Tag Archives: Books

It’s not always about the dogs

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“All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten”.  No, in fact I think that it was about four years later. Interviews and articles this week pertaining to the 50th anniversary of To Kill a Mockingbird have led me … Continue reading

For Mandy and Megan

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and for other breakable friends. I’m currently reading Temple Grandin’s Animals Make Us Human.  She quotes the following statistics in the section on horses: One study of horseback-riding injuries in England found that riding horses was twenty times more dangerous … Continue reading

Reading List

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October 1st  is “Banned Books Day”.  The American Library Association maintains lists of by year of the ten most frequently challenged books. On the most recent list (2008) I find: The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini Reasons: offensive language, sexually … Continue reading