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Title: Book News and Reviews
Post by: Administrator on July 30, 2018, 12:13:54 PM
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Title: Review of the Keene book about the just finished World Chess Championship Match
Post by: josh on January 14, 2019, 11:41:48 PM
https://www.patreon.com/posts/23138934

I think the reviewer was unimpressed with the match book.
Title: Re: Book News and Reviews
Post by: barton on October 15, 2019, 01:21:51 PM
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/oct/15/harold-bloom-obituary

Ardent advocate of reading.  RIP.
Title: Re: Book News and Reviews
Post by: josh on November 10, 2019, 10:08:13 PM
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/502753/chicago-library-needs-help-transcribing-17th-century-spellbooks?fbclid=IwAR0T7H77TfbIRm8hoEniNnVoDt6mkHP7LbVuTG22LI7UZDk8Jg3jasCGpZk

What could go wrong?!
Title: Re: Book News and Reviews
Post by: josh on December 13, 2020, 09:40:26 PM
RIP John le Carré.
Title: Re: Book News and Reviews
Post by: DeeJ on December 14, 2020, 03:13:28 PM
RIP John le Carré.

Title: Re: Book News and Reviews
Post by: barton on March 02, 2021, 01:08:00 PM
I though Philip Bump, in the Post, had a clever lead...

If curtailing racist imagery in Dr. Seuss is ‘cancel culture,’ what, exactly, is your culture?

He proceeds to suggest what the answer might be....

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/03/02/if-curtailing-racist-imagery-dr-seuss-is-cancel-culture-what-exactly-is-your-culture/

I see no real cancellation here, either.  The vast majority of Seuss titles remain in print.  The ones going out of print do have some startlingly racist depictions of blacks and Asians, and I'd have no problem with my children (or grandchildren, in my case) skipping those six titles (four of which are so obscure that few have even heard of them - they were probably doomed to be OOP anyway, as happens to most books).  Seuss was a big-hearted and kindly man, and the rest of his oeuvre reflects that clearly. 
Title: Re: Book News and Reviews
Post by: DeeJ on April 12, 2021, 09:29:09 AM
Agree with you 100% Barton.
Title: Re: Book News and Reviews
Post by: josh on March 18, 2022, 07:10:57 PM
Not news, but have any of you read this?

https://www.madeleinelengle.com/books/middle-grade-young-adult/a-wrinkle-in-time/intergalactic-p-s-3-wrinkle-time-story/
Title: Re: Book News and Reviews
Post by: josh on April 14, 2022, 11:05:30 PM
(https://scontent-bos3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/278585690_10159635233246145_3286311433886382320_n.jpg?_nc_cat=108&ccb=1-5&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=iv-FzcGaI0sAX-GUs9C&_nc_oc=AQkbaeFoBy8rNaMEMYUqO7dJIWnGx_IhX0Svk-DXaruLQZMVDIJfvu9z5A9EaKDeqmw&_nc_ht=scontent-bos3-1.xx&oh=00_AT-07h2wlPdiSBQLn4EyXyZiVeBEfWetRDMpS2abG9j2ig&oe=625D1426)
Title: Re: Book News and Reviews
Post by: josh on May 20, 2022, 06:23:23 PM
This is a useful tool for finding authors you might like based upon those you already like, using the shared tastes of people you don't know.

https://www.literature-map.com/sylvia+louise+engdahl