Monthly Archives: March 2022

Book misuse reported at Sharpsburg Community Library

Sharpsburg police are investigating reported tampering with books at the Sharpsburg Community Library, which library officials believe were attempts at censorship. Branch manager Sara Mariacher said several books were hidden or removed from displays between February and mid-March. A police report was filed on March 24. “The library and its …

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Sight Magazine – Books: New Lenten cookbook offers Catholics tasty choices for ‘Meatless Fridays’

March 29, 2022 CLEMENTE LISI Via unplugged religion David Geisser with essays by Scott HahnThe Lenten CookbookSophia Institute Press, USA, 2022ISBN-13: 978-1644134696 “It’s so much more than a cookbook. It’s a unique guide to meals during Lent that you can refer to for years to come. It’s also a way …

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blue planet | Michelle Nijhuis

This article is part of a regular series of conversations with the Reviewcontributors; read the previous ones here and sign up for our email newsletter to receive them weekly in your inbox. In the March 24, 2022 issue of the magazine, Michelle Nijhuis reviews A cure for darkness by Alex …

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Spell It: Why People Stopped Reading Books During the Peak of the COVID-19 Pandemic

If this happened to you, you were not alone. For people used to getting away with a favorite novel, the inability to read was a real loss. According to a May 2020 report published on the American news site Vox, neuroscientists believe this happened because many of us lived in …

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Why I Started Reading Investigative Journalism Books

This content contains affiliate links. When you purchase through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. I always thought non-fiction was boring. It didn’t help that the only non-fiction I read in school was trapped in the bowels of my textbooks. I read Anne Frank’s diary twice, even though …

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Books and Topics UPSC Civil Services Toppers Stands Ready to Crack CSE Preliminaries

UPSC 2022 Preliminaries | Books and Topics to Break the UPSC Civil Services Preliminaries | Top Recommendations Photo: iStock Union Civil Service Commission, UPSC Preliminaries Date of 2022, schedule, how to crack and so on – such questions have made their way into the minds of IAS aspirants. Barely 2 …

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11 Contemporary Retellings of Classic Books You Probably Read in High School

Contemporary stories make you vibrate. Easy, 10 things i hate about you, She is the man – these three popular coming-of-age films are all contemporary retellings of a classic text. But have you ever read a contemporary story? Let’s be honest, even with the special bond with our high school …

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4 books you should read in 2022

Reading is a hobby that has become much more popular lately., which is largely due to the pandemic and the changes it has brought to modern life. With many people now working from home, they find themselves with more time for hobbies like this, especially during the worst times of …

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10 classic books that would be banned on Twitter as hate speech today

Presented by: Little woman – A classic story that would be banned for implying that women are small, or exist in some way. Should be called standardized menstruating people. Moby Dick- A man’s obsession with a whale is described as negative. Pfft! You do, Captain Ahab! It’s almost as offensive …

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7 Wellness Books That Make You Think Too

As much as we love to read at NBIC, we’ll be the first to admit that not every book is a feel-good experience. (Try browsing The Karamazov brothersfor example, and you probably won’t find yourself swimming in joy of living.) So when you’re looking for a book that makes you …

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Upland Grandmother Shares Love of Reading and Books With Her Little Free Library – Daily Bulletin

When Donna O’Neill first read the anti-war novel ‘Johnny Got His Gun’ as a student at Upland High School, the impact was immediate and lingers today, over 40 years later. It was around 1977, a few years after his brother, John Rogone, was killed in action in 1968, at the …

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Highland grandma shares love of reading and books with her little free library – Daily Bulletin

When Donna O’Neill first read the anti-war novel ‘Johnny Got His Gun’ as a student at Upland High School, the impact was immediate and lingers today, over 40 years later. It was around 1977, a few years after his brother Don Rogone was killed in action in 1968 at the …

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10 Best Photography Books You Should Read in 2022

The internet is a wealth of information, but photography books are still a fantastic way to learn about photography and be inspired by the work of great photographers. I’m a big fan of art books and often recommend newbie photographers to look beyond photography and immerse themselves in art. That’s …

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How reading books written by women changed me as a journalist

Last September, while we were living in confinement, a friend suggested that I read Inside the Haveli by Rama Mehta, which won him a Sahitya Akademi Award. This novel was about an educated girl named Geeta from Mumbai, who was married to a former prince from Udaipur. Her life after …

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Reading books is the key to a child’s future

Published: 00h00 March 18, 2022 Selaine Saxby, MP for North Devon, supported the 25th anniversary of World Book Day in early March. Every year World Book Day creates bespoke £1 books for children and young adults across the UK and Ireland to promote the power of the imagination and the …

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Use the web to cook your books

At some point in the last year, my teenager said that I was no longer allowed to buy cookbooks. We had run out of space in the kitchen, even after a showdown session that eliminated some old titles (exotic mid-century Jell-O recipes I won’t be back, and I probably won’t …

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How an 11-year-old pleads for reading books – News

