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July 19, 2006
Book blogs
One of the great skills of a librarian (or a really good bookseller) is to be able to recommend authors and books to read.
When I was at school there used to be a record shop in Stockton on Tees high street called Leslie Brown's. Every Saturday morning the lady behind the counter taught me about classical music. She moved me from Beethoven to Chopin to Tchaikowsky to Brahms to Rachmaninov. How could I ever have known these names, if she hadn't done that. It is a generous gift. I don't know if the shop is still there?
Now there are some really good book blogs that do the same thing and lead you to authors of whom you have no knowledge, which is such a pleasure. Here is a new one just opened by writer Jessica Ruston I found yesterday. I hope it goes on and on. If you start with "Secret History", as she does, you have to be going in a good direction.
Posted by Tim Coates at July 19, 2006 8:46 AM