Remember the controversy over the authenticity of the 3 Cups of Tea story?
If you’re interested, here’s an update on the story.
Oct6
Tag Archives: Books in the News
Jul5
Mystery (almost) solved?
Here’s an update on the paper sculptures inspired by Ian Rankin.
Apr24
3 Cups of Tea or 3 Cups of Bullshit????
This story from LIS News, a librarians journal in the US about Greg Mortenson. Despite selling more than 4 million copies of his book which is required reading for US servicemen going to Afghanistan there have been complaints about the Three Cups of Tea author, including one from another author we’ve read, Jon Krakauer.
Watch this : http://lisnews.org/node/39011/
Aug20
Feeling like stretching your mind but weren’t sure what to study?
Durham University in England may have the course for you!
The new course, Harry Potter and the Age of Illusion already has about 70 students signed up, will be offered for the first time this autumn as part of the university’s Education Studies BA degree.
Thought to be the first course in the UK focusing on the works of JK Rowling, the module will require undergraduates to set the series “in its social, cultural and educational context and understand some of the reasons for its popularity”, and to consider Harry Potter’s relevance to today’s education system.
I may now just about have seen it all!
Heidi
Aug20
More tragedy in the Wild
This article from The New Yorker’s blog, The Book Bench, made sad reading . . .
“On Tuesday, the Associated Press reported that a twenty-nine-year-old Swiss woman named Claire Jane Ackermann drowned on Saturday while attempting to cross the Teklanika River, near Denali National Park in central Alaska.
This tragic story might not have been picked up outside of Alaska, except for the A.P.’s report that Ackermann, along with a male companion who survived, was trying to reach the abandoned bus where Christopher McCandless, the young wanderer made famous by Jon Krakauer’s nonfiction book “Into the Wild,” died in 1992. “It seems that the bus has become an attraction for adventurous tourists, following the success of Krakauer’s book and the 2007 film adaptation directed by Sean Penn and starring Emile Hirsch.”
REad the full Book Bench article here
