Reference Call? Do you keep reference books on your shelves at home? What’s your first port of call when you need information – the internet or a book? I have always kept reference books on the shelf along with my book collection. The most thumbed ones are The Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr., and E. B. Submitted: on 15th Feb 2010 Tags: · information · shelves · The · What · When · Always · Books On · Elements · internet · Jr · Kept · Reference Books · The · When · WilliamGod Bless America God Bless America, written by Amy Beveridge, is a short, happy book about America. It is written in four verses. Each verse ends with a Bible reference. The text starts out like this: Dear God, I love America! There is so much to see. You have made this special land For children just like me. Then this Bible verse is given as a reference: “The entire universe was formed at God’s comman... Submitted: on 5th Feb 2010 Tags: · children · The · Bible · The · WrittenOMNIVORE: Tomes of literary reference In reading, we perform the nearly oxymoronic feat of seeking surprise Submitted: on 7th Jan 2010 Tags: · The · Literary · ReadingOMNIVORE: Women's human rights Can "honor killing" be explained by reference to non-Western "cultural norms"? Submitted: on 31st Dec 2009 Tags: · HonorMy Library, Jan 2010 Over Christmas I was doing some organisation and decided to get all my books out of their boxes and get some pictures so I had a quick reference of what I owned. Here are about 99% of my books (the other 1% are proof copies that are duplicates of HBs I own) - they're not labeled but let me know if you want to know what any specific ones are Submitted: on 8th Jan 2010 Tags: · Christmas · The · What · My Books · Pictures · WhatInspiring Reading Resources (and the Ireland Challenge) Where do y’all find out about books you want to read, other than blogs? Recently, I discovered two new sources, and I thought I’d share them with you. The last time I was at my library, I noticed a stack of newsletters on the reference librarian’s desk and grabbed one! Have y’all seen Book Submitted: on 7th Mar 2010 Tags: · The · Where · About Books · Blogs · Ireland · Reading · WhereAny Given Day: My Personal E-Novel Experience You can hardly scan the headlines these days without seeing some reference to Apple's announcement of its soon-to-come iPad and online iBook store. That is if you could tear yourself away from the many articles and discussions about Google, Amazon, the Kindle, and the future of e-book pricing. Does anyone really know what all these developments portend for the future of book publishing? I don... Submitted: on 4th Feb 2010 Tags: · The · What · Amazon · Apple · Articles · Book Publishing · E-book · E-novel · Kindle · Novel · online · The · The KindleThe Best of 2009 - Books for Breakfast-style These are the books that received my highest ratings (listed here in order, with best ratings at the top). I left out any glowing reference to Diana Gabaldon, and if you are a reader of this blog, you know why. Otherwise, search her name. It is always humbling to rate someone else's work, whether it is a grade or a proposal or a book. Why should anyone listen to me? Perhaps because I have rea... Submitted: on 23rd Dec 2009 Tags: · blog · The · Always · Diana · Diana Gabaldon · ReaderNew York's Remington Museum Setting Up Library "For the past few weeks, Mrs. Jaunzems has been classifying and labeling books, magazines, exhibit catalogues and professional journals by and about the artist and the period to set up the museum's first reference library." Read this article.... Submitted: on 22nd Feb 2010 Tags: · The · Up · Artist · Journals · Magazines · Setting · UpMark C. Newton On Bloggers Mark Charan Newton, author of Nights of Villjamur and the upcoming City of Ruin (the latter title I have to like, since it can also be taken as a Springsteen reference, even though in reality it isn't) posted some thoughts on what he thinks makes up a good book blogger. I agree with pretty much everything he says, and I also agree with the 3 blogs he mentions as being his favorite. I know I would ... Submitted: on 24th Dec 2009 Tags: · The · Up · What · Author · Blogs · Good Book · Mark · Up
