Welcome to week three of A People’s Readalong. A group of us (see the end of the post for the group, and please shout out if I’ve overlooked you) will be reading one chapter a week from Howard Zinn’s classic … Continue reading
Welcome to week two of A People’s Readalong. A group of us (see the end of the post for the group, and please shout out if I’ve overlooked you) will be reading one chapter a week from Howard Zinn’s classic … Continue reading
Welcome to week one of A People’s Readalong. A group of us (see the end of the post for the group, and please shout out if I’ve overlooked you) will be reading one chapter a week from Howard Zinn’s classic … Continue reading
Today is the official “start reading” date for our A People’s Readalong of Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States (although we’ll be reading this puppy until July, so it’s never too late to join in). So to … Continue reading
“If you don’t know history, it is as if you were born yesterday.” -Howard Zinn Jenners and I have decided to read Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States…mostly because it’s been sitting on both of our shelves … Continue reading
It’s Halloween! That means it’s time for… I bet you thought I was going to say candy. Hah! It’s the end of the month, so it’s time to gather up everyone’s thoughts on our monsters. To refresh everyone’s memories, this … Continue reading
Today you get two (2!) reviews for the low, low price of one. Because honestly? I don’t have much to say about them. Can we just return to last year when I actually loved the book I chose? The Call … Continue reading
Are you reading The Call of Cthulhu for Dueling Monsters? If so, don’t forget to leave a link to your review/thoughts in the comments. You have until October 30th…I’ll be posting links to everyone’s posts in the wrap-up post on … Continue reading
The time has come for… It’s said that H.P. Lovecraft found inspiration in his nightmares. Holy moly! Those had to have been quite the nightmares! Can you imagine waking up to the memory of a giant, tentacled, slobbery green EVIL? … Continue reading
En garde! That’s right, y’all…it’s almost time for the third annual Dueling Monsters readalong! If you recall, last year we had a fierce battle between Dorian Gray and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The year before that, it was Frankenstein … Continue reading
In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish. ~S.I. Hayakawa
The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
~St. Augustine
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.
~Mark Twain
