Books

Settling back with six of the seven children, watching Hidalgo. I heard good things about it. We'll see. I just got back from an outing with Alex (12). I took him to the video store to pick out the movie, then took him to Mike's Pizza,

100 best first lines from novels [http://www.litline.org/ABR/100bestfirstlines.html]. Good stuff. Thanks, Eve Tushnet [http://eve-tushnet.blogspot.com/2006_02_01_eve-tushnet_archive.html#113917389683730321] .

A list of eight odd "How-to" books: How to be Happy Though Married, by "A Graduate in the University of Matrimony" How to Rob Banks without Violence, by Roderic Knowles How to Shit in the Woods, by Kathleen Meyer How to Become a Schizophrenic, by John

Terry Teachout on something that interests me greatly: the effect of electronic books: > The existence of the e-book will cause the authors of the 21st century to go about their business very differently than did their 20th-century predecessors. Many of these differences will arise from the way in which

A great article from National Catholic Register about the upcoming spate of Da Vinci Code knock-offs. [http://www.catholic.org/international/international_story.php?id=18320]

> Stockholm is to introduce library book dispensers on the city's underground rail system to encourage commuters to read. > Automatic book dispensers are to be installed on station platforms, starting with test machines at Liljeholmen, T-Centralen and Gullmarsplan. > Commuters will be able to stick their library

I'm not sure I'm fond of my library after all: > Brown University's library boasts an unusual anatomy book. Tanned and polished to a smooth golden brown, its cover looks and feels no different from any other fine leather. > But here's