AUSTIN (KXAN) – More people in the Eanes Independent School District are challenging the books that are in schools across the district. Pulling books from shelves that some deem inappropriate has become a hot topic, not just in Texas, but across the country. He even caused a central Texas librarian to lose her job. Residents…
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Introducing The Atlantic Expanded Books Section
When Emily Dickinson found her first real book as a child, she experienced a moment of pure joyful recognition. “This, then, is a book!” she exclaimed. “And there are more of them!” the atlantic he would continue to publish Dickinson’s poems; Perhaps more importantly, he introduced her to a lifelong mentor, Thomas Wentworth Higginson. After…
‘The Royals have become a spectacle…and that’s as dangerous as it is interesting’
He doesn’t mention the Duke and Duchess of Sussex by name, though I feel their spirits hang in the air. “They have [the Royals] become a spectacle and that is dangerous as well as interesting”, he says. “It allows us to get closer [to them], but it’s also dangerous if it becomes too much of…
Stream It Or Skip It?
Sometimes producers and streaming networks get a bit ambitious when they pitch a series project based on a popular novel. They think because it’s a novel that the series adaptation can go for six, ten, maybe even twelve episodes. But some novels just don’t translate to long-form series. An adaptation of Sally Rooney’s Conversations With…
5 Personal Finance Books To Read In 2022
All of the books I am recommending are on my shelf, and I was so excited about them that I brought … [+] the authors onto my podcast to talk about them. getty I wrote a very similar article back in 2020 with a list of five books I thought everyone should read. I stand…
The Book Summary: Elif Batuman, Sally Rooney
Why are so many writers drawn to college novels? In a 2006 article, Megan Marshall writes that the genre is “escape reading”. Citing older works like The Harrad experiment Y 3 in the attic, Marshall sees many college novels as “goofy, sophomore confessionals.” That has certainly changed. Today’s college novels have expanded beyond the confines…
7 Books We Can’t Stop Talking About
“[A]t thirty-seven,” Courtney Maum writes in her new memoir, the year of the horse, “I did not know how to play, because somehow, my ability to be comfortable in joy had left my heart and body.” Maum (the author of the novels costalegre Y I touched, among other books) felt unseen by her husband, and…
Mississippi School Board Confirms Firing Over ‘I Need a New Butt’ Book
A Mississippi school district upheld the decision to fire an administrator for reading a book called “I Need a New Butt!” to the second graders, but the expelled administrator promised to take the fight to court. toby price was fired as assistant principal at Gary Road Elementary School in Byram in March, but appealed the…
Nixa School Board to review certain books after some parents raised concerns
Nixa Mo. (KY3) – The Nixa school board will address three books at the May 12 school board meeting after some parents raised concerns and appealed to the district to remove them from shelves. In accordance with the school board agenda, the following books have been submitted for reconsideration under Board Policy KLB (Materials reconsideration)….