Entries from August 2010

Monday, August 30th, 2010

Books and Books

Books and Books is a great bookstore in Coral Gables that holds lots of author events. If you look in the sidebar on the right side of the blog you will see what’s called an RSS Feed of their scheduled author events. I like supporting independent bookstores because today most people buy books online. Those who [...]

Monday, August 30th, 2010

Neil Gaiman on The Graveyard Book

Neil Gaiman on the origins of The Graveyard Book:

Friday, August 27th, 2010

Outside Looking In

America Outside the Top 10 Looking In? Where does America rank when compared with the rest of the world? How do we stack up in education, health, quality of life, etc.? Would you believe we rank 11th overall?! How is that possible? According to a recent study by Newsweek magazine America may be losing ground. [...]

Wednesday, August 25th, 2010

Top 100 Novels of All-Time

People love to debate things. Everyone has a Top 10 opinion. Heck, David Letterman made it famous. Great books are no exception. You could debate for hours about the greatest novels of all time, the greatest American novels, the greatest comic book character, whatever. Everyone should read at least a few classics. You need to [...]

Tuesday, August 24th, 2010

Welcome to Blogging

What is blogging? How do you do it? Who reads blogs? Today, many people all over the world are blogging. They share their thoughts with the world. For more on blogging check out this wikipedia entry. Several things we need to remember as we blog. Remember that we should never put anything out on the [...]