết but besides her memories about living in Iran during the Islamic Revolution, Nafisi offers amazingly insightful analysises on Lolita, The Great Gatsby, and Daisy Miller. I wish I could have had Nafisi as my Western Literature professor!
-----------------------------------------------
Books About nghề viết văn & Grammar
Eats, Shoots, & Leaves bởi Lynne Truss
Would bạn expect an author, while nghề viết văn about punctuation, to bemoan the fact that she never had em bé with Aldus Mantitus the Elder (1450-1515), the man who invented the italic interface and printed the first semicolon? Or, that she has an obsession with Warner Brothers' Two Weeks Notice and how it is missing an apostrophe - and she really wants to add it in? bạn might not have expected it, but that is what bạn get with Lynne Truss's (or is it Truss' ?) Eats, Shoots & Leaves. I certainly didn't expect to snort loudly from laughing so hard while đọc the book. And now for the joke that inspires the title.
A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and proceeds to ngọn lửa, chữa cháy it at the other patrons.
"Why?" asks the confused, surviving waiter amidst the carnage, as the panda makes towards the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wild-life manual and tosses it over his shoulder.
"Well, I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up."
The waiter turns to the relevant entry in the manual and, sure enough, finds an explanation. "Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots, and leaves."
Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who tình yêu sách and for Those Who Want to Write Them bởi Francine Prose
"In this excellent guide, Prose explains exactly what she means bởi close reading, drawing attention to the brick and mortar of outstanding narratives: words, sentences, paragraphs, character, dialogue, details, and more. In the process, she does no less than escort readers to a heightened level of appreciation of great literature. Many will want to go to the shelves to read again, hoặc for the first time, the sách she discusses. And to aid them, she thoughtfully adds a danh sách at the end: sách to Be Read Immediately." -From School thư viện Journal
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Books About Censorship
Killed Cartoons: Casualties from the War on Free Expression, edited bởi David Wallace. I first learnt of this book from NPR (link) and I was instantly interested. A book full of hoạt hình that never ran in newspapers because people (editors) were too afraid that readers and/or advertisers would protest it? What really is fascinating besides seeing hoạt hình that bạn would have never seen otherwise is the accompanying text to each cartoon: either the cartoonist describes the evolution of its creation hoặc the editorial describes why it was killed. Truthfully, some hoạt hình might make bạn think "Yeah, I can see why it didn't make the paper". But others will leave bạn baffled to the problem, which leads to the ultimate difficulty of censorship.
Cartoon subjects included in Killed Cartoons range from sex, violence, 9-11, race, and everything else inbetween. I will now include one such "killed cartoon", an example of a comic that I understand why it wasn't printed (too soon after the attacks) but also find satirically clever.
Places I Never Meant to Be: Original Stories bởi Censored Writers, edited bởi Judy Blume. A collection of original short stories written bởi authors whose works were challenged hoặc banned in the past. Authors include Norma cáo, fox Mazer, Julius Lester, Katherine Paterson, and Jacqueline Woodson. Sales went to benefit the National Coalition Against Censorship.
And in respond to this last recommendation, below is a danh sách of commonly challenged and banned sách from American Libaries, as reported bởi the ALA. The ALA (American thư viện Association) dedicates a week every năm to Banned sách but feel free to check out any of these any time and see what the hullabalu is all about. It truly is amazing to look at the danh sách of Challenged sách and see which ones people have issue with. Titles in bold are the ones that REALLY surprise me (mostly because I have read and enjoyed them).
