Anymore, and thats where as some of the other panelists were saying, the internet comes in, but really in terms of getting into collections you need those print reviews. I think we are i mean, we are looking at blogs as authoritative sites now. I mean, the whole thing is changing. Bloggers are writing for School Library journal now and vice versa. What counts as a professional book reviewer, i think the lines are blurring a little bit. And blogging, which used to be kind of like this thing that people did this their pajamas from home, is now becoming a really respected source of book reviews. But i think when youre trying to reach diverse audiences, a lot of times people get so many emails that they no longer open that email about a book or some item or some commodity to listening, to hearing. You can reach also diverse communities. I keep saying this over and over again, social, civic and Church Organizations are the heart of many communities. Youve got to go out to them. Do something
He was definitely an engaging teacher and as you mentioned his experiments influence a lot of people including including you. [inaudible] this is a bit of a followon and im still trying to formulate what is probably a very elementary question but you talk about all the research you did and obviously he mixes in real historical characters with his primary fictional characte characters. Was he primarily using fiction to illuminate history and historical forces or using history to illuminate human nature . Yes and yes. [laughter] i mean thats a huge question. One of the criticisms that this book has received is that tolstoy intentionally distort historical facts for his own purposes so for instance he creates in the character could to save us a far more salt of the earth kind of character than he actually was. He was apparently much more widely, much more questionable in terms of his morals so historians have accused the full story of using history and distorting it for his own ends. I do
This month. Three or four books that i think particularly good. I wish i could take credit. And the Brilliant Communications director came up with this. No one is going to be interested in what i am reading. Surprisingly has become quite a bit. They like it. Interestingly, the kind of like to know what your thinking about. It is kind of refreshing. It actually reads a little class action. Thank you. It was fun. What are you reading this summer . Tell us what is on your Summer Reading list. Postage your Facebook Page or send us a name of. Her. You can watch panels and multicultural Book Publishing, the black Arts Movement, and more first, founder Max Rodriguez kicks off the festival the talk of the state of africanamerican literature. There is always that conversation of home for us. And we have an answer from. The theme of this years book fair is global. As we all are. And the book fair from this point forward will reflect that. We started with an event yesterday that Columbia Universi