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When I was fourteen I got my first chemistry set, and my father gave me a small workbench in the basement where I could conduct experiments. I became a serious chemistry nut. My allowance and any extra money I earned started going to the Rock City Machine Company, which is still in business, and which […]
Turning classic works of literature into comic books isn’t a new idea. I remember in school when my teachers were trying to get caught up on grading papers or picking the glitter out of their lunches or taking smoke breaks they’d put a stack of comic book versions of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Ivanhoe, […]
The Internet is making libraries obsolete. Libraries as a place people use to conduct research are going the way of the dodo. Nobody goes to the library anymore. That’s the assumption some people make, but a brief note in the Chronicle of Higher Education summarizes a report by the Pew Internet & American Life Project […]
In his hilarious travel blog, Charles Starmer Smith says, “Willy Wonka would be proud” and calls a chocolate-powered car “a typically British hair-brained scheme”, but, as he explains, the project also had a serious message. British adventurers Andy Pag and John Grimshaw drove six-thousand miles from England to Timbuktu in a car powered entirely by […]
I mentioned previously that I have two very personal holiday traditions, and that one of them is reading A Child’s Christmas In Wales by Dylan Thomas. The other is that I read another Christmas story, A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote. This is a kinder, gentler Capote than the one who wrote In Cold Blood, […]
My fourth grade teacher, Ms. Rich, devoted part of each day to reading to the entire class. We’d squat down on the carpet around her desk and listen. There were only two authors I remember who got the honor of having more than one of their books read. One was Roald Dahl. The other was […]
The recently opened Sherlock’s Book Emporium & Curiosities, in Lebanon, Tennessee, is, in many ways, itself a curiosity. While owner Steve Guynn opened his first bookstore as a way of getting his expanding book collection out of his house, the new 14,000-square foot store offers new books, used books, DVDs, board games, action figures, comic […]
There’s a down town fairy singing out “Proud Mary” Don’t feed the plants!
Roald Dahl was born September 13th, 1916. While he’s best known as the author of Charlie And The Chocolate Factory (made into a film with Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka And The Charlie Factory, then made again by Tim Burton into a film with Johnny Depp, this time under the book’s original title) he wrote […]
This fall students going into high school or even middle school may be assigned to read one of two books: The Chocolate War or I Am The Cheese. Both books are by Robert Cormier. Born on January 17th, 1925, Cormier passed away on November 2nd, 2000, and left a legacy of some of the most […] |
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