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by <a href="http://reader2.com/katie">katie</a><br/>Tags:  <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/adventure"  title="adventure">adventure</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/africa"  title="africa">africa</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/giraffes"  title="giraffes">giraffes</a><br/><br/><a href="http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/click?id=8N3tz66LcHQ&offerid=99238.10000006&type=4&subid=0"><IMG  
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by <a href="http://reader2.com/katie">katie</a><br/>Tags:  <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/autobiography"  title="autobiography">autobiography</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/short_stories"  title="short_stories">short_stories</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/uk"  title="uk">uk</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/writers"  title="writers">writers</a>]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 21:56:45 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">item_id_49498_6226</guid><dc:creator>katie</dc:creator><category>autobiography</category><category>short_stories</category><category>uk</category><category>writers</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Portal]]></title><link>http://reader2.com/katie</link><description><![CDATA[William and Daniel Seward&#39;s parents disappear one day -- and eventually the boys learn that their parents are the guardians of a secret intergalactic portal (out of their basement).  The mystery of where the parents have gone is eventually solved, but meanwhile William has learned that he has inherited a knack for taking care of (intergalactic) guests.  The perfect space-age hotelier&#33;
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by <a href="http://reader2.com/katie">katie</a><br/>Tags:  <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/travel"  title="travel">travel</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/space"  title="space">space</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/science_fiction"  title="science_fiction">science_fiction</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/uk"  title="uk">uk</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/siblings"  title="siblings">siblings</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/missing_parents"  title="missing_parents">missing_parents</a>]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 21:52:19 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">item_id_49497_6226</guid><dc:creator>katie</dc:creator><category>travel</category><category>space</category><category>science_fiction</category><category>uk</category><category>siblings</category><category>missing_parents</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tunnels]]></title><link>http://reader2.com/katie</link><description><![CDATA[A rather dark fantasy of an old-fashioned conservative religious dystopia underground which a boy named Will stumbles upon -- as he and his archaeologist father are in the habit of digging tunnels.  Obviously meant to be a long series, but not very gripping.
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by <a href="http://reader2.com/katie">katie</a><br/>Tags:  <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/dystopia"  title="dystopia">dystopia</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/underground"  title="underground">underground</a>]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 21:48:54 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">item_id_44589_6226</guid><dc:creator>katie</dc:creator><category>dystopia</category><category>underground</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Camel Bookmobile]]></title><link>http://reader2.com/katie</link><description><![CDATA[A librarian from NYC decides to go to Kenya to help run a camel bookmobile.  Told from various perspectives -- Fiona the American, Kanika a young Kenyan girl, Neema her grandmother, Matani the village schoolteacher, etc.  Women&#39;s role in society (including reference to the issue of female circumcision) as well as the influence of the outside world -- represented by books -- is it good or bad for these nomadic people?  Opens with a horrific scene of a 3-year-old mauled by a hyena.  Scar Boy grows up to be shunned, but when the library arrives he sees illustrations that inspire him.  He secretly rips out pages from library books in order to practice his previously unknown talent for drawing.  But the missing books spark a crisis in the village -- one of honor.  Over everything is the threat of drought.  Is it caused by the people&#39;s behavior?  There is a subplot of romance -- as Matani&#39;s wife thinks she loves the drum maker more than the modern schoolmaster -- while Matani and Fiona spend a night &quot;drinking honeyed rain&quot; (i.e., exploring each other other).  Yet these all come to nothing.  The nomads move on -- and it is Fiona&#39;s time to return to her own people.  (A six month experiment?)  Hard to judge how accurate the portrayals of the Kenyans are.  Very much Western woman comes to change and is changed as well.  Yet each retreat to their own in the end.  Based on a real Kenyan initiative... 
