Putting I Between Art And Facts
I haven’t read many novels this year. I think my top five includes every book I read during the whole of 2007. Despite my unfortunate lack of reading, here are my favorite:
1. The Good Times Are Killing Me
2. World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
3. The Kite Runner
4. Freakonomics : A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
5. The March: A Novel
This week on Wednesdays Wonderful World of Wikipedia is simply a list of fictional doctors from literature, movies, and television. Mind you, it’s a very long list.
Dang! I can’t believe I didn’t know about this before now. But Cass’, the incredibly cute young thing up in Laramie, pointed me out to Prospector. Prospector is a catalog of twenty three libraries in Colorado and Wyoming. Through Prospector you have access to over 20 million books, journals, DVDs, CDs, videos and other materials held in these libraries. With a single search you can identify and borrow materials from the collections and have them delivered to your local library. It’s so easy I can’t believe it. This is gonna save tons of time and increase my library usage.
If your interested in other useful local library tools you should check out this incredibly helpful bookmarklet. It allows you to both search for and hold books books at the Denver’s Public Library straight from any Amazon.com book page. This will allow you to quickly find out if the library has the book before I purchase it.
These short stories and poems called “Peanuts, by Charles Bukowski” (actually by Hanstock) could possibly the most brilliant thing I’ve seen on the internet all year, maybe ever.
Students for an Orwellian Society is a cool nationwide student group that is documenting instances of Ingsoc (based on George Orwells prophetic novel “1984”) in todays news. They also have a great T-shirt selection.
List of novels whose action takes place within 24 hours. I haven’t read a single one of them.