BOOKS
SLOWINGTHERACINGMIND What Book Have You Read Lately?
It is travel season for me in my job as the dean of students at an online school in Minnesota. This means that all of the petitions for truancy (students being absent without excuse from school) are n...
Posted on 2/8/12 at 5:30 AM
OH LOOK, A SHINY THING! The Disappearing Spoon
I received so many cool Christmas presents this year I haven't even begun to work through all of them. "The Disappearing Spoon" is one of them. It's a book about the periodic table of elements, but ...
Posted on 1/6/12 at 8:28 PM
STAFF BLOG THE AREA VOICES COMMUNITY Areavoices Digest #57 - Check these blogs before you finish your Christmas shopping
Can you guess how many iPads will be sold this holiday season? According the the technology research firm Gartner about 63.4 million media tablets will be sold in the last three months of this year, a...
Posted on 12/20/11 at 11:25 AM
ALL ABOUT FOOD Easy appetizer (or meal) for those who love olives
Have you noticed how easy it is to make a meal of just appetizers at a restaurant? On a trip to the Twin Cities last week, my husband and I paid our first visit to 112 Eatery. Located in the warehouse...
Posted on 12/13/11 at 4:50 PM
FARMBLEAT Bookmarks, book titles and bargains
A couple of years ago, a friend of mine told me about his e-Reader. Whats an e-Reader, I had to ask, envisioning some type of contraption to hold a book open or something like that. Two years ago Id ...
Posted on 12/9/11 at 9:13 AM
Hot Topics: Pastor, wife write book aimed at stirring frank discussion on sexuality
Mark Driscoll, pastor of a megachurch in the Seattle area, understands the uniqueness of a man in his profession co-authoring a book about sex with his wife.
By Forum staff reports , January 09, 2012
Book review: ‘Karaoke Culture’ - An original essay on unoriginality 
Dubravka Ugresic does not like karaoke.
That doesn’t stop her from trying it, just as her resistance to celebrity doesn’t stop her from putting her head through a cutout on a Hollywood studio tour so that she can be photographed with Clark Gable.
By Carolyn Kellogg McClatchy Newspapers , January 07, 2012
Book review: Fisher’s new memoir can’t help but entertain
Carrie Fisher has done an excellent job of reinventing herself as ... Carrie Fisher, evolving from ingenue actress and geek pinup to salty, tell-it-like-it-is writer and humorist.
By Jeannine Stein, McClatchy Newspapers , January 07, 2012
Crafting books to keep you up at night – creating
If your creative side requires an occasional boost – and whose doesn’t? – turn to a book. It’s a tactile thing: The heft in our hands feels good. Books, websites, blogs: They all provide inspiration for no-holds-barred creativity.
By Jennifer Forker, For The Associated Press , December 31, 2011
Fargo dietitian hopes to make dieting ‘simple’
FARGO – Losing 50 to 100 pounds is simple, right? So says the title of a new weight-loss book co-written by a Fargo dietitian. Nancy J. Gustafson of Fargo helped Dr. James Anderson pen “The Simple Diet: A Doctor’s Science-Based Plan,” a book that hits shelves this week across the nation.
By Heidi Shaffer , December 27, 2011
Author peeks in closets of L.A.’s ‘Unreal Estate’
We’ve heard it before _ Americans don’t like to read, they just want to ogle celebrities and watch shows about houses on TV.
So how about a book that allows the reader to ogle celebrities and their homes to bring them back to reading?
By Los Angeles Times , December 24, 2011
Teen’s quest in parallel worlds
It’s an alluring idea that somewhere, somehow there’s an alternate version of the life you’re currently living. It might be better. It could be far worse.
By Los Angeles Times , December 24, 2011
LARL libraries to host winter reading program
MOORHEAD – Lake Agassiz Regional Library is inviting adults to participate in the winter reading program Hot Reads for Cold Nights in January and February.
By Forum staff reports , December 20, 2011
LARL to host Bag of Books Sale
MOORHEAD – The Lake Agassiz Regional Library will hold a Bag of Books Sale at the Moorhead Library, 118 5th St. S., January 6-8.
By Forum staff reports , December 20, 2011
Experts offer advice for avoiding taboos
When you gather with family and friends for the holidays this month, be careful with your conversation.
By Ron Orozco McClatchy Newspapers , December 20, 2011
Book review: Clever, loving tribute to brisket
You know you’re in for fun when a book about meat opens with a full-color photograph of celebrity beefcake – a brisket belonging to Joan Nathan, the Washington-based doyenne of Jewish cooking in North America – and the words: “In a world of Rachel Zoe makeovers, brisket is completely comfortable with what it isn’t.” Who’s Rachel Zoe? Who cares! This book will put you passionately over the moon for a meat cut that is often taken for granted.
By Bill Daley, McClatchy Newspapers , December 20, 2011
Christmas classic gets interactive in digital format
Having trouble keeping the kids sated during holiday travel? The family classic “A Charlie Brown Christmas” is now in app form. The app is the first in a series of Peanut digital book apps that will be coming to an iPad near you.
By McClatchy-Tribune Newspapers , December 20, 2011
'Holidays in Heck': Writer’s wit is going places
P.J. O’Rourke has written so many books of humor that no one is quite sure how many. I have it on good authority that it’s 15, but since I finished writing this sentence, he may have written yet another. That’s how fast he is.
By Chris Erskine, Los Angeles Times , December 17, 2011
Book marks Vietnamese girl’s migration to Alabama in ’70s
The United States prides itself on being a melting pot, but the many immigrant stories that make up our uniquely American stew aren’t always known or published by the mainstream press.
By Susan Carpenter, Los Angeles Times , December 17, 2011
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