Dealing With Antisocial Teenagers In The Library

Brought to book

Library earns top award for its groundbreaking work with antisocial teenagers

Airplane Library (well, not quite)

Library design from salvaged passenger jets

Judging a book by its cover

Allow us to judge a book by its cover

A beautiful book is a beautiful thing. I may not get too hung up on whether or not something is a first edition, but that doesn't mean I don't have taste.

I guess I'm with Wilde on this one: only shallow people don't judge by appearances.

Wikipedia

Another good article on Wikipedia

Wikipedia and other online databases provide a soupy morass of information, but where can we find the variety of views that leads to wisdom

gender-conscious novels

A tale of two genders: men choose novels of alienation, while women go for passion

I'm more 'male' in my reading habits...my most favourite books are from the 'male' list, like 'The Catcher in the Rye', 'High Fidelity', '1984' etc. Maybe I just have too much anger in me. None of the books in the 'female' lists spoke to me that much; I've never been a big fan of Jane Austen or the Bronte sisters.

Banned in the library

Librarians ban visible underwear

writing poetry on teacups

Return my work, says Guantánamo poet

Sad tale of a man who was accused of being a terrorist and spent his time in jail at Guantánamo Bay writing 25,000 lines of verse, which were not given back to him when he was released.