The 100 Most Frequently Challenged sách of 1990–2000
1. Scary Stories (Series) bởi Alvin Schwartz
2. Daddy’s Roommate bởi Michael Willhoite
3. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings bởi Maya Angelou
4. The Sô cô la War bởi Robert Cormier
5. The Adventures of huckleberry Finn bởi Mark Twain
6. Of Mice and Men bởi John Steinbeck
7. Forever bởi Judy Blume
8. Bridge to Terabithia bởi Katherine Paterson
9. Heather Has Two Mommies bởi Leslea Newman
10. The Catcher in the Rye bởi J.D. Salinger
11. The Giver bởi Lois Lowry
12. My Brother Sam is Dead bởi James lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
13. It’s Perfectly Normal bởi Robie Harris
14. Alice (Series) bởi Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
15. Goosebumps (Series) bởi R.L. Stine
16. A ngày No Pigs Would Die bởi Robert Newton Peck
17. The Color Purple bởi Alice Walker
18. Sex bởi Madonna
19. Earth’s Children (Series) bởi Jean M. Auel
20. The Great Gilly Hopkins bởi Katherine Paterson
21. In the Night phòng bếp, nhà bếp bởi Maurice Sendak
22. The Witches bởi Roald Dahl
23. A Wrinkle in Time bởi Madeleine L’Engle
24. The New Joy of Gay Sex bởi Charles Silverstein
25. Go Ask Alice bởi Anonymous
26. The Goats bởi Brock Cole
27. The Stupids (Series) bởi Harry Allard
28. Công chúa Anastasia Krupnik (Series) bởi Lois Lowry
29. Final Exit bởi Derek Humphry
30. Blubber bởi Judy Blume
31. Halloween ABC bởi Eve Merriam
32. Julie of the Người sói bởi Jean Craighead George
33. Kaffir Boy bởi Mark Mathabane
34. The Bluest Eye bởi Toni Morrison
35. What’s Happening to my Body? Book for Girls: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Daughters bởi Lynda Madaras
36. Fallen thiên thần bởi Walter Dean Myers
37. The Handmaid’s Tale bởi Margaret Atwood
38. The Outsiders bởi S.E. Hinton
39. The Pigman bởi Paul Zindel
40. To Kill a Mockingbird bởi Harper Lee
41. We All Fall Down bởi Robert Cormier
42. Deenie bởi Judy Blume
43. Flowers for Algernon bởi Daniel Keyes
44. Annie on my Mind bởi Nancy Garden
45. Beloved bởi Toni Morrison
46. The Boy Who Mất tích His Face bởi Louis Sachar
47. vượt qua, cross Your Fingers, Spit in Your Hat bởi Alvin Schwartz
48. Harry Potter (Series) bởi J.K. Rowling
49. Cujo bởi Stephen King
50. James and the Giant đào bởi Roald Dahl
51. A Light in the Attic bởi Shel Silverstein
52. Ordinary People bởi Judith Guest
53. American Psycho bởi Bret Easton Ellis
54. Công chúa tóc xù New World bởi Aldous Huxley
55. Sleeping Beauty Trilogy bởi A.N. Roquelaure (Anne Rice)
56. Bumps in the Night bởi Harry Allard
57. Asking About Sex and Growing Up bởi Joanna Cole
58. What’s Happening to my Body? Book for Boys: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Sons bởi Lynda Madaras
59. The Anarchist Cookbook bởi William Powell
60. Are bạn There, God? It’s Me, Margaret bởi Judy Blume
61. Boys and Sex bởi Wardell Pomeroy
62. Crazy Lady bởi Jane Conly
63. Athletic Shorts bởi Chris Crutcher
64. Killing Mr. Griffin bởi Lois Duncan
65. Fade bởi Robert Cormier
66. Guess What? bởi Mem cáo, fox
67. Slaughterhouse-Five bởi Kurt Vonnegut
68. Lord of the Flies bởi William Golding
69. Native Son bởi Richard Wright
70. Women on Top: How Real Life Has Changed Women’s Fantasies bởi Nancy Friday
71. Curses, Hexes and Spells bởi Daniel Cohen
72. On My Honor bởi Marion Dane Bauer
73. The House of Spirits bởi Isabel Allende
74. Jack bởi A.M. Homes
75. Arizona Kid bởi Ron Koertge
76. Family Secrets bởi Norma Klein
77. Mommy Laid An Egg bởi Babette Cole
78. Bless Me, Ultima bởi Rudolfo A. Anaya
79. Where Did I Come From? bởi Peter Mayle
80. The Face on the sữa Carton bởi Caroline Cooney
81. Carrie bởi Stephen King
82. The Dead Zone bởi Stephen King
83. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer bởi Mark Twain
84. Song of Solomon bởi Toni Morrison
85. Always Running bởi Luis Rodriguez
86. Private Parts bởi Howard Stern
87. Where’s Waldo? bởi Martin Hanford
88. Summer of My German Soldier bởi Bette Greene
89. Tiger Eyes bởi Judy Blume
90. Little Black Sambo bởi Helen Bannerman
91. Pillars of the Earth bởi Ken Follett
92. Running Loose bởi Chris Crutcher
93. Sex Education bởi Jenny Davis
94. Jumper bởi Steven Gould
95. Christine bởi Stephen King
96. The Drowning of Stephen Jones bởi Bette Greene
97. That Was Then, This is Now bởi S.E. Hinton
98. Girls and Sex bởi Wardell Pomeroy
99. The Wish Giver bởi Bill Brittain
100. Jump Ship to Freedom bởi James lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier