Back when sports fans were filling out their college basketball brackets, I wrote on Facebook that these were the only brackets that interested me: [ ] ( ) { } < > I was wrong. Even better than punctuation brackets is a book bracket. Now this is a competition I can really get into! Voting … Read more
The three-year wait for the final volume of Christopher Paolini’s Inheritance Cycle is nearly over. Random House announced that the fourth book, Inheritance, will be published on November 8, 2011. Books already published in the cycle include Eragon, Eldest, and Brisingr. Paolini was a 15-year-old homeschooler when he wrote the first draft of Eragon. He … Read more
Michael Flaherty, co-founder and president of Walden Media, says they are considering filming The Magician’s Nephew next. Read the story here. If they continued following publication order, The Silver Chair would have been next. However, their argument that the popularity of each Narnia movie corresponds to the popularity of the related book makes sense. I’ve … Read more
David Kern of the Circe Institute proposed a baseball team of America’s greatest authors. I especially like his choices of F. Scott Fitzgerald as shortstop and William Faulkner in left field. Clever!
John Evans of Lemuria Bookstore, a fabulous independent bookstore in Jackson, Mississippi, writes about the experience of holding and reading a physical book: “Finishing a book is special. It becomes part of your life as it rests on your bookshelf. It watches you as you live around it. It’s always waiting to be held and … Read more
I’ll be speaking at the online Schoolhouse Expo on March 15 at 7:00 p.m. Central. My topic is “How Do You Do It All? Balancing Family Life and Home Business.” Here’s the workshop description: Home business blends well with homeschooling, but it can also create frustration, exhaustion, and chaos. You may be paralyzed by an … Read more
“My little hobby. Book collecting. And yet, old friend, books do not age as you and I do. They will speak still when we are gone, to generations we will never see. Yes, the books must survive.” The rabbi of Haarlem, who brought his books to Corrie ten Boom’s father for safekeeping, in The Hiding … Read more