As an indexer, I wish every book had an index. As a fiction-reader for personal pleasure, I really wish more fiction books had indexes. Maybe it’s my increasingly forgetful nature that makes me wish this. I am forever reading a book and trying to think back, “now what was his sister’s name?” or “didn’t it […]
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Reading for pleasure after reading for work
When you read all day for work, what do you read for pleasure? Obviously professionals in the publishing industry are book lovers. Otherwise we’d get different jobs. But when eight hours of your day (or thereabouts) is spent poring over books in various stages of development, do you have the ambition to read for pleasure […]
Children’s Literacy Foundation work
The Children’s Literacy Foundation keeps working year-round to bring books to at-risk children in NH and VT. The program is a gift to our communities. June 2013: CLiF Kicks Off Summer Readers Programs It’s CLiF’s Summer Readers Season! Remember, when you were a kid, the pleasure of diving into a great book on a lazy […]
Quote about the value of books
Great quote about the value of books: Reading a wonderful book by W.D. Wetherell called “The Writing on the Wall,” I ran across a quote that makes me happy to work in publishing and be part of creating great books: “Right now, understand? Out there, out across the country, men and women not much older […]