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by <a href="http://reader2.com/katie">katie</a><br/>Tags:  <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/books"  title="books">books</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/libraries"  title="libraries">libraries</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/gender_roles"  title="gender_roles">gender_roles</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/america"  title="america">america</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/africa"  title="africa">africa</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/kenya"  title="kenya">kenya</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/camels"  title="camels">camels</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/librarians"  title="librarians">librarians</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/female_circumcision"  title="female_circumcision">female_circumcision</a>]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2007 14:18:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">item_id_43825_6226</guid><dc:creator>katie</dc:creator><category>books</category><category>libraries</category><category>gender_roles</category><category>america</category><category>africa</category><category>kenya</category><category>camels</category><category>librarians</category><category>female_circumcision</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[MR. PIP]]></title><link>http://reader2.com/katie</link><description><![CDATA[The story of how the book Great Expectations finds new life in the imaginations of school children stuck on an island in the South Pacific during an uprising.  Brutal in parts (so not for children), but interesting example of how literature can leap cultures and lodge in the minds of others, sustaining them.  The power of storytelling....
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by <a href="http://reader2.com/katie">katie</a><br/>Tags:  <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/reading"  title="reading">reading</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/culture"  title="culture">culture</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/literature"  title="literature">literature</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/teaching"  title="teaching">teaching</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/dickens"  title="dickens">dickens</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/islands"  title="islands">islands</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/storytelling"  title="storytelling">storytelling</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/south_pacific"  title="south_pacific">south_pacific</a>]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2007 13:17:58 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">item_id_43823_6226</guid><dc:creator>katie</dc:creator><category>reading</category><category>culture</category><category>literature</category><category>teaching</category><category>dickens</category><category>islands</category><category>storytelling</category><category>south_pacific</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kappa]]></title><link>http://reader2.com/katie</link><description><![CDATA[First-person narrative by an inmate in a mental institution -- telling of how he went hiking on a mountain, the mist rolled in, and then he spied a kappa -- a mythical creature in Japanese folklore -- looking at him.  He gives chase and ends up falling down a hole to a world where many things are the reverse of his society (written in the late 1920s).  [Could be compared to Alice in Wonderland in many respects...]   [Also reminds me of Gogol&#39;s Diary of a Madman] [Now going to read Murakami&#39;s book Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World which also features kappa creatures...]
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by <a href="http://reader2.com/katie">katie</a><br/>Tags:  <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/fantasy"  title="fantasy">fantasy</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/japan"  title="japan">japan</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/satire"  title="satire">satire</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/society"  title="society">society</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/mythical_creatures"  title="mythical_creatures">mythical_creatures</a>]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2007 13:05:34 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">item_id_43822_6226</guid><dc:creator>katie</dc:creator><category>fantasy</category><category>japan</category><category>satire</category><category>society</category><category>mythical_creatures</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Divide]]></title><link>http://reader2.com/katie</link><description><![CDATA[Felix is 13, but looks younger as he has a heart condition -- and he&#39;s in Costa Rica because he wanted to go somewhere exciting &quot;before he died&quot;.   As he stands on the divide -- between the Atlantic and Pacific -- he passes out -- and at the moment he passes into an alternate world, a world where he is a mythical creature and all the mythical creatures of our world exist -- with funny names.  Griffins are called Brazzles there,  Unicorns are called Brittlehorns, Elves are called Tangle-people, etc.  Felix meets up with a brazzle called Ironclaw and a Tangle-person called Betony -- and together they rescue that world from an unscrupulous merchant foisted untried pharmaceuticals on the public -- and manage to find a cure for Felix&#39;s heart problems.  Modern lessons in a pre-technological, mythical society.  (e.g., that world doesn&#39;t know what printing is -- unless someone reads a book Felix brought across with him).  Sequels....<br /><br />The theme of the sickly child who is cured by entering an alternate world is similar Stravaganza by Mary Hoffman.
