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Bookish Bullet Points
Seems like one of those days where I’ve got lots of little things but nothing I want to take a …Continue reading »
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Walden, the Game
You’ve read the book, now play the game: That’s right, Walden, a Game (via) will allow you to follow in …Continue reading »
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New Toy Alert
Where did my holiday weekend go? I didn’t plan on being completely silent during the three days but I was …Continue reading »
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The Shallows
What to make of Nicholas Carr’s The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains? The book is not …Continue reading »
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What We Are Really Talking About When We Talk About Technology
Last night as I was trying to sort out thoughts on Joanna Russ’s essay SF and Technology as Mystification and …Continue reading »
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A Computer Did Not Write This Blog Post
When I attended Zadie Smith’s lecture recently and she considered the question “why write?” she did not take into account computers writing books and poetry. All those people doing NaNoWriMo this month...
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Digital Humanities, More Than Just Data
I came across a thoughtful article the other day in the Los Angels Review of Books called Literature is not Data: Against the Digital Humanities by Stephen Marche. Unlike those who are trying to...
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File Under Cool
Just a short post tonight. We got a little over 9 inches (23 cm) of snow yesterday. Not only is shoveling it all off the sidewalk a lot of work but so is getting around in it. So I am worn out. But I...
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Electronic Literature as Genre
Should we think of ebooks as belonging to their own genre? An interesting question, yes? An ebook that is just a print book in a digital format is still a book, just like the audio version. But what...
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Reading Plans Derailed
I had the pleasure of a four-day weekend due to the Easter holiday. I had big plans. Spring cleaning! Reading! Reading! Reading! Not to mention reading! But things went awry. I managed to clean off my...
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Recent App Finds
I haven’t quite figured out how to fit my iPad into regular use other than playing a mindless game when I get home from work and am waiting on dinner. But I keep exploring and will figure it out...
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The Reading Brain: Differences Between Digital and Print
Did anyone catch the not that long ago article in American Scientific, The Reading Brain in the Digital Age? I know I mention digital versus print here often but I can’t help myself, it’s like a...
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I Love the Smell of Cows in the Morning
I got to spend my day outside the library at a local library conference today. Minnesota has an awesome statewide resource sharing program called Minitex and every year they hold an interlibrary loan...
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Reading on My iPad
I’ve been meaning to write about Jacob’s Room by Virginia Woolf since this time last week. I decided then that I would spend some time over this last weekend writing a thoughtful post because the book...
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Digital Magazines
Last night I planned on writing a post about borrowing digital magazines from my public library and reading them on my iPad. I hadn’t actually set up the account to do it yet but I figured, how hard...
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How We Read
Last night Bookman and I ventured out to Micawber’s Books in St. Paul. I have heard of the shop but had never been there. It turns out to be a nice little store with a carefully selected stock of the...
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Kindle Trouble
I’m a bit unnerved. My Kindle seems to be developing an opinion about how quickly I finish a book and move on to the next. About two weeks ago I finished reading Willa Cather’s Alexander’s Bridge at...
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The Circle
The Circle by Dave Eggers is a sort of 1984 of the digital age. But whereas Orwell’s book begins in the midst of it all, The Circle starts on the verge of it and we watch in horror as everything slides...
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Science Fiction, Shaping Our Future
Any Smithsonian Magazine readers out there? The May issue caught my eye because it has Patrick Stewart on the cover. The man is 73 but he is still as hunky as ever (his wife is only 35!). Much as I’d...
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Mind Change
Hi Everyone! I’m at Shiny New Books today. Here’s a taste: With Mind Change: How Digital Technologies Are Leaving Their Mark on Our Brains, Susan Greenfield has provided us with an even-keeled...
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