Really Awful Library Books

from the Awful Library Books blog How to Really Love Your TeenagerCampbell1982 Thanks to anonymous submitter for this title.  This title creeped me out when I first read it.  Emphasis on “really” made me do a double take.  Maybe I watch too much television and assume...

The First Modern Woman

from DailyLit Madame de Staël: The First Modern Woman by FRANCINE DU PLESSIX GRAY Madame de Staël has been made available for free through January 2010 thanks to the sponsorship of Diane von Furstenberg. Diane read the book recently and liked it so much that she...

J. Edgar Hoover Obsessed With Studs

from AP via the Fresno Bee File shows FBI watched writer Terkel for decades CHICAGO — An FBI file released to a New York media outlet shows the agency kept watch on the late Chicago author Studs Terkel for decades. It also shows that Terkel once applied for a...