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by <a href="http://reader2.com/katie">katie</a><br/>Tags:  <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/marketing"  title="marketing">marketing</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/newspapers"  title="newspapers">newspapers</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/alternate_worlds"  title="alternate_worlds">alternate_worlds</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/central_america"  title="central_america">central_america</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/costa_rica"  title="costa_rica">costa_rica</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/mythical_creatues"  title="mythical_creatues">mythical_creatues</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/printing"  title="printing">printing</a>]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2007 13:02:36 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">item_id_43820_6226</guid><dc:creator>katie</dc:creator><category>marketing</category><category>newspapers</category><category>alternate_worlds</category><category>central_america</category><category>costa_rica</category><category>mythical_creatues</category><category>printing</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Mysterious Benedict Society]]></title><link>http://reader2.com/katie</link><description><![CDATA[A mysterious newspaper ads is looking for gifted children and four (all without parents for various reasons) apply -- and pass the series of unusual tests.  Reynie Muldoon who is bright and good at figuring out puzzles, Sticky (George) Washington who has a photographic memory, Kate Wetherall whose strength and resourcefulness remind me of Pippi Longstocking, and Constance Contraire who is small and incredibly stubborn.  They agree to help Mr. Benedict who is trying to find out how children are being used to transmit messages into the minds of the public as part of the ongoing Emergency which is crippling the country.  The four children volunteer to go undercover and pretend to be fodder for the secret communication project, led by a mysterious Mr. Curtain, who ends up being... the evil twin of Mr. Benedict&#33;  It&#39;s cloak-and-dagger action as the children try to uncover the ultimate plan, all the while transmitting messages back to Mr. Benedict&#39;s group via Morse code.  Mass brainwashing is the evil goal.  And, of course, the children manage to foil the plot and find families for themselves in the final pages.  Reminded me of The Demon Headmaster and, especially, of Robert C. O&#39;Brien&#39;s The Silver Crown.
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by <a href="http://reader2.com/katie">katie</a><br/>Tags:  <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/adventure"  title="adventure">adventure</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/twins"  title="twins">twins</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/orphans"  title="orphans">orphans</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/brains"  title="brains">brains</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/good_vs_evil"  title="good_vs_evil">good_vs_evil</a>]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2007 12:56:44 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">item_id_43819_6226</guid><dc:creator>katie</dc:creator><category>adventure</category><category>twins</category><category>orphans</category><category>brains</category><category>good_vs_evil</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Avoid Boring People: Lessons from a Life in Science]]></title><link>http://reader2.com/katie</link><description><![CDATA[James Watson&#39;s autobiography... re the politics of academia as much as the story of his attempts at a social life (finally married a young Radcliffe student when he was 40 odd) -- one can just imagine how socially awkward he was/is.
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by <a href="http://reader2.com/katie">katie</a><br/>Tags:  <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/science"  title="science">science</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/biology"  title="biology">biology</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/autobiography"  title="autobiography">autobiography</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/academia"  title="academia">academia</a>]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2007 12:56:08 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">item_id_43817_6226</guid><dc:creator>katie</dc:creator><category>science</category><category>biology</category><category>autobiography</category><category>academia</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit]]></title><link>http://reader2.com/katie</link><description><![CDATA[A short book that discusses the need to be the best in the million micro-niche markets that abound today.  Forget about the long tail, you want to be the short head in your niche.  How dips are there to sort out the winners from losers -- though it can be smart to quit... 
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by <a href="http://reader2.com/katie">katie</a><br/>Tags:  <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/marketing"  title="marketing">marketing</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/business"  title="business">business</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/perseverance"  title="perseverance">perseverance</a>]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2007 12:43:22 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">item_id_43816_6226</guid><dc:creator>katie</dc:creator><category>marketing</category><category>business</category><category>perseverance</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die]]></title><link>http://reader2.com/katie</link><description><![CDATA[Following on from Gladwell&#39;s The Tipping Point, this book teaches and summaries (complete with &quot;clinics&quot; at the end of chapters and an &quot;easy reference guide&quot; of notes at the end of the book) what makes ideas sticky: SUCCESs = 1. Simple (find the core), 2. Unexpected (get attention), 3. Concrete (help people understand), 4. Credible (help people believe), 5. Emotional (make people care), and 6. Stories (get people to act)
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by <a href="http://reader2.com/katie">katie</a><br/>Tags:  <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/metaphors"  title="metaphors">metaphors</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/information"  title="information">information</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/cognitive_science"  title="cognitive_science">cognitive_science</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/storytelling"  title="storytelling">storytelling</a>]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2007 12:39:07 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">item_id_32098_6226</guid><dc:creator>katie</dc:creator><category>metaphors</category><category>information</category><category>cognitive_science</category><category>storytelling</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Five Minds for the Future]]></title><link>http://reader2.com/katie</link><description><![CDATA[Gardner defines the five cognitive attributes necessary for the future -- the disciplinary mind (i.e., mastery of major schools of thought), the synthesizing mind (ability to integrate ideas and communicate them), the creating mind, the respectful mind (appreciating differences among human beings), and the ethical mind (fulfillment of the duties of citizens and workers).
