From a BookSwim Mailing: THIS Saturday, April 12th, is national “Drop Everything and Read” day. To celebrate, BookSwim has put together the “Drop Everything and Read” Central Park Challenge!  We’re getting out 10-20,000 (that’s THOUSAND!) people to Central Park to set aside at least 30 minutes to Drop Everything and Read!! We want to assemble  Read more »

The Thin Red Line: On Blog Catalog All (Political) Roads Lead To Canada: So it was timely that I happened on Friday to scan a copy of WAIT! Don’t Move To Canada! a strategy guide for despairing liberals to buck up, reclaim the word and the principles and reform the country by speaking out, blogging,  Read more »

I rarely do this, but since today is the first day of Banned Books Week and I just don’t have the time to write about it, I am going to link off to Alan’s post on the subject.  He wrote Free People Read Freely yesterday.   I’ve read 9 of the 10 books he lists in  Read more »

I have added "The Thin Red Line" to the Other Blogs link area.   It’s run by Alan who describes himself as: "Library drone, writer, blogger and one of the oodles and oodles of bears in the Pacific Northwest."  

How judging a book by its ‘girlie’ cover is putting boys off reading – Times Online: Attempts by parents and teachers to persuade boys to read more are being undermined by publishers whose insistence on using lurid “Barbie” pink covers on books is turning away young male readers in their droves. Wendy Cooling, of Bookstart,  Read more »