33 minutes ago by ninakillham

When I headed a book club at my kids’ school the other week, one of the children said to me defiantly, “I don’t like this book.” I said, “That’s OK, there are a lot of books I don’t like.” He blinked at me, surprised. You mean it’s allowed to not like a book? Not every book is a text book. Not every ...

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1 hour ago by Miss Anthropy

Gaming Gamasutra: - Blog: An addition to game interface heuristics - Blog: ?syntax error: emotion GameSetWatch: - Opinion: In Defense of That Recent Anti-Indie Column - Analysis: The Design and Spiritual Evolution of No More Heroes 2 PopMatters Moving Pixels: - The Problem with No More Heroes 2 Wire ...

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1 hour ago by Christian A. Dumais

When I started writing, I said my goal was to bring people back to reading, people who had given up on reading. So I wrote for people who didn’t read at that point. Today, you have to write books that can compete against video games and music videos and professional wrestling and all the other thing ...

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2 hours ago by PersonaNonData

Instinct and intuition are the stuff of the editor when it comes to deciding which books and which articles will resonate with a reader. As the circuitry of the web forges deeper into our daily lives the data 'exhaust' trails of our activity begin to offer real clues as to what interests us and what ...

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2 hours ago by Lady In Repair

A long time friend directed me to her blog about her PhD experience. Which had me thinking of that LJ Community dedicated to graduate students discussing, venting about their studies. Which led me to thinking of what I went thru earlier today... Last stretch before I can officially add the MA to the ...

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2 hours ago by cybersass

when i was little, other than my granny’s lap, my favorite place in the whole world, was the library. in fact, the library was my baby-sitter. i would spend hours reading there after school, enthralled. i still remember those wooden benches, the long rows of books, the sun streaming through the wind ...

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3 hours ago by trangh

Ngôn ngữ cơ thể, pwd webcaohoc.com Filed under: books, reading

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3 hours ago by Elizabeth Barrette

This poem came from the February 2, 2010 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by prompts from jenny_evergreen and janet_miles. It was sponsored by xjenavivex. February is Black History Month. This poem tells a story of what it means to be human, and how history repeats itself so that we can keep learnin ...

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3 hours ago by Emma

A Kid for Two Farthings is threatening to turn sad so I've decided it's time to set the book down and write up the bird report instead. One could wonder why it is that I can read child abuse with discomfort, yes, but not inability to continue reading, but the mere threat of a sickly goat is enough t ...

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3 hours ago by Elizabeth Barrette

This poem came out of the February 2, 2010 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by a prompt from ladyqkat and sponsored by xjenavivex. The villanelle form is one of my favorites. This poem is for all the folks living in a body with aggravating limitations. The Bonecage -- a villanelle I dream to slip th ...

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