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by <a href="http://reader2.com/katie">katie</a><br/>Tags:  <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/teaching"  title="teaching">teaching</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/creativity"  title="creativity">creativity</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/cognitive_science"  title="cognitive_science">cognitive_science</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/brains"  title="brains">brains</a>]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2007 12:31:34 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">item_id_43815_6226</guid><dc:creator>katie</dc:creator><category>teaching</category><category>creativity</category><category>cognitive_science</category><category>brains</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[the algebraist]]></title><link>http://reader2.com/katie</link><description><![CDATA[One of those terribly complicated sci-fi books, set in a future with life across galaxies, war between species -- over the right to create artificial intelligence.... a love story in there, of course... Dwellers -- a species that live in slow time, contrasted with aHumans and rHumans who live in Quick time... the study of other species as a profession...<br /><br />Nowhere near as good as Sylvia Engdahl&#39;s book... (title escapes me....)
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by <a href="http://reader2.com/katie">katie</a><br/>Tags:  <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/future"  title="future">future</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/war"  title="war">war</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/space"  title="space">space</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/science_fiction"  title="science_fiction">science_fiction</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/artificial_intelligence"  title="artificial_intelligence">artificial_intelligence</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/species"  title="species">species</a>]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2007 12:27:57 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">item_id_6656_6226</guid><dc:creator>katie</dc:creator><category>future</category><category>war</category><category>space</category><category>science_fiction</category><category>artificial_intelligence</category><category>species</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revolutionary Road]]></title><link>http://reader2.com/katie</link><description><![CDATA[The early sixties... the suburbs... and how a couple dreams of escaping them, e.g., to Europe.  Dysfunctional families.... barely parenting... ends with a fatal home abortion...  
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by <a href="http://reader2.com/katie">katie</a><br/>Tags:  <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/marriage"  title="marriage">marriage</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/suburbs"  title="suburbs">suburbs</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/1960s"  title="1960s">1960s</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/dysfunctional_families"  title="dysfunctional_families">dysfunctional_families</a>]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2007 12:27:18 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">item_id_4085_6226</guid><dc:creator>katie</dc:creator><category>marriage</category><category>suburbs</category><category>1960s</category><category>dysfunctional_families</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Odd Man Out]]></title><link>http://reader2.com/katie</link><description><![CDATA[A teenage boy goes to spend a summer with his paternal grandmother and girl cousins -- whom he doesn&#39;t know very well -- as his father died years earlier in a car accident -- and his mother has just remarried.  What he discovers, by inhabiting his father&#39;s boyhood bedroom, is a fantasy spy story his father wrote -- and unfortunately lived.  It emerges that his father had had a paranoid schizophrenic period in his youth.<br /><br />A more tragic version of Hilary McKay&#39;s The Exiles (sent to live with an unfamiliar grandmother)...
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by <a href="http://reader2.com/katie">katie</a><br/>Tags:  <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/canada"  title="canada">canada</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/dysfunctional_families"  title="dysfunctional_families">dysfunctional_families</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/ya_lit"  title="ya_lit">ya_lit</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/mental_illness"  title="mental_illness">mental_illness</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/Fathers"  title="Fathers">Fathers</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/cousins"  title="cousins">cousins</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/grandparents"  title="grandparents">grandparents</a>]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2007 12:23:25 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">item_id_43813_6226</guid><dc:creator>katie</dc:creator><category>canada</category><category>dysfunctional_families</category><category>ya_lit</category><category>mental_illness</category><category>Fathers</category><category>cousins</category><category>grandparents</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Diamond of Drury Lane]]></title><link>http://reader2.com/katie</link><description><![CDATA[First-person narrative by Catherine Royal -- or Cat as she is called by everyone at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, London in 1790 when the story opens. The book is solidly set in the era of Sheridan (Cat&#39;s pseud-guardian as she is, of course, an orphan).  There is a mystery -- about a diamond Mr Sheridan is hiding in the theatre.  There is adventure -- Pedro, a freed slave from Africa, gets introduced to good and bad street gangs in London -- and manage to help a political satirist hide from the law.  There are class distinctions -- as Cat and Pedro befriend Lord Francis and Lady Elizabeth.   The four young people manage to save the day.  Features a budding author as Cat is encouraged to start writing a tale that an aristocrat promises to publish.  There are sequels.  Double-spaced print.  Good &quot;thick&quot; but easy to read chapter book.  Cat even provides a list of characters and a glossary.
