This is a library-themed disco found at Carlisle Bay, Antigua. The books are real! They also replace them with the latest bestselling books once the current ones get dog-eared. I think I would love this disco very much. Considering I’m too shy to dance, I can instead while my time away reading a book… [...]
Archive for November, 2008
28 Nov
Top 10 Most Taught Books in High School
According to the Center for Learning and Teaching of Literature, these are the most often taught books in high school:
Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare
Macbeth by Shakespeare
Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Julius Caesar by Shakespeare
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Hamlet by Shakespeare
The Great Gatsby by [...]
26 Nov
Books That Define Your Childhood
For some, it might be Dr Seuss’s The Cat in the Hat. For others, it might be Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White, or the Lewis Carroll classic Alice in Wonderland.
As for me, my childhood was defined by Enid Blyton’s books. My parents used to buy me those hardback books of short stories, like A [...]
24 Nov
Between a book and a tv, it’s hard to choose
because I like them both! Or maybe not; they seem to have more in common than you think, judging by what my poet friend has to say about them in this special guest post.
Wot a book is [and why people watch telly]
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I would begin my little prose
by showing some similarities
that most certainly exist between
reading books [...]
Bookworms Speak Up