The Thin Red Line

Yes, I know that we are fully half a year away from Independence Day when a book celebrating the United States flag might be most appropriate, but I came across this lavishly illustrated, Very Over-Sized coffee table book the other day and just Had to share it. Long May She Wave is a history of Old Glory that is loaded with pictures of every depicition of the flag imagineable from actual flags to knitted and crotcheted rugs and matts to products like a cell phone and an airplance, completely wrapped in stars and stripes. At a USD 60.00 cover price I can’t really recommend buying it, but it is sure worth a visit to 929.9209 at the library to check it out. Recommended.

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A question I have frequently been asked since starting this blog is "how do you read so many books?" or "do you really read all of those books you write about?". I have often answered that I read fairly quickly and that it’s not always necessary to read the entire book before writing a useful and engaging blog post about it.

But a sad truth that I am learning, as I become more committed to improving and professionalizing this blog is that with all the hours I spend online these days, I have much less time for reading. And I find myself wondering how you, my blog readers, feel about this. Do you think it’s OK for me to blog about books that I have not finished reading? Please take the poll or leave a comment and let me know. I’m genuinely interested in what people think about this.

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