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by <a href="http://reader2.com/katie">katie</a><br/>Tags:  <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/mystery"  title="mystery">mystery</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/adventure"  title="adventure">adventure</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/historical_fiction"  title="historical_fiction">historical_fiction</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/writing"  title="writing">writing</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/uk"  title="uk">uk</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/theater"  title="theater">theater</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/orphans"  title="orphans">orphans</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/19th_century"  title="19th_century">19th_century</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/class_system"  title="class_system">class_system</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/first_person"  title="first_person">first_person</a>]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2007 12:06:12 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">item_id_43812_6226</guid><dc:creator>katie</dc:creator><category>mystery</category><category>adventure</category><category>historical_fiction</category><category>writing</category><category>uk</category><category>theater</category><category>orphans</category><category>19th_century</category><category>class_system</category><category>first_person</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Salmon Fishing in the Yemen]]></title><link>http://reader2.com/katie</link><description><![CDATA[Tale told in a variety of communiques -- interviews, e-mails, letters, reports, etc. about an ill-fated attempt by a wealthy Sheikh to get help from a UK fisheries bureau in introducing salmon fishing in the Yemen.  Not very funny (though meant to be).  Would be fine for reading on an airport -- fast.
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by <a href="http://reader2.com/katie">katie</a><br/>Tags:  <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/middle_east"  title="middle_east">middle_east</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/fishing"  title="fishing">fishing</a>]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2007 20:12:08 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">item_id_41101_6226</guid><dc:creator>katie</dc:creator><category>middle_east</category><category>fishing</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Uncommon Reader]]></title><link>http://reader2.com/katie</link><description><![CDATA[Short and very funny account of what might happen if the Queen of England started reading literature.  What if there was a bookmobile parked outside the back gates of Buckingham Palace one night?  What if she took out a book?  How would her reading trail go and where would it take her?  She thinks about both what she&#39;s reading and the whole process of reading and its place in life.
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by <a href="http://reader2.com/katie">katie</a><br/>Tags:  <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/reading"  title="reading">reading</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/funny"  title="funny">funny</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/uk"  title="uk">uk</a>]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2007 20:01:37 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">item_id_41100_6226</guid><dc:creator>katie</dc:creator><category>reading</category><category>funny</category><category>uk</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Finding Violet Park]]></title><link>http://reader2.com/katie</link><description><![CDATA[How a 17-year-old boy in London ends up getting to know a dead woman (via finding her ashes sitting unloved in an urn in a minicab office) and getting to know his missing dad at the same time.  Well written (tight writing).  Funny.  Touching.  My only complaint was that the premise -- that the woman whose ashes catch the boy&#39;s eye ends up being the exact key to his father&#39;s mysterious disappearance -- is too tidy.
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by <a href="http://reader2.com/katie">katie</a><br/>Tags:  <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/teen"  title="teen">teen</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/uk"  title="uk">uk</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/absent_fathers"  title="absent_fathers">absent_fathers</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/first_person"  title="first_person">first_person</a>]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2007 08:32:12 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">item_id_40670_6226</guid><dc:creator>katie</dc:creator><category>teen</category><category>uk</category><category>absent_fathers</category><category>first_person</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Practice of Creativity]]></title><link>http://reader2.com/katie</link><description><![CDATA[A 1970 book, hailed as a classic -- starting in the Last Whole Earth Catalog.  &quot;The practice of creativity thgourhg Synectics -- the proven method of group problem-solving&quot;.  Recommended in the book on web usability I recently read.  Assumes all humans are natural problem solvers and analyzes what goes wrong in meetings.  Focuses on how to foster sensitivity and contain aggression -- the two elements found in all meetings -- so as to allow ideas to be fairly considered and creativity encouraged.  The use of analogies and metaphors in considering ideas is emphasized.