By Anu Prabhakar Published: Thu 17 March 2022, 15:29 Vrishank Sai Anand was four and a half years old when he approached his mother and offered to organize a book drive for underprivileged children. He’d listened to his mother talk about the number of children around the world who haven’t …

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madurai: Expressing gender dysphoria, Confusion through art, Books | Madurai News

Madurai: For the first time, ‘Thirunangai Padaipugal’, an event to exclusively showcase works from the transgender community through an art exhibition and a book fair, was held at the Tamil Nadu Hotel in Madurai on Saturday . Folk songs written and sung by transgender artists were also performed at the …

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10 Best Catwoman Comics of All Time

Warning: Spoilers for The Batman. Catwoman is one of the most iconic characters in popular culture. Some of his best comics from the last 80 years inspired his latest live-action release in The Batman, starring Robert Pattinson as the Dark Knight. They also trace his evolution from one of Batman’s …

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Get Hooked: 10 Books for Beginners and Advanced Crocheters

This content contains affiliate links. When you purchase through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. I love my crochet origin story. I didn’t learn to crochet from a book or a video. Instead, I learned on the playground, when a classmate had some string and showed me how …

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Osoba, Fashola, others for Azuh Arinze’s birthday and book presentation

Publisher/editor of YES INTERNATIONAL! Review, Azuh Arinze, The publisher/editor of YES INTERNATIONAL! Magazine, Azuh Arinze, turns 50 on Thursday, March 24, 2022 – and to commemorate it, it will unveil two new books, A TASTE OF SUCCESS and CONVERSATIONS WITH SHOWBIZ STARS, on this day. The momentous and landmark event …

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Metavers, from storybooks to our living rooms, CIO News, ET CIO

By Piyush JhaSpeaking of what science will create tomorrow in its true fictional form, we are now witnessing the emergence of the metaverse. In 1992, Neal Stephenson coined the term “Metaverse” in his novel Snow Crash, with the idea that people in the future would create a virtual world similar …

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Ahmed receives the Kat Muscat Scholarship 2022

March 7, 2022 @booksandpublishing Munira Tabassum Ahmed is a recipient of the Kat Muscat Fellowship 2022, which provides professional development up to a value of $5,000 for an editorial project or writing work by a young person between the ages of 16 and 30 of one gender underrepresented. Ahmed is …

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Quarantine Books: Essential Doomsday Reading List

Hello and welcome to the LA Times Book Club newsletter. This Month’s Book Club Author Reyna Grande begins “A Ballad of Love and Glory” with a letter to the readers explaining why she wrote a novel about “the war the United States does not remember and Mexico cannot forget” – …

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UK adults lie while reading books to impress – including Hamlet, Wuthering Heights, Animal Farm and The Great Gatsby > Creative Review > Style

by Khyle Deen. Posted Fri, Mar 04, 2022 5:39 PM, last update: 3/4/22 46% of UK adults have lied about reading books in order to impress – Snooze-worthy books including Hamlet, Wuthering Heights, Animal Farm and The Great Gatsby are given a modern …

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10 Groundbreaking True Crime Books

In his fascinating new book, Scoundrel: How a convicted murderer persuaded the women who loved him, the conservative establishment and the courts to set him free, Sarah Weinman does a masterful job of resurrecting a stranger-than-fiction chapter of American criminal justice. In 1957, unemployed veteran Edgar Smith was convicted of …

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Editorial: Judging Books | Editorials

In the past few weeks leading up to Town Meeting Day, there have been a handful of community forums or debates for candidates seeking to serve on Vermont school boards. Some of these public conversations have focused on politically charged issues such as critical race theory, social justice (especially racism …

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Reading books will help in gaining knowledge: Gangula Kamalakar

Posted: Posted Date – 6:17 PM, Wed – Mar 2, 22 BC Welfare Minister Gangula Kamalakar kicks off the book fair in Karimnagar on Wednesday. Karimnagar: British Columbia Minister of Welfare and Civil Supplies Gangula Kamalakar said reading books will help people gain knowledge and many have come to prominence …

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Classic books revealed as Ireland’s most popular genre ahead of World Book Day

Classic books have been revealed as Ireland’s most popular genre ahead of World Book Day on March 3. Research on Study in Switzerland looked at the most popular book genres around the world by looking at Google search volume for each genre in different counties, creating a map showing the …

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The most popular children’s storybooks

To commemorate World Book Day 2022, retailer Bensons for Beds has compiled a list of the top ten bedtime stories in the UK that parents love to read to their children. The brand tapped into search data to uncover the most popular current stories for children in the UK, as …

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Amar Boi from JCI Dhaka West will develop the habit of reading books

An initiative called ‘Amar Boi’ has started its journey to inculcate the habit of reading books in this month of our mother tongue. The international voluntary organization Junior Chamber International (JCI) Dhaka West and Jante Hole Porte Hobe of Protyush are working together on this project. The journey of “Amar …

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