Monthly Archive: September, 2008

TTYL, Maya Angelou–Banned Books Week

Welcome to Banned Books Week 2008 on The Thin Red Line!   Continuing today with the top ten "most challenged" books of 2007,  today I am featuring Maya Angelou’s I Know Why The Caged… Read More

The Perks of Being A Wallflower– Banned Books Week

Welcome to Banned Books Week 2008 on The Thin Red Line!    Each fall the American Library Association leads the observance of Banned Books Week, celebrating Americans’ freedom to read by reminding people of… Read More

VOLCANO A Visual Guide

Some combination of visiting Mt. Rainier National Park last week and reading about all the devastation and destruction flowing from Hurricane Ike down in the Gulf Coast got me to thinking about the… Read More

America's Best Zoos

So I have been really busy with Staci and Sam both here visiting but wanted to pop in here and post about a really neat book I happened upon today.   America’s Best Zoos–A… Read More

Intern: A Doctor's Initiation

Perhaps it’s a matter of having watch ER for too long or having read too many other books about the rigors of becoming a doctor, but for me at least Sandeep Jahur’s Intern… Read More

Democrat's Soul

After posting on Saturday about the Bush Tragedy,  I really wanted to start off the week with an upbeat book about the Democrats.   But the one I came across at work on Sunday… Read More

The Bush Tragedy

Slate editor Jacob Wesiberg has written an engaging and refreshingly honest look as what he calls the Bush Tragedy.    In chapter after gruesome chapter, Weisberg documents the family and relationships of George W… Read More

Drinks Are On Joe

It seems like it was early in my blogging days that I happened upon author J.A. Konrath in some writer’s forum or another, posting about the cover art of one of, I thought… Read More

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