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by <a href="http://reader2.com/katie">katie</a><br/>Tags:  <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/psychology"  title="psychology">psychology</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/metaphors"  title="metaphors">metaphors</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/creativity"  title="creativity">creativity</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/cognition"  title="cognition">cognition</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/group_psychology"  title="group_psychology">group_psychology</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/meetings"  title="meetings">meetings</a>]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2007 12:54:49 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">item_id_35240_6226</guid><dc:creator>katie</dc:creator><category>psychology</category><category>metaphors</category><category>creativity</category><category>cognition</category><category>group_psychology</category><category>meetings</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder]]></title><link>http://reader2.com/katie</link><description><![CDATA[Re the history of the ordering of information (including Dewey, etc.) to the internet -- first order, second order, third order.... tagging and virtual organization of information... Nothing earth-shattering for anyone who accepts Web 2.0 and its future, but interesting to read.
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by <a href="http://reader2.com/katie">katie</a><br/>Tags:  <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/internet"  title="internet">internet</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/information"  title="information">information</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/complexity"  title="complexity">complexity</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/information_literacy"  title="information_literacy">information_literacy</a>]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2007 12:49:02 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">item_id_30341_6226</guid><dc:creator>katie</dc:creator><category>internet</category><category>information</category><category>complexity</category><category>information_literacy</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[I Am a Strange Loop]]></title><link>http://reader2.com/katie</link><description><![CDATA[Some of it is beyond me, of course, but a great exercise in thinking about thinking -- especially about what makes an &quot;I&quot; to think.  The idea of self and interiority developing over time via encounters that Hofstadter compares to &quot;video loops&quot; -- a camera trained on its own output, feeding back into itself endlessly and settling into a stable pattern eventually.  His use of and belief in metaphor is central and effective.
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by <a href="http://reader2.com/katie">katie</a><br/>Tags:  <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/philosophy"  title="philosophy">philosophy</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/math"  title="math">math</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/metaphors"  title="metaphors">metaphors</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/cognitive_science"  title="cognitive_science">cognitive_science</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/brains"  title="brains">brains</a>]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2007 12:44:27 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">item_id_31397_6226</guid><dc:creator>katie</dc:creator><category>philosophy</category><category>math</category><category>metaphors</category><category>cognitive_science</category><category>brains</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[How to Read a Novel: A User's Guide]]></title><link>http://reader2.com/katie</link><description><![CDATA[A book to skim -- which I did more with an eye to discussions with students in the library re reading and how to approach books.  A good overall summary of books and their position in society and the components you can analyse.
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by <a href="http://reader2.com/katie">katie</a><br/>Tags:  <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/reading"  title="reading">reading</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/literature"  title="literature">literature</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/novels"  title="novels">novels</a>]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2007 12:39:37 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">item_id_35239_6226</guid><dc:creator>katie</dc:creator><category>reading</category><category>literature</category><category>novels</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Architecture of Happiness]]></title><link>http://reader2.com/katie</link><description><![CDATA[Another thought-provoking and enjoyable read from de Botton.  Not as good as his book on travel or Proust, but still interesting.  A meditation on architecture and how the material evokes -- and confirms -- our internal values and philosophy of life.
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by <a href="http://reader2.com/katie">katie</a><br/>Tags:  <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/art"  title="art">art</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/culture"  title="culture">culture</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/architecture"  title="architecture">architecture</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/houses"  title="houses">houses</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/katie/happiness"  title="happiness">happiness</a>]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2007 11:47:02 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">item_id_29784_6226</guid><dc:creator>katie</dc:creator><category>art</category><category>culture</category><category>architecture</category><category>houses</category><category>happiness</category></item></channel></rss>
