8+ hour ago  (1887+ words) The podcast transcription below was generated using artificial intelligence and may include occasional errors or misspellings. What isn't it about? Love, life, war. It's, uh, really like a Tolstoy novel in a lot of ways. Really, I wrote this book…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago  (362+ words) I recently watched "The Librarians," the documentary directed by Kim A. Snyder about the ongoing nationwide book-banning fiasco. Around the same time, I attended a Zoom session on the topic, hosted by the Hadassah Educators Council, where several librarians provided an…...

3+ day, 6+ hour ago  (292+ words) From muddy wilderness trails to the birth of a nation, the life of Daniel Boone will come vividly alive when award-winning author and master storyteller Randell Jones takes the stage at the Davidson County Historical Museum on April 23. Blending gripping…...

1+ day, 15+ hour ago  (683+ words) Asachild, Ariana Godoy couldn't stop reading. Whatever her hands could reach, her eyes would devour, including grown-up titles she'd sneak off her mother's bookshelf " and a rather bloody Grimm's edition of "Cinderella." But as she entered adolescence, reading material became…...

16+ hour, 6+ min ago  (893+ words) Montgomery County Public Libraries (MCPL) has canceled a planned Hindi-language book event at its Germantown Library following objections from a coalition of religious and civil rights organizations over the involvement of a group they labeled a "hate group." The event,…...

21+ hour, 22+ min ago  (1225+ words) The Index on Censorship magazine in March featured an interview with a former UK librarian, hounded out of a job she loved due to fallout from a book censorship drive by school management. Over 50 percent of school librarians have reported…...

21+ hour, 51+ min ago  (128+ words) Lately I've been trying to be more intentional about what I read'not just consuming information, but actually learning things I can apply while building. Here's the current list I've been working through: Even though these books come from different angles'startups,…...

1+ day ago  (367+ words) Mechanics" Institute library manager Myles Cooper takes a key from his pocket, unlocks a display case and picks up a soot-stained copy of "Echoes of the Foot-Hills," published by San Francisco writer Bret Harte in 1875. The book of poetry begins…...

1+ day, 14+ min ago  (415+ words) Legislation requiring middle and high school students to read four full books a year might be considered in some states next year, the author said. The Push to Make Kids Read Books Again Kimberly Lewis is growing up